Topic on Talk:Religions Based on Blaseball

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That reads as a.. frankly rude and dismissive way to summarize Sandcat's response especially when Inumo has, multiple times, talked to me the same way? But worse? Like some of it are the exact same points Inumo has cited as their points of authority, and I think Clio has summarized pretty well why Inumo's 'need to sleep' response doesn't feel like Inumo needs to sleep and can't be here but wholesale dismissing my comment. I haven't complained about it here because to be honest, I don't to deal with navigating through another complaint but it feels like you're holding some of us to a different standard.

I also like. I'm struggling to balance between keeping this conversation on topic to the wiki and your actions here, but it's also ignoring that I already know, for a fact, that talking to you is like a brick wall because you just do not believe people of color and minorities when we say things unless we do a ridiculous amount of labor. Like, I don't know what to say. It feels almost ridiculous that I need to explain and cite how "[Ballmageddon] will herald Blazibaal's final victory over his hated enemy the sun, that it will mark the mass ascension of all mortal beings to a higher plane of existence, and that it will trigger a recurrence of the fabled Ten Cent Beer Fortnight." uses vocabulary from the Bible and is literally just a summary of what happens according to the Last Judgement in all major Abrahamic Religions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Judgment). Coupled with that is Blaz Bombing.. the entire paragraph is an extremely uncomfortable joke that obviously draws from real life religious bombings. Blaseicism being the perfect form of Blaseball and causing friction is word for word a fundamental part of Judaism regarding the Torah and part of the main points of divergence from other Abrahamic beliefs (https://www.hebrew4christians.com/Scripture/Shloshah-Asar_Ikkarim/Immutability/immutability.html). Blazibaal and the mortal Tertullian feel like a straight parallel to Allah and the Prophet Muhammad (https://www.metmuseum.org/learn/educators/curriculum-resources/art-of-the-islamic-world/unit-one/the-prophet-muhammad-and-the-origins-of-islam). The Puceys just straight up opens as the Crusaders.

I think this kinda reinforces all my misgivings about the page. It's true that I don't expect everyone and anyone to be intimately familiar with all three major Abrahamic religions but combined, we've covered 56% of the global population and 80% of North America's. So this page should be pinging on your radar if you have even some familiarity or real world experience with any religion. I am seriously questioning the appropriateness of having such a serious topic at the Navigation Box and wiki, as MOS has shown that such clear parallels to modern religions are completely missed by average wiki readers. Fictional and real world religions can be fantastic tools for writing fiction and adding depth to characters. But they are not toys to be given out for anyone to play with if you can not understand and respect these faiths or their followers enough to have either basic knowledge of them or be willing to listen to those who do.

Honestly, it is difficult enough to fully understand and write real world religions, especially those not your own. But like writing fantasy races, fantasy religions have even greater concerns in regards to fully understanding what you are using as metaphor, parallels with real world politics and the question of wether to use real world groups or fictional ones. If the reader is unfamiliar with this debate, I strongly urge you to research writing Fictional Races, Religions and Nations with regards to People of Color to understand the debate. It is not difficult to find as numerous published, bestselling authors of color have weighed in on this debate. I think that the Blaseball community has kinda showed that, as a whole, it is not capable of writing or conceptualizing abstract but serious literary devices in this page with the necessary degree of care and expertise (with context of the inital comment regarding players such as Malik Destiny and Dunlap Figueroa) and the issue is compounded by the lack of clear, direct relevance of this page to any other content on the wiki. I strongly urge the moderation team to consider their influence and ability to platform content on their website.