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.'' > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l