What would you call yourself if you were playing "Devil's Advocate" but you weren't religious nor believed in the Devil? Any other wordings you could use instead to describe this turn of phrase?
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I don't know the answer to this question but thought it intersting and good enough to taser you with points.
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How about "official skeptic"? "The Devil's Advocate, a term wrongly used outside the Roman Catholic Church, once referred to a canon lawyer appointed by the Pope to argue against the canonization or beatification of a person; the preferred term within Roman Catholicism was "official skeptic."" Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_advocate_%28disambiguation%29 Further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_advocate http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/devil%27s_advocate
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A lawyer? XD
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Probably "adversarial". Picking the opposite side of what you believe just to get a conversation going is very good for the brain..defending an argument from an opposing point of view helps to understand that position and many times clarifies you own as well! :) So you take an "adversarial" position, as you would the "Devil's Advocate" position. :)
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Devil's Advocate works fine for me as an athiest. I wouldn't change a thing!
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