From The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: "the new sect of the Christians was almost entirely composed of the dregs of the populace, of peasants and mechanists, of boys and women, of beggars and slaves"
We just watched a documentary about an outburst of the forgotten and repressed underclass... And most feel compelled to curse the masses and praise the aristocracy.
It was bloody, and motivated by corrupt ideologues, certainly. If you keep hitting a dog, eventually it will bite.
.Imagine witnessing the end of civilization and watching religious barbarians brag about the death of Greek wisdom.What would you say?
Is it true that we Greeks are really dead and only seem alive? And in our fallen state we imagine that a dream is life? Or are we truly alive, and life itself dead?
As a guy I wish more people could be like her, imagine billions of women even men equally as inspired as her or to even know a woman like that. What an amazing use of the human mind. As a Christain this is painful to realise what happened and what a waste of something.
I grew up on movies like Clash of the Titans & Jason and the Argonauts. I really enjoy Greek Mythology. Though my primary interest is in Africa's major indigenous religions. So I've begun to study Egyptian and Yoruban thought and concepts.
In my opinion, Abrahamic religions are a cancer to this planet -- a rapidly spreading cancer -- that must be dealt with, before the situation becomes terminal for us all.
Hi I am a Greek, Christians are no better than animals ... To us, the Greeks destroyed everything before 1700 years in massacres Christianity imposed on us ... as a Greek I can not accept the Christian was never ... will always be animals!
A LOT OF CHRISTIANS LYING HERE ,MUCH LIKE SLAVE OWNERS CLAIMING THEY DID SLAVES A FAVOR ENSLAVING THEM LOL . CYRIL DID CAUSE THIS AND HIS MOTIVE WAS POWER . THE MESSAGE WAS THE SAME THEN AS TODAY WHICH IS : GET YOUR KNOWELGE FROM THE CHURCH OR APPROVED CHURCH OUTLETS OR THERE WILL BE TROUBLE . WE SEE THE SAME MOB MENTALITY IN THE TEA PARTY SPURRED ON BY THE RICH AND POWERFUL THROUGH POLITICANS WHO WANT RICHES AND POWER WITHOUT MUCH RESPECT FOR LIFE LIBERTY , OR THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS . REPENT
Let's also not forget the Muslim destruction of the Nalanda Central Library & University Complex in India. It was the oldest and largest actual university in the ancient world. Its library was in three 9-story buildings, it had dormitories and classrooms for thousands of students and hundreds of teachers. Its tuition was free. The Muslim fanatics beheaded all the students and professors, and burned all the books. It took them three months to wipe out the whole place.
@SuperSamsam00 The Christians destroyed the Sarapaion. I know; but there was no library in it. They didn't destroy books as the movie portrays. Though Theodosius and subsequent Christian emperors banned pagan sacrifices, they did allowed pagan philosophy to continue until it almost completely degenerated in the 6th century.
Excellent post! Thank you very much! Love when my intellect is sparked to learn more about certain topics. Everyone in the U.S. needs to know this but sadly history is just as antiquated as individual thought on this part of the globe nowadays. :(
I have a new found respect for such an under-rated historical figure, Hypatia, now after watching the film, Agora, and this doco. A personal tragedy along with a societal tragedy, the rise of Christianity marking the beginning of the Dark Ages.
I am forever changed since having watched this movie and the documentary. Amazingly, people fear what they see someone else originate, what they can't control for their own personal gain and/or what they don't understand because the feared object is way over their own intelligence. Love and light Hypatia.
This bitch equates Christian apologist with the ancient Greek Philosophers; I shameful act, monotheism has no arguments. All they got is "believe in our god or your going to burn for eternity." Christians have nothing on Hypatia or any other atheistic philosophy. Christianity is just empty threats.
It pains me to see such an inaccurate and slanderous portrayal of St. Cyril and a repetition of the claim that Christians destroyed the library of Alexandria. The library of Alexandria was burned down before the birth of Christ. It was not Cyril but John of Nikiu, a Coptic Orthodox bishop living two centuries later, who claimed that Hypatia was a witch. To Hughes' credit, she does not villify the entire early Church, but this program is still irresponsible in its depiction of the events.
