Comments on: Also, whack the shepherd

By: Consumer Unit 5012

Consumer Unit 5012 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:53:36 +0000

Lawnmower Boy said:
Conservapedia: Jonestown or Waco? You be the judge.

From my own observations (and those of the jokesters at RationalWiki), I’d say “North Korea”. They’ve got a Maximum Leader whose word is NOT the Word of God, it’s MUCH more important than that. They’ve got a gang of fanatical enforcers squashing all deviance. They’ve got a bizarre political philosophy that’s slowly strangling the life out of the place, and they they’ve got a populace who can’t even see the bars of the cage they’re in.

It’s a perfect microcosm of authoritarian beliefs taken to their logical conclusion, without the usual body-count.

By: Sofa King

Sofa King — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:06:59 +0000

And of course the King James was commissioned by a dirty queer, so of course it must be cleaned up.

By: rbx5

rbx5 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:15:54 +0000

buzz: Took the words right outta my mouth. I suppose it doesn’t serve to underestimate human stupidity.

By: Jim Smith

Jim Smith — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:50:40 +0000

5 Finally these men said, “We will never find any basis for charges against Daniel, unless we use the power of the state to crush his Christian faith.”

I see what you did there.

By: Joysweeper

Joysweeper — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:30:58 +0000

Conservatizing the Bible?

That would make an excellent thing to speculate about if it wasn’t apparently being done. Oy.

By: Mary Warner

Mary Warner — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:33:23 +0000

What’s going to happen to all the dirty stuff in the Song Of Solomon?

By: NCallahan

NCallahan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:34:40 +0000

I can’t wait to see the full list of segments they want to remove. It’ll be so handy to have a complete Biblical reading list for my future kids.

By: Prankster

Prankster — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:58:00 +0000

The thing that really blows my mind is that they’re casually admitting that the bible isn’t the inerrant word of God, but rather something that’s been subject to revision over the years. Revision…by LIBERALS!!!!

Seriously, this is going to piss off a LOT of moderate and even conservative Christians, people who otherwise might have been on their side politically. I really think the hardcore conservatives crossed the line a while back, and they’re going to have a tough time winning back the respect and sympathy of 85% of the American people.

By: DistantFred

DistantFred — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:46:29 +0000

So nice to see people who don’t get that Christianity used to be a religion of the downtrodden that gained popularity with the hope that their lives may suck now, but heaven awaits those of piety and patience.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:02:45 +0000

I especially like that they’ve decided on the KJV as a base for their translation. It’s fairly widely acknowledged that, while it is one of the most poetic translations out there, it’s also one of the least accurate. Conservapedia also seems to have fairly lax standards for citations.

By: Matt Ampersand

Matt Ampersand — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:48:05 +0000

Wait a minute, so they are basically rewriting books? Yeah, there is no way this could wrong.

By: BringTheNoise

BringTheNoise — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:18:11 +0000

See, Will, where you went wrong there was applying logic. That has a clear lieberal bias and is not longer used in this Brave New World of Conservapedia.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:53:10 +0000

24 At the king’s command, the liberal union members who had falsely accused Daniel were brought in…

Hang on, they accused him of praying to God. Which he was doing. Nothing false there.

They had a legitimate case under the law of the time. The fact that they were a bunch of sandal-wearing pinko liberals doesn’t change that.

By: Lawnmower Boy

Lawnmower Boy — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:35:34 +0000

Conservapedia: Jonestown or Waco? You be the judge.

By: John W

John W — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:03:41 +0000

Or “Why I Should Write the Bible, by MGK” Part One. I look forward to the bits where Dr Strange parts the Red Sea or when Deadpool replaced the water-into-wine with grape kool-aid…