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Hi, I'm an atheist who stumbled upon this website after a friend told me about it.  I am a Liberal, and although I disagree with some points you present on this site, one thing I found has truly offended me.  In the artible "Examples of Bias in Wikipedia", the page begins with a graph showing the number of Wikipedia users by religion.  It shows a large amount atheists compared to other religions. First of all, I read this as being considered a "problem", and I would like to know why.  Secondly, I assume from the "Daily Bible Verse" that an overwhelming amount of Conservapedia users are Christians.  Is that better?  I assure you I'm not here to stir up a controversy, I'm just puzzled and would like a straight answer. [[User:VonShroom|VonShroom]] 19:59, 23 February 2008 (EST)

Hi, I'm an atheist who stumbled upon this website after a friend told me about it.  I am a Liberal, and although I disagree with some points you present on this site, one thing I found has truly offended me.  In the artible "Examples of Bias in Wikipedia", the page begins with a graph showing the number of Wikipedia users by religion.  It shows a large amount atheists compared to other religions. First of all, I read this as being considered a "problem", and I would like to know why.  Secondly, I assume from the "Daily Bible Verse" that an overwhelming amount of Conservapedia users are Christians.  Is that better?  I assure you I'm not here to stir up a controversy, I'm just puzzled and would like a straight answer. [[User:VonShroom|VonShroom]] 19:59, 23 February 2008 (EST)

:Perhaps the graph needs more explanation, but (not having put it there myself), I'd say that it's to illustrate the cause of much of the bias, with the number of atheists editing on Wikipedia being quite out of proportion of the number of atheists in society.  Yes, a large proportion of Conservapedia users are Christians.  This is more in proportion with their representation in society, particularly American society (where most of the editors would be from) and even if this were not so, Conservapedia is explicitly conservative, not neutral, as Wikipedia ''claims'' to be.  Furthermore, I would claim that Christianity is the only true religion.  People of other religions, including atheism, disagree, of course, but in most cases consider ''their'' religion to be the only correct one, so Christians are not alone in believing their religion to be correct.  Atheists often claim that we shouldn't claim to be the correct religion because we can't know for sure, or they are ''all'' subjective, or some similar reasoning, but rarely substantiate this claim, and usually exempt their own beliefs from this statement on the self-serving grounds that atheism is not a religion (if you think that way, please read the [[Religion]] article).  [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 04:47, 24 February 2008 (EST)

:Perhaps the graph needs more explanation, but (not having put it there myself), I'd say that it's to illustrate the cause of much of the bias, with the number of atheists editing on Wikipedia being quite out of proportion of the number of atheists in society.  Yes, a large proportion of Conservapedia users are Christians.  This is more in proportion with their representation in society, particularly American society (where most of the editors would be from) and even if this were not so, Conservapedia is explicitly conservative, not neutral, as Wikipedia ''claims'' to be.  Furthermore, I would claim that Christianity is the only true religion.  People of other religions, including atheism, disagree, of course, but in most cases consider ''their'' religion to be the only correct one, so Christians are not alone in believing their religion to be correct.  Atheists often claim that we shouldn't claim to be the correct religion because we can't know for sure, or they are ''all'' subjective, or some similar reasoning, but rarely substantiate this claim, and usually exempt their own beliefs from this statement on the self-serving grounds that atheism is not a religion (if you think that way, please read the [[Religion]] article).  [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 04:47, 24 February 2008 (EST)