Battleground God
Can your beliefs about religion make it across our intellectual battleground?
In this activity, you’ll be asked a series of questions about God and religion.
In each case (apart from Question 1, where "Don't Know" is a possible answer), you
need to answer either True or False. The aim of the activity is not to judge whether
your answers are correct. Rather, our battleground is that of rational consistency.
This means to get across without taking any hits, you are required to answer in
a way that is rationally consistent. In other words, you have to avoid choosing
answers that contradict each other. Also, if you answer in a way that is rationally
consistent, but which has strange or unpalatable implications, you’ll be forced
to bite a bullet - accept something many find unpalatable and would view as being
a major problem.
More about hits and bullets.
Of course, you may go along with thinkers such as Kierkegaard and believe that religious
belief does not need to be rationally consistent. But that takes us beyond the scope
of this activity, which is about the extent to which your beliefs are rationally
consistent, not whether this is a good or a bad thing.