Idiot religious zealot. The library over its almost 800 yr history cought on fire several times. However it was at its prime in 400 AD when the Judeobarbarians destroyed it and ushered in the End of civilization and started the dak ages. It was destroyed on pupose to bring in "god". thats the difference and the truth. The TorahBibleKoran are filthy documents and deserve to be treated as such. Thats why many universities have a program called "Bibles for Porn"
@ZeusTelemaxos False. The myth that Christians destroyed the great library was invented by the 18th century historian Edward Gibbon. Check the primary sources if you don't believe me. The temple of Serapis was destroyed in 391, but we have no clear evidence that it contained a library at the time, and the main collection had long since been destroyed and redistributed.
You are hardly in any position to claim the right to choose one of the academic theories regarding the destruction of the Library and claim it as absolute truth.
The destruction of the Serapis, correctly occurred in 391 AD by declaration of the bishop Theophilius. There is no clear evidence indicating that the library had lost the entirety of it's collection previous to that, execpt by Orosius (a christian, in his book "History against the pagans", biased?).
It is true that the "dark ages" were not as "dark" as previously thought, and therefore "Early Middle ages" is a better description. It is though, a long period of very meagre scientific and social progress, with a fittingly and exceptionally strong influence of monotheistic Christianity. With it's rulers and kings proclaiming divine right under the system of feudalism.
You seam somewhat reluctant to accept anything negative about Christianity, how can this be ;) ?
@ZeusTelemaxos Also, the motive you ascribe to the "Christian" destruction of the library is rather comical given the fact that the great works of antiquity that survived the barbarian invasions (the real cause of the so-called "Dark Ages") were painstakingly preserved by Christian monks, especially in the Byzantine empire. Lastly, your use of the term "Dark Ages" is a bit behind the times. Modern historians now tend to use "Early Middle Ages", having gained a more nuanced idea of the period.
Could you perhaps clarify what you mean with "babarian" invasions? I can think of several. And none of them have anything to do with Alexandria.
The heroism of a few monks (and later islamic schoolars), can hardly make up for the permanent impact of the shift towards monotheistic theocracy in western society. The "dark ages" were a result of the implosion of the imperialistic roman empire, mixed with the religious turmoil that followed the christening of the west.
Bastou o Pensador Haddammann ter dedicado o livro Número-Primo--Arte & Natureza à matemática Hipátia para que todas as secretatias de educação no Brasil tuteladas por padres e pastores desdenhassem do livro; e o autor começar a ser perseguido insanamente. O quanto eles temiam e temem o legado do nome Hipátia? Mas agora sabemos o que esses canalhas são, e quanto mal nos fizeram e à nossa Sociedade.
Maybe you should read some books. The least you can do for yourself, since you obviously have an aversion to learning is to watch the other four videos in this series. Start with 1/5
The destruction of the Library of Alexandria represented the beginning of the Dark Ages. One of the greatest tragedies in human history. If I were to go back in history and visit just one person, it might have been Hypatia.
Thank you so much for uploading this most interesting program. Apparently, my education was sorely inadequate but I'm trying to rectify that now that I'm retired. Hypatia will now replace Madame Curie as my favorite Heroine.
....And to think these radicalists who agree to silent the voice of knowledge still exist, we must destroy them and destroy them permanently, but not by imitating their barbaric methods, but by the guardian of education and the goddess of liberty.
And Cyril is still considered a "saint."
pogopogopogo3 1 day ago
CIRIL OR KIRIL?
valkerpower 3 days ago
no more to ignorance ..... fight Christianity ... the fall of ancient knowledge was due to the rise of fucking Christianity...
jotiv69 1 week ago in playlist Hypatia of Alexandria
From The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: "the new sect of the Christians was almost entirely composed of the dregs of the populace, of peasants and mechanists, of boys and women, of beggars and slaves"
We just watched a documentary about an outburst of the forgotten and repressed underclass... And most feel compelled to curse the masses and praise the aristocracy.
