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Reformulated:

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You may also want to read User:Ian.thomson/ChristianityAndNPOV. We at Wikipedia are highbrow (snobby), heavily biased for the academia. Tgeorgescu (talk) 19:20, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello Tgeorgescu!

First off, thank you for showing me the importance of keeping Wikipedia free of bias towards any ideology. My own private belif system will stay in its place from now on, and I will work to document sources better. As you may have guessed, I am a Christian. Now, before you stop reading this reply and call me a fanatic, I promise I will not discuss religion in this comment. I belive, and correct me if I am wrong, that you undid my edit because you see me as biased towards Christianity, and I am. However, you are also clearly biased against Christianity, so I would appreciate it if you would change the article to a more netral tone that condones no side. To be clear, I have no wish to start an edit war, so if you do nothing, I will take NO action at all. But I would very much appreciate it if you would help make Wikipedia a more fair and unbiased place where everyone can learn information without the fear of being led astray, in ANY direction.

Thank you for taking the time to read my reply,

Prhee0236 Prhee0236 (talk) 22:38, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

As a matter of fact, Wikipedia is very biased for whatever they teach as fact at WP:CHOPSY. It isn't biased for or against Christianity, but it is indeed biased against such WP:FRINGE beliefs as biblical inerrancy, against pseudohistory like searches for Noah's Ark and also against Young Earth Creationism. Using Wikipedia for soapboxing against evolution is one way to get blocked or banned. We don't consider your religion any more or any less true than Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Wicca, Santeria, Taoism, Shintoism, etc., i.e. we consider its theology as a subjective opinion among many other subjective opinions. We are very biased for mainstream science, mainstream history and mainstream Bible scholarship, i.e. for what Bible scholars from WP:CHOPSY teach for a living. Tgeorgescu (talk) 23:45, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

March 2019

Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Sodomy, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Tgeorgescu (talk) 19:20, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for your clarifications. Wish they told us this when I signed up (maybe they did, not good at reading long pages of rules). I will do my best to stay within excepted practice and away from religious topics, as my personal beliefs are very strong in this area. If my beliefs ever become mainstream I will be the first to thank you for giveing me writen a written go ahead to edit to my hearts content. Thank you for being courteous. Prhee0236 (talk) 02:23, 25 March 2019 (UTC)