Remembering Hypatia - The Infidel Guy Show

[EMovroydis1]

This guy is a charlatan. It's interesting how an author can write a fiction, and have it be acceptable as real history.

[skorpios28]

parthenon was black too -chlorio does miracles---at last nderstand that was greek

[barcoxx]

...or prohibiting the FREE EXCERCISE thereof. It did not say "it belongs in your sunday schools homes, that is where it belongs". Those are your words, from your point of view, which you wish was DOMINANT among men. A man is just a man, and most men wish that other men think as they want them to think, which is precisely why there is an infidelguy show, to spread a certain world view. BTW, The founding fathers did toil to create a place where their religious beliefs would be marginalized.

[mujaku]

It is interesting to read Catholic apologists who try to defend Cyril who was elected as the bishoop after his uncle Theophilus, the former bishop died. Much of their history is invention. It ignores the fact that Cyril was not liked by the Origenists, the bishop of Constantinople, John Chrysostom whom Cyril harassed, not to mention other sects. Once in power Cyril viciously turned against the Jews causing innocent Jews to defend themselves who were eventually expelled from Alexandria.

[Tinqwe78]

Hypatia was the greatest Greek neoplatonic philosopher, probably of macedonian extraction, of her era. Raphael placed her centrally in his fresco 'The School of Athens', this is where the photo of the video is taken from. The Spanish film Agora is excellent in portraying her life, and it is also very balanced in terms of the effect of Christianity, barbaric as it eventually was. Her death was not portrayed as it actually happened, I suppose out of respect.

[Piccolo7126]

Hypatia was a neoplatonic philosopher

[hulakan]

This author is stating a lot of things as "fact" that are, in truth, not at all certain. Pop "history" at its worst.

[noblepuker]

Hypatia.I first heard of her from carl sagan.I'm happy to see her here on infidel guy.Awesome interview.This woman must have been influential to be the caretaker of this great library....that,and men were probably scared of this position given it's threat to the church.People would be less likely to kill a woman was the thinking i bet. I wish i could meet her in modern times,and tell her she's not been forgotten.This event is still hurting religion centuries after it happened.I'm in love.

[coralgrl123]

hypatia was black

[Hottides]

Considering that she lived in Egypt and was probably of Greek extraction, Hypatia was probably an olive-toned Mediterranean lady with jet-dark hair and large brown eyes.

[amet1980]

macedonians were probably blonde in majority..

[darthbullwinkle02]

Macedonians are mostly brown-haired. They're not a Nordic race.

[amet1980]

no they werent as the illirians and almost europeans were blonde...

mettiteranean looks were aquared later due to blending witheteo

[TRUCKEEDOG666]

Hello? Hello? Caller? Hello?

[ReligiousFiction]

Question - in Greco-Roman ruled Egypt, isn't is possible that Hypatia wasn't fair-skinned?

[ReligiousFiction]

Long live the values of Hypatia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rafaelhsouza]

The quote about Shakespeare was done by Carl Sagan.

[leeroynaggins]

If the fundamentalists had their way, they would raid universities and smash all fossils to rid the world of any reference to evolution...

[Evolvedprimate]

I just read in a Greek newspaper there is a new movie called Agora (market) with the story of Hypatia deirected by Chilean director Alejandro Amenabar staring Rachel Vise (spelling??) go see it., I will.

[amet1980]

the 5 th century taliban christian demolished 99.999% of the hellenistic achievements and what was preserve was preserve either due to luck(as Archimedes manuscripts) or because of the Arabs(ironically).

at 15th century philosophy returned to Europe mainly due to ancient philosophers and scientists works and kicked start enlightenment.

it took us 1300 years to reclaim buck the knowledge of the ancients and go further..

[amet1980]

its not hypatia as he pronounced it , its

he -pa(a) -te-a.

[EpifanesEuergetes]

The question marks below were a test, since uutuubz lost my previous, ingeniously crafted comment to cyberspace.

So, let's give it another try.

Interesting interview, although I'm baffled by Trent's "erased from history" angle. At least in Europe everybody with even the most superficial interest in ancient history knows who Hypatia was and how she died. On this side of the pond she is deemed a heroine of free speech and free inquiry, rationality and female emancipation.

[EpifanesEuergetes]

????????????????

[bwh2o]

Infidel guy - you rule man! keep up the good work!!

[tnkkyle]

I wonder how many books were burned,how much knowledge was lost,due to ignorance.People want certain books burnt today,which is a disgrace.What happened to

Hypatia,shows how evil religion can get.

[Sinuev1]

Reminds me of Heinrich Heine's quote: "Where they burn books, ultimately, they will also burn people".

