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Contents 1 Christianity 2 Judaism 3 Islam 4 Hinduism 5 Buddhism 6 interreligious 7 WARNING 8 Any Help Would Be Wonderful! 9 Help develop Scripture Database website 10 Xueta 11 Help with NPOV 12 Key articles for Wikipedia 1.0 13 Help re:Raëlian Church 14 ACIM 15 Help with Gibborim article 16 Religion in Asia 17 WikiProject Religion Award 18 Yazdânism 19 Membership list 20 Holy Prepuce 21 Infobox for Places of Worship 22 End times 23 religioustolerance dot org 24 Names of God in Judaism 25 Category:Religious leaders 26 Shakers FAR

[edit] Christianity

What is the Spiritual United nations and when and why was it founded? There is a complete story call it "her story" vs. "history," if you will. In 1994, the White Buffalo Calf Miracle marked the beginning of a new era. The woman of peace returns! After the prophesied Unity Festival with many tribes represented, Dean and i agreed together to start the Spiritual United Nations at the request and desire of the Hopi elders, such as Thomas Banyaca, and all people of peace, who are also considered Hopis. They said to bring peace we must have a spiritual United Nations who would listen to the voice of the poor and fatherless and to the indigenous peoples of the world. Therre is now a free web page with access to global warming papers that have never been censored by the government, because they were self-published. Check it out at: http://www.angelfire.com/hi3/spiritualun The spiritualUn has no fees, no signup, and is "in the spirit", prays for peace and is based on the white buffalo prophecies. There are links to white buffalo being born near Grand Canyon! Anuradhe 20:57, 18 November 2006 (UTC) anuradhe

Updates are needed to early christianity, numerous errors will need to be corrected.

[edit] Judaism

[edit] Islam

[edit] Hinduism

[edit] Buddhism

[edit] interreligious

I seek somone in order to gather a knowladgeble editoraial group that can launch Wikipedia: WikiProject Interreligious, having as first goal of interweaving parallel perceived totalitarian and triumphalism denominations and political and theological branches of the three Abramic faith.

I want to interweave articles like Islamism and Dominionism and its Jewish counterpart, if applicable, through having a structure of refereing to eachother in the articles and the "see also" section.

Also having a structure of refering to movements accused of terrorism like the christian Lord's Resistance Army, IRA and Loyalist Volunteer Force with the Muslim Al-Qa'eda, Hizbollah and such. Also, lets not forget the KKK and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the LTTE Black Tiger.

Possibly creating Totalitarian theologies or Religion and terrorism or something along that line that can give an overview of the those movements.

In short: Im a Muslim and tired of people forgeting that there where shit happening before self proclaimed "Muslims" organizations started to terrorize the world. America was in the hand of KKK, IRA where accused of terror in England, Africa was engulfed in the terror of LRA, and the Tamilian Tigers where wreking havoc in their part of the worl, but that was totaly ignored. Now, people seem to belive that the terrorist actions in the west are a new fenomena. Its not, its the media's etnocentric reports that give that impression.

I want to spread the truth, who's with me?

--Striver 05:02, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

This is completely incoherent, in addition to being ungrammatical and misspelled. There is a word for religious dialogue between faiths, it is called Ecumenism, and it already has an article. Zora 06:14, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes Zora, we all know that you love to pic on my grammar. Yes Zora, we know that you love to oppose me for shear joy. Yes Zora, you do know that i was not talking about creating a article about religious dialogues. --Striver 02:58, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Although im angry at the moment about having the reputation of my beatiful relioun geting sodomized by animals, this project could evolve to identifyng and interweaving other peacefull parallel articles like Names of God in Judaism - 99 Names of God, and creating parent articles to those when needed, maybe a Interreligious parallels article. Peace! --Striver 05:17, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

• Another existing article on this topic can be found at interfaith. Personally, I find interfaith to be more widely inclusive than ecumenism. Keesiewonder 00:48, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WARNING

Be aware of manipulations by cultic groups or sectarian organizations in order to take the appearence of respectfull religious beliefs: For example, Sri Satya Sai Baba, or other false hindouists, Scientology, Theosophical society (Blavatsky was a friend of Thulé society which originated Nazism), and many other groups referenced as religions!? No this is abusing WIKIPEDIA free project. It is (especially for Sai Baba) like saying Marc Dutroux is a kids' defender... or Himmler being freedom activist!

Please only refer to real Religions, not business cults or manipulative so called spiritual beliefs.

Links for preventing further abuses: www.miviludes.org www.ciaosn.be www.prevensectes.com www.videosectes.fr.st www.icsa.org www.hemerosectas.tk www.ais-sectas.org www.culticstudies.org www.freedomofmind.org www.xenu.net www.antisectes.net www.unadfi.org www.sectes.net www.infosectes.com www.pseudo-sciences.org http://charlatans.free.fr

Comment - There is a problem with doing as the above unsigned-statement requests. Specifically, it would very likely be a violation of NPOV if we, outside editors, were to seek to impose our own opinions about what is and is not "true religion" (in any sense of the phrase) upon wikipedia. Also, unfortunately, there now are people (I know a few) who honestly believe the Necronomicon is a real book, even though it was clearly invented by H. P. Lovecraft. The lines between fiction and reality dim over time, and on that basis I think we are best served by neutrally applying ourselves to all articles which appear to relate to religion, whether or not we personally consider them to be legitimate religions. Badbilltucker 18:36, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Any Help Would Be Wonderful!

Hi,

I know you are interested in christianity, and I recently started a new wiki over at wikicities which is on the subject of christianity. Christian Knowledge Base is the site.

