Get the Rack, Biggles

[pmcray]

Hardhat

You are an atheist, a rationalist, a believer in the triumph of science and of reason over libido. You can’t stand mumbo jumbo, ritual, spiritual nonsense of any kind, and you refuse to allow for these longings in others.


Astrologers, Scientologists and new–age crystal ball creeps are no different in your view from priests, rabbis and imams. They’re all just weak–minded pilgrims on the road to easy answers. Nature as revealed by science is awesome enough for you, but it’s a nature that needs curbing and taming by us on our evolutionary journey to perfection.


Your heros are Einstein, Darwin, Marx and — these days — Gould, Blakemore, Watson, Crick and Rosalind Franklin. Could you be hiding a little behind those absolutist views, worried that, if you let in a few doubts and contradictory ideas, the whole edifice might crumble? Loosen up a bit and try to enjoy the amazing variety of human belief systems. Don’t worry — it’s unlikely you’ll end up chanting your days away in some distant mountain cult.

What kind of humanist are you? Click here to find out.

Comments

[pmcray.livejournal.com]

I think I'm with the Weasel on this one in terms of the questions, but I have a feeling the quiz is aimed at a very specific class of person to which the Weasel and I seem to more or less belong to it. But at least I now know there is a New Humanist magazine. (I hope it's not terribly worthy.)

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

So who are these people, and why do they never invite me to their parties?

[pmcray.livejournal.com]

I had a look at the New Humanist website (http://www.newhumanist.org.uk/). Geesh, where has this been all my life? A pretty amazing set of links: http://www.newhumanist.org.uk/base_comments.php?id=160_0_4_0_C. Butterflies and Wheels (http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/) "fighting fashionable nonsense". I wish they did invite us to their parties. I am going to a party at the London Review of Books Bookshop next Friday but I had to pay for that (it is singles night).