Talk:List of people declared a deity

Should this page cover people who are declared to be God or declared to be a God? If the latter, we can add various Roman emperors, Pharaohs, and the like... The Land 10:13, 21 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm honestly not sure. It started because of stuff I was doing at the regular "list of people who said they were god" list. I briefly added Fard Muhammed, but then realized it was way too unclear if he ever actually said he was God. That got me thinking of other people worshipped as God in various religions, but where it's unclear if they ever agreed to that claim. Although more relevant was someone at the other list who was insistent Jesus could not have claimed to be God because the Qur'an says otherwise. (This is a caricature of his view, but not an entirely unfair one I feel as he never mentioned any source besides the Qur'an for his position) After realizing he was just not going to let it go I decided to create this list so that list could start making progress. Also to, admittedly, have a list where the Christian view could be allowed. After that I got serious about the idea again and looked for religions that revere someone as a God when it's unclear of their historicity or if they agreed.--T. Anthony 11:16, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Every article in the series is misnamed. Proper format would be "List of people who have claimed that they are deities". What I don't understand, though, is why this page needs its own article when it and List of people who have said that they are gods both have so few entries; why can't this just be a subsection of the same page? Either way, though, the name's very off; Alexander, Manco Capac, etc. were claimed to have been deities, not God in the sense explored in that article. -Silence 09:18, 24 October 2005 (UTC)


 * First there's a legitimate reason. Some people have been proclaimed to be deities when they did not themselves a deity. For example Haille Selassie and the nun listed. Wallace Fard Muhammed and Guang would likely also fit. The second reason is I got tired of arguing with people whether Jesus said he was God or whether this was something others said of it. The problem was becoming unsolvable and annoying, so I thought if I moved him to a new list the original List of people who have said that they are gods could finally make some progress from its disputed category. Still I think there is some value in having this as separate because there are religions that worship a human as God even though they made no such claims for themselves. (Haille Selassie and Rastafarianism is the best example) I will move it to "declared to be a deity" however and fix the linkings to it.--T. Anthony 03:51, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

There it's gone.--T. Anthony 00:47, 3 November 2005 (UTC)