On 5/31/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa(a)gmail.com> wrote:
To the outside world (and to me) it thus appears that
the Wikipedia
project is providing all users with a facility to label themselves
according to beliefs, and by implication, encouragement to do so.
This is especially problematic with disreputable religions and
pseudoreligions (I apologise if this offends American sensibilities
attuned to First Amendment absolutism) such as Satanism, Scientology
and the like.
Please provide a citation for Satanism being disreputable.
Disliked, sure. Disreputable implies that they're actively harmful to
people. Even in the relative core of satanism in the US, San Francisco,
where LaVey founded it and all, their neighbors mostly don't notice them.
They're among the least offensive San Francisco freaks.
Also, exactly how do you justify Zoroastrianism being disreputable?
-george william herbert
gherbert(a)retro.com / george.herbert(a)gmail.com