The network has started a petition to release in Italy film by English director Alejandro Amenabar Agora, the usual subtle ecclesiastical censure would prohibit Italians. Yes, because the film is about Hypatia, the pagan philosopher of Alexandria fascinating Christians killed by order of the bishop s. Cyril in 415. seekers professionals skeletons in the closet Christian, every time they take out the episode and, of course, adapt it to current political correctness. Until the Enlightenment nobody even knew who he was, this Hypatia. Then, the positivist John Toland in 1720, Voltaire and the usual open in 1736 on the progressive dance Hypatia victim clerical obscurantism. In 1776 the Englishman Edward Gibbon reinforces the myth in his famous work on the fall (because of Christianity) the Roman Empire. In the following century to the romantic touches: Hypatia is beautiful and is the last representative of the ancient world (portrayed as an Arcadia all nymphs, zephyrs, cowherd and satyrs) murdered by fanatical papist. Of course, in the twentieth century, Hypatia, veterofemminista, becomes the prey of Catholic misogyny.
The only voice a bit 'out chorus is that of Mario Luzi, a tragedy that dedication in 1978. Now, the film (and film, total art form, is imprinted in the minds with a force that not even dream of the written word): science versus religion, tolerance against fideism.
And guess who the good guys and who the bad guys. Odifreddi stuff. Therefore, resign ourselves to the usual politically correct soup. And do not count on a film that otherwise does not exist: Martinelli and his Barbarossa were presented as "Northern League" in all media, so that the public back home.
With our limited means, So, here's the truth about the "case Hypatia." First, it has been beautiful, perhaps as a young man seen in 415 that the philosopher had about sixty years (at a time when few had even already forty teeth in the mouth). His was a political murder and religion had nothing to do at all.
Hypatia, daughter of a philosopher - Theon - very knowledgeable and Hermetism nell'orfismo, was holding a Neoplatonic school in Alexandria. A school among many in the capital of ancient culture. The word school, however, do not be misled: this was the Upper Room to selected followers. Her work has not been any. What is known it must be his disciples. Among which there were many Christians. One of these, Synesius of Cyrene, became even a bishop.
According to the Platonic method (in turn derived from the Pythagorean) the disciples learned "mysteries" that do not have to be disclosed, because not everyone was able to understand. Hypatia was not "pagan" in the sense of worship of Jupiter, Juno and Mercury, and indeed as it was closest to the neo-Platonic Christianity to paganism.
fact, praised the virtue as virginity (never married) and modesty in dress.
But, as the Pythagoreans and Plato, argued that philosophers, being the wisest, were involved in politics, even as advisers the prince. In fact, his advice often resorted Christian Orestes, prefect of Alexandria.
Orestes, as a good officer Byzantine caesaropapism had the classic vision of relations with religious authority, while the patriarch Cyril tried to preserve the independence of the Church in regard to political power. 414 In contrast between the two became blatant, Cyril sought a compromise but Orestes stood his ground.
were formed, as usual, both parties (which is normal in antiquity, St. Ambrose of Milan knew something). Among the partisans of the patriarch, however, were the so-called Parabolan, Christians in the odor of heresy for their fanatical search of martyrdom consecrated themselves with an oath to care for plague victims, hoping thereby to die for Christ. So they called them in remembrance of the ancient gladiators (abolished by Theodosius) who faced the lions in the circus. Cyril tried to keep them under his control but the city was turbulent: in 361 a bishop imposed from Constantinople, George of Cappadocia, had been lynched, seven years after the death of Hypatia was touched to the same fate as the new prefect, was killed in 457 in acclaim imperial appointment of another bishop, Protera.
It was in this environment and in this climate that the fault was attributed to the intransigence of Hypatia and Orestes to his advice. Rumors spread that the "mysteries" of his school practices related to and necromantic magic. The woman was attacked by a group of frantic while the slaves wore a walk in the litter, pulled down and murdered. Orestes and Cyril, are faced with a fait accompli (and impressed by the turn had taken their dispute) were reconciled. The prefect left Alexandria, perhaps to report to the capital, however, may be replaced, never returned.
Another thing to clarify: Cyril had nothing against paganism, and because minority and now almost irrelevant, and because its main concern was made, if anything, the Christian heresies, which at that time sticking to the tune of almost a per day. Only years later, with the advent Julian the Apostate, he took up his pen to counter the attempt - all political - the emperor to restore the ancient Roman civil religion. Neo-Platonism, with its desire to draw the Divine through philosophy and practice of virtue, Alexandria continued to have as its center until the Islamic invasion. Among other things, it greatly facilitated the shaft was built up against Byzantium Roman Africa, its heavy taxation (partly justified by the almost continuous wars against the Persians, Bulgarians, Avars, and finally the Arabs) and His heavy-handed policy against heresy (in those areas that had always found fertile ground).
Naturalmente, ai cantori del politicamente corretto (il quale, come abbiamo visto, varia di epoca in epoca) tutto questo non interessa.
Così, il mondo pagano viene immaginato (e rappresentato) come un’epoca d’oro di scienza e tolleranza, dove la gente viveva in armonia con la natura, un mondo che, ahimè, è stato distrutto dalle religioni monoteistiche, in particolare l’odiato cristianesimo. Quel mondo in realtà disperato in cui pochi campavano alle spalle di milioni di schiavi, sconvolto continuamente da guerre scatenate dalla personale ambizione di uno, quel mondo che accolse con sollievo la religione dell’amore del prossimo e della dignità umana, non è mai esistito per gli intellectuals, artists, filmmakers and writers who sensed where the wind blows, you align your back to the power of the moment.
The millions of Christian martyrs? If you are looking for and if you are seeking it. Christians are bad because they killed Hypatia, as well as the U.S. sucks because they killed Sitting Bull. In fact, Hitler and Stalin were baptized, you can not deny it.
Even Robespierre. It is strange that have not yet been made between the skeletons in the closet of the Catholic Church. Oh, the Pope should apologize ...
Rino Cammilleri on the rudder, November 2009, p.. 20 to 21
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