From "Agora", it is not difficult to see that when there is an extreme monopoly in a place, then there will naturally be a force to rise up and raise the weapons they can get to fight for their own struggle for life. And the weapons in their hands can drive a polytheist oppressing them out of the Library of Alexandria, and of course they can smash the flesh and blood of an unarmed woman who is only devoted to humanity and philosophy but is regarded as a demon. This is Christianity, of course, It's not just Christianity either.
Religion, Christianity or others, was originally an unbearable ideal for the toiling masses to comfort the reality, but as it gradually prospered, religion gradually transformed into a tool for a new group of elite interests, and this group of elites It is precisely the toiling masses of the past, and this religion has become a tool for them to control the new toiling masses, and the cycle is repeated. They use religion to dominate people, twist their enemies at will and eventually become the enemy of the masses, and use their so-called beliefs to kill people with swords and clear the source of evil in their eyes.
When batch after batch of fanatical jihadists, carrying stones all day long, attacked those of other sects, they were more thugs than following what they called the truth. Sadly, they are still shouting that they lived for their faith and died for their faith. In the end, some of them exchanged death for the title of saint, and then he had to continue to enjoy this "wonderful" "honor" in his ideal kingdom of heaven.
I remember when the movie appeared that the standard ellipse definition was generated in the sand table, I even cried out excitedly. Yes, this is not only the success of Hypatia, but also the success of the entire human history. She was more than a thousand years earlier than Kepler's law of celestial orbits, and someone once said that Ruoro polytheism The controlled library of Alexandria was not destroyed by the hands of Christian fanatics. Perhaps the civilization of ancient Greece, Rome and the entire Europa and even the civilization of human beings will improve by more than 1,200 years. When this woman lost the protection of two men who loved her dearly: a governor and a bishop, she also lost the chance to touch the hope of life again. There are many descriptions of her death in the history, I always tend to the scene depicted in the movie, when Utis gave his beloved woman a gentle but fatal blow in desperation, Hypatia still She gave him the firmest support with her angelic eyes.
In this film, Hypatia excels in explaining the relationship between a wise man and society. They are often at a distance from the powerful, but if they want to reach their full potential, they must need a stable environment, since time immemorial, without exception. Of course, this film also shows from another aspect that this society is indifferent to these intellectuals or wise men. When politics and beliefs are intertwined and power begins to be contested, then for both sides of the interests, the first to give up is inevitable. It's these weak people.
I can't help but ask again, what is the real meaning of religion. It doesn't seem to me to be Cyril's kind of thing: twisting biblical teachings at will to inflict the grace of Christ in a sanctimonious manner. While suppressing political forces by means of the masses, seek greater interests. Until the few lines of subtitles that appeared faintly on the screen at the end made our guesses become reality, the so-called religion finally replaced politics and military, and was called the representative of power. And how can this be called religion?
If faith and religion will eventually become a tool for a group of people, a tool for gaining power, then why do we still need faith. Until now, Westerners are still extremely confused about China's atheism. They don't understand how it is different from livestock. Of course, Chinese people are now more advocating interest theory and money worship. And whether I can temporarily improve the cognitive level of Chinese people and treat this as another kind of spiritual cleanliness. If you want me to believe, then please give me a reason not to be fanatical, if not, then I would rather have no belief. In other words, this belief means that it can be replaced by one's own ideals.
In fact, after all, the essence of faith and religion is still human, and it is still a tool that we use to replace and demonstrate human nature. Whenever an event that harms human beings occurs, it must have some connection with religion and belief, and I open the door to it. Fanaticism as another explanation. No matter what kind of belief, after all, the slaughter of human beings cannot be attributed to a certain belief. Fanaticism is the root of evil, and doctrine is always good and good, precisely because we cannot ignore the evils of human nature, and the sins committed by those people are the sins of all of us. And the seventeenth-century British metaphysical poet John Donne said: "Anyone's death reduces me, because I participate in human beings, so I never ask who the death knell is for, it is for me and for you. "We are human beings who are struggling with belief and reality, and most of those who no longer need to struggle have settled down in their blissful world.
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