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Crap, Now PZ is Really Going to Give Me A Hard Time

Category: Silliness
Posted on: February 3, 2007 1:03 AM, by afarensis, FCD

Mainly because he only got a 90% on the bible quiz!

You know the Bible 92%!

Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!

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Unlike PZ, I won't blame this on my misspent youth. It's hard to get away from fairy tale love and whether we want it or not, some knowledge of those fairy tales inevitably seeps in. Really, I'm embarrassed... The test was rigged!
Look, over there Zeno did worse than I did! He also makes an interesting point about atheists and believers.

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100%, oh yeah. You guys are wusses. And I'm not only an atheist, I'm an ex-Catholic atheist! We were discouraged from reading the Bible, lest we accidently stumble on the nasty stuff without a priest to explain it away!

The proof...

You know the Bible 100%!

Posted by: Gerard Harbison | February 3, 2007 1:50 AM

I got a 52%, and had no idea about any of the questions, except for two. One being the 40 days and 40 nights, and the only reason I knew that was because of Bill Cosby's stand up comedy. The other one was a process of elimination. The others, complete random guess.

Posted by: joltvolta | February 3, 2007 2:25 AM

Ha! As announced over at Pharyngula, I got 100 per cent on that quiz. Where's my goddamn angel smilie gone?

Posted by: Russell Blackford | February 3, 2007 7:06 AM

I got 98%. Boy, would my teachers be surprised!

Posted by: Bob C | February 3, 2007 8:42 AM

Gerald Harbison: You guys are wusses.

"Wusses"? I dare say you don't mean to include me in that characterization since I, too, am an ex-Catholic atheist (on good days, anyway; on bad days I'm just deeply agnostic).

Oh, oh. That waffling means I really am a wuss!

Sorry, Gerald. I protest too much.

Posted by: Zeno | February 3, 2007 11:41 AM

100%. As they say, the more you know...

Posted by: The Ridger | February 3, 2007 12:35 PM

Actually, come to think of it, I'm not sure why I'm proud my brain is so clogged up with useless garbage. Some tests you shouldn't be able to ace ;-)

Posted by: Gerard Harbison | February 3, 2007 1:13 PM

67%! I guess the Catholic teaching wasn't a total failure after all.

Posted by: Michele | February 3, 2007 3:06 PM