My husband and I have been avid Eddie Izzard fans since at least 1998, and for my Christmas present this year we bought ourselves tickets to see him do stand-up at Madison Square Garden on January 16th, his one and only night in New York. (For those of you who don’t know about Eddie, he’s the charming, lovable transvestite comedian with unrivaled verbal virtuosity who’s also played Shakespeare, appeared in the movies, and starred in a modestly successful but brief TV drama, “The Riches.”) In “Stripped,” his current world tour, Eddie tackles the history of the world, with — in his words — “a few gaps.” In his monologue (somehow, this modest-sized man commands 15,000+ at Madison Square Garden), Eddie is an atheist with a question mark — a thinking man wondering about how God and Wikipedia fit together.
Afterwards, aglow in Eddie Izzard pixie-dust, my husband and I came up with a chart that compares God’s Word to Wikipedia:
|
Category
|
Word of God
|
Wikipedia
|
|
Source in theory
|
God
(sole source) |
Human
(collective) |
|
Is a wiki
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Available to All
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Evolving
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Money Making
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Verifiable
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Male Chauvinist
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Illustrations
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Competition?
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Uniforms for Editors
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Can cite in paper?
|
No
|
No
|
|
Flags for bias?
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Hyperlinks
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Faith required
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Politicians sign on
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
TV Shows
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Wars Fought Over
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Tax Deductible
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Predictions
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Divine Revelation
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Internet Delivery
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Manuals
|
Yes
|
No
|
