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Conservapedia

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Ray Watkins
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Conservapedia is an online resource and meeting place where we give full credit to Christianity and America. Conservapedia is student-friendly. You will much prefer using Conservapedia compared to Wikipedia if you want concise, clean answers free of “political correctness”.

Contributions that comply with simple commandments are respected (and improved) to the maximum extent possible. Please improve this website as you use it, and please cite your sources. With your help, Conservapedia will continue to be an online encyclopedia you can trust. This is also a meeting place, and appropriate questions may be posted at Ask questions.

from the Conservapedia

File this under the “poor poor pitiful Conservative Christians.” We live in a country that is overwhelmingly Christian by almost any measure, and yet these bozos are constantly complaining about the so-called anti-Christian bias they see behind every tree.

(Granted, by one measure we have gone from 86% to 77% self-identified Christian in the last decade or so. Something must be leaving a bad taste in folks’ mouths.)

Still, that is a pretty high concentration of Christians and it seems unlikely that the the 23% who do not identify as Christians just happen to be the most influential and powerful voices. It seems obvious that a small proportion of well organized and well funded right-wing Christian groups have created effective media campaigns to serve their needs.

One need, apparently, is to propagate this wacky sense of persecution. Our media is freakishly concentrated in just a few corporate conglomerates and yet these same groups also see liberal bias all over the media. Katie Couric is, apparently, some sort of communist. Now, apparently, they have found these same problems in Wikipedia, of all places, and in response created their own wiki-encyclopedia, which they call Conservapedia.

Just what we need: a ‘public encyclopedia’ in which racism is over, immigrants are swamping our public health and educational resources, and global warming is just Al Gore’s public relations stunt. Of course, they are too chicken to allow full open editing: you have to create an account, and I imagine they will vet participants carefully.

They certainly don’t want to encourage that (sometimes) contentious debate nonsense. That’s a little too democratic, too Wikipedia. I wonder if they do some sort of political litmus test on you, like Gonzales with his Prosecutors.

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