Category talk:Founders of religions

message: It is easy to fix the sort order so that the person shows up under the correct letter. Just add  to the article. I put it just above the categories. Thanks --Justanother 20:04, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fixing sort order 

message: Would "Category:People that inspired the world's religions" be better? Something on that theme? I do not want to get all nit-picky here. All religions and spiritual practices are built on teachings. Those teachings can usually be traced back to one single individual and subsequent contributions were more in the way of interpreting those original teachings and less, building on them. This may not be true for all practices but for those it is true for, I want the original teachers gathered up here for easy study.  --Justanother 02:49, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That may work. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 03:28, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Any specific suggestion or do you like that one? Is it longish? How do we change a cat name? --Justanother 03:47, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That category name sounds good to me. It seems like a little more graceful wording might be found. I will let you know if something comes to me. Steve Dufour 04:55, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That sounds good to me. It seems to me that precise meaning is more important than a snappy title on WP. BTW some people might have a problem with calling someone the "founder" of their religion, if they feel that it was God himself who was the real founder. Steve Dufour 13:18, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I know. --Justanother 14:39, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Another issue is that we Unificationists, and I think the Unity Church too, don't consider ourselves a religion because we are trying to bring all religions together based on universial spiritual values; we are not trying to be a separate religion. However, for the purpose of this list I have no objection to our founder being included. Steve Dufour 15:59, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name change? 

message: *There needs to be A LOT more order here. Sure people like Jesus and Muhammad should be here, but what about Henry VIII or Saint Peter? I don't think so, they didn't really start new religions. Zazaban 19:04, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  We need more guidelines 

message: These were surely Peter and Paul not Jesus and John the Baoptist, SqueakBox 23:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Christianity is founded on the teachings of Jesus. I specifically do not want to include "interpreters" here but only the source teachers. --Justanother 02:11, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  *sigh* As it seems, this is being done as a statement about Haile Selassie by a Rastafarian. Zazaban 02:23, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This category is brand-new but my intention is that it be inclusive. I hope that others see it that way too. I am not that familiar with Rasta but certainly they have beliefs distinct from other Judeo-Christian beliefs and those beliefs can be traced back to a source, whether it be Haile Selassie or Marcus Garvey or some amalgam of the two. --Justanother 04:11, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

text: That wouldn't really work, they are interpeters not the source. MAybe Paul because some people regard him as the source of Christianity. Zazaban 19:00, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Founders of Christianity

message: I suggest that a prime candidate for this category is Herbert W. Armstrong 124.178.39.224 (talk) 16:46, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Addition