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| | + | == Victory with a capital V! Checkmate atheists == |
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| | + | ''See also'': [[Essay: Victory with a capital V! Checkmate atheists|Victory with a capital V! Checkmate atheists]] |
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| | + | [[Image:Staunton chess set.jpg|center|thumb|201px|An administrator at an [[Atheism|atheist]]/[[agnosticism|agnostic]] [[wiki]] goes by the moniker Ace McWicked. The atheist/agnostic wiki is often called RW. |
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| | + | "Ace can do what he wants to do, it's just that as the blocking policy currently is written, neither Ace's position nor LGMs position held much water because according to our current policy, the user shouldn't have received a block to begin with...". - The Crow...20:09, 12 May 2020 (UTC) |
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| | + | Gioachino Greco was a famous chess player. The chess opening Giuocco Piano was named after him. Ace, if you are honest with yourself, I once again am victorious over RW. Using the username User: GiuoccoPiano at RW, I caused RW to change their rules and make them more capricious and tyrannical. Over time, this will cause RW to have less editors. Checkmate atheists! |
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| | + | Message to Ace McWicked: You and the editors of your wiki have once again lost badly! You were clearly outplayed! First User: RuyLopez at at the website Astorehouseofknowledge.info outplayed you and now this! Olé! Olé! Olé!]] |
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| | + | [[File:Flag of the PRC.png|thumbnail|200px|center|"It looks like something right out of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] playbook." - nobs! 05:24, 13 May 2020 (UTC) |
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| | + | "CP doesn't have rule that social order is more important than a global pandemic or a pleasant editing environment." - nobs 06:05, 13 May 2020 (UTC) |
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| | + | "The new proposal evolves around Preventing disorder is a higher priority than actually following the rules, which comes right out of the Chinese Communist Party playbook and invokes the spirit of Wikipedia's notorious IAR - Ignore All Rules - to stomp out your enemies without another sysop or Mod undoing a (shortterm) block." - RobS 00:56, 13 May 2020 (EDT) |
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| | + | In 1955, [[China|Chinese]] Communist leader Zhou Enlai declared, "We Communists are atheists".<ref>Noebel, David, The Battle for Truth, Harvest House, 2001.</ref> In 2014, the Communist Party of China reaffirmed that members of their party must be atheists.<ref> |
| | + | *[https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/19567-china-s-communist-party-reaffirms-marxism-maoism-atheism China’s Communist Party Reaffirms Marxism, Maoism, Atheism], ''New American'', 2014 |
| | + | *[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/02/china-communist-party-atheism-zhejiang-ban-religious-members-christianity_n_6599722.html China's Communist Party Bans Believers, Doubles Down On Atheism]</ref> See also: [[Atheism and communism]] and [[China and atheism]] ]] |
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| | + | [[Image:115523-004-FA619CA3.jpg|thumb|center|221px|"The whole 'good faith' issue is a moot point at RW. The rapidity that they made their blocking policy more harsh, arbitrary and authoritarian lends credence to the notion that the majority of the editors that edit the wiki have poor character." - The perverse and cruel atheist [[Marquis de Sade]] in prison. See: [[Atheism and morality]] ]] |
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| | + | [[File:Safarti3.jpg|center|200px|thumbnail|"Speaking as a FIDE Master in chess who was New Zealand's national chess champion and as a totally objective observer whose intellect has been described as "towering", I must say that User: GiuoccoPiano completely outplayed the New Zealand atheist Ace McWicked and the other editors at RW." - [[Jonathan Sarfati]] ]] |
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| | + | [[File:David Portrait of Napoleon 1812.jpg|center|thumbnail|200px|"I did notice that User: GiuoccoPiano did not make much of an effort to prevent the new rules from taking effect." - [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] |
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| | + | “Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.” - Napoleon Bonaparte]] |
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| | + | [[File:Atheism is most illogical.jpg|thumbnail|center|200xp|"I did notice that User: GiuoccoPiano made a comment at Conservapedia indicating he shouldn't have been blocked for merely putting factual material on a few talk pages and linking to an Conservapedia's atheism article in RW's main space atheism article. No RW atheist has ever found a factual error in Conservapedia's atheism article so of course RW doesn't have a rule about this matter. Was briefly protesting his blocking an act of reverse psychology? Did it help cause RW to institute its rule change? Fascinating!" - Spock ]] |
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| | + | [[File:China on globe.png|thumbnail|200px|center|[[China]] has the world's largest [[atheism|atheist]] population and practices [[state atheism]].<ref>[http://www.thechapmans.nl/news/Atheist.pdf Top 50 Countries With Highest Proportion of Atheists / Agnostics (Zuckerman, 2005)]</ref><ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/23/a-surprising-map-of-where-the-worlds-atheists-live/ A surprising map of where the world’s atheists live], ''Washington Post'' By Max Fisher and Caitlin Dewey May 23, 2013</ref> China has one of the highest rates of atheism in the world.<ref>[http://www.thechapmans.nl/news/Atheist.pdf Top 50 Countries With Highest Proportion of Atheists / Agnostics (Zuckerman, 2005)]</ref><ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/23/a-surprising-map-of-where-the-worlds-atheists-live/ A surprising map of where the world’s atheists live], ''Washington Post'' By Max Fisher and Caitlin Dewey May 23, 2013</ref> According to a 2012 Worldwide Independent Network/Gallup International Association (WIN/GIA) poll, 47% of Chinese people were convinced atheists, and a further 30% were not religious. In comparison, only 14% considered themselves to be religious.<ref>{{cite news|title= Global Index of Religiosity and Atheism |publisher= [[WIN/GIA|Gallup]]|date=|url= http://www.winmr.com/web/files/news/14/file/14.pdf |accessdate=2012-11-28}}</ref> |
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| | + | [[East Asia]] contains about 25 percent of the world’s population. China’s population represents 20 percent of the people on earth.<ref>[http://www.sbts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2015/10/Pages-from-SBJT-V15-N2_Terry.pdf The Growth of Christianity in East Asia]</ref> |
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| | + | Razib Khan points out in ''Discover Magazine'', "most [[secular]] nations in the world are those of East Asia, in particular what are often termed “[[Confucianism|Confucian]] societies.” It is likely therefore that the majority of the world’s [[Atheism|atheists]] are actually East Asian."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150905135558/http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/11/most-atheists-are-not-white/ Most atheists are not white & other non-fairy tales], Discover magazine</ref> See: [[Asian atheism]] and [[Global atheism]] ]] |
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