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2013-09-29T23:34:27-04:00

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Christian Round Winners [Turing 2013]

Last updated on: September 29, 2013 at 11:34 pm By Leah Libresco

You may want to keep this year’s answer key and list of entries in the Christian round handy while you read the results. The top three scorers (as measured by the percent of Christians rating the entry “Very Likely Christian”) were all genuine Christians. Beth (entry 6) was most likely to be judged very likely Christian (77% of judges). Following her were Gilbert (entry 9 – 58%) and Brendan Hodge (entry 11 – 43%). But the next three entrants were... Read more

Ideological Turing Test

2013-09-24T17:44:55-04:00

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Triaging Moral Disagreements

Last updated on: September 24, 2013 at 5:44 pm By Leah Libresco

Excel and I are having a fight, so the Turing Test results will go up tomorrow, after I beat the program into submission. In the meantime… Calah Alexander and Melinda Selmys had two really great reaction pieces to Pope Francis’s interview that I’d like to share. First up, Melinda Selmys has an essay up at Spiritual Friendship titled “Field Hospital for the Wounded.” She picks up on Pope Francis’s language, and expands the metaphor to talk about how to evangelize... Read more

Parsing Catholicism

2013-09-23T13:08:06-04:00

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[Turing 2013] Answer Key

Last updated on: September 23, 2013 at 1:08 pm By Leah Libresco

Pencils down and masks off! Tomorrow, I’ll be posting the winners in the Christian round, and the Atheist round winners on Wednesdays, but you can all start scoring yourselves now, because our lovely contestants were… Christians: Beth – Author of C6 and A[this is the person who didn’t send an ‘A’ response] I was raised Roman Catholic and cut my apologetic teeth in discussions with atheist friends. I just finished my MA in Theology (my only 2 years of... Read more

Ideological Turing Test

2013-09-23T01:11:52-04:00

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Recommendations for the Lives of the Saints

Last updated on: September 23, 2013 at 1:11 am By Leah Libresco

I’ve just finished reading Sigrid Undset’s life of Catherine of Siena, and I’m a little embarrassed to admit that most of my knowledge of the lives of the Saints comes from Wikipedia. Admittedly, Catherine was no less terrifying at book length than in a short article, but sitting down with Undset’s book helped me take her in a bit more in toto, instead of as a timeline of miraculous acts and grotesque suffering. But I haven’t read many other hagiographies. I’ve... Read more

Parsing Catholicism

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2013-09-20T04:37:00-04:00

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7 Francis Takes (9/20/13)

Last updated on: September 20, 2013 at 4:37 am By Leah Libresco

As you’ve probably heard, Pope Francis gave a broad ranging interview to America this week, and if everyone is going to pick out quotations (with or without context) I figured I could offer seven that interested me this week (with brief, non-authoritative commentary). — 1 — Other people have covered the lovely simplicity of Pope Francis’s self description [excerpted below] but I was just charmed at the multilingual pope needed to reach for an invented gerund to express himself... Read more

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Parsing Catholicism

2013-09-18T16:59:14-04:00

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“Use every man after his desert, and who should ‘scape whipping?”

Last updated on: September 18, 2013 at 4:59 pm By Leah Libresco

Looking through social media this morning, I saw more than a few scandalized comments about the news that a priest who had practiced some form of self bondage was being returned to ministerial duties. Here’s the gist: The Roman Catholic bishop of Springfield, Ill., has returned a priest to ministry after an internal investigation into what the priest’s own clinical therapist had diagnosed as “non-sexual self-bondage.” Bishop Thomas Paprocki said in a statement that the Rev. Thomas Donovan would be... Read more

Parsing Catholicism

2013-09-17T13:46:23-04:00

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The Strain of Pride

Last updated on: September 17, 2013 at 1:46 pm By Leah Libresco

I’ve read most of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, but I’d never gotten around to his Tiffany Aching series til this month. These books are pitched as more for children than the main Discworld sequence (which doesn’t explain why my local library stored them, in order, in YA Fiction, Adult SF, YA Fiction again, and finally the Children’s section). I’d say they’re enjoyable, but not as much so as the main books (try Witches Abroad, instead, which I’ve just gotten onto my... Read more

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2013-09-16T13:29:52-04:00

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Sam Harris Throws Down His Gauntlet

Last updated on: September 16, 2013 at 1:29 pm By Leah Libresco

Ok, probably not this gauntlet Sam Harris, one of the ‘Four Horsemen’ of New Atheism, has issued a challenge to critics of his moral philosophy. It has been nearly three years since The Moral Landscape was first published in English, and in that time it has been attacked by readers and nonreaders alike. Many seem to have judged from the resulting cacophony that the book’s central thesis was easily refuted. However, I have yet to encounter a substantial criticism that I feel was... Read more

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2013-09-13T02:06:48-04:00

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7 Quick Takes (9/13/13)

Last updated on: September 13, 2013 at 2:06 am By Leah Libresco

— 1 — I know it’s been a while since I did Quick Takes, which kind of builds up tension for what link merits getting back on schedule. Ohhh… that’ll do nicely. Via io9, a video on how they built the Alien chestburster. So clever! And it’s a whole month and a half to Halloween, if you want to take inspiration. — 2 — And, of course, you can always costume on a budget. I love this ongoing series... Read more

7 Quick Takes

2013-09-12T15:48:33-04:00

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[Turing 2013] Atheist Round Entries Index

Last updated on: September 12, 2013 at 3:48 pm By Leah Libresco

In a conventional Turing Test, computer programmers try to write a computer program that can pass for human. In the Ideological Turing Test, atheists and Christians test how well they understand each other by trying to talk like each other. All the entries in the atheist round are collected below, so, in these answers, atheist contestants answer honestly, and Christians impersonate atheists as best they can. You can click on each link to read the entry to decide whether you... Read more

Ideological Turing Test

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