Conservapedia isn't a place I've spent much time looking at. But someone posted a link to their 2012 Olympics page, and I just couldn't help myself. As expected it's full of some rather weird ideas, such as the statement "... the pagan origins of the Olympics have been replaced by faith-based achievement by the participating athletes." Really? There's a difference between pagan running and faith based running? And of course by "faith" they mean Christianity. It's not like pagans had faith, right? Then there's the weird question about athletes from public schools not winning gold medals. Of course it's not so weird if you consider that the kind of folks who write stuff for Conservapedia don't like anything run by government that doesn't involve law enforcement or the military. I also wonder how one defines an "increasingly atheistic nation," which seems to be an obsession of the page creator. After all the number of atheists and others that the Conservapedia crowd would consider non-believers is growing in the US as well.
In any case if there's an Olympic competition for dumb Olympic themed web pages this one would certainly be in the running, I suspect there are worse out there.
Addenda: The word faith being in purple is due to copy-pasting that line from Conservapedia.
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