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John Wilkins is an eternal student, who thinks philosophy of biology is at least as interesting as politics or sport and twice as important. He has a PhD from the University of Melbourne and worked at the University of Queensland, in Australia, before taking up a research fellowship at the University of Sydney. After a varied career, involving factories, gardening, civil service, publishing, graphics, public relations but not, unfortunately for the CV, driving a truck, John finally completed his thesis on species concepts in 2004, which he has worked into two books.

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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!

Category: HistoryHumorReligion
Posted on: April 23, 2008 1:20 AM, by John S. Wilkins

Or, "Ive been a baaaddd boy, Abbott"

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

LevelScore
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)Moderate
Level 2 (Lustful)Very High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)Moderate
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)Moderate
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)Very High
Level 7 (Violent)High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)Very High
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)Low

Take the Dante's Divine Comedy Inferno Test

Hat tip to Thinking for Free.

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1

Hey! I went to Purgatory!

Big deal. I'm a public school teacher, so I'm already there.

Posted by: Scott Hatfield, OM | April 23, 2008 1:35 AM

2

Meh, amateur. I was level 6 if I recall correctly.

Posted by: Brian English | April 23, 2008 1:45 AM

3

Now I know - I'm a 2nd level lustful heretic!

Posted by: John Monfries | April 23, 2008 2:10 AM

4

I find myself wallowing in the Sixth Level. Probably not violent enough for the lower levels. And I thought I was a Virtuous Non-Believer (okay, maybe not).

Posted by: Susan Silberstein | April 23, 2008 3:09 AM

5

Susan wrote:

I find myself wallowing in the Sixth Level.

So I will finally get to meet you Susan, as I too have been condemned to the Sixth Level. I not sure whether it's my masturbatory behaviour or my suicidal tendencies that brought me so low but at least I now have proof positive that I am more evil than Mr Wilkins.

Posted by: Thony C. | April 23, 2008 5:55 AM

6

Virtuous non-believer headed for Limbo. Damn!

Posted by: Elf Eye | April 23, 2008 6:30 AM

7

Condemned to the City of Dis with the other heretics.

But we'll always have Science....

Posted by: Barn Owl | April 23, 2008 6:42 AM

8

Read 'em and weep: Level 7

And to think that being a mother, a hairdresser, and an all around good person (who just happens to be an atheist and has dabbled in same-sex excursions) is going to have fire rain down on my body while the woe gushes forth from my eyes, all while hanging from a tree with poison fruit.

And they say religion isn't fiction.

Posted by: Catherine | April 23, 2008 8:52 AM

9

I'm in Dis as well. Norfolk'n'good.

Posted by: Bob O'H | April 23, 2008 9:42 AM

10

I side with the many Eastern Fathers. All hell is purgatorial.

Posted by: James Goetz | April 23, 2008 2:35 PM

11

What I don't get is: how come Wilkins, Haubrich and I all have secondary peaks in Fraudulence, Violence and Wrath & Gloom? OK, that last probably reflects a diagnosed mood disorder (for John & me, don't know about Mike), but I think I'm reasonably honest and peaceful.

Posted by: Eamon Knight | April 24, 2008 12:25 PM

12

The test is incorrect. As an atheist who has heard the Good News, I should be in one of the lower levels---Dis, I think---where I get to sleep in a burial urn when I am not being harangued. Instead, I was placed in limbo with the ancient virtuous pagans, who lived before Christ.

Note that the concept of "Limbo" was devised as a place to put people---like unbaptised infants---who defied any logical means of categorizing sinners. Current catholic teaching holds that Limbo does not exist as a place, but the concept still does, and still shows the absurdity of the Xtian afterlife.

Posted by: John Vreeland | April 25, 2008 2:06 PM

13

Male, level 7, seeks companionable female for romantic excursions on the scenic River of Boiling Blood and Harpy-watching in Suicide Forest. Blasphemers and Sodomites welcome; naked bodies,woe-gushing optional.

Posted by: watercat | April 26, 2008 5:30 PM

14

Interesting test. I was classified as a non-believer and heretic. Does it say anywhere on the site exactly how the scores are calculated? (I do realize most of the questions line up with a specific level, just wondering about how each answer is weighed.)

Posted by: Ted Goas | April 27, 2008 6:11 PM

15

I'm surprised John isn't with the rest of us on level 6. Are you too lustful?

Posted by: Omer Moussaffi | April 29, 2008 10:50 AM

16

I'd rather not say... that's between me and my Inquisitor.

Posted by: John S. Wilkins | April 29, 2008 10:56 AM

17

I finally found I place where I could take the test, and I made it to purgatory. And as I said earlier, hell is purgatorial anyway.

Posted by: James Goetz | April 29, 2008 8:07 PM

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