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 ::::By the way, for purposes of clarification, I acknowledge up front that the recent rulings by Jewish bodies regarding MJs being other-than-Jewish exist, and never meant to imply otherwise. Also, I myself think the matter could reasonably be submitted at AN/I, and probably should be, although I am less familiar with its regular activity than you. If you were to say that you thought my view reasonable, I would obviously consider raising the matter myself. I think there might be a question, possibly one to be addressed in the MOS, about how much weight and where to give such statements by other groups in the same basic field. This would also probably relate to the nature of such sources. So, for instance, when the Dalai Lama and Catholic Pope make clearly doctrinal statements which they say are the final word on the subject, at least within their groups, those statements have more or less the force of law. They can also, presumably, make an official proclamation to the effect ""it has always been true that this group believes..."" and that statement would be accepted by the followers. I am not so sure the same can be said for other groups. Personally, I think one of the most valuable things that could be included in the MOS would be how to phrase information relating to internal official statements of belief, particularly when there are differences of opinion, sometimes even within the broad ""faith"" itself, as well as religious opinions of external groups and even philosophically biased opinions which are presented as science, such as Richard Dawkins and some others make. If you have any input on how to deal with such matters there, I am sure we would all be very interested in seeing it.  
 ::::Also, on a at best marginally related matter, there seems to be a problem of a long-term POV pusher over at Christ myth theory, which bares remarkable similarities to this one. If you were to want to look over the history there, it might be useful to have an involved opinion on that matter.   "