(November 12, 2019 at 2:31 am)Belacqua Wrote: She was not killed over a religious issue, like whether the Neoplatonic Hypostases are the same as the Christian Trinity. She was killed over a local power struggle.
Not according to historians, as in the 1st post is stated "then historian tries to explain that Christians saw Hypatia as symbol of free thinking and they didn't want that, but that they wanted something like autocracy by bishops (so it seems there were religious reasons for her death)"
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
