4 thoughts on “CHRISTIAN CHILD ABUSE: “Fables, Myths and Miracles” / Hypatia of Alexandria ☮”

1. Well my friend what you say may well be correct and have a point, but you history is equally questionable and I don’t see any quotation marks in the article, so nobody is suggesting Hypatia actually said it. She may not have been an Atheist but she was certainly no Christian either, I expect you’ll want to carry-on looking for the Ark!

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   • I’ll assume this is some kind of reply to me.

     “what you say may well be correct and have a point”

     It is and it does. The “quote” is not from any writings of Hypatia because we have none.

     “but you history is equally questionable”

     Really? How? Details please.

     “I don’t see any quotation marks in the article”

     I see a quotation mark before the first word, “fable” and one after the last one, “them”.

     “so nobody is suggesting Hypatia actually said it.”

     Those quotation marks that, oddly, you didn’t see indicate that is precisely what is being suggested. Why else put it in quotation marks and then add “Hypatia of Alexandria” afterwards. That’s usually how people claim something is a quote by a particular person. So, WTF?

     “She may not have been an Atheist but she was certainly no Christian either”

     We have no idea whether she was or not. She certainly had Christians, like the later Bishop Synesius, as her pupils. And her assassination was a result of being a political supporter of the prefect Orestes, who was also a Christian.

     “I expect you’ll want to carry-on looking for the Ark!”

     What? I’m an atheist. Try not to leap to illogical conclusions. Try reason and logic – they work better than assumptions, emotional reactions and attempted feeble attempts at defending demonstrable errors.

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2. Always question authority? How about “always question dubious quotes found on the internet”. That “quote” is fake. No writings by Hypatia survive. So that “quote” was invented by the American writer, soap-salesman and eccentric Elbert Hubbard in a 1908 book entitled Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Teachers. He made it up.

   And most of the stuff claimed about Hypatia is also made up. She was not an atheist – she was a neo-Platonic monothesist. She was not murdered because of her learning, her science or because she was a woman. She was killed in a violent political feud that had zero to do with religion. Ple3ase stop perpetuating pseudo historical myths. See this and linked articles for a detailed debunking of the myths of Hypatia:

   http://armariummagnus.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/geologist-tries-history-or-agora-and.html

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   • Tim,

     Thank you very much for the insight and link!

     In Reason,
     Madison

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