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Old 02.03.2007, 12:22
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An alternative version of reality?

Not sure whether to post this here or in the Jokes/Funnies section, but got alerted to this link from another forum:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/internatio...024724,00.html

Basically, the religious right in the US have set up "Conservapedia", as a counterpoint to the "increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American" Wikipedia.

Infact, the site is so pro-American (insular?) that it doesn't even have an entry for Switzerland!

[note: I have nothing against America(ns) at all, just a sense of dispair when I read in an encyclopedia (?) that dinosaurs are "mentioned in numerous places throughout the biblical account. For example, the behemoth in Job and the leviathan in Isaiah are sometimes said to be references to dinosaurs"]
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Old 02.03.2007, 15:15
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Re: An alternative version of reality?

Yeah, mentalists
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Old 02.03.2007, 15:33
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Re: An alternative version of reality?

Totally bonkers. And they want it to become a teaching aid
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Re: An alternative version of reality?

/beats head against the desk
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Old 02.03.2007, 18:55
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Re: An alternative version of reality?

This is why I learned to say "I'm sorry. I'm an American" in French before I went to Geneva...
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Old 02.03.2007, 18:56
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Re: An alternative version of reality?

The Theory of Evolution

check it out on idio-pedia (Conservapedia).

There is no hope for some.
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Old 02.03.2007, 19:22
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Re: An alternative version of reality?

Oh mother of god:

"US Democratic party
Wikipedia
"The party advocates civil liberties, social freedoms, equal rights, equal opportunity, fiscal responsibility, and a free enterprise system tempered by government intervention."
Conservapedia "The Democrat voting record reveals a true agenda of cowering to terrorism, treasonous anti-Americanism, and contempt for America's founding principles.""
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Re: An alternative version of reality?

Just had a look around at that site. Hilarious. From their entry on "Kangaroo"

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According to the origins theory model used by young earth creation scientists, modern kangaroos 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 by baraminologists whether kangaroos form a holobaramin with the wallaby, tree-kangaroo, wallaroo, pademelon and quokka, or if all these species are in fact apobaraminic or polybaraminic.
After the Flood, these kangaroos bred from the Ark passengers migrated to Australia. There is debate whether this migration happened over land with lower sea levels during the post-flood ice age, or before the supercontinent of Pangea broke apart The idea that God simply generated kangaroos into existence there is considered by most creation researchers to be contra-Biblical.
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Re: An alternative version of reality?

You know, I used to consider myself fairly conservative, but the more I'm exposed to these websites, the more I realise that I am a degenerate socialist godless liberal. Someone please help me before I cause the world harm!
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Re: An alternative version of reality?

Classic:

Intercourse
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Sexual Intercourse
The entire Bible clearly teaches ... that sexual intercourse should take place in the context of the marital union of male and female. To argue otherwise is to argue against the entire weight of Scripture on matters of sexual ethics.

Homsexual Agenda
The homosexual agenda, or homosexual ideology, consists of a set of beliefs and objectives. The ideology and goals, as explained further below, include restricting free speech, obtaining special treatment, distorting science, and interfering with freedom of association.

Gun Control
Gun control laws restrict the purchase or ownership of guns, a weapon acquired mostly for defensive or sporting purposes. Gun control is unique among social programs in increasing the emotional and physical dependency of all voters on government. It is often promoted by liberals.
Gun control is a denial or limitation by governments of the right to armed self-defense.[1]
Proponents use the discredited - but superficially appealing - claim that fewer lawfully-owned guns leads to less crime.[2] Because gun control increases the dependence of voters on government, its political effect is to shift the electorate leftward and its primary supporters are leftists.[3] In England, which already has the strictest gun control in Europe, leftists demand control over 120,000 deactivated guns, even though their activation and use constitute only 0.04% of all gun offenses there.
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Re: An alternative version of reality?

Watch this, it is kind of long but it has a point, I dont know if to laugh or cry.
http://www.viralvideochart.com/youtu...id=iV8sN1UngFY
Tell me what you think.
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Old 14.05.2008, 17:14
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Re: An alternative version of reality?

Last I heard of it (last year), they'd stopped edits from just anyone. You have to be a vetted right minded christian conservative to edit it now, to keep it, you know, balanced...
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Old 14.05.2008, 17:31
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Re: An alternative version of reality?

Class! This made me laugh and boy did I need it...
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Re: An alternative version of reality?

This is just full of priceless gems: http://www.conservapedia.com/Obama
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Re: An alternative version of reality?

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Classic:

Intercourse
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Sexual Intercourse
The entire Bible clearly teaches ... that sexual intercourse should take place in the context of the marital union of male and female. To argue otherwise is to argue against the entire weight of Scripture on matters of sexual ethics.

Homsexual Agenda
The homosexual agenda, or homosexual ideology, consists of a set of beliefs and objectives. The ideology and goals, as explained further below, include restricting free speech, obtaining special treatment, distorting science, and interfering with freedom of association.

Gun Control
Gun control laws restrict the purchase or ownership of guns, a weapon acquired mostly for defensive or sporting purposes. Gun control is unique among social programs in increasing the emotional and physical dependency of all voters on government. It is often promoted by liberals.
Gun control is a denial or limitation by governments of the right to armed self-defense.[1]
Proponents use the discredited - but superficially appealing - claim that fewer lawfully-owned guns leads to less crime.[2] Because gun control increases the dependence of voters on government, its political effect is to shift the electorate leftward and its primary supporters are leftists.[3] In England, which already has the strictest gun control in Europe, leftists demand control over 120,000 deactivated guns, even though their activation and use constitute only 0.04% of all gun offenses there.
I seem to remember a poster on a previous thread that has now been closed who might have had views very similar to some of these!!!
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