The Godless
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100

Dawkins compares humans to this animal.

(What is) a pigeon. 

100

This author had a mustache that reportedly scared women.

(Who is) Nietzsche

100

This is Anselm's is-iest piece of is-ness (what he considers more is than anything else).

God and/or "that than which nothing greater can be thought."

100

“‘Whither is God’ he cried. ‘I shall tell you. We have killed him—you and I. All of us are his murderers.”

(Who is) Nietzsche.

100

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

(What is) Genesis 1:1

200

Schleiermacher was perhaps not an atheist, but could be considered a _theist.

(What is) pan. 

200

This author was afraid of storms.

(Who is) Thomas Aquinas.

200

This is the inconsolable secret.

(What is) something about an inner voice, lying beyond us, and a hunger for the divine.

200

“The consciousness of God is the self-consciousness of man…God is the manifestation of man’s inner nature, his expressed self.”

(Who is) Feuerbach.

200

"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest.”

(What is) Psalm 22:1

300

Richard Dawkins wrote "Religions Misguided Missiles" after this major event.

(What is) 9-11

300

This author had a mental breakdown after he saw a horse being beaten (this put him in an asylum for the rest of his life).

(Who is) Neechah

300

This is Feuerbach's understanding of God.

(What is) something about humanized, individualized, linked with feeling, explaining the inexplicable.

300

“If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love.”

(Who is) C.S. Lewis.
300

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."

(What is) Philippians 4:13 

400

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

Nominate one person from each team.

Write these three authors' last names BACKWARDS.

400

This author was taken to a brothel by his friend and ended up playing the piano all night, saying it was "the only soulful thing present."

(Who is) Nietzsche. 

400

This is Dawkins' "elephant in the room" (hint: concerns religion)

(What is) “I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life. I don't mean devaluing the life of others (though it can do that too), but devaluing one's own life. Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.”

400

“We are like foreigners in a strange country to whom everything must seem suspicious”.

(Who is) Hume.

400

The thief comes in the night to kill, steal, and destroy but I have come that they might have life, and have it to the full.

(What is) John 10:10

500

This character in Hume's "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion" used a posteriori reasoning to make his argument.

(Who is) Cleanthes

500

This author's philosophy was the inspiration behind the character of Superman.

(Who is) Nietzsche.


500

This is Hopkins' "God's Grandeur" (recite it eyes closed, please).

(What is) 

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;

    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil

Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;

    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;

    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil

Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.


And for all this, nature is never spent;

    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;

And though the last lights off the black West went

    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

500

“The fact is that the more we take flight upward, the more our words are confined to the ideas we are capable of forming; so that now as we plunge into that darkness which is beyond intellect, we shall find ourselves not simply running short of words but actually speech-less and unknowing.”

(Who is) Pseudo-Dionysius.

500

"If your offering is a goat, you are to present it before the Lord...the internal organs and all the fat that is connected to them...The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the Lord’s."

(What is) Leviticus 3:12-16

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