Talk:Laestadianism

message: I'm removing the blurb about how Laestadians commonly have 10-15 children and get married young. It seems irrelevant and lacks a good source. Please feel free to re-add if you have a source for this.
-- Joshua Rodd — Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.188.255.3 (talk) 16:41, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a natural delusion from the fact they don't use contraception... Kahkonen 18:09, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

text: This article is generally about laestadianism. Not all laestadian branches think contraception is a sin.  Operationkunskap 18:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Poorly sourced or unsourced information is a problem with a huge percentage of Wiki writing, and applying the rule evenly would reduce this and thousands of Wiki articles to just a couple sentences.  I think it would better serve the goal of providing quality information for readers to *qualify* relevant information that has some basis in fact rather than delete it.  <new paragraph> It's not accurate to suggest the anti-contraception belief is not relevant.  The war that's been raging recently over President Obama's mandated contraception insurance plan illustrates the relevance *and* the highly religious, denomination-specific nature of this belief.  <new paragraph>  This article's accuracy for all its faults has improved greatly because some careful contributors have tried to differentiate the sub-groups within North America AND Finland and the Finnish membership from the North American.  Contributors should always remember to use this framework as a *filter* when adding new information, taking care to specify to what portion of Laestadianism as a whole the new information applies. Paavo273 (talk) 08:18, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Tried to translate from fi-wiki. Cites and references are in Finnish, so I didn't copy them. Kahkonen 09:26, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, and I hope you are also willing to translate the remaining parts of the Finnish article :) Labongo 14:19, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Not in near future, sorry :-) Kahkonen 15:53, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Finnish translation

message: The article implies "a difference between believers and others". According to Laestadean doctrine / opinion, what is the actual meaning of this 'difference', and who are the 'believers' (what is necessary or sufficient property of a "true believer")? IMO the declared discussion should be included in the article.
-- kyyni — Preceding undated comment added 22:30, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know if this is correct (and will therefore not change the article), but I think a believer is a Laestadian. I also don't think that they regard others are regarded as non-believers in the sence of not being Christians. Labongo 22:36, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Labongo is correct but I'll add a caveat - many of the subsects of Laestadianism believe that only their subsect contains the "true" believers, and that every other religion is following man instead of God.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.41.62.5 (talk) 18:13, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exclusion 

message: This sentence: "It is the biggest revivalist movement in the Nordic countries.[1]" is sourced with information from the website of the movement in question. That is hardly a reliable source for this. If no one objects I will remove it and replace it with a "citation needed" tag. --Saddhiyama (talk) 21:22, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. --Saddhiyama (talk) 09:17, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's better to just add a  template after the low-quality source. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 20:40, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Did so. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 20:42, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reliable source? 

message: 1. 'Removed too long intro tag, added headings, etc.  Thanks to all the contributors who have made this article almost unrecognizable in a positive way from what it was a couple years ago, who have added inline citations, who watch for hit and run vandalism, etc. Paavo273 19:09, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rel adding headings and removal of some tags 

message: Is anyone interested in contributing alone or as a joint effort a section on one or more of the following: 1. the child molestation scandals, 2. woman ordaining controversy, 3. Scientology-like interrogations of the '70s, and/or 4. spouse abuse and treatment of women in general?  I'd be happy to share my English-language sources with you.  Access to Finnish-language sources w/b huge help.  
Expanding article would provide a valuable service.  
Should Kautokeino rebellion be included in article?  
  
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Paavo273 03:17, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anyone interested in authoring or co-authoring a new section or sections on scandals and controversies in Laestadianism? 

message: How can that be, if it claims about 200k members, but that some other revivalist movements which are now worldwide (including in Nordic countries) have several million members? 76.10.128.192 (talk) 20:30, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "It is the biggest revivalist movement in the Nordic countries" 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: This editor would be grateful if other editors would add the names of any additional famous active or past Laestadians.  They certainly do NOT need to be notable by WP standards to be included.  
For example, anyone here know or know OF the Laestadian Finnish chain goods store owner from Ostrobothnia probably?  He is widely known because he has a lot of stores, AND he was in the Finnish news some years back due to a controversy over some book(s) that were being sold at his chain of stores.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.106.7.109 (talk) 16:13, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Famous Laestadians, anyone?