One of my only two errors on the christian side of year 2 was to suspect that a stereotypical Christian was a faker who was aiming for dead center. The other was an atheist who nailed the periphery.
So, the strategy of lying or selectively choosing topics to seem more typical within your group would not have worked on me.
I do think the whole ‘I went to seminary’ thing might best in the future be ruled out. It’s one thing to create a fictional persona. It’s another to give them a position of authority.
I don’t even think it’s about authority. Another person talked about how Christianity helped them through their drug addiction. Because there really are Christians who have been helped through drug addictions, but most contestants would have respected the spirit of the test too much to try the somewhat different exercise of making up a completely fake personality with a fake life history, this provided strong evidence of real Christianity.
most contestants would have respected the spirit of the test too much to try the somewhat different exercise of making up a completely fake personality with a fake life history
Isn’t the spirit of the test to be as convincing as possible? Imagining and imitating a fake persona in detail is exactly what the test asks for.
One of my only two errors on the christian side of year 2 was to suspect that a stereotypical Christian was a faker who was aiming for dead center. The other was an atheist who nailed the periphery.
So, the strategy of lying or selectively choosing topics to seem more typical within your group would not have worked on me.
I do think the whole ‘I went to seminary’ thing might best in the future be ruled out. It’s one thing to create a fictional persona. It’s another to give them a position of authority.
I don’t even think it’s about authority. Another person talked about how Christianity helped them through their drug addiction. Because there really are Christians who have been helped through drug addictions, but most contestants would have respected the spirit of the test too much to try the somewhat different exercise of making up a completely fake personality with a fake life history, this provided strong evidence of real Christianity.
Isn’t the spirit of the test to be as convincing as possible? Imagining and imitating a fake persona in detail is exactly what the test asks for.