Swagger
Gold Member
The Agora is the movie. Terrible how early christians were vandals and murderers.
A sizable portion of the UK's old grammar school curriculum focused on the classics. That's where I first read about Hypatia, amongst many others. But yes, I have seen the movie you speak of.
I suppose the point I was alluding to was that if the ancients theorised over such a drastic contradiction to what was upheld up to a thousand years later, who knows how far advanced we'd be today if the Christians didn't take such offense at scientific and mathematical investigation. Who knows, we might've reached the Moon by the Middle Ages, as opposed the '60s.
Compared to the medieval doctines and superstitions, do you think people now are less self-limiting, less dogmatic, less tied to the current theories and dogma, less likely to make a religion of the current accepted wisdom re science, phenomena, and speculation?
That's a very broad question, in the absense of where those people are located, and consequently how secular their respective societies are. But yes, I believe they've departed from relying largely on religious dictates in governing their lives and destiny. Evidence of this is all around us, at least in the west. For instance, when building large structures, we incorporate countermeasures against the elements as opposed to relying on divine intervention to protect the occupants against earthquakes and the like. Advances in medicine are further testimony to that. However, even in the west we're still bound inextricably to religion, such as swearing on the Bible in court, conventional marriage vows, etc.