The Conservapedia entry on Jesus Christ... laugh out loud funny.

[The Night Owl]

According to the First Commandment of Conservapedia, everything posted in it must be true and verifiable...

http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Commandments

Consider the Conservapedia entry on Jesus Christ...

Jesus Christ is the only Son of God and prophesied Messiah who, at the appropriate time, was sent by his Father and became a man to be the satisfaction for the anger of God toward us because of our sin, and to reveal to us the nature of God through his human person (1 John 4:10; 2 Corinthians 5:19).

http://www.conservapedia.com/Jesus

Jesus Christ's alleged divinity is true and verifiable?

:rofl:

The assumption that Biblical accounts are factual is employed in other Conservapedia entries...

http://www.conservapedia.com/God

God is the sovereign creator and eternal ruler of all things and beings that exist, whether in the physical universe or in the spiritual realm (Heaven). Not only is God the creator and ruler of the things and beings within those two realms, but he is also the creator of the realms themselves. God created the physical universe, and before he acted in this creation, the universe did not exist. Likewise God did with the spiritual realm.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Great_flood

The Great Flood refers to the most catastrophic flood and the most catastrophic geological event that has ever taken place in human history. This flood was the means of God's judgment on mankind because of the evil in their heart and actions.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Virgin_Mary

Mary (Blessed Virgin Mary or Our Lady, Greek: Μαρία, Spanish: Virgen María, French: Notre-Dame, Italian: Madonna) is the name of the mother of our Lord, Jesus of Nazareth. In the Gospel accounts, Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea to a young virgin, by the Holy Spirit. The gospel of Matthew describes the virgin birth of Jesus as fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah 7:14. The gospel of Luke relates that the angel Gabriel visited Mary in order to announce to her that she had been chosen to bear the Son of God.<1>

Reading Conservapedia entries on topics of faith and religion, I get the sense that Conservapedians can't resist the urge to present their beliefs as facts. Funny stuff.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I think they misunderstand the definitition of "faith".

[and-justice-for-all]

6. Yeah, just a little..nt

[YOY]

2. I think it's so cute that they call themselves "conservatives"

When most East Coast Cons (the ones you can actually talk to) think they are just as batshit insane as we think they are.

Buncha homeschooled tards

[trixie]

29. thank you

I work with both sides. Kids from schools and homeschoolers. I am supposed to be impartial but it is very hard when you can spot a homeschooler a mile away. OMG!!!! First off, no school in this country would accept wikipedia as a source for education/projects etc yet the adult in charge of the formation of the conservapedia was hindered by the fact that wikipedia is anti-American and anti-Christian. So we already have kids being taught wrong!

Check out the section on Sir Isaac Newton. It is soooooooooo wrong it is hilarious! They make anything fit don't they.

[boobooday]

3. Satisfaction for the anger of God toward us

Ugh.

[wtmusic]

4. Check out the entry for God

"Other than creation itself, God is revealed in several ways, including conscience and special revelation (the bible, and prophets). Most importantly though, God is revealed in Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God."

http://www.conservapedia.com/God

But what about Allah? He falls under the entry for "other gods" (lowercase):

"Other gods describes false deities apart from the true God."

Great! Now I understand! :crazy:

[and-justice-for-all]

7. WOW, those people do not know shit about their desert dogma.

..All 3 of them (Xtian, Islam and Jeudism) are all from the same source: Abraham, who, was the one who introduced monotheism. But, not until after his loving all knowing gawd told him to kill his son, only to stop him right before he slit his sons throat. Talk about psycological trauma.

[Occam Bandage]

15. ...

http://www.conservapedia.com/Islam

[Occam Bandage]

14. Why do you claim they place Allah under 'other gods?' They don't.

when spelled with an upper-case "G," the term is normally referring to the God of the Abrahamic religions

[sinkingfeeling]

5. I think they must have run some DNA tests. And, excuse me, but I thought

we were all supposed to be the 'children of God'.

[pegleg]

8. The only thing I can say here is that if it was another religion DUers

would probably just let it pass because it would be considered discrimination,but when it comes to christianity, bigots abound. I could not care less what a religion holds as doctrine. I have a choice to believe or not to. DU has become a home for anti-Christian and anti-Jewish bigotry.

[cyborg_jim]

9. Unlikely

The only thing I can say here is that if it was another religion DUers would probably just let it pass because it would be considered discrimination, but when it comes to christianity, bigots abound

Nope, it's a free-for-all on mocking any and all ideas that anyone might deem to be silly of a religious persuasion.

[pegleg]

10. not hardly, bigot is a bigot and that doesn't bode well for the dems

[cyborg_jim]

12. Well, by the standards of bigotry you apply bigotry towards Republicans would bode well I think

[Goblinmonger]

11. How is this bigotry?

Do you not think it is kind of ridiculous that they have a rule that says everything must be verifiable and true and then write that entry about Jesus and the flood? I mean, certainly, you must know there is some question about an actual historical Jesus. But even if I grant you that, his divinity is verifiable and true? Man, you gotta relax if you think this is anti-Christian bigotry. Sometimes people are stupid and it is OK to point that out.

