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Of course, of course, Pharos, I am familiar with Judaism (I edited to ""Feature Artice"" the Names of God in Judaism)... The point I am making is that the concept of divinity is very diverse amongst religions. This article is entitled ""List of self-proclaimed deities"". It is not called List of people that claim or claimed to be God.  My contention is that the article needs to narrow its scope to become useful. For example, in Sikhism, (and Andries is correct in regard of non-idolatry), their gurus are considered to be of divine providence (see the halos behind any Sikh guru portrait...).  For example if we call this article, ""List of people that claim or claimed to be the Creator"", it will be an appropriate distinction. When we say ""deity"", then the scope is too wide resulting in an article that does not provide any encyclopedic value IMO, and one that looks like better beloning in a tabloid...  "