[WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

[MuZemike]

Not to be supporting Conservapedia (more like playing Devil's Advocate), 
but isn't "rewriting history" different from "reinterpreting history"? 
It's like interpreting The Bible; that is, there are different 
interpretations of the entire book that span the entire one-dimensional 
political spectrum.

-MuZemike

On 4/10/2011 9:21 PM, Ancient Apparition wrote:
> Conservapedia seeks to rewrite history, it makes Convservative Christians
> look like uninformed idiots, most Christians ALREADY KNOW that man did
> land on the moon, the earth isn't flat, dinosaurs did exist, the earth
> CAN'T possibly be 6000 years old and that the earth revolves around the sun.
>
> I wonder what would have happened if scientists from the Middle Ages onwards
> were allowed to develop their theories, we MIGHT have solved most of the
> world's problems, or ended it early. Either way, it was the church's failure
> to
> accept change that held back the development of "superior Western
> culture", the early Europeans were largely responsible for delaying the
> advancement of technology.
>
> The early Europeans did the "will of God", was doing the will of God
> forcibly
> delaying technological advances and forcing your religious beliefs on
> another
> person? I'm fairly certain the New Testament is different to the Old
> Testament
> in that it doesn't encourage violence as the means for conversion...
>
> The "assimilate or die" behaviour was dismissed in the Old Testament.
> Instead
> Jesus preached love if I'm correct. Sure the NT says "atheists and heathens"
> will rot in eternal damnation, but it doesn't hold the "assimilate or die"
> belief.''
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