Hypatia on the occasion of being charged by the Christian Zealots of not believing in anything replied “ I believe in philosophy” , she added “ I envy you sir that you can so readily believe without question that which you believe” “ for my part I am constantly questioning not only myself but everything” “so No sir I cannot and will not convert, as it would be a crime against my conscience “
Shortly after this St Cyril condemned her as a witch, and she was frayed and stoned by the
“Believers”
He didn’t have much time for the Jews living in Alexandria then either
This women was a pagan and as such a member of a class of people that in today’s books have described as loony, whilst I understand the rights insistence that Christianity in its protestant and enlightenment form gave the world the framework around which western civilisation eventually flourished, I would suggest that Greco Roman Paganism has given us far more, as in Democracy, the early beginnings of scientific enquiry, aqueducts , hot baths, proper roads , majestic buildings and shopping malls, the like of which ( on the demise of all this which really started with her death and ended with the fall of Rome) was not seen again for One Thousand Five Hundred Years.
This” one god” thing invented by perhaps the most intelligent race on Earth who have more Nobel prizes to their name than any other group of people on the planet, never ceases to amaze me?
Happily for the west ( or really western Europe) it only took 1500 years for us to reclaim our ancestral legacy , Meanwhile another bunch of Judo/Abrahamic /Christian loony converts very recently on the scene calling themselves Muslims and their variation on the same old tired worn out dogma called” Islam “ is once again on the march against the New Greeks , the New Romans , but saddest of all, the new Hypatias.
History is repeating itself and Like Constantine the west is choosing not to fight it, but join it.!
See you in another 1500 or so?