[Random_Australian]

22. No, if it were another religion, it would be just as dumb. At least.

The presentation of a religion as fact in an encyclopedia is funny no matter what. It's like reading through the encyclopedia Brittanica, reaching the article on ice-cream, and reading that banana flavour is the bestest in the whole world and anyone who disagrees is a poopy-head meany.

[trixie]

30. so then you've seen the conservapedia?

It is not that we are laughing at religion we are laughing at rabid followers who have no idea of the real history/issues of their own religion. That is what is so funny! They are completely wrong in their facts.

Lighten up!

[Occam Bandage]

13. Er, why is this "laugh-out-loud-funny?" Is this the first time that you have seen

people present religious beliefs without qualifications? I mean, I was expecting some nuttiness beyond the standard here; this is just a series of bland declarations of some fundamental tenants of a major world religion. Heck, the last one uses NPOV wording (with the exception of the phrase 'our Lord,' of course)

I mean, whatever floats your boat is great. If you can derive mirth from reading 'Jesus Christ is the only Son of God," for the several-hundredth time, then congratulations on your short attention span, I guess.

[The Night Owl]

16. The Conservapedia entry on Jesus Christ wouldn't be funny if it were...

...on a religious site, but the fact that it is on a supposedly secular site which requires authors to post only verifiable facts makes it pretty darn funny... not as funny as posts you made in which you swore up and down that audio from that infamous YouTube clip of The War Room contains a racial slur uttered by Mickey Kantor, but still funny.

[Occam Bandage]

19. Yeah, that's pretty funny, seeing religion discussed matter-of-factly by conservatives. Whoo.

[The Night Owl]

21. Exactly. Funny, but...

...not as funny as watching you play Lt. Horatio Caine on the Internet. I still get a chuckle imagining you with your ear pressed against a speaker.

[knitter4democracy]

17. Mapia? Who's Mapia?

Who the heck said that Mary's name in Greek is Mapia? Oh, I forgot, all the Greek Orthodox Christians are going to hell, so why would you ask them, I don't know, about Greek? Typical Protestant arrogance. I've been shocked at the way Protestants pronounce NT Greek terms in the past but then remembered that they'd never, not in a million years, actually ask a Greek person or a Greek Orthodox priest anything about their own language, so I shouldn't be surprised.

Oh, and when did every conservative become a fundamentalist Christian? My agnostic dad would be pretty pissed at that crap, and he's a Republican.

[Occam Bandage]

18. That would be a rho, not a 'p.'

Edit: You know, Conservapedia is edited by a bunch of barking morons, for barking morons. And yet half the posts in this thread are people who are apparently having difficulty understanding what they have written.

[knitter4democracy]

20. I wondered, but the post wasn't in Greek. It was in English.

Why use the rho when you've transliterated other languages into English?

[Occam Bandage]

23. Greek has a special place in Christianity, sort of (though not nearly to the same extent)

as Arabic does in Islam. Greek is the language of the New Testament, the language of the early prayers and creeds, and a fluency in literary Greek is practically necessary for serious Biblical scholars. Many lay Christians have at least a vague understanding of the importance of Greek; you'll note that many Jesus Fish bumper decals have ΙΧΘΥΣ, while none have "FISH," ICTHHS" or "JCGSS" on them.

That said, even that knowledge isn't necessary. The other languages were not transliterated; they were written in their native Roman alphabet. The Greek was written in its native alphabet as well.

[knitter4democracy]

24. Funny, it looked different in my choir books.

What do I know, we only converted into the Greek Orthodox church, and I only sang in the choir for five years with Greek teachers who taught me how to read Greek enough to be able to sing it and have an idea of what I was singing, since our liturgy was half in NT-era Greek, half in English. Obviously, I have absolutely no idea what Greek looks like or sounds like.

[StateRed]

25. plenty of liberals

believe in Jesus...ask Obama

[The Night Owl]

26. Most Christian liberals have the sense to know that Jesus Christ's alleged divinity...

...is not something which has been verified.

Nice try.

[StateRed]

27. plenty of liberals

in the south, the same ones who might help sweep Obama to victory in North Carolina believe in the veracity of the Bible as evidenced by the documented martyring of the saints. These saints were martyred on information they knew to be true or false because they were firsthand witnesses to the resurrection. No men happily go to martyrdom for a known lie. Even muslim jihadists believe in their religion and would not kill themselves over something they know to be false.

[The Night Owl]

28. Well, when Southern liberals create an online encyclopedia which...

...presents religious claims as facts, then rest assured that I will start up a thread here making fun of it.