On 6/1/06, Erik Moeller <eloquence(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/31/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm
<macgyvermagic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Either cut all religious userboxes or keep them
all, don't start getting
selective. The box is just as useful as a "I am a Christian"-box. Disrepute
due to beliefs is only an issue if said editors consistently misbehave.
Agreed. One delusion is no more or less reputable than the other. "I
believe in X" userboxes should be deleted or subst:ed generally, or
replaced with "I am interested in X" boxes. Surely, "I am interested
in Satanism" would not be a problem for anyone.
Tony probably knows this and is hoping for exactly such an outcome. :-)
Erik
Using Tony's argument about disrepute (possibly based around the
Christian American society view), if a general reader stumbled over "I
am interested in Satanism" on a user page they would be just as
disgusted. Wikipedia accepts editors without regard to their outside
lives.
Peter Ansell