Talk:Speak network
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This article needs some NPOVing and cleanup. The major problems are:
- It takes points of the group's doctrine as factual rather than as the group's doctrine. Examples: "SPEAK aims to share their faith in the God of the Bible" (which God of which Bible?) and "Jesus, as he is revealed in the Bible" (Mother Theresa and Fred Phelps both claimed they were following Jesus as he is revealed in the Bible, but to put it mildly, they had very very different interpretations of what that meant.)
- It's vague. We keep hearing what the group "wants" and what it "aims" and very little about anything it's done. We're told "SPEAK wants to bring together the personal and the social in a holistic way" -- pure marketspeak. If you don't believe me, ask yourself how it would differ from bringing together the personal and the social in a non-holistic way.
-- Antaeus Feldspar 18:16, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
I agree about marketspeak. I removed the phrase about "holistic" you refered to. The orginal article was just copied from Speak's website. I have made minor changes to it since, but perhaps not big enough. If "the God of the Bible" is not specific enough, then what would be? If we are going to require references to God to be more specific, then a lot of Wikipedia articles will need changing. People can assume which God is being referred to by the context. -- BenStevenson 10:37, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
