Jon Swift, one of my favortie bloggers - no, make that my favorite blogger, including myself - has written a great piece on something I had not heard about yet. Conservapedia.
I took a look at it myself today. Really unbelievable and amusing.
Conservapedia bemoans Wikipedia's biases (anti-Christian and anti-American), but manages to say clearly on the main page: Conservapedia is an online resource and meeting place where we favor Christianity and America.
That's not bias?
Just for fun I looked up Copernicus.
Copernicus is described as having made the stunning claim that the earth revolved around the sun, opposing the views of science and the church of his time. Copernicus did make some unforgiveable mistakes, however: he thought the planets moved in circular revolutions and that the sun was stationary.
Conservapedia reports that most Protestant countries reacted negatively to the theory of Copernicus because it clashed with the Biblical truth that the sun had stood still for a while in the time of Joshua.
This illuminating article concludes with the assertion that To this day, most Protestant countries reject the Copernican theory.
I had not realized there were Protestant countries today.
I'm glad I found Conservapedia. Thanks, Jon.
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You're welcome, Mr. Viss and thanks for the shout-out. In case your readers would like to check my piece out for themselves they can find it here.
A huge example of the lunatic fringe bias:
"You will much prefer using Conservapedia compared to Wikipedia if you want concise answers free of 'political correctness'."
Concise answers free of political correctness? So they admit they are free of correctness?
The lunatic fringe goon squad tends to consistently place their misguided ideology over reality, remaining willfully blind to the fact that its ill-conceived from the start.
Of course, Conservapedia is hardly the only evidence that the lunatics have taken over the asylum. Another giveaway is right-wing attack blogger Michelle Malkin, whose work has been repeatedly criticized for its cavalier attitude toward facts.
All this is bad news for the conservative movement, which will only become more marginal if it continues to embrace its lunatic fringe.
This does however bode well for the progressives who stand to gain the most from conservative's self-destruction.
While the lunatics implode, I propose someone else get busy taking over running the country.
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