a thousand years

Brandt 2022-09-02 21:57:30

Reminds us: 1, stoning lapidation is one of the oldest punishments of mankind. Is the most famous and perhaps the earliest stoning scene Magdalene in the Bible? Jesus saved her because "he who asks himself that he has not sinned can throw stones at her". The religion that Jesus founded in the name of love was used by later generations as an excuse for killing. 2. The first holy warriors in history were Christians. The Christian warriors in the film all wear simple black clothes and have beards. This image is familiar, although the name of the flag of faith is different. First Christians and polytheists killed, then Christians and Jews. These self-proclaimed holy wars are not over to this day. 3. The city of Alexandria in the fifth century was a political system with the separation of church and state. However, Christianity gradually gained the upper hand, and the highest secular leaders refused to kneel before the Bible because they were unwilling to slander the beloved woman, and even paid the price with their lives, marking the end of the era of freedom of belief. When a person or a group of people declares that they have the only truth, human beings embark on a path contrary to the truth, and this has been happening since ancient times.

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  • Hypatia: Ever since Plato, all of them - Aristarchus, Hipparchus, Ptolemy - they have all, all, all tried to reconcile their observations with circular orbits. But what if another shape is hiding in the heavens?

    Davus: Another shape? Lady, there is no shape more pure than the circle; you taught us that.

    Hypatia: I know, I know, but suppose - just suppose! - the purity of the circle has blinded us from seeing anything beyond it! I must begin all over with new eyes. I must rethink everything!... What if we dared to look at the world just as it is. Let us shed for a moment every preconceived idea - what shape would it show us?

  • Davus: I was forgiven but now I can't forgive.

    Ammonius: Forgive? Who the Jews?

    Davus: Well Jesus pardoned them on the cross.