Daddy, what’s a baramin?
It’s nonsense, thats what it is:
Just the facts – and they’re always right
Conservapedia is just like Wikipedia, except that its 11,000 entries read like they were personally vetted by Pat Robertson and the 700 Club. Fed up with Wikipedia’s purported liberal bias, Conservapedia’s founder, Andrew Schlafly, son of conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, has created “an encyclopedia you can trust.”
And you can trust them, to give you some pretty loopy definitions. Their entry on kangaroos, for instance, says that, “like all modern animals . . . kangaroos are the descendants of the two founding members of the modern kangaroo baramin that were taken aboard Noah’s Ark prior to the Great Flood.”
You may not recognize the word “baramin.” It’s a 20th-century creationist neologism that refers to the species God placed on earth during Creation Week. Special for kids: I wouldn’t use that word on the biology final. Although maybe your parents could sue the local school board for failing to teach the Book of Genesis in science class.</em>
What a cruel thing to do to your children. Teach them gibberish that you WISH to be true, fill their heads with praddle like this, and then send them out into a world that observes other, more fact-based realities. One could call it child abuse, in fact, I will.
But don’t worry, you’ll have plenty of time to discuss the big ugly world with them, since after a childhood of lies and fairy tales they will most likely end up back on your couch, eating your food and being a keyboard commando from your basement when they lose their jobs.
Utter fools.
