[Brad]

Turkish gameshow enlists imam, Greek Orthodox priest, rabbi and monk to try to convert atheists, with pilgrimage as reward.

Turkish gameshow Penitents Compete tests atheist resolve | World news | guardian.co.uk

No, it's not a joke.

Who do you think the winner might be? I'm putting my money on the atheists.

What a bizarre concept! I agree with you brad. I also think the atheist wont be converted.

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Only true non-believers need apply. An eight-strong commission of theologians will assess the atheist credentials of would-be contestants before deciding who should take part.

What kind of questions might this commission ask, do you think? "As an atheist, do you ever call on the name of God or Allah when you're mad?" "Can you prove you don't have a burn mark on your flesh from being baptized with holy water as an infant?" Seriously - how they gonna check credentials? Membership at AtheistNation even is mixed. Your atheists there in Australia meet on Sunday nights just like other "religions" (yes, I called your nonbelief a religion: remember our Sureme Court here in the US declared ya so. hehehe) and last I checked you were meeting at the Ashbury Methodist Church. That could be misconstrued as religious gathering. Hey: Brad! You signing up for the show? I'd watch.

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Converts will be monitored to ensure their religious transformation is genuine and not simply a ruse to gain a free foreign trip. "They can't see this trip as a getaway, but as a religious experience," Ozdemir said.

Yeah.... I'd like to see the criteria on this too. They gonna have mystery worshippers following these converts around to make sure they're growing in faith and worshipping regularly? How can they judge that?

Wow, how far we have fallen. Inflatable Catholic churches on the beach at Milan, Convert an Atheist TV shows, virtual churches on line here where you can do confession, light candles, sing along with canned songs. Even as an unchurched person, I am shaking my head over it all.

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I had heard of this in another venue, and I had also heard the the Islamic Inmans would not be a part of it, but that the priests, and the rabbis would. It kinda makes me respect the Inmans more so.

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Originally Posted by Brad

Turkish gameshow enlists imam, Greek Orthodox priest, rabbi and monk to try to convert atheists, with pilgrimage as reward.

Turkish gameshow Penitents Compete tests atheist resolve | World news | guardian.co.uk

No, it's not a joke.

Who do you think the winner might be? I'm putting my money on the atheists.

I am sure this is not government approved. Turkey is the middle eastern version of France in terms of secularism.