Wikipedia’s demon spawn has been dozens of internet encyclopaedias. Here’s a selection of the encyclopaedisphere’s entries on “God.” I will, naturally, stick to the sillier, crazier or more scurrilous end of the encyclopaedic spectrum.
But first Wikipedia itself, which says
God (IPA: /É¡É’d/) most commonly refers to the deity worshipped by followers of monotheistic and monolatrist religions, whom they believe to be the creator and ruler of the universe.
Hmm, odd grammatical construction, but who I am to criticise, given “the beam in mine own eye” (Source: somewhere in the bible. Bugger, I should have stuck with “cast the first stone”)
Arssepedia, the British Army Rumour Serviice wiki is a bit more forthright, spraying generalised anti-religion ammo, though it’s relatively soft on Christianity.
..the orthodox Christian perspective of The Big “G” views the ‘man upstairs’ as a generally benign sort of bloke who quite likes us on the quiet. There are a quite a few flavours of Christianity:…. They all hate each other to a greater or lesser extent and consider all other Christian groups a bunch of splitters and heretics..
Its Jesus page is more entertaining. It starts with
The Big man’s son…
… he is also the Big man himself…
… and something about an imaginary friend?
Sickipedia has lots of gags of the type that make you think “Well, it’s almost like a joke except for the not-being-funny bit.” I do like this one:
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realised that The Lord doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me.
Conservapedia (remember these people complain that Wikipedia is not objective enough….) says:
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
The word “God” is the general term used to refer to the Creator of the universe. What we know about God comes from three main categories: creation, conscience, and revelation. God has revealed himself in several ways, including through the Bible.
Attributes of God include but are not limited to Wisdom, Infinitude, Sovereignty, Holiness, Trinity, Omniscience, Faithfulness, Love, Omnipotence, Self-existence, Self-sufficiency, Justice, Immutability, Mercy, Eternal, Goodness, Gracious, and Omnipresence.These attributes all work in complete and perfect harmony with one another.
God exercises eternal and righteous judgment of the wicked in hell, because of an inherent problem in the human heart, namely Sin. According to the Bible, the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross of calvary and then resurrection, is God’s merciful and gracious response to the problem of the human heart.
You assume they don’t have a facility for posting stuff like the notes on Wikipedia that say something like “this post is contested, it may not be objective”…
The next entry gets in this list for its exhuberant wackiness despite not really being a Wikipedia evil twin, although it was tagged “god” and is called “ipedia” (That spurred me to look at ipedia.com. Don’t squander any life-force energy by directing your left-clicking finger at this. It’s an advert site, mainly advertising encyclopedias.)
It’s a video from Meyers Bend Pentecostal Church, entitled the Apostolic something or other (Don’t make me watch it again) about a miraculous leg healing, the description for which says:
This wonderful Lady was healed by the power of God! Luke 6:38 (NKJV) Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you. 2 Corinthians 9:5-10 (NKJV) 5Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go to you ahead of time, and prepare your generous gift beforehand, which you had previously promised, that it may be ready as a matter..
No idea what that means but it’s creepy.
I thought Creedopedia looked promising, as Google took me straight to a Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center page.That should have been mildly entertaining but it’s definitely off topic… No mention of “God” I could spot. The reference is only still here because the site’s called Creedopedia.
Because, I’m scraping the ipedia barrel by now. This is the next link to Darth_Ipedia:
Darth Ipedia was a Dark Lord of the Sith known for dedicating his entire life to studying, collecting, and organizing arcane bits of useless information. No one ever had the heart to tell him his sources weren’t terribly trustworthy, except at the moment of his death at the hands of Darth Awesome. When he realized that all of his knowledge was complete lies, and that his life’s work had been the greatest fallacy since Crystal Pepsi, he is said to have remarked, “Meh.”
No mention of God then, but I suppose there’s a lesson for me in that last one (in bold)…
I’m now wondering what part of “god *ipedia” Google didn’t understand to give me thousands of links that just don’t come near even mentioning “god.” The “god ” bit obviously. Well, maybe Google has done that Kurzweil Singularity thing and become sentient after all, but it’s become an atheist.