{"id":1168,"date":"2006-04-09T21:30:23","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T01:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2006-04-09T21:30:23","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T01:30:23","slug":"tpm-online-battleground-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1168","title":{"rendered":"TPM Online: Battleground God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"god.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/notes\/images\/god.jpg\" width=\"297\" height=\"149\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\">Is a belief in God rationally consistent? <a title=\"Battleground God\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philosophersnet.com\/games\/god.htm\">Battleground God<\/a> by TPM (The Philosopher&#8217;s Magazine) is a set of (presumably) branching questions designed to test how consistent your belief in God is. I got caught in a contradiction around justifying  belief based on inner conviction (how can inner conviction be a source of belief if madmen are so convinced) which demonstrates how such a hypertext can be thought provoking and annoying. <\/p>\n<p>What is strange about the &#8220;battleground&#8221; is the that contradiction is represented as &#8220;health.&#8221; Since when is consistency healthy?<\/p>\n<p>Alltogether a good example of interactivity for philosophy, something rare indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is a belief in God rationally consistent? Battleground God by TPM (The Philosopher&#8217;s Magazine) is a set of (presumably) branching questions designed to test how consistent your belief in God is. I got caught in a contradiction around justifying belief based on inner conviction (how can inner conviction be a source of belief if madmen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1168\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TPM Online: Battleground God<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}