Christianity was a persecuted religion, within the first few hundred years of its existence.
Actually, Christianity was persecuted only for short periods of time in its first 300 years of existence.
Socrates was also murdered, but, not by Christians.
Socrates was executed for political reasons. About 400 years before Jesus was supposedly born. So, what does that prove? Or is it just something you've read on a Christian propaganda site to parrot on internet forums?
And contrary to the movie about Hypatia, it wasn't Christians who destroyed the museum of Alexandria. It was Muslim invaders in 642 AD.
Actually, nobody knows for sure who had destroyed the great library. Caesar, Aurelian and the Muslims have all been implicated, though only the
extremely objective Muslim-Watch is certain that it were the Muslims. And, btw, a great deal of the ancient texts available to us today we only have thanks to the fact the Muslims had preserved A LOT of ancient texts.
Texts that were being systematically destroyed by Christians, at the time, only to be rediscovered in Arabic in the 12th century AD.
In the movie, what was destroyed was the library of the Serapetum, not the great library. This is actually historically true, and in accord with the scholarly consensus on the matter.
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angels4444
10 years ago
History can be lost and faith can be perverted but Wisdom always prevails. Wisdom was the feminine aspect of God that was there with Him when he created the world (Prov.8.30). What we learn from the stories of Hypatia and Catherine is that histories can be burned and faith can be corrupted into a twisted thing that kills but Wisdom is eternal. You have some very basic facts here and what you choose to do with them is completely left to your imagination. Hypatia and Catherine's converging stories mean something to me about the convergence of intellect and love/faith. I feel blessed that even though history is lost the two stories are still active enough to inspire controversy but it seems foolish to keep them split and cause more anger and misunderstanding. It's the anger and misunderstanding that persecutes the faithful and burns libraries. Maybe they really are the same person in the symbolic sense. I feel like you are symbolically tearing them/her apart in the same way the stories have her body torn apart. Whether God gives us these messages from above or whether they are part of humanity's shared and imperfect memory it seems to me the fact that the story survives makes it significant enough to look for constructive meaning.
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murad23
10 years ago
Actually, Christianity was persecuted only for short periods of time in its first 300 years of existence.
This is not true at all. Christians were the most systematically persecuted group for several hundred years of the roman empire.
And Catherine myth did not arise from the Hypathia story (which is itself 90% myth/composite as well).
And there were outright genocides of Christians in a lot especially in North Africa, and throughout the empire beginning with nero though diocletian which was a period of a couple hundred years. There are academic estimates of about 1.5 million Christians killed, which 20th century population statistics would be several times the holocaust
Like Jews and Pagans Christians were mercilessly and broadly persecuted when in the minority, and like Jews, Pagans and Muslims, committed persecution when in the majority.
The OP's is hopelessly ignorant of actual history of mass persecution. And the Historians agree the Catherine story is most likely a composite of several notable Christian women who actually were murdered. Composite archtypes don't nullify history. We know King David is a composite but that doesn't change the reality his story reflects of a place and time
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Platanis
10 years ago
the Hypathia story (which is itself 90% myth/composite as well)
How is that?
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Korios
10 years ago
the Hypathia story (which is itself 90% myth/composite as well).
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Do you have a single piece of evidence to back this claim up?
Fanboy : a person who does not think while watching.
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ArchStanton1862
9 years ago
Sorry but, Christians the most persecuted group for several hundred years of the Roman Empire? How about the Jews who had their their homeland burned, their temple destroyed, and millions of their citizens enslaved? Or the druids who were wiped out on Roman-occupied lands so thoroughly that they ceased to exist?
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