Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
Again, you bring up the "reasonable"
conservatives.
Like many said after you mentioned the reasonable
creationists (most creationists are conservatives),
reasonable conservatives using your view are few and
far bewteen and are disliked by many other
conservatives.
Well, I don't think so. I think that the success of the wiki model
shows that even people of wildly different perspectives can behave
reasonably when there is a culture and software to encourage it.
I don't think reasonable conservatives are hard to find, nor do I
think reasonable liberals are hard to find.
But they say the representation itself is, well not
POV (sorry about that usage of POV), but against their
religion and therefore violates freedom of religion.
Well, a properly written NPOV presentation of wicca, for example,
should absolutely NOT be against Christianity, nor should it be
against Atheism. It's just a description of what it is, not advocacy
in any way. By having people from many perspectives editing the same
passage, we have excellent insurance (the best yet invented, I think)
against inadvertant advocacy masquerading as objectivity.
--Jimbo