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The content of this looks decidedly dodgy: other sources (such as here: http://www.bethel.edu/~letnie/AfricanChristianity/WNACircumcellions.html) give somewhat more probable-sounding accounts of the Circumcellions. - Outeast
"fanatical band" - "predatory peasants" - doesn't sound very neutral to me Auto98uk ( talk) 11:04, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Also the use of the term Catholics is anachronistic, because the schism between Catholics and Orthodoxs occured much later.
Though certainly no expert, this account seems consistent with Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.148.117.101 ( talk) 10:25, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
check out Brent D. Shaw's article "Bad Boys" and his book "Sacred Violence" for a different point of view — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.183.196.167 ( talk) 12:13, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Which is conveniently cited as coming from Gibbon... in 1993? OK, the edition cited is 1993 but there is a dischronology at play... FeatherPluma ( talk) 02:34, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
"Free love" or "holding women in common" was a generic accusation made against a large number of radical social movements from classical antiquity to the Renaissance (see Mazdakism etc). It's rather unlikely to be true in any specific case... AnonMoos ( talk) 13:55, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
Copied from 2010 section above - The content of this looks decidedly dodgy: other sources (such as here: http://www.bethel.edu/~letnie/AfricanChristianity/WNACircumcellions.html) give somewhat more probable-sounding accounts of the Circumcellions. - Outeast" "fanatical band" - "predatory peasants" - doesn't sound very neutral to me Auto98uk ( talk) 11:04, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Also the use of the term Catholics is anachronistic, because the schism between Catholics and Orthodoxs occured much later.
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The content of this looks decidedly dodgy: other sources (such as here: http://www.bethel.edu/~letnie/AfricanChristianity/WNACircumcellions.html) give somewhat more probable-sounding accounts of the Circumcellions. - Outeast
"fanatical band" - "predatory peasants" - doesn't sound very neutral to me Auto98uk ( talk) 11:04, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Also the use of the term Catholics is anachronistic, because the schism between Catholics and Orthodoxs occured much later.
Though certainly no expert, this account seems consistent with Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.148.117.101 ( talk) 10:25, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
check out Brent D. Shaw's article "Bad Boys" and his book "Sacred Violence" for a different point of view — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.183.196.167 ( talk) 12:13, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Which is conveniently cited as coming from Gibbon... in 1993? OK, the edition cited is 1993 but there is a dischronology at play... FeatherPluma ( talk) 02:34, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
"Free love" or "holding women in common" was a generic accusation made against a large number of radical social movements from classical antiquity to the Renaissance (see Mazdakism etc). It's rather unlikely to be true in any specific case... AnonMoos ( talk) 13:55, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
Copied from 2010 section above - The content of this looks decidedly dodgy: other sources (such as here: http://www.bethel.edu/~letnie/AfricanChristianity/WNACircumcellions.html) give somewhat more probable-sounding accounts of the Circumcellions. - Outeast" "fanatical band" - "predatory peasants" - doesn't sound very neutral to me Auto98uk ( talk) 11:04, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Also the use of the term Catholics is anachronistic, because the schism between Catholics and Orthodoxs occured much later.