MacGyverMagic wrote:
Either cut all religious userboxes or keep them all, don't start getting selective. The box is just as useful as a "I am a Christian"-box. Disrepute due to beliefs is only an issue if said editors consistently misbehave.
People worry too much over userboxes.
On the one hand, I agree, the ongoing train wreck that is the userbox "war" is silly and unnecessary. 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; the only thing that matters to me is whether you can edit encyclopedia articles intelligently, cooperatively, and productively.
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.