Christianity Knowledge Base talk:Christian point of view

We need to figure out what our policy is going to be on enforcing a Christian point of view on this site.

Some points to consider: --Avery W. Krouse 04:23, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Mainstream vs. fringe views
 * Catholic vs. Orthodox vs. Protestant views
 * How to deal with cult views (and which organizations to specifically refer to as cults)

Other Denominations
I guess there are a few ways to go about this. One is to allow all points of view. This could quickly get out of hand, so as much as I wish we could allow it, I don't think this is realistic.

The other is to allow the main article to contain ONLY information which is pretty universally accepted by all denominations (I realize "universal" is in itself a bit vague). Then there could be subheadings within the article for "Catholic view," "Orthodox view," etc. In cases where this would cause the article to become massive, the other viewpoints would be presented in subarticles.

Sadly, we are probably going to have to set an arbitrary cutoff of which denominations' views are allowed in the main article. Perhaps something like 10,000,000 followers could constitute a "mainstream" denomination. Of course we could set the bar higher or lower.

I think there is a lot of value in knowing what the beliefs of fringe groups or even Christian-based "cults" are. But probably, it would be best if these views were presented in separate articles. Such as "Fooian views on the Trinity" or something along those lines. An internal link could point to these many subarticles, all of which would be under a subheading "Other views on the Trinity."

What are your thoughts?

nsandwich 07:17, 24 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, I've already been told that Lutheranism is safe ;) I am a bit concerned that there already starting to be negative remarks made about nontrinitarians, especially Jehovah's Witnesses. Certainly I follow the Nicene Creed and all that, but I just don't think that we should be engaging in name-calling. Archola 08:13, 24 March 2006 (UTC)


 * If you are referring to "Fooian" please rest assured it is not meant as an insult at all. "Foo" and "Bar" are used as universal placeholders in some programming languages and I've seen them used elsewhere. The term was on my mind when I wrote my comment, because I was reading some wikipedia pages about it. Check out these WP search results as an example. Sorry I did not mean to offend! nsandwich 08:25, 24 March 2006 (UTC)