Ancient Misinforming Beauty

(Painting by C.W. Mitchell, 1885)

Hypatia was a 4-star beauty; face, body, soul and mind; kind, helpful, humble and brilliant; a leading mathematician of her time in the years before and after 400. 

But because she considered herself a scientist, and did not want to take part in or commit herself to the debate about the godly nature of Christ, the Patriarch of Alexandria, Cyril, accused her of being a misinformer.  A group of fanatical Christians captured her, ripped her clothes off, cut her skin off, killed and burned her.

We’ve come a long way since Hypatia’s time. We no longer cut the skin off misinformers. Not physically in any case.

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“Using physical violence over disagreement,
decides who is strongest, not who is right.
Censorship is a form of intellectual violence
by the strongest owners of the channels of communication.”
Dartwill Aquila

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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.