Turkish TV (not to be confused with Turkey TV, a really bad Nickelodeon show from my youth), is going to be airing an interesting game show. The idea behind it is to get a bunch of atheists, have them get lectured to by a bunch of “holy” people and try to get them to join up with a religion. If they wind up joining, they get a trip to the “holy” city of their new faith.
I find this hilarious and stupid. Apparently the people who want to be on the show will need to get screened to prove their lack of faith is genuine, so that no one can just fake it in order to get a free vacation somewhere. That’s a relief. We wouldn’t want people to pretend they believe something just in order to get something in return (Pascal’s wager).
What total-ass nonsense. I wonder what would happen in Turkey, or even here in the USA, if someone tried to create a show converting the religious to atheism. I’d love to see such a program, and I actually think it would be workable, but it’d never fly on TV here or there.
Oh, well. I’d offer to sign up for this program if I could, but I’m pretty sure my lack of Turkish language skills would be a problem.