It was bloody, and motivated by corrupt ideologues, certainly. If you keep hitting a dog, eventually it will bite.
suredoloveya 1 week ago
Fight ignorance with knowledge in memory of this great woman, Hypatia!!! xo
poshvuli 1 week ago
love the video man
xtremetom180 3 weeks ago
RIP Hypatia of Alexandria.
rweerakkody4565 4 weeks ago
Fuck that Bishop Cyril! SHit religion.
rweerakkody4565 4 weeks ago
.Imagine witnessing the end of civilization and watching religious barbarians brag about the death of Greek wisdom.What would you say?
Is it true that we Greeks are really dead and only seem alive? And in our fallen state we imagine that a dream is life? Or are we truly alive, and life itself dead?
Its chilling.
GREEKFONTS 1 month ago
love the video really good
willbirful 1 month ago
As a guy I wish more people could be like her, imagine billions of women even men equally as inspired as her or to even know a woman like that. What an amazing use of the human mind. As a Christain this is painful to realise what happened and what a waste of something.
RJL738 3 months ago 3
and all this time later and nothing has changed! religion still the root of all evil
jonrotten31 5 months ago
RIP Hypatia, RIP Alexandra, RIP knowledge. Hello religous bull. :(
QuestionRenee 5 months ago 4
I grew up on movies like Clash of the Titans & Jason and the Argonauts. I really enjoy Greek Mythology. Though my primary interest is in Africa's major indigenous religions. So I've begun to study Egyptian and Yoruban thought and concepts.
In my opinion, Abrahamic religions are a cancer to this planet -- a rapidly spreading cancer -- that must be dealt with, before the situation becomes terminal for us all.
PurePressure999 5 months ago
Hi I am a Greek, Christians are no better than animals ... To us, the Greeks destroyed everything before 1700 years in massacres Christianity imposed on us ... as a Greek I can not accept the Christian was never ... will always be animals!
0000nikos 6 months ago
A LOT OF CHRISTIANS LYING HERE ,MUCH LIKE SLAVE OWNERS CLAIMING THEY DID SLAVES A FAVOR ENSLAVING THEM LOL . CYRIL DID CAUSE THIS AND HIS MOTIVE WAS POWER . THE MESSAGE WAS THE SAME THEN AS TODAY WHICH IS : GET YOUR KNOWELGE FROM THE CHURCH OR APPROVED CHURCH OUTLETS OR THERE WILL BE TROUBLE . WE SEE THE SAME MOB MENTALITY IN THE TEA PARTY SPURRED ON BY THE RICH AND POWERFUL THROUGH POLITICANS WHO WANT RICHES AND POWER WITHOUT MUCH RESPECT FOR LIFE LIBERTY , OR THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS . REPENT
jammerman0101 8 months ago
so am i getting this video right smart bad dumb good ??
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Let's also not forget the Muslim destruction of the Nalanda Central Library & University Complex in India. It was the oldest and largest actual university in the ancient world. Its library was in three 9-story buildings, it had dormitories and classrooms for thousands of students and hundreds of teachers. Its tuition was free. The Muslim fanatics beheaded all the students and professors, and burned all the books. It took them three months to wipe out the whole place.
pixusbubblejet 9 months ago
Christianity = Hoax
Spacefreakfromnibiru 9 months ago
@Spacefreakfromnibiru All religions = Hoax
greeny202a 8 months ago
@SuperSamsam00 The Christians destroyed the Sarapaion. I know; but there was no library in it. They didn't destroy books as the movie portrays. Though Theodosius and subsequent Christian emperors banned pagan sacrifices, they did allowed pagan philosophy to continue until it almost completely degenerated in the 6th century.
EMovroydis1 9 months ago
There was no library in the Sarapaion when the Christians destroyed it. That's a lie--as is Hyspatia's connection to it.
