Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christo-Heathenry

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. Babajobu 05:13, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Christo-Heathenry

Article is about an interesting subject, but no citations and only five Google hits for the term mean that it qualifies as original research. - squibix 14:14, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Non-notable and no resources. --Brian1979 14:34, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
• Comment-This seems to essentially be describing a kind of syncretism I think. I don't know if a redirect to that would be appropriate or not.--T. Anthony 14:55, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
  • I would say not, because the term is essentially a neologism. - squibix 15:18, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete The author has created a neologism from the word "heathenry" used in the source website by deliberately combining it with the prefix "Christo-" (possibly to troll Christians on Wikipedia). Ruby 15:12, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
  • I don't see this a troll at all: to me it looks likes a very interesting expirement in syncretism undertaken by a very small unencyclopedic number of people. I particularly liked the comparison, on the englishfolkchurch.com website, of this phenomenon to the Japanese blending of Buddhidm and Shinto. - squibix 15:18, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
    • I'm Christian, Catholic specifically, and didn't find it offensive. However it is admittedly a neologism and shouldn't be an article until/unless it gains currency.--T. Anthony 15:20, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Interestingly the term "Christo-paganism" already has some hits.[1] Not enough to justify keeping it under that name, but maybe the idea will latch on to some term. I'm not sure how you'd mix Christianity with paganism though as Christianity is monotheistic. (Whereas Buddhism was agnostic or just non-specific on Gods)--T. Anthony 15:24, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

In Njal's Saga, the man who brought Christianity to Iceland in the 900s is described as saying, "Thor would be nothing by dust and ashes if Christ did not permit him to live." - squibix 15:52, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as neologism and this is totally nonsense. --Terence Ong (恭喜发财) 15:26, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Neologism. *drew 15:39, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
• Suggestion. Possibly add a very brief mention (perhaps in the links section) to the heathen article? Crypticfirefly 19:07, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.