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