
The Guardian reports that the Christian Right has taken on the evildoers at Wikipedia. That's right, Wikipedia promotes Satanism. Wikipedia is WIKID, full of demons, evil Evil EVIL!!!. When good ol' Andy Schlafly, founder of Conservapedia, tried to edit Wikipedia entries, his changes were erased by wikid editors. He had no other option than to establish
insert cherubic choir Conservapedia...and they say God smiles upon us? He's laughing his ass off.
Shlafly's vision of honest and correct encyclopedic entries can be inferred from reading the
list of Wikipedia's sins posted on Conservapedia. Truth, he implies, is full of praise for Jesus and full of praise for America and full of spite towards commies, queers, and foreign languages. Oh, and by the way, "You will much prefer using Conservapedia compared to Wikipedia if you want concise answers free of "political correctness" (from the site's friendly home page).
So correctness has nothing to do with correctness, correct?
I'm not gonna bother comparing Wikipedia to Conservapedia. Why waste my digital strength. Suffice it to say that what Conservapedia illuminates is that Encyclopedia's and the histories written therein, are subjective. There is no pure objectivity in writing. What today seems true becomes questionable or even false tomorrow.
It IS fun, though, to search for "Homosexual" on Conservapedia. You learn lots...well, lots about the way Shlafly thinks about homosexuals, in any case.
The way I see it, Conservapedia wants to do their thing, go ahead it's a free country. There's all kinds of misinformation in the world, we can just add Conservapedia to the pot--it'll make for a richer stew. Or, hell, just file their site in the fiction section and be done with it.
But I do want to point out one major inconsistency to Conservapedia's logic. On the home page it says "Conservapedia is an online resource and meeting place where we favor Christianity and America," but according to Conservapedia's Commandments, "Everything you post must be true and verifiable." Now, how does one verify, say, the existence of the Holocaust and is that verification process the same one you use to verify the existence of the Christian God? Anyway, I looked over the Commandments and it seems that if you want to you can edit the shit out of their site, as long as what you post is virginal and true. Check it out:
The Commandments
1. Everything you post must be true and verifiable.
2. Always cite and give credit to your sources, even if in the public domain.
3. Edits/new pages must be family-friendly, clean, concise, and without gossip or foul language.
4. When referencing dates based on the approximate birth of Jesus, give appropriate credit for the basis of the date (B.C. or A.D.). "BCE" and "CE" are unacceptable substitutes because they deny the historical basis. See CE.
5. As much as is possible, American spelling of words must be used.[1]
6. Do not post personal opinion on an encyclopedia entry. Opinions can be posted on Talk:pages or on debate or discussion pages.
Edits which violate these rules will be deleted. Users who violate the rules repeatedly will be blocked. A blatantly inappropriate entry, such as vandalism or obscenity, can result in immediate blocking without warning.
Notes
1. ↑ You will only be blocked for violating command 5 if you repeatedly change words from American spelling to another spelling.