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August 2020
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Reformulated:


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You may also want to read User:Ian.thomson/ChristianityAndNPOV. We at Wikipedia are highbrow (snobby), heavily biased for the academia.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. All we do here is cite, summarize, and paraphrase professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources, without addition, nor commentary. We're not a directory, nor a forum, nor a place for you to "spread the word".

If you are here to promote pseudoscience, extremism, fundamentalism or conspiracy theories, we're not interested in what you have to say. Tgeorgescu (talk) 21 August 2020 23:47:05 (UTC)

August 2020
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Gospel. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Tgeorgescu (talk) 23:53, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

"Harvard has no official alignment [liberalism vs. conservatism&mdash;n.n.], nor is there any predominant leaning that would create substantial peer pressure one way or another, as long as it is based on well thought-out and logically defensible positions. The Harvard community is hard, however, on those holding superstitious, arbitrary, and illogical positions, so if you believe Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs around the garden of Eden, you wouldn't be too happy there."

- Your sisters cute friend

Wikipedia sides with Harvard and similar universities, not with Christian fundamentalists. Tgeorgescu (talk) 02:32, 22 August 2020 (UTC)