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Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.

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Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
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Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 26, 2021 at 4:52 pm
While watching a video about why the Roman Christian Church got separated to Eastern & Western, a disgusting and repulsing penalty stopped me. 
The capital penalty is "Gouging out the eyes" of the sentenced; a form of heathen torture practice that Eastern Christians in the Byzantine Empire notoriously practiced.

The famous example of using this practice is the Byzantine Empress Irene of Athens who practiced this brutal punishment against her own son Constantine, and restored Iconodulism (worship of pictures of Christ and priests) into the Byzantine Empire.

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RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 26, 2021 at 5:03 pm
Yeah because Islams methods of punishment are just candy and ice cream  Dodgy
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RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 26, 2021 at 5:09 pm (This post was last modified: December 26, 2021 at 5:11 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
And yet you support punitive maiming. 

I suspect that the only reason you find eye gouging to be ‘disgusting and repulsing’ is that Mohammad didn’t authorize it. If he had, you’d heartily approve.

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RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 26, 2021 at 5:14 pm
Or maybe the Regent refused to cede power to her son and eye-gouging was merely the means to that end.
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RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 26, 2021 at 5:46 pm (This post was last modified: December 26, 2021 at 5:47 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(December 26, 2021 at 5:14 pm)Ranjr Wrote: Or maybe the Regent refused to cede power to her son and eye-gouging was merely the means to that end.

Not to mention that if you stop reading history every time you run across a horror story like this, you may as well save yourself the trouble and stop reading history altogether.

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RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 26, 2021 at 6:01 pm
You were supposed to quit eating those paint chips, not double down on them, winter.
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RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 26, 2021 at 7:27 pm
Sez the OP, when we have graphic evidence of people being thrown off a tower to their deaths, simply for being gay...in "modern" Middle Eastern times.
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RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 26, 2021 at 7:39 pm
Soooooo…..did you ever end up figuring out why east and west got separated? Seems like it might be instructive for you.
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RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 26, 2021 at 8:12 pm
How tastefully brutal. I like this Irene woman.
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RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 26, 2021 at 8:17 pm
(December 26, 2021 at 5:03 pm)Helios Wrote: Yeah because Islams methods of punishment are just candy and ice cream  Dodgy

I thought it was bacon and whiskey, silly me.
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