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March 12, 2007
Fun with Conservapedia

Socialism

Socialism is an economic system that requires public ownership and government control over the production of goods. Government is supposed to make decisions about what and how much to produce in an attempt to increase the common welfare. Socialism is common in most parts of the world outside of the United States.

God

It is claimed that Christianity, Islam, and Judaism worship the same God in different ways. This claim is regarded by some as a way to convert Jews and Christians to Islam, since it supports the idea that Abrahamic religion has "grown" from Judaism to Christianity to Islam. This belief has also led to the downfall of Western Civilization. Period.

Conservapedia:About

Tired of the LIBERAL BIAS every time you search on Google and a Wikipedia page appears? Now it’s time for the Conservatives to get our voice out on the internet!

Conservapedia began in November 2006, as the class project for a World History class of 58 advanced homeschooled and college-bound students meeting in New Jersey.

Conservapedia has since grown enormously, including contributors nationwide. Conservapedia already has over one-half the number of entries as the Oxford Dictionary of World History.
Conservapedia is rapidly becoming one of the largest and most reliable online educational resources of its kind.

Sex

This page has been deleted, and protected to prevent re-creation

Rapture

The Rapture is an imminent holy event that will take place sometime in the near future. Jesus will come in the air, gather up the Church from the earth, and then return to Heaven with the Church.

Capitalism

Capitalism is widely attributed to Adam Smith, often called "The Father of Capitalism." Smith’s version of capitalism was later replaced by a form of capitalism developed by John Maynard Keynes.

Sharks

Sharks are reptiles of the "fish" baramin believed to have survived the Great Flood after Noah took them aboard his ark. It was believed that prior to the Great Flood sharks existed on land, though this was made difficult by their lack of legs.

Jesus


As recounted in the Gospels, Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead and was subsequently crucified for His work and teachings.

Love

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Guantanamo Bay detention camp

Quantanamo Bay detention camp is a prison of the United States of America in Cuba. In the prison are people suspected by the US government to be terrorists. The camp is criticized by governments around the world as the prisoners are tortured there without any constitutional right or human respect.

Tapeworm

The origin of the tapeworm (Class Cestoda, various species) is somewhat obscure, but if one reads about Noah and his magnificent ark it is apparent that the tapeworm was brought with the other organisms on the ark as commanded by God: …

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits Cruel and Unusual Punishment:

"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted."

This language was based on the 1689 English Bill of Rights, which was redacted in the Virginia Declaration of Rights and proposed by the Virginia ratifying convention.

Recently liberals have created controversies concerning whether this clause in the Eighth Amendment prohibits excessive fines and the death penalty.

The Bible is very clear and Exodus 21:23-25 states "But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth…………". Thus the death penalty is compatible with the Bible.

Judicial Activism

There are two major types of judicial activism practiced in the United States’ court system:

1. Liberal judges striking down laws that uphold core conservative American values
2. Liberal judges refusing to strike down laws that subvert core conservative American values

World History Lecture Fourteen – IV. Education (last entry of the history lecture)

The Christian population has steady increased from 0% in 6 B.C. to 33% today. Although Christians have always been a minority in the world, this minority has led the world in accomplishments and achievements.

Among Christians there has been a special group: the homeschoolers. Though even smaller in number, they have accomplished much for Christ and the world. Now that we have covered all of world history, ask yourself how many of the following homeschooled achievers you can identify: …

Comments

ô what a joy knowledge is!!!

Posted by: r’giap | Mar 12 2007 18:38 utc | 1

how did we get on so long w/out the valuable resource!
more on tapeworms

What becomes unclear exactly is what other animal species carried this strange cargo. Based on the number of species of tapeworms (approximately 5000 in class Cestoda) it is fair to say that every animal on the ark must have been a defacto mini-Noah’s ark, carrying the “flesh” in their intestines that would be spared from the coming flooding of Earth. It is a fascinating answer, but not precise in its scope by any measure: If there were more species than tapeworms, where did the extra tapeworms go? If there were fewer, which species were spared and why? Perhaps as creationist scholars investigate questions such as these more thoroughly a more exact answer to this mystery will take form on these pages and elsewhere.

i was unaware of the tapeworm mystery!

The Bible is very clear and Exodus 21:23-25 states “But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth…………”. Thus the death penalty is compatible with the Bible. thanks for clearing that up!
In Brown v Board of Education[5], activist judges stripped the power of the states to treat black Americans as second class citizens. Using the definition above, Liberal judges should not have struck down the ability to segregate whites and blacks, because racial discrimination is a core conservative American value.

oooookay!

Posted by: annie | Mar 12 2007 20:00 utc | 2

The authors should have themselves “protected to prevent re-creation”.
But really, this is a pretty good window into the thinking of a generation of impenetrable religious authoritarians. I’m sure a few will turn away from their indoctrination but most of them will always be there waiting to conquer and purify. All we can do is to try to isolate them politically. To which end I favor the term “Christian Supremacists”, because that is what they are, and because Americans historically have rejected supremacists of any stripe.

