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« on: February 22, 2009, 10:43:20 pm »

One of the additions recently over on Wikipedia article (some user "Xanthius" who documents everything and who seems like a veritable researcher on the GC subject reverts unsourced/cited/invalid statements/references/links/etc.):

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However, its members took the criticism in stride, with the belief that where God is working, the world will be working just as hard to oppose him.

It's almost so funny (like a broken record is): someone coughed-up nearly word-for-word GC's leaders' words as their own.

Okay, it's really sad, but I was shocked to see the mindlessness of it: just reproducing the same terms/syntax as GC.

And now to vomit...(for her sake)
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« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2009, 10:05:07 am »


And now to vomit...(for her sake)

Sometimes this is the best response.

Is the Wiki article still modified? Sounds like someones playing "Bard" again for GCx.

 "And when the devil spake through the voice of the concerned parents, he accused the brethren of cult work and brainwashing, but the brethren rejoiced and began to wash Jim's Porsche saying, 'praise the lord! he has sent us trials and tribulations!'"   
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« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2009, 08:21:45 am »

Is the Wiki article still modified? Sounds like someones playing "Bard" again for GCx.

Some user "Xanthius" on WP undid that user's edits according to WP's guidelines.
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« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2009, 10:23:33 am »

what is this Wikipedia article you all are talking about?  just curious.....
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« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2009, 04:49:49 pm »

what is this Wikipedia article you all are talking about?  just curious.....

Go to "Great Commission Association of Churches" on Wikipedia. Apparently GC's past is all in the news, and it's also very documented (to the extent that it could be) not only from people who were within, but also from without: all which make excellent sources (both verifiable, notable, and by authorities in their fields!) sources under Wikipedia's policies; GC* attempted to send-in their own editors to sterilize the thing and it caused a bit of an uproar: not only that, one of their editors who was feigning neutrality then had a pang of conscience, repented, opened-up about how he was pretty much told to lie, and has become one of the guards of the thing (he's posted around here too, "Nate Swinton") against anything that violates Wikipedia's policies: effectively stymied GC (for now) about spinning and censuring information that's examining of them (rather than what they've approved and delivered). It was hilarious! Watching them trip-up and get caught: but I'm saddened that from this those very GC editors have taken interests in other Christian-related articles on Wikipedia. : (

Check-out the Discussion page to that article; while you're at it you'll be able to read-through the process. The nice thing about the whole thing was that it wasn't so war-like and bitter as are some of the other religiously-oriented articles on that site (especially cult and cult-like groups' pages); heck, on Wikipedia anything related to Catholic dogma is a no-touch else you'll get your head cut off (which is a lot to do with Christianity): even quoting all the different Catholic sources is likely to start a (pretentious, but real) war, and it's quite miserable to deal with that crowd in many cases, (though they'd be happy to hear that I argued for the preservation of "Concupiscence" as an article as distinct from "Lust", since the two embody different connotations, concepts, and uses in specialized vocabulary: some guy who decided he knew enough from reading a thesaurus thought they were just duplicates!).

Anyway, Wikipedia is a landmine of varying interests, which is its strength and weakness, strength only if those wanting to be honest know the policies very thoroughly, however: and in this case it left GC's spinning with little more than unreliable sources and emotions behind things. Odd because I remember looking at that article once (before I knew what was going on) and didn't know what to think.


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