Timeline for Will the proposed Mythology site include questions about current or major religions?
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| Apr 16, 2015 at 17:48 | comment | added | Keshav Srinivasan | @MaryML Hinduism.Stackexchange certainly allows questions examine Hindu mythology from the outside, like this one: hinduism.stackexchange.com/q/6870/36 | |
| Apr 16, 2015 at 6:29 | comment | added | user95600 | @LessPop_MoreFizz A question made to prove a point is not a question at all. I close those as "unclear what you're asking" and usually comment to this effect. | |
| Apr 15, 2015 at 14:21 | comment | added | LessPop_MoreFizz | @fredsbend I don't think it's particularly unlikely at all, if only because there is a segment of the population that feels that doing so will prove some great rhetorical point to the world at large. They will come quickly, and they will be terrible questions. Which is unfortunate, because there are interesting questions to be had around these subjects. | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 11:35 | comment | added | Jenny D | @JamesJenkins Thanks for the clarification! | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 23:10 | comment | added | user95600 | @JamesJenkins I actually think that with the name "mythology" it's very unlikely that users will think to ask questions about major current religions. But it will happen eventually, so better to lay down what we might do early on and be prepared. | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 23:09 | comment | added | user95600 | @JennyD The Christianity site is quite strictly scoped from "outside the faith". In other words, the attempted effort is that uses ask and answer with an academic apathy. Judaism.SE is strictly scoped from within Rabbinical Judaism, neglecting all others. Islam.SE is somewhere in between. | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 10:26 | comment | added | James Jenkins | Each site needs to focus on it's scope. If the site exists and a question is in scope with experts available to answer the question, the existence of another site that might also be able to answer the question is only of passing interest. | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 7:17 | comment | added | Mary ML | @Jenny D We should probably poke around in those sites to see if they answer those sort of questions anyway. (I'll try to make time later, need to sleep now) | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 7:06 | comment | added | Jenny D | I would say that this should depend on the type of question. As I understand it, those sites are answering questions from within the faith. But a question that is more about the study of the religion from the outside, rather than a faith-based response from inside the religion, might be more at home in the Mythology section. | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 6:54 | history | answered | Mary ML | CC BY-SA 3.0 |