Conservapedia - and doubled-checked to make sure it wasn't April
Fools' Day.
I don't even know where to begin in writing about how ridiculous this
concept is. They should be embarrassed!
The whole point of Wikipedia is for people to write up their own
entries on various subjects. It's the ultimate Hitchhikers' Guide to
the Galaxy. It's created by anyone for everyone. What a great idea.
Now, of course there's plenty of articles with inaccuracies, plenty of
incomplete articles, plenty of ones with half-witted opinions. And
there's so many articles that are just that - opinions on a subject.
It's not supposed to be perfect or the be-all-or-end-all on any topic
- and it's not - but it's bloody useful and an excellent resource.
So here comes a bunch of people whinging about bias and then saying
that they are a pro-Christian and pro-American site.
Bias anyone?
Just because people don't agree with you and have a different opinion
to you, doesn't mean you defect, run off and start your own way of
doing things where you are always right. That's so, I dunno, scary. So
Henry the 8th, so politically frightening.
If you don't agree with people's opinions and the way things are done,
the only way to make a difference isn't to leave, it's to change
things from within. If you're still being overthrown, you gotta have a
look at things from a broder perspective. Maybe your opinion isn't
that popular. Well sucks for you, but get over it and shout a little
louder. Maybe, you're even wrong. Shock upon horror!!
I feel so sorry for homeschooled kids who are brought up seeing events
in the Bible as literal fact. Parents who do this are raising
generation upon generation of inbred freaks with crazed,
fundamentalist opinions. "OMG Adam and Eve were real people. Doesn't
that mean Cain and Abel slept with their mother and sisters to produce
more offspring?! Does that mean I can sleep with my sister?! Cooolz."
Okay, I'm taking the piss. But seriously, it's frightening when,
against all available evidence, kids are being taught that the
Universe was creating in six days, 5000 years ago. Give God more
credit than that.
It's freaking embarrasing to be a Christian when this how some vocal
Christians make themselves seen. These people make baby Jesus cry
sweet tears from his sacred little heart. We are certainly not all a
bunch of straight-laced, narrow-minded, scientifically-inept, hateful,
ultra right-wing morons who try to enforce their views on other people
while singing Shine Jesus Shine in huge halls while some middle-aged
white male rants on with some twisted crap about God's power and the
evil that abounds the world. Now, come forth for the power of
healing!!!
Oh, I loved the bit where they write how terrible it is that many
entries in Wikipedia are in "British" English rather than "American
English". Shock fucking horror!! The people of the Internet are
writing in English using...English!!!!
Gaaah!!!
Run and hide!!
Hmmmm - I liked one of the letters published in today's SMH:
"When opinion is against you, you can voice your own opinion. But when
the facts are against you … write your own history."
These people are just as frightening as those idiotic, ultra left-wing
"people should be allowed to do whatever makes them happy" freakish
hippies.
Now don't let me get started on them.
Now I shall wait for God to strike me down for being so disrespectful
towards his chosen people.
6 comments:
I do love a good anti-Wiki.
Uncyclopaedia
OR
Encylopaedia Dramatica
what a fab post.
Jezzy, I ranted about Conservapedia all last week ...Grrrr!
Try typing in " Kangaroo" and you get;
"Origins
Like all modern animals, modern kangaroos originated in the Middle East and are the descendants of the two founding members of the modern kangaroo baramin that were taken aboard Noah's Ark prior to the Great Flood. It has not yet been determined whether kangaroos form a holobarmin with the wallaby, tree-kangaroo, wallaroo, pademelon and quokka, or if all these species are in fact apobaraminic or polybaraminic.
After the Flood, kangaroos bred from the Ark passengers migrated to Australia. There is debate whether this migration happened over land -- as Australia was still for a time connected to the Middle East before the supercontinent of Pangea broke apart -- or if they rafted on mats of vegetation torn up by the receding flood waters."
that from what these assclowns claim is :
A conservative encyclopedia you can trust.
Conservapedia has over 3,400 educational, clean and concise entries on historical, scientific, legal, and economic topics.
Scientific my arse!
Religious idiots need to be ridiculed out of existence before they can create anymore damage.!
There was a big study last year that showed that Wikipedia is slightly more accurate than print-based encylopedias. I believe the one they used was Encyclopedia Britannica... uh oh - Britannica has Britain in it! Curse it all!
But seriously, as you point out, it is really embarrassing when things like this happen because those of us who are Christians but who also believe in being open-minded, modeling our ways of thinking after Jesus, who advocated that whole casting the first stone only after you get all the sin out of your own life thing, are grouped in with those people.
Sad. =o(
I had no idea this thing existed. I'm horrfied. What horrifies me more is that it exists because many people believe this crap. Brrr!
I had a kid come into my speech class last week and announce that his dad told him that if dinosaurs weren't mentioned in the Bible, then they didn't exist. You should've seen me trying to stifle "your dad is a fucking idiot". It was hard, but I did it! I am becoming the expert of the quick subject changes around my school kids.
My own kids and I will go digging for bones one day and talk about how cool God is for planning this all out so beautifully.
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