There's a new wiki and it's going to blow Wikipedia out of the water. Imagine an educational resource like Wikipedia but free of the Anti-American, Anti-Christian, Pro-materialistic bias.
I'm sure WIkipedia is great if you want to learn about "Gangsta Rap", "Gang-banging" or catch up with the latest gossip about Britney Spears, but is that what we want our kids to be learning? Our kids should be learning about scientific facts like ID, and the history of America our Christian founding fathers.
Conservapedia is just the right sort of thing for those of us who are homeschooling. Where else can you find an accurate reference for all of the world's most interesting issues, and be sure that the articles are 100% free of bias, spin and political correctness.
This page explains the fundamental differences between WIkipedia and Conservapedia. I do hope you will join me and submit a few articles. May I suggest that with the author's permission, some articles from this site might be donated to help build Conservapedia?
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So basically, it's a propaganda machine like FOX News?
Sigh. First religious schools, then museums, then news channels, then museums, then encyclopedias. Anything to avoid seeing the truth, eh?
Where else can you find an accurate reference for all of the world's most interesting issues, and be sure that the articles are 100% free of bias, spin and political correctness. image
Listen, swizzlestick, I'm going to need you to look up "bias" in an actual reference book, and then come back.
Good one, BurntBush.
I can hardly wait to read the articles on "bias," "spin," and "political correctness."
Anyway, I thought that one of the big complaints about Wikipedia was its pro -American bias.
Those bastards banned my account for trying to debate with them!
Quizzlestick, Wikipedia is unbiased. It gives all the facts, not just the ones you agree with. If credible scientists have termed ID 'junk science' and Kent Hovind-like "scientists" are the only ones who support it, it'll say that.
If you want to find out about Intelligent Design, you can read Wikipedia and find out all you want about it. However, you may not like all the facts you read.
EDIT: I mean OE, not Conservapedia banned me.
Other classic entries in Conservapedia include but not limited to:
Moon: Our solar system is one of the few that has only one sun. Only one sun and only one moon: this uniqueness may reflect the existence of only one God.
Charles Darwin: However, this theory (evolution) is promulgated by extremely biased groups not recognized as real science, or, truly, as advanced critical thought.
Spanish-American War: America, being a Christian nation, won, while Spain, being a Catholic country, lost.
Faith: Jesus was unique in preaching the significance of faith and it is exclusive to Christianity.
Kangaroo: Their legs are strong and powerful, designed by God for leaping.
Kangaroo: Like all modern animals, modern kangaroos originated in the Middle East and 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.
Kangaroo: (on migrating to Australia from the Middle East) they rafted on mats of vegetation torn up by the receding flood waters
Unicorn: Secular opinion is that they are mythical. However, they are referred to in the Bible nine times, which provides an unimpeachable de facto argument for their once having been in existence.
Unicorn: a growing number of Creation researchers are theorizing that the unicorn was actually a member of the ceratopsian baramin*.
Unicorn: Post-Noachian references to unicorns have led some researchers to argue that unicorns are still alive today. At the very least, it is likely that they were taken aboard the Ark prior to the Great Flood.
Theory of Relativity: Relativity has generated a huge following by advocates of moral relativism
*baramin is a made up word based on the hebrew language
Conservapedia is certainly unbiased by facts!
Oh dear...
Conservapedia 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.
5. As much as is possible, American spelling of words must be used.
6. Do not post personal opinion on an encyclopedia entry. Opinions can be posted on Talk:pages or on debate or discussion pages.
Guess they'll not be allowing anything then...
:eta: I checked the entry for CE, then checked their index... You have to love the way they note the dates with AD and CE.
Oh, I just love this one from an entry on the United States:
The USA is rightly considered by its patriotic citizens to be the best country in the world. Previously such beliefs (also known as Manifest destiny) were held by citizens of former superpowers, such as the Roman Empire, the Soviet Union and the Third Reich).
Man, comparing the patriotism of the United States to that of a failed dictatorship, a failed communist country, and a failed attempt at becoming a world-wide empire. Mmm...
I, and dozens of other bloggers, have already slammed this little dose of insanity.
They stopped accepting new members within days, and frankly I hope people stop adding the obviously ficticious to their entries! There's nothing we can say or do that they won't gladly do themselves!
The place really is Poe's Law personified.
*crunch crunch*
Hey! Stupid tastes like candy!
Now that I have given a glimpse, I can have an opinion. Jesus, this website is SHIT. The explanations are scarce, inaccurate and their criteria is..........well, it´s growing now, but it´s not going to last. The problem with the rednecks, they´re creating a parallel world with homeschooling, Christian alternatives and all that. One day or the other they will have to deal with the real world.
So it's like a ripoff of Wikipedia, but open only to people who all think like the site owner, and completely biased, with no actual facts (and some newly-invented "facts"), and only fundamentalist Christian Americans are allowed?
This sounds like a bad joke.
The entry for "Jesus" is hysterical and include this nugget:
"In Christian discourse, the name Jesus almost always refers specifically to Jesus of Nazareth, believed by Christian followers to be God's dad, who came to earth as a human c 2 AD. However, God has recently revealed on His blog that Jesus is actually His nephew, not His son."
God has a blog... and they link to it!! It's gotta be parody.
I have had a look. Do you think it´s going to blow up wikipedia, with only entries in English and with this definition of feminism: "it´s the equality between men and women". One single line. Very encyclopedic, indeed.
and be sure that the articles are 100% free of bias, spin and political correctness
This is doubly ironic, since "political correctness" is neoconservative spin for "civil rights."
Actually, I use the Wikipedia to research electrical and mechanical engineering.
Plus, the list of sexual fetishes is just hilarious.
I can't believe this post doesn't start off "Let me 'rap' at you young people..."
I mean, if you're having trouble choosing, just compare Wiki's conservapedia entry and Conservapedia's wikipedia entry. Says it all.
"Imagine an educational resource like Wikipedia but free of the Anti-American, Anti-Christian, Pro-materialistic bias.
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Replace one bias with another
"Anti-American"
All y'all fundies and Republicans: Documenting or mentioning that bad things in Americas history IS NOT anti-American. It's historical fact. No matter how much conservatives lie about Americas past the facts not only remain but you're showing you can't be trusted to be honest. American Exceptionalism as utilized in the conservative world is recognized to be hiding from history or outright encouraging people to lie.
"Anti-Christian"
Repeat everything I said above with "Christian" replacing "American"
"Pro-materialistic bias."
What to you losers is anti-materialistic? Stuff other people have that you don't want? Because you sure as shit have stuff you won't give away or don't care about. EVERYONES MATERIALISTIC, it's basically a by product of existing in a physical world. Even Cat Stevens is fond and possesive of his guitar.
If your -pedia is teaching ID, it is NOT teaching scientific facts. It might as well teach about phrenology and the four humors. Likewise, if it's teaching about your Christian Founding Fathers, it's mentioning just a few of the Founding Fathers, as most were deists and one or two even agnostics.
Conservapedia is just the right sort of thing for those of you who are brainwashing your kids.
If humans made it, it's not going to be free of bias, spin and political correctness, stupid, as all humans have biases, spins and political views. And before you say "but God is unbiased", let me inform you that humans made all the gods, so neither of them is unbiased either.
The fundamental differences between Wikipedia and Conservapedia? Wikipedia is open to all and is sort of self-correcting. Conservapedia is only open to very few, and moderated by even fewer. It is VERY biased, indeed. Why would I want to submit an article, when I know in advance that you're going to censure it and ban me for not following your biases, spins and political correctness?
Confused?
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