EMovroydis1 9 months ago
Fuck religion.
Frostfalle 9 months ago 5
The same kind of desecration befell the great universities of India as well, Taxila and Nalanda at the hands of Islamic bigots...
navinkumarpk86 10 months ago
Another reason to hate religion
gonecammin 10 months ago 2
@gonecammin Don't blame all religion, just keep your blame to exclusionist religions like Christianity and Islam for one
navinkumarpk86 10 months ago
As always darkness and ignorace follows the deliberate destruction of knowledge. Don't let them get their hands on the internet.
1adadada 10 months ago
Excellent post! Thank you very much! Love when my intellect is sparked to learn more about certain topics. Everyone in the U.S. needs to know this but sadly history is just as antiquated as individual thought on this part of the globe nowadays. :(
erby1kabogey9 10 months ago
I have a new found respect for such an under-rated historical figure, Hypatia, now after watching the film, Agora, and this doco. A personal tragedy along with a societal tragedy, the rise of Christianity marking the beginning of the Dark Ages.
sedatedcoho 10 months ago
Horribly murdering an innocent and incredibly intelligent woman and burning her body - how Christian of you. Ugh, Christianity disgusts me.
JomoWhore 10 months ago
I am forever changed since having watched this movie and the documentary. Amazingly, people fear what they see someone else originate, what they can't control for their own personal gain and/or what they don't understand because the feared object is way over their own intelligence. Love and light Hypatia.
tmrippey1 10 months ago
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tmrippey1 10 months ago
This bitch equates Christian apologist with the ancient Greek Philosophers; I shameful act, monotheism has no arguments. All they got is "believe in our god or your going to burn for eternity." Christians have nothing on Hypatia or any other atheistic philosophy. Christianity is just empty threats.
atheistkyo 11 months ago
It pains me to see such an inaccurate and slanderous portrayal of St. Cyril and a repetition of the claim that Christians destroyed the library of Alexandria. The library of Alexandria was burned down before the birth of Christ. It was not Cyril but John of Nikiu, a Coptic Orthodox bishop living two centuries later, who claimed that Hypatia was a witch. To Hughes' credit, she does not villify the entire early Church, but this program is still irresponsible in its depiction of the events.
Nightshade057 11 months ago
@Nightshade057
Idiot religious zealot. The library over its almost 800 yr history cought on fire several times. However it was at its prime in 400 AD when the Judeobarbarians destroyed it and ushered in the End of civilization and started the dak ages. It was destroyed on pupose to bring in "god". thats the difference and the truth. The TorahBibleKoran are filthy documents and deserve to be treated as such. Thats why many universities have a program called "Bibles for Porn"
ZeusTelemaxos 11 months ago
@ZeusTelemaxos False. The myth that Christians destroyed the great library was invented by the 18th century historian Edward Gibbon. Check the primary sources if you don't believe me. The temple of Serapis was destroyed in 391, but we have no clear evidence that it contained a library at the time, and the main collection had long since been destroyed and redistributed.
Nightshade057 11 months ago
@Nightshade057
You are hardly in any position to claim the right to choose one of the academic theories regarding the destruction of the Library and claim it as absolute truth.
The destruction of the Serapis, correctly occurred in 391 AD by declaration of the bishop Theophilius. There is no clear evidence indicating that the library had lost the entirety of it's collection previous to that, execpt by Orosius (a christian, in his book "History against the pagans", biased?).
Frostfalle 2 months ago
@Nightshade057
It is true that the "dark ages" were not as "dark" as previously thought, and therefore "Early Middle ages" is a better description. It is though, a long period of very meagre scientific and social progress, with a fittingly and exceptionally strong influence of monotheistic Christianity. With it's rulers and kings proclaiming divine right under the system of feudalism.
You seam somewhat reluctant to accept anything negative about Christianity, how can this be ;) ?
