Peter Ansell wrote:
On 6/1/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
...On the one hand, I agree, all "I am a whatever-tian" boxes should either stand together or fall together. Personally, I don't care if you proclaim yourself to be a Christian or a Satanist or a Democrat or a Republican or a vegetarian or a Martian or a pedophile or a Nazi...
But. On the other hand:
If you honestly believe, in this society, that there is no difference between saying "I am a Christian" and "I am a Satanist", you are either being wilfully ignorant, or disruptive to make a point. And it's exactly this sort of wilfulness, disruption, and point-making that gives rise to big problems with those seemingly silly, unimportant userboxes.
So we can promote things only if they are not divisive and inflammatory in American English Christian culture?
Did you even read any of my "On the one hand" paragraph?
Because saying that you are a christian will be extremely inflammatory in some parts.
Indeed, and I apologize for my ill-advised use of the somewhat vague and admittedly parochial term "this society". (But on the other hand, this *is* the mailing list for the English Wikipedia.)
Your point of view is no better than any other point of view. Stop revealing your biases in such a tangible way.
Do please explain what my bias is here.
Also, calling someone disruptive because they dont hold your point of view is poor form.
Oh, please. I did not say it was disruptive because MacGyverMagic doesn't hold my point of view. I said it's disruptive because it's a simple *fact*. There are people who will become upset if you wave the statement "I am a satanist" in their face. (But yes, yes, it's equally true that there are people who will become upset if you wave the statement "I am a Christian" in their face.)