Religions Wiki:Purpose

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Revision as of 21:29, 2 May 2019 by Gravitywave (talk | contribs) (Invitation to contribute)

Future direction

Religions Wiki has been 'forked' from a previous instance of the project (the website Iron Chariots), and as such it seems appropriate now to launch a discussion about its future direction. I suggest a discussion about the future scope and direction of this wiki. Gravitywave (talk) 20:01, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Introduction

The current situation: fragmentary statements of purpose for Religions Wiki can be found in various pages, including these:

Discussion

Suggestion (1): that the statements of purpose should be brought together into one place, such as this page. Then the Purpose talk page could be a location for ongoing discussions after we finish a preliminary discussion here and maybe have some sort of draft Purpose statement. I'm tempted to call it a Mission Statement, but am put off by the religious overtones of that phrase! There would still be a place for the specific pages, e.g. Article relevance guidelines, but their content would be derived from the overall Site Purpose. Gravitywave (talk) 21:25, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Suggestion (2): when we draft the Purpose we widen the scope of the wiki beyond 'apologetics'. I think this site was born out of, and bears the marks of, the specifically American situation where there is a vocal Christian Fundamentalist lobby and public atheism is largely reacting to literal interpretations of the Bible rather than being able to start a broader discussion about various ideas of god and ways of life without a god. I hope that this site could actually be a resource for atheists and others who are interested in religions but find their only sources of information are controlled by those same religious viewpoints. Why should there not be a place for atheists, agnostics, philosophical naturalists and materialists to share their views of religious ideas and arguments "from the outside"? Gravitywave (talk) 21:25, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Please contribute

Any other interested editors are invited to contribute to this discussion. You could comment on the Suggestions already shown above (to indent your comment put a colon at the start of your paragraph in the wiki editor), or if you have another suggestion you could add it after the last one and number it accordingly.