User talk:Melodico

Politics

I believe that the single biggest threat to religious freedom in the United States today is Christian nationalism. Christian nationalism is antithetical to the constitutional ideal that belonging in American society is not predicated on what faith one practices or whether someone is religious at all. The political ideology that seeks to merge American and Christian identities is deeply embedded in American society and manifests itself in a number of different ways, some more obviously harmful than others. The most violent expressions, such as what we saw at the January 6 insurrection, get most of the attention. But the more subtle ones—like state legislative efforts to promote the teaching of the Bible in public schools or to require the posting of “In God We Trust” in public schools and other public places—are also dangerous in that they perpetuate the false narrative that to be a true American one must be Christian—and often a certain type of Christian. Christian nationalism undergirds a number of threats to religious freedom, including anti-Muslim bigotry, anti-Semitism, and government-sponsored religion.

The First Amendment protects religious freedom in two interconnected and necessary ways—by preventing government establishment of religion and by protecting the free exercise of religion from unnecessary government interference. In my view, both clauses are essential when it comes to protecting religious freedom. I’m concerned that the current Supreme Court seems overly deferential to free exercise claims of some, while not giving enough weight to Establishment Clause principles and how those principles protect religious freedom for all. Instead, the court has couched a number of its recent decisions in terms of trying to prevent discrimination against religion, interpreting Establishment Clause principles that gird against government-sponsored religion as “discrimination” in certain contexts.

The most obvious common thread between the cases is that the court seems very engaged with religion. All Americans should care about these cases because how the court rules on religious freedom affects us all. I was pleased to see the court rule 8-to-1 in favor of Mr. Ramirez, affirming strong free exercise protections in the death chamber—a principle that had been contested over the past few years in prior cases that were on the court’s emergency, or “shadow,” docket. Melodico (talk) 16:58, 4 April 2024 (EDT)

Embodiment of Evil npc

On the Embodiment of Evil you listed the location of this npc as 'Far west; 2nd dead end directly north of OF room' - what does 'OF' mean? - Rari Talk 03:38, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

OF refers to overfiend. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Melodico (talk).

Edited the page to reflect this, thank you. - Rari Talk 01:42, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi Melodico. You referred to my edits as 'garbage.' Why so negative dude? Chill out. I'm trying to help add comprehensive info about monsters to help our playerbase. Let me know exactly what you think I did wrong...

When you say "less helpful," are you referring to the general server knowledge? Because "yellow to 60" implies the mob can only be 61-63, which is completely true. Whereas, on the other hand, "61-65" has a greater discrepancy. I've sent you an email detailing my sentiments about this topic. I admit, I am no wiki expert, but after playing this game for 9 years I believe I have some idea how this game works.

Hello, please be sure to not delete any user talk and to use user signatures with each post with 4 tildes '`' when talking to each other, Thanks. Marthog (talk) 01:01, 1 September 2022 (EDT)

Deleting Talk Pages

Please stop blanking your talk page. You've been told multiple times it's against policy. This is your final warning. Marthog (talk) 16:37, 4 April 2024 (EDT)

Is this against policy? If not it surely will be, for the sanctity of our wiki. Melodico (talk) 17:03, 4 April 2024 (EDT)