Preserved for posterity

This has inexplicably been marked for deletion, but the author deserves a pat on the back. Genesis, the opening to the Conservative Bible:

1 In the beginning, God did a cost/benefit analysis and decided that social collectivism was the only sustainable economic paradigm and that the only people that actually go to hell are sinister, self-absorbed, greedy myopic fascists such as those that created Conservapedia.

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." --Richard Dawkins, in honor of your current highlighted article.

"Never trust someone that says, 'Well, what god MEANT to say was.....'" --Bill Hicks

Seriously, you people at Conservapedia are truly mentally ill.

I will, however, chide author Montieth for the comparison to the mentally ill. Stupidity, ignorance, and self-parody are not mental illnesses.

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Following an idea that occurred to me while being interviewed for an article on the Conservapedia, I tried replacing the inadequate page on the ACLU with the comprehensive Wikipedia entry.
But Conservapedia is going to fix that.
Perhaps the notion of conservatives building an alternative to Wikipedia that includes many "scientific" entries based on creationist books aimed at seventh graders sounds like some bizarre hoax.
I've been following that thread on Conservapedia, and I've seen what you scalliwags have been up to, littering the poor site with humorous edits and then coming over here and tittering about i

Stupidity, ignorance, and self-parody are not mental illnesses.

Not yet - but wait 'til the next edition of the Diagnostic Standards Manual comes out!

By Pierce R. Butler (not verified) on 09 Oct 2009 #permalink