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== New Media ==

* [[Conservapedia]] is the conservative Christian's substitute for [[Wikipedia]], ~~whom~~ the site's founders ~~criticise~~ ~~for its~~ left-wing, anti-American bias. The site's take on things especially regarding evolution and other scientific subjects is so laughably bad that a number of disillusioned Conservapedians left the site [[Start My Own|to start]] [[RationalWiki]]. While RationalWiki was initially founded to throw potshots at Conservapedia, it has since become a group blog whose contributors either denounce, refute or otherwise make fun of those seen as fringe, pseudoscience or fundamentalist.

* [[Conservapedia]] is the conservative Christian's substitute for [[Wikipedia]], in response to what the site's founders view as left-wing, anti-American bias on Wikipedia. The site's take on things especially regarding evolution and other scientific subjects is so laughably bad that a number of disillusioned Conservapedians left the site [[Start My Own|to start]] [[RationalWiki]]. While RationalWiki was initially founded to throw potshots at Conservapedia, it has since become a group blog whose contributors either denounce, refute or otherwise make fun of those seen as fringe, pseudoscience or fundamentalist.

** [[Sarcasm Mode|And it gets better]]: As if their [[Cloudcuckoolander|staunch conservatism]] wasn't enough, they even had the audacity to make a "moral" substitute to [[The Bible]] which they somehow perceived as having being tainted with "liberal bias"! Called the Conservative Bible Project, it was an attempt to align the Holy Scripture to their beliefs, though it remains to be finished due to lack of editors with intimate knowledge of ancient Hebrew and Greek, and those that do know the languages were booted out for some reason. The project received criticism even from its intended conservative audience (including [[Chick Tracts|Jack Chick]] of all people) who found the idea as disgusting if not outright blasphemous.

*** There are plenty of young social conservatives too. The thing is that the 'conservative movement' as such is actually two or three different groups, with different agendas, unified primarily by opposition to the reigning social and political and economic paradigm dominated by the post-McGovern (post-1972) Democratic Party (which is itself a patchwork of New Deal/Great Society liberals and the New Left). Libertarians and conservatives are two different things, but [[Enemy Mine|they both dislike the current incarnation of the welfare state]], for example.

** There are plenty of young social conservatives too. The thing is that the 'conservative movement' as such is actually two or three different groups, with different agendas, unified primarily by opposition to the reigning social and political and economic paradigm dominated by the post-McGovern (post-1972) Democratic Party (which is itself a patchwork of New Deal/Great Society liberals and the New Left). Libertarians and conservatives are two different things, but [[Enemy Mine|they both dislike the current incarnation of the welfare state]], for example.

** And then there's [http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Liberapedia], which is one part the liberal alternative to Conservapedia, and many parts over-the-top satire.

* There's message boards for Christian [[Furry Fandom|Furries]].