Doing *far* too much thinking

[mamadeb]

Given that I'm thinking about the Dante quiz. :)

See, the quiz, which I answered as honestly as possible, put me in Purgatory and labeled me as a "repentant believer." Which, in *my* worldview, I *am*, although, "lust" is only a sin if you act upon it with the wrong person or at the wrong time, and gluttony is just a bad habit, not a sin.

But this isn't my worldview, it's Dante's (or the general medieval Catholic pov) and by that standard, they are sins, and that's fine. Except, by that standard, I'm not only not in purgatory, I'm in the circle of heretics because, although I'm not a Pagan, I'm not a Christian, either. In fact, I'm quite stubbornly and wickedly holding to an outdated set of beliefs from that pov.

It's already a long and complex quiz and for the writers to go into such subtle points is way beyond reasonable, but I'm still amused that I'm sitting here in Purgatory, watching the cool folk descend to warmer levels when some of you are probably in better shape than I am.

Comments

[naomichana.livejournal.com]

I commented on this when I did the quiz in my blog -- technically, a believing Jew should be in Limbo at best. One needs to be a baptized Christian to make it as far as Purgatory. The quiz just didn't ask the right questions on that one. ;)

[cellio]

I got the same result. I would have expected limbo, not purgatory. Or heretics, because I explicitly rejected that world view rather than just not hearing about it. Either way, purgatory is wrong and the test is flawed.

They asked no theology questions beyond belief in God -- nothing about Jesus or the trinity. The (medieval and modern) Catholic view is that you must accept Jesus as your savior, so I'd say that's a pretty big oops that would have weeded out people like us. That and a question about whether you've heard the "good word" [sic] would do the trick, I think; they don't need to lengthen the quiz a lot.