Talk:Stylite

EL
I removed the external link to image of Simeon Stylites by George Lamb. The user site at the URL seems to no longer exist. --Intelligence3 11:14, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

POV
There seems to be a lot of Weasel Words, and POV, in this article (for example: "The duration and severity of the fasts practiced almost defy belief, but the evidence is overwhelming, and the general correctness of the preserved accounts is hardly disputed.")... the article does not go on to give examples or references! 87.236.134.146 (talk) 10:25, 3 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Agreed. The first two sentences should be ditched. I'll try to clean up this article. Toitoine (talk) 05:24, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Vio
It appears that parts of this article were lifted from here: http://www.stnicholas-billings.org/Library/References/dictionary.htm Clearly not a NPOV. I'll delete these copied sentences. Toitoine (talk) 05:30, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Proposed move
Naming conventions (plurals) would seem to indicate that this should be moved to Stylite. ENeville (talk) 02:15, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Concerning Lucian
You neglect to say that his piece The Syrian Goddess is a parody and that the pillar ascended was in the shape of a phallus. So the Catholic Encyclopedia may simply be wishing to distance itself from that. Lucian then is perhaps parodying pagan practices which evolved into Christian practices. Or perhaps he is even parodying early Christian practices and equating them with pagan practices. Vince Calegon (talk) 16:11, 19 August 2018 (UTC)