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:Personally I'd be in favour of creating such a desk. My reason is that it might allow those of us who have a religious bent to discuss matters concerning belief in (relative) peace: at the moment some people seem too eager to jump on the bandwagon berating believers and religion in general, which makes life a bit uncomfortable. Of course, it could have the opposite effect I suppose - attracting those who are looking for a fight. But we won't know until we try it. --[[Special:Contributions/88.108.141.215|88.108.141.215]] ([[User talk:88.108.141.215|talk]]) 20:15, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

::If you have a religious bent, as many of us do, please consider whether you are asking for factual information, or for opinion. As I said in a previous post: there obviously are '''facts''' about religion. I'm certain that virtually all regular contributors to the refdesks would welcome questions about '''facts''' about religion. If you are asking about '''opinion''', however, you should do so elsewhere. -[[User:NorwegianBlue|NorwegianBlue]]^{[[User_talk:NorwegianBlue|&nbsp;<u>talk</u>]]} 20:33, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

:: It's just been brought to my attention that I accidentally deleted 88.108.141.215's post. I apologize. Thanks to user [[User:Bus_stop]] for cleaning up after me. [[User:APL|APL]] ([[User talk:APL|talk]]) 03:33, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

::::<small>Who, familiar with Wikipedia, would be asking for opinion? Let me ask you, "Are all religions the same?" If you've seen one, have you seen them all? Are there any distinctions between the world's various religions? Do they all have the same sub-components? Do they all say the same thing about corresponding subjects? What, specifically, is the practice associated with death in each of the world's religions? How about birth? Do all of the religions of the world have a known ritual associated with passage to adulthood? The proposed desk is ideally a place for scholarly, sourced information. Most other settings are hostile to religion. The arts, the humanities, entertainment &mdash; are often antagonistic toward religion. Nobody with a serious religion question wants to be ridiculed so would not ask these and myriad other questions that fall under the rubric of religion on the Humanities reference desk. [[User:Bus stop|Bus stop]] ([[User talk:Bus stop|talk]]) 22:16, 21 August 2009 (UTC)</small>