Talk:Christianity
As you can see, I linked a shitload of pages to it but the article is still rather limited and POVish. Needs vast improvements. -- |Knoot|KNOOtalk 20:59, 26 Nov 2004 (GMT)
Made a few changes. First, Syskeyia is not a garrison state. It's more like a mix between Switzerland and Israel in that sort of regard. Also, I do not "abuse" Christianity in order to be "good." And, as I said in the little edit thing, when someone claims to be Catholic, RL Vatican documents should be said to apply unless the player states otherwise. ~Συσκευηα
- Reverted said changes. RL Vatican documents are not assumed to be true unless a given nation states that they do. In free-form roleplay, nations are blank slates until a description is created by the player - there is no "default" setting of politics or religion. NationStates nations are unaffected by the real world unless they specifically choose to let them be affected, and that's what this wiki will reflect. → Fris Θtalk 21:08, 30 Nov 2004 (GMT)
- Changed it back again. Going to what you said, if a nation claims to adhere to an RL religion, the doctrines, documents etc. of said religion should be said to apply to the nation unless the other nation claims a valid reason otherwise (i.e. living in a parallel universe, for example), and "because I want to" does not count as a valid reason in my book. See my message to you. ~Συσκευηα
does not count as a valid reason in my book - You didn't write "the book" on NationStates, Max did. In my year on NationStates, I've never seen anyone but you require that any portion of "freeform roleplay" conform to specifics of real world activities. We went through this once before, Syskeyia - NSwiki:Arbitration/Syskeyia#Final_decision states quite clearly
- 3) Nations in NationStates have no direct correspondence to real-world nations unless the players behind them specifically say that they do.
This is official NSwiki policy now, and your edits are not acceptable. If you continue with these reversions, your account will be blocked. → Fris Θtalk 21:29, 30 Nov 2004 (GMT)
Interpretation of Frisbeetaria seconded. -- |Knoot|KNOOtalk 21:35, 30 Nov 2004 (GMT)
- "3) Nations in NationStates have no direct correspondence to real-world nations unless the players behind them specifically say that they do." Well, if they specifically claim to follow an RL religion, then it should be assumed that the tenets and such of said religion should apply to them unless they specify otherwise (i.e. alternate universes and such.) ~Συσκευηα
- If I want to say that bananas are purple in Frisbeeteria, or I drive a Mercedes Benz with eight wheels, I can. I don't have to develop any sort of elaborate back-history to explain it. I think you're getting bent out of shape because it's religion, someting you put a value to ... but NS is fiction, and freeform fiction at that. Your opinion has been noted, but it carries no weight in my nation nor on NSwiki. → Fris Θtalk 22:42, 30 Nov 2004 (GMT)
Neutral language?
I have to say that while I agree with the assessment of a lot of nations in the article, I don't think that the language is particularly neutral. Is that just me? I don't have a problem with the article pointing out some of the common extremist positions which are taken by NS Christian countries, but words like "fatwah" are pretty over the top. --Pantocratoria 01:48, 1 Dec 2004 (GMT)
If only it was... *cough* Syskeyian Senate issues death warrant to obscure Tanah Burung society writer. Something he wrote was too "effeminate". -- |Knoot|KNOOtalk 11:00, 1 Dec 2004 (GMT)
