Hypatia, killing of
November 12, 2019 at 12:51 am
(This post was last modified: November 12, 2019 at 12:52 am by Fake Messiah.)
Here's a short video of a historian explaining why Christians killed Hypatia.
So I guess we could say that the video is divided into few parts and in each part she says:
- how library was destroyed, first by wars and then by Christians who considered it pagan and then finished off by muslims
- how there was no tension between neo platonists and Christians, that there was no religious reason for Hypatia to be killed (although historian seems to contradict herself later)
- how bishop Cyril (or should I say St. Cyril) saw that Hypatia was a popular scholar and in his jealousy decided to kill her; 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)
- description of the process of Hypatia's killing by Christians inside that church
- how contemporaries of the time blamed Bishop Cyril for Hypatia's death and that bishop usurped violence on the streets
- how some later leaders of the Christianity referred to Hypatia as a witch
So I guess we could say that the video is divided into few parts and in each part she says:
- how library was destroyed, first by wars and then by Christians who considered it pagan and then finished off by muslims
- how there was no tension between neo platonists and Christians, that there was no religious reason for Hypatia to be killed (although historian seems to contradict herself later)
- how bishop Cyril (or should I say St. Cyril) saw that Hypatia was a popular scholar and in his jealousy decided to kill her; 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)
- description of the process of Hypatia's killing by Christians inside that church
- how contemporaries of the time blamed Bishop Cyril for Hypatia's death and that bishop usurped violence on the streets
- how some later leaders of the Christianity referred to Hypatia as a witch
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"
