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this story, women are finally no longer supporting roles in history. Hypatia, she is not Helen, even if he initiates a war that is full of colors in the history books, it is only a trophy for the victor to show off. She is a woman who has truly conquered men, using wisdom, knowledge, and thought, but the irony is that she will eventually die by the man she conquered, even in the name of love. When a man on the battlefield can be commemorated with a heroic death, she, who is not defeated by any fighter, can only be stripped naked and die humiliatingly. Men, when they can't conquer a great female soul spiritually, they can only use this way to humiliate their opponents.
It is not her knowledge that is guilty, but her gender, her wisdom above men. Women should not have thoughts. Women are attached to the world, so Cyril can condemn her guilt grandily-because this is written in the Christian classics. Ha ha, classic! Are men left with such weapons to save their face? The students who had respected her betrayed her because of this, and the former admirers could no longer protect her because of the ridiculous lines written in a book. Hypatia, the wisdom and ideas inherited from the books she believed in, this time ended her life. Is this a bigger irony?
Like many wise women in history, her greatest tragedy lies in the fact that she is a woman.
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Human beings are creating different absurdities every day, busy dividing the world into various groups. Men, women; Christians, Muslims; theists, atheists; blacks, whites... But the themes of conquest, suppression, massacre, aggression, and destruction are always repeated between groups. One faith obliterates the other, one race enslaves the other, the history of mankind is nothing more than that. Even today when we claim to be highly evolved, the nature of human beings still won't get any form of evolution. Wars are still going on in all corners of the world, big countries can still decide the life and death of small countries, and extreme XX organizations-whether in the name of religion or animal protection-are still compulsively dumping their ideas on people. No matter how whitewashed, this world cannot contain diversity in its bones.
I believe that all the moments when God is created are made out of good intentions, but I also believe that all good intentions will eventually be used maliciously. From the initial spiritual comfort to the final political weapon, religion often deviates from the original intention of the founder. In "Agora", the conflict between Christianity and paganism is, as always, the fuse of the contradiction. When Davus distributed bread to poor people who believe in Christianity, when he saw equality and care in this religion for the first time, his joy was sincere. However, when the fanatical Christians occupied and destroyed the former lecture hall, when the manuscripts and models representing civilization and wisdom were burned, he who shared the fanaticism of the destroyers could not have the same joy. The establishment of one spiritual world is accompanied by the demise of another spiritual world. One part of the soul is filled, but the other part can only fall into emptiness again. So when people asked him what the heavens and the earth looked like, he knew the answer, but he could only answer ambiguously: "Such questions can only be answered by God." Maybe he wanted to seek a compromise between the two, But when the two beliefs have become a fire and water, he still wanders between the two poles and has no choice.
Unable to respond to his own heart, he still didn't stand up to save Hypatia, but he couldn't be absolutely loyal to religion, and chose to help her in private to help her get out of pain faster. I believe that when he did all this, what he felt was not cowardly pain, but a deeper confusion. But this confusion has determined that he will eventually become a traitor to the two beliefs, and he will be burdened with heavier spiritual shackles all his life-all the past has been wiped out, and all the future has become pale. When you have nothing to believe without reservation, is this also a kind of deep sorrow?
Who says religion is to save people? Who said that God loves all beings? Just like the pictures depicted in the movie, those guiding thoughts that should be peace and progress bring killing and madness, ignorance and regression. Whose fault is this? Obviously seeing that everything has deviated from the original intention, we still refuse to give up our faith, because we are weak and we dare not regard ourselves as gods. We need to worship others to fill the emptiness of our souls, and this will inevitably give others incitement and An excuse to be deceived, then who should be the person who has turned into guilt when the mistake is made? Perhaps it is not religion that is wrong, but that this kind of thing is destined to be incompatible with the aura of human beings—the tragedy of mankind is nothing more than this.
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