This was my reply to Kurt's message. -------------------------
Please voice your opinion on deletion.
21st Century Transcendentalism is not a religion and does not advocate (request belief, membership or anything else) anything; it stands for religious rationality in the 21st Century. If Wikipedia can describe what atheists, Christianity, Islam, Bokononism thinks then why can not I as a 21st Century Transcendentalist describe what I think? Bias, maybe?
Transcendentalism Today Org. with Kurt Kawohl as its founder has been accepted by and is a member of: IONS - Institute of Noetic Sciences, World Interfaith Congress, United Communities of Spirit, Alliance for Spiritual Community, Interfaith Voices for Peace And Justice, [[user:kkawohl]]
Kurt, there is a fundamental difference. When it comes to christianity, Islam, etc wiki is merely reporting objectively on a belief and values system subscribed to by large numbers over a long period of time. Yours is a personal belief. It is not for wiki to rule on its validity or invalidity. But wiki has a long established policy of using independently sourced religions, not one person's own article on his own personal religion. If there is independent evidence that your religion is practiced widely then it qualifies as an entry. But wiki has a long established policy of not accepting promotional articles on tiny religious groupings from the founder of that religion. The deletion of such pages is standard practice. Many of the above organisations have far more liberal entry requirements than an encyclopædia has. 'Vanity pages' in the absence of concrete evidence as to their worth are unencyclopædic, hence the deletion.
JT
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