Posted by: YouFascinateMe | Mar 12 2007 20:12 utc | 3

OT: information on the US involvement with death squads in Iraq.
link here:
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/FullerKillings.htm
an added note: a son of a friend of mine was detained in Baghdad in July 2005 – by the Interior Ministry. He was released a few weeks later, and there were no claims of torture. He was never charged with anything – his mother got him out by paying a bribe, and she was from a prominent Shi’a family, which most likely helped a lot (her son was a Sunni). This young man was kept at the main Interior Ministry building, not at some obscure prison. It was a multi-story building and the main HQ of the Interior Ministry. He said there were plenty of Americans around.
He and his mother moved immediately to Jordan and then started calling all the families of the other prisoners to let them know where they were.

Posted by: Susan | Mar 12 2007 20:16 utc | 4

Americans historically have rejected supremacists of any stripe
ROTFL

Posted by: DeAnander | Mar 12 2007 20:23 utc | 5

I dare say somelse has had fun, more from Judicial Activism:

In Brown v Board of Education[5], activist judges stripped the power of the states to treat black Americans as second class citizens. Using the definition above, Liberal judges should not have struck down the ability to segregate whites and blacks, because racial discrimination is a core conservative American value.

Posted by: a swedish kind of death | Mar 12 2007 20:30 utc | 6

askod, great minds read alike, check #2

Posted by: annie | Mar 12 2007 21:02 utc | 7

DeAnander: It has been maddeningly slow but the white supremacy doctrine, which I assume occasioned your ROTFLing, has been marginalized. Obviously that was not the case before the 1950’s. Since the 1950’s, historically, it has been the case. Racism is still there far more than most would ever admit. Racists still get elected to high offices. They always want to make a comeback. But racial supremacy as a political doctrine has been rejected, has it not? Small beer perhaps, but nevertheless, it would be progress for the Dobsons to be relegated to the same category as the Council of Conservative Citizens and other supremacist cranks.

Posted by: YouFascinateMe | Mar 12 2007 22:23 utc | 8

Regardless of the veracity of your statement on racial supremacy, the perception of American supremacy has done nothing but grow with the history of the nation.

Posted by: Rowan | Mar 13 2007 5:13 utc | 9

I am waiting for the entries on “Slavery: selling wives and daughters into” and the relevant passages from Moses and Deuteronomy that make it clear that God allows the practice.

Posted by: ralphieboy | Mar 13 2007 7:12 utc | 10

annie,
so true, so true.
ralphie,
I am almost tempted to make an account there only to write that article.
Reminds me of an LTE in a swedish newspaper where the author started by thanking some religious politician for informing him about relevant passages in the Bible considering homosexuality and then went on to ask about what he should do with some other passages. Burning a bull does please the lord, but irritates neighbours. Shrimps are an abomination but is it more or less an abomination then homosexuality? Which tribes is it ok to enslave (norwegians?) and so on. Quite hilarious.

Posted by: a swedish kind of death | Mar 13 2007 21:31 utc | 11

lol, i was going to reference the brown vs brown quote and went back to the judicial activism page, it’s been modified!
This page was last modified 18:08, 12 March 2007.
y’think they read moon?

Posted by: annie | Mar 14 2007 1:26 utc | 12

This page was last modified 19:28, 12 March 2007
they stripped this from the cruel and unusual punishment link…
‘ The Bible is very clear and Exodus 21:23-25 states “But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth…………”. Thus the death penalty is compatible with the Bible.’

Posted by: annie | Mar 14 2007 1:49 utc | 13

Got to be hard to have a wiki were parody and actual content is so close.
It is a troll dream.

Posted by: a swedish kind of death | Mar 14 2007 1:52 utc | 14

lol, apparently many ofd these entries have been altered since this post went up, nothing on sharks!

Posted by: annie | Mar 14 2007 1:55 utc | 15

Yeah, like ’The Barflies’ Guide to the Universe’ is so perfect?
This from Robert Cringely’s article at InfoWorld.
[snip]
Fuzzy logic: Reader Blake L. takes exception to the swings I took at Wikipedia in a recent column. If he’s mad at me, he must be really ticked off at golfer Fuzzy Zoeller, who’s suing an anonymous Wikipedian for editing the PGA tour winner’s entry to say he was a wife-beating drug addict. (As far as we know, he isn’t.) Guess it’s time to remove those edits I made to the Bill Gates entry about Satan worship.
[snip]
Cringely’s swings from last week:
[snip]
Here come da judge: Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia any fool can edit, has factored in more than 100 court rulings, according to the TheNew York Times. Jurists say the wiki is useful for researching weighty topics such as “jungle juice” and “booty music” (two great tastes that taste great together) or, if you’re Microsoft, for paying people to rewrite entries so they’re more to your liking. More proof that justice is not merely blind, but often deaf and dumb as well.
[snip]

Posted by: Rick | Mar 14 2007 4:29 utc | 16