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My Conservapeida Contribution

CONSERVAPEDIA¹ is a website started by a bunch of paranoid Christians who want to turn America into a theocracy. The site is meant to look and behave like Wikipedia and is touted by its proponents as being a conservative answer to the left leaning Wiki. It is full of lies, slander and meaningless rants against anything liberal, libertarian or basically American, all not so cleverly crafted to appear as scholarly writing. Conservapedia does not allow users to contribute or edit articles, despite having a link labeled User Contributions.

Conservapedia has a variety of effects on individuals and society at large which will be subsequently elaborated on.²

These same paranoid Christians who created this site also want to rewrite their own holy book, which is just as well since most of them don't follow most of its dictates anyway. The want to make the bible more conservative because apparently the bible, which instructs us to kill those who work on the Sabbath, kill gays, kill those who worship other gods, sell our daughters into slavery (sexual and the other kind), cut off our foreskins, kill disobedient children, subjugate women and to commit many other heinous acts, is too liberal.³ They want to translate it with a conservative bias because modern translations have a liberal bias and translating the bible with a bias is wrong. Uh…yep, pretty much.

Conservapedia is conservative in every sense of the word. In its attempt to look legit it includes articles on math and science but in so doing it does two things, it 1] includes ridicule of the subject where it can, claiming its purpose is to undermine Christianity and 2] gives very little actual information on the subject. For example, the Conservapedia science page talks about how early scientists were creationist Christians while modern American scientists are “…more atheistic as a group.” Also the Wikipedia article on math is really long while the Conservapedia math page is short, which is good because math is boring.

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Notes

¹I wish I were making this up!

²This is one of Conservapedia’s favorite bits of fear mongering. They frequently include this claim in articles about things they oppose, homosexuality, atheism, etc. and then fail to elaborate on the effects they mention.

³I wish I were making this up!

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Sources:

Conservapedia

http://conservapedia.com/Conservapedia

The Conservative Bible Project

http://conservapedia.com/Conservative_Bible_Project

Conservapedia: Science

http://conservapedia.com/Science

Wikipedia: Mathematics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math

Conservapedia: Mathematics

http://conservapedia.com/Math

Cameron and Comfort WOTM bullshit

They're at it again. Kirk Cameron and "other guy" Ray Comfort (the man so fond of the banana) are pushing their religious opposition to science, complete with all the typical crap creationist tend to include in their EVILution tirades.

This time the attack takes the form of a book give away on university campuses. Check it out.
http://tahoecommunitychurch.org/wordpress/?tag=darwins-origin-of-species-150th-anniversary

Yep, they're giving away Origin of Species. As far as I know the text is intact, unaltered. But they've included a 50 PAGE intro by Ray Comfort. It contains all the same crap creationists have pumped out and which has all been debunked and discredited time and time again. These guys know these arguments are fallacious, flawed, disproved, wrong and yet they keep recycling them. This is called lying.

Notice that the video promoting this project starts out with a collection of lies:
"Our kids can no longer pray in public. " Flat out lie.

"They can no longer freely open a bible in school." Lie.

"The ten commandments are no longer allowed to be displayed in public places." Lie. They are not allowed on government land. But in public, not so.

"And the Gideons are not even allowed to give away bibles in schools." Partial truth. In ONE school district in Missouri, the courts ruled the Gideons couldn't distribute to students, and this only applies to ELEMENTARY SCHOOL! Lie of omission.

"...in the top 50 universities in our country, in the fields of psychology and biology, 61% of the professors describe themselves as atheists or agnostics." True. But what he leaves out of the statement is that when professors from all disciplines were polled the number dropped to about 23%.
http://religion.ssrc.org/reforum/Gross_Simmons.pdf

Hmm...I could have sworn I'd head Kirk and Ray preach about the sin of lying.