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

Wikipedia: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)

Christian apologetics

according to Herbert Thurston, scholars think it unlikely that Simeon had derived any suggestion from this pagan custom, which had died out before his time.

Please. These ascetic practices were known for centuries, perhaps for thousands of years before Christianity. It's not unlikely at all. This idea that Christians created all of these ideas and practices de novo is an insult to history. Viriditas (talk) 22:24, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Okay? If you're the expert add a citation and change it then? SP00KYtalk 14:22, 11 May 2025 (UTC)