Hypatia's death symbolizes the decline of early Western civilization, watching those fanatical religious people fighting in the streets, you know Society has fallen from light to darkness, even though the bishop's crown is shining with gold.
The history of Western civilization erupted the most dazzling light in ancient Greece, the light of those wisdom was so dazzling that the afterglow kinetic energy can illuminate the entire Roman period, but unfortunately you, Hypatia, was born at the end of the era, the light of wisdom has dimmed, and society is about to enter darkness. You are powerless, you can only lie quietly in the arms of Alexandria.
It seems that most of the development of religion has Hard history, victors, kings, losers, thieves, in the history of Christianity, they saved mankind and eradicated pagans. The Middle Ages that dimmed European civilization for hundreds of years were full of dictatorship and repression, science and art. Almost stagnant, people stick to the rules, exercise restraint, and hide under the rule of religion.
I believe in a sentence, any exclusive religion is a cult, and it can even be generalized, any exclusive ultimate theory is standing It is untenable. It is precisely because we have the space to think freely and express our own opinions that we have boundless human thoughts, and it is precisely because we have the courage to doubt and challenge the belief that civilization will move forward step by step. The emergence of
Christianity gave the broad masses of people a spiritual sustenance, so it could be widely disseminated. Later, it was combined with politics and became the best tool for governance. After a few years, Christianity was no longer what it was when it was founded. It turned out that people have long forgotten what it was. When the rules were made, the people had to obey them. They didn't even have the courage to ask why
. Watching those thugs destroy the library in the movie, I really want to get my heart pumped, how ignorant, How annoying, reminds me of the death of Archimedes, what a familiar scene, there are so many examples of this in our history. Whether it is East or West, we have all experienced the same pain through gritted teeth, only Pray that there will no longer be such distressing twists and turns on the road of civilization, and that history is neither good nor bad, so don't take it out
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