Frostfalle 2 months ago
@ZeusTelemaxos Also, the motive you ascribe to the "Christian" destruction of the library is rather comical given the fact that the great works of antiquity that survived the barbarian invasions (the real cause of the so-called "Dark Ages") were painstakingly preserved by Christian monks, especially in the Byzantine empire. Lastly, your use of the term "Dark Ages" is a bit behind the times. Modern historians now tend to use "Early Middle Ages", having gained a more nuanced idea of the period.
Nightshade057 11 months ago
@Nightshade057
Could you perhaps clarify what you mean with "babarian" invasions? I can think of several. And none of them have anything to do with Alexandria.
The heroism of a few monks (and later islamic schoolars), can hardly make up for the permanent impact of the shift towards monotheistic theocracy in western society. The "dark ages" were a result of the implosion of the imperialistic roman empire, mixed with the religious turmoil that followed the christening of the west.
Frostfalle 2 months ago
JUst like the damned fundamentalist christians. Bring back the arenas and lions.
thorshammer25 11 months ago
Bastou o Pensador Haddammann ter dedicado o livro Número-Primo--Arte & Natureza à matemática Hipátia para que todas as secretatias de educação no Brasil tuteladas por padres e pastores desdenhassem do livro; e o autor começar a ser perseguido insanamente. O quanto eles temiam e temem o legado do nome Hipátia? Mas agora sabemos o que esses canalhas são, e quanto mal nos fizeram e à nossa Sociedade.
Lindinhars1 1 year ago
And this is what the United States will be like if the teabaggers get their way.
srook2 1 year ago
@srook2 Not all tea party people are religious. Alot of their platform has to do with taxes not religion.
attemptingtobehumble 11 months ago
@attemptingtobehumble I don't see it having anything to do with religion either. It's more an issue of ignorance replacing enlightenment.
srook2 11 months ago
@srook2 Well the tea party was high jacked much like the Republican and Democratic party. Unfortunately because their original principles were good.
attemptingtobehumble 11 months ago
So pulling down some statues destroyed knowledge? How does that work?
realdrummer110 1 year ago
@realdrummer110
Maybe you should read some books. The least you can do for yourself, since you obviously have an aversion to learning is to watch the other four videos in this series. Start with 1/5
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/watch?v=bByhFiV_nvk
ZeusTelemaxos 1 year ago
@realdrummer110 *facepalm*
juergen4ever 1 year ago
Cool documentary but Carl Sagan articulates the Hypatia and Alexandria tragedy much more poetically.
xxxxcensoredxxx 1 year ago
I have a new Hero!
And i don't say that to anybody, so far, my only Hero's are James Randi, Carl Sagan and now Hypatia.
wybo2 1 year ago 23
@wybo2 agree with you!
1erasto 11 months ago
@wybo2 agree with you!
and one more thing to be grateful to ancient christians
1erasto 11 months ago
Some clutz missed the Like button.
CommonOddity 1 year ago 2
The destruction of the Library of Alexandria represented the beginning of the Dark Ages. One of the greatest tragedies in human history. If I were to go back in history and visit just one person, it might have been Hypatia.
caffingdu 1 year ago
how valuable knowledge is.
wellwellwellhello 1 year ago
Efkharisto Poli.
MAORITRIX 1 year ago 2
Thank you so much for uploading this most interesting program. Apparently, my education was sorely inadequate but I'm trying to rectify that now that I'm retired. Hypatia will now replace Madame Curie as my favorite Heroine.
gryphonshire 1 year ago
RIP Hypatia
HistoryLover1550 1 year ago 23
The Christian mob who butchered Hypatia were the original tea-baggers.
mujaku 1 year ago
....And to think these radicalists who agree to silent the voice of knowledge still exist, we must destroy them and destroy them permanently, but not by imitating their barbaric methods, but by the guardian of education and the goddess of liberty.
christe68 1 year ago
great vid! thanks for sharing!
echristos769 1 year ago
thanks from me as well
christe68 1 year ago
thank you for posting
bigeeezy 1 year ago