The goal is to have a knowledgebase on christianity from a distinctly "C(hristian)POV" rather than the NPOV. It is not meant to be a mere Christian Encyclopedia, but to foster a real sense of community. I'd like to include things like current events, news, stories, and anything that would add to both an understanding of Christianity, but also its enjoyment. I'm looking for help to build a resource that could really enrich the lives of Christians.

I know you are busy but I am actively seeking new sysops/admins to help me build this site up, and I would be positively thrilled if you could contribute in any capacity whatsoever. Empty2005 00:19, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Okay, good idea! Now those non-belivers can see what the LORD can do! ^^ --General456 13:21, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help develop Scripture Database website

I've been conceptualizing a Scripture Database website for several years now. I've finally gotten around to publishing a rough draft of the site online. It is wiki-based and would make a good compliment to Wikipedia scripture pages. Please use my dedicated talk page to discuss. --J. J. 19:38, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Xueta

A mess. See Talk:Xueta#A_mess. I'm pretty ignorant on the topic of the Xuetes. Perhaps someone here is clueful and can help fix the article? - Jmabel | Talk 23:52, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help with NPOV

There's currently a bit of an edit war at Mami Wata (an article about a deity of the African diaspora). One user, a member of an organization devoted to the deity, is, in my opinion, pushing pseudo-scholarship and a "voudun is real" POV. I am representing the Western anthropological POV, possibly making my edits also violate NPOV. I have never been involved in a relgious edit war on Wikipedia before, and I'm not at all sure how to proceed. We both believe very strongly in our version of the the article. In short, I would appreciate if cooler heads could stop by and help us iron out the differences we have. -- BrianSmithson 15:17, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Key articles for Wikipedia 1.0

Hello! We at the Work via WikiProjects team for Wikipedia 1.0 would like you to identify the "key articles" from your project that should be included in a small CD release due to their importance, regardless of quality. We will use that information to assess which articles should be nominated for Version 0.5 and later versions. Hopefully it will help you identify which articles are the most important for the project to work on. As well, please add to your Philosophy/Religion WikiProject article table any articles of high quality. If you are interested in developing a worklist such as this one for your WikiProject, or having a bot generate a worklist automatically for you, please contact us. Please feel free to post your suggestions right here. Thanks! Walkerma 06:02, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help re:Raëlian Church

The Raëlian Church article is advert like and is clearly being written by them. Only one person seems to be involved in writing it - can anyone help? Secretlondon 13:40, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

It's not one article, it's an entire series. --Pjacobi 19:55, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ACIM

I think the A Course in Miracles article would benefit from more editors with religious knowledge. Please feel free to help out. Not a dog 13:18, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help with Gibborim article

I discovered this article Gibborim (biblical) and have been trying to improve it. The problem is I'm having trouble sepparting what is actually biblically based, what comes out of the teachings of Theosophy, and what is more modern new age belief. Any help would be appreciated Stephen Day 04:07, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Religion in Asia

This article is VERY stubby. Arch O. La ^{Grigory Deepdelver} 08:11, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Religion Award

Please comment - WikiProject Religion Award. --JuanMuslim ^1m 03:22, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yazdânism

Are Alevi, Yazidi, and Yarsan branches of common religion Yazdânism? Or is this a POV only forwarded by some Kurdish nationalists? --Pjacobi 19:54, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Membership list

Any project requires two things to be considered "active" and remain ineligible for deletion. They have to have some project-related activity on the project page or talk page in the last three months, and there has to be at least one listed member. Right now this project has no listed members. It might be a very good idea to add one. Thank you. Badbilltucker 17:04, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Holy Prepuce

Holy Prepuce is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy 23:49, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox for Places of Worship

I created based on a previous request from a Wikipedian for an infobox for religious buildings. Here's what I came up with: Template:Infobox religious building. I think it works universally for all religous buildings. I've already implemented the infobox in Old New Synagogue, Saint Joseph's Oratory, and Faisal Mosque. -- Sapphire 15:26, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

One problem with the template. Some buildings, particularly in Europe, have been used by several faiths, at least within Christianity, and, sometimes, outside of Christianity. How would you complete the affiliation line in these cases? Badbilltucker 23:57, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] End times

End times is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy (Talk) 16:22, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] religioustolerance dot org

I came across over 700 links to this organization, Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance. The site has a ton of ads but on the other hand, it has content (and a Wikipedia article).

Normally, such an ad-intensive site with so many links gets attention at WikiProject Spam for further investigation. Even if it's not spam, many links may often get deleted as not meeting the external links guideline. I've left a note at WikiProject Spam asking others to look at some of these and see what they think.

Even some non-profit organizations will add dozens of links to Wikipedia since links in Wikipedia are heavily weighted in Google's page ranking systems. (If interested, see the article on Spamdexing for more on this).

You can see all the links by going to this this "Search web links" page. I encourage you to look at Wikipedia's external links guideline then look at the links in the articles you normally watch. Also, if you don't mind, please also weigh in at WikiProject Spam with your opinions. If you see links to pages that you don't think add additional value beyond the content already in an article, feel free to delete them, but please don't go mindlessly deleting dozens of links. (Per WP:EL, links that don't add additional value should be deleted but that doesn't necessarily mean they're "spam").

Thanks for your help and for providing some second opinions. --A. B. 16:56, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Names of God in Judaism

Names of God in Judaism has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" from featured status. The instructions for the FAR process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Sandy (Talk) 22:12, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Religious leaders

The current organization there is abit muddled, and needs some discussing how to deal with. I posted on general proposal for cleaning it up at Category talk:Religious leaders#Organization proposal, and more input would be great. I didn't address the issue of Religious leaders/religious workers/religious figures, but that is another issue that exists. Mairi 21:30, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shakers FAR

Shakers has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Sandy (Talk) 18:52, 13 December 2006 (UTC)