Thread:Inferno Pendragon/@comment-5025719-20180401041021/@comment-1705775-20180402224600

because it was unjustified, we updated the rules on it to prevent misuse and even the most holy people in existence shouldn't be offended that we consider beings like Satan, Cain, Herod or the False Prophet as evil entities, since scripture is clear that they are.

the old "theology" category was bad because we didn't make it clear enough and people thus added any figure they deemed personally objectionable rather than what canon says.. for example "Maltheism God" or "Moses according to here" are not allowed any more as we are unbiased towards/against faiths.

so far most are happy with it and think on it this way, the very first "heroes" and "villains" of humanity came from theology, mythology and folklore - they are all linked, one man's theology is another man's folkore etc.

the Ancient Greeks considered Hercules and so on gods, whether it was true or not, as the world's faiths changed the Ancient "gods" were resigned to myth and legend yet they are still theological beings.. some minorities still hold these "stories" as fact.. if we include folklore and myth so too we should include theology, albeit with strict rules as to how it is used.

so in short, we didn't need to get rid of the category - we just needed to amend it.. and no, just because this wiki is about "fiction" it doesn't mean we're saying all religions etc are "fake", however stories are how faith has ALWAYS taught real topics.. Jesus himself often told stories, the characters of the stories were not as important as the teaching said story was about.. we make an article on the Bandits from the Good Samaritan for example we aren't saying the message ("be kind to all, even if they are enemies") is "false", we are simply retelling the story and hey, who knows, maybe someone sees the page and decides to check out the source? I see no reason anyone should get offended at that idea.. people may even learn things from such articles.

that's why it is back as a "special category".