Talk:Barbatus of Benevento
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Arianism
[edit]No mention is made in the article about the fact that Benevento at that time was officially Arian (and had been conquered by the Lombards only 70 years before) - and that the "invading" "Byzantines" were Trinitarians... Causantin 11:33, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Ildebrand
[edit]Was he an orthodox/catholic or an Arian? If orthodox how come he had a germanic name? Causantin 11:33, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
A little POV problem
[edit]I am sorry I don’t have time to check and rephrase this now—I have a train to catch!—but I think we have this sentence to fix
- Barbatus took advantage of his new position and quickly destroyed the remaining superstitious artifacts hidden by the prince and the local population.
[my emphasis] —Ian Spackman 11:40, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
What does this mean?
[edit]On this day, to Castelvenere, his hometown, there is the traditional "Day of Thunder", a competition between three pyrotechnic disabled firemen.
WTF? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:2F0E:1A8:5A00:6075:1415:520F:46A0 (talk) 12:14, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
Severely unbalanced article
[edit]This article relies mostly on hagiographic sources, and accepts their non-encyclopedia language. It speaks of, "The parishioners there objected to Barbatus' remarking upon their falling short of the Christian ideal, and persecuted him to quiet him. He continued in the same vein, causing these same people to slander his character. He was eventually obliged to cease his charitable works because of these slanders." Can you see the POV problem? He's always right, everybody else is persecuting him. The article also refers to "pagan religion which was still being practiced at B...." Only 2 religions, Christianity and paganism?? The phrases are offensive to non-Christians. There is no such thing as a "pagan religion". "Pagan" is Christian jargon, and in itself POV Christian. There were and are many religions which are not Christian. --Vicedomino (talk) 07:57, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
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