On 6/2/06, Nick Boalch n.g.boalch@durham.ac.uk wrote:
Sean Barrett wrote:
> 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.
Well, as far as I'm concerned the only difference between Christianity and Satanism (whether Theistic or LaVeyan) is that Christianity was made up longer ago...
Well, as far as I'm concerned the only difference between you and a banned troll is that you're not banned yet...
Does [[WP:NPA]] apply to the mailing list?
If it did, your attack on religious believers would eliminate the difference between you and a banned troll.
There's an awful lot of difference between attacking an individual and 'attacking' a belief system.
This thread was started with a statement that a particular belief system would bring wikipedia into disrepute. Attacking people because they are discussing this, and equating them with trolls, together with a threat to ban them if they feel like discussing anymore, doesn't exactly serve to keep a community together. Try to see this discussion in good faith.
Peter Ansell