http://kanadaihirlap.com/2008/12/30/religious-affiliation-wiped-out-by-canadian-wikipedia-enthusiasts/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:25:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://kanadaihirlap.com/2008/12/30/religious-affiliation-wiped-out-by-canadian-wikipedia-enthusiasts/#comment-210 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:45:06 +0000 http://kanadaihirlap.com/?p=517#comment-210 Jonathan may be right. Certainly many editors on Wikipedia are anti-religious so do not want it known that eminent, respectable people – even eminent scientists – have or had a religion. I think that they are particularly inimical to Catholicism and Judaism.

]]> http://kanadaihirlap.com/2008/12/30/religious-affiliation-wiped-out-by-canadian-wikipedia-enthusiasts/#comment-209 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:38:00 +0000 http://kanadaihirlap.com/?p=517#comment-209 I think that people who are not of some old faith religions (such as Christianity, Catholicism, Jewish, Islam, et al), believe that such faiths are antiquated and wrong and anyone who follows such is a brainwashed fool, deluded, confused, scared or something. Those are obviously qualities that don’t inspire confidence, but seem to be prevalently visible regardless of the facts.

]]> http://kanadaihirlap.com/2008/12/30/religious-affiliation-wiped-out-by-canadian-wikipedia-enthusiasts/#comment-207 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:21:20 +0000 http://kanadaihirlap.com/?p=517#comment-207 It depends on whether it’s a “good guy” or a “bad guy”. People keep removing “Jewish” from say Ben Bernanke but not Bernard Madoff.

]]> http://kanadaihirlap.com/2008/12/30/religious-affiliation-wiped-out-by-canadian-wikipedia-enthusiasts/#comment-206 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:47:14 +0000 http://kanadaihirlap.com/?p=517#comment-206 There’s nothing new in this. Wikipedians have been deleting religious affiliation for years. Indeed, whole articles such as Nobel Prizewinners by religion regularly disappear.

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