I'm about 3/4's of the way through Brian's book, and I have to say that I'm not highly impressed. The story he tells is captivating enough, but it's too "contemporary" in it's language and shows poor editing. I also feel there's far too much of a focus on sex and sexual descriptions. It detracted from the overall story.

Decent book, but could have been much better.

[ewhssucks]

The sad thng about this is that so many people today think that Christianity has changed since then and this wouldn't happen today. Unfortunatly, Christianity is now growing fastest in parts of the world that overwhelmingly are culturaly backwards and intolerant. Places where the opertunity to pursue individuality and modern life have never taken root. These places will eventually dominate Christiandom and then it will be little more than the militant wing of third world cultural mediocraty.

[Rhonda9]

Her story is truly heroic and very tragic.

I was so impressed with her story I named my cat after her.

[vasp99]

The Alexandrians adored cats so that's a very apt honor to the great lady!

[pnizzzi]

You're testing my intelligence because I know you already know the answer to that question. Asshole.

[pnizzzi]

I don't know.. astronomers perhaps. Why do you ask?

[Evolvedprimate]

SUPERWOLF, please do, this is what the name means

HYPATIA (Ὑπατια): Feminine form of Greek Hypatios, meaning "most high, supreme."

Easy to come up with a nicname, Pat, Tia,

All Greek names have an etimology, my favorite is CHRYSANTHE (Χρυσάνθη): Feminine form of Greek Chrysanthos, meaning "golden flower."

[BoyintheMachine]

LOL..Mine is 'Jason', Greek for 'Healer'. The famous Greek Hero which some scholars are suggesting probably started out as a local healing god who was later changed into a hero. Another Greek name I know off hand is 'Melissa' (Bee). Also, Chrysanthemum(?), a popular flower more commonely called 'mums', comes from 'Crhysanthos/Chrysanthe'.

[amet1980]

a great deal of names in the west are greek in origin or gregalized hebrew...

christina, katerina, andrea, mario,marina,theodore, eugene,alexander, etc..

[superwolf76]

Went to his website to preview the first chapter. NOT FOUND.

[superwolf76]

I'm having a baby in two months. I will try to convince my lady that this is our baby's name.

[Domzdream]

I thought that the recession into the dark ages was due to Germany (goths) taking over Rome, and burning everything they could get their hairy hands on.

[Domzdream]

See that is my ultimate grype that I have with theism, and most ahteists do too.

Keep you piffle out of education, economy, science, etc. Keep it in your homes and churches.

[Domzdream]

Man, humans are the worst monsters on the planet. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, etc don't even come close to our horror.

Especially the theistic type.

[tedhuntington]

I'm looking forward to Hypatia (EEP-ah-TE-uh) = old or young woman when murdered - and anything about Synesois and his Encomium which describes the Mousion!

[Evolvedprimate]

Hypetia "Ηπατία" was the last scientist and we had to wait until Galilaeo to start from scratch, the mean time we saved souls and wasted minds

[BreadWinner06]

BEAUTIFUL INTERVIEW , that was just masterful

[ScaperSteph]

Great interview. I'm going to go check out this book. I've never heard of Hypatia.

[addmoreice]

wait till you find out all about her and the library of Alexandria. ugg. nearly puts me in tears. 1000 years of development lost. what more needs to be said? religion is evil for humanity.

[amet1980]

100% agree.

not many people realize that library of Alexandria was really a university, and the knowledge it hold spam from brain surgery , to steam engines to mathematics to culture, to theatre etc...

[jtbovis]

at 41:00 - it was Carl Sagan that said that :) It was in the Cosmos series that I only recently watched.

[jtbovis]

Haha I spoke too soon, a caller pointed that out about 15mins later in the interview lol, he even named the chapter of the Cosmos series it was from too.

[Ryansarcade9]

Good vid!!

[sparrow111260]

Excellant!

[SliceA1A]

One of my favorite IG shows

[MockenValborg]

This IS my favorite IG Show.

[sheepwshotguns]

great vid infidelguy.

are you still posting vids letting us know when you're going live?

i wish i could have caught this one, the story of hypatia is a fascinating topic.

[LogicalSanity]

This is a long video. I will watch the rest later. :)

[alien8ted]

Religion has only ever had one overriding commandment; 'convert or kill'.

[IdleGod]

So very true.

[magick205]

That and "get them while they're young and don't knowm any better" vis a vi "Jesus Camp". The scariest damn movie I've ever seen. If those kids had been any other color than white, we'd have bombed it twice by now.

[Ofiouhos]

you reffering to monotheism dude!

[deiloh]

Excellent interview. Thanks for posting.

[daryl3161]

missed ya bro

[MagnusFaustus]

Yikes...