Antifroth

If you look for things using Google you will sometimes see this reference come up. It is quite obviously lifted from the Wikipedia Project (WP), and properly acknowledges that and links back to article history, but is written explicitly with a Reunification Church (“Moonie”) point of view.

WP espouses – and sometimes fights about – a neutral POV – (NPOV).

Looking at the WP articles I’m particularly aware of, there is some subtle distortion having passed through the approved Moonie (would “Moonist” be more polite, I’m not trying to be rude about them particularly) authors’ hands.

I assume as a default that any religious preface or shell to writing or other media will be pushing an agendum by distortion. The Moonies are actually slightly more explicit and clear about what they are doing than some Xian sects flogging DVDs with a whiff of irreducible complexity and the argument that only immaterial superbeings of immense powers but with no telephone number can arise out of nothing with no antecedent reality, and must do so in order to produce a less complex universe which is too complicated to have simply arisen.

Possibly I’ve missed a subtlety, and possibly I simply don’t have the right phone directory.

Later:
This was published in January 2010 and by a wide margin has attracted the most (extremely boring and stupid) spam in comments. It is all aimed at the exceedingly gullible. Why would that be?