Another key to the problem here, Sam. You don't see yourself as having an opinion; you see yourself as bearing the Truth. You percieve your biases as neutral.
Wise words.
On 6/5/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/4/06, Sam Spade samspade.thomasjefferson@googlemail.com wrote:
my version of the God intro:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=God&oldid=46819733
or the current version:
For what it's worth, and only because you asked, I vastly prefer the current version.
"God denotes the deity believed by monotheists to be the sole creator and ruler of the universe."
as opposed to
"God is the term for the Supreme Being believed by the majority[1][2][3] to be the creator, ruler and/or the sum total of, existence."
"believed by the majority" is an awful, weaselly, phrase (majority of whom?) that has no place in the first sentence of such an important article. I also take exception to "X is the term" articles - see [[Wikipedia:Grapefruit]].
The fact that a majority of people in some sphere (all humans? all Americans?) believe in God is highly relevant, but at the end of the day, it is a belief system, and most people recognise that. I imagine that most believers are happy with the statement "I believe in God, but I recognise that others don't", rather than requiring "God exists, but some people refuse to recognise that".
And finally, what is abetter version of Human, the featured article version i endorsed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Human&oldid=24562750
or the secular humanist version we find today:
Fwiw, I don't like your version here either. The initial sentence is a bad definition "X defines itself in terms of Y"???
Since you asked.
Steve
Well thank you Steve. If there had been a method of determining which version was prefered, it certainly would have saved us all alot of time and trouble. Unfortunately, each of our opinions are just as arbitrary as yours.
To the peanut gallary, no, my opinions are not always facts, but the information I was inserting into the respective articles is. Check the cites.
SS