10/12/2009 12:45:26 PM EST

A Must for Atheist!!!

posted by JaimeH

I just saw Alejandro Amenabar's last movie "Agora". This is a must for all Atheist, it describes the burning of the library of Alexandria and the how science and pagan philosophy finally succumbed to Christian irrationality throwing the world into the dark ages.

Rachel Wiesz does a Oscar winning performance as Hypatia the Greek philosopher and mathematician a woman centuries ahead of her time, a true martyr of science and reason.
The link to the movie's website
http://agorathemovie.com/

Don't know when it will be screened in the US

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I hope it comes here (none / 0)

I would love to see this.   This is a story Carl Sagan told in "Cosmos". &n bsp; If I remember correctly this ended very badly for Hypatia.   I hope it isn't thought of as an "atheist" movie because I think religious people could learn something from it too. 

I'm very interested in this story and it doesn't hurt that I have a thing for Rachel Wiesz.

by bfaul on 10/12/2009 01:00:22 PM EST

Unfortunately (none / 0)
It's not looking like it's coming to the US, I guess that's what eBay is for.  Or maybe it will be released on DVD in the US.  Here's the link to the imdb release info page.

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

by aidbo on 10/12/2009 02:33:35 PM EST

Ahh, but... (none / 1)
Umm, hold on.

The Library at Alexandria was burned by the Muslims, in the Sack of Alexandria in 642 CE.

Your intro makes it sound like Christians destroyed the Library.

Now, don't get me wrong. As a pagan, I have no love for Christians or Christianity. My favorite bumper sticker of the last 5 years reads, "When the rapture comes, can I have your stuff?"

Unfortunately, the Prophet (PBUH) had some harsh things to say about Pagans, too.

And the Atheists, of course, roundly condemn paganism as they condemn all religion

So it's not like anybody loves us. But Christians have been most active in our harassment and persecution down through the ages. The two horrid mistranslations in the King James bible are part of that, but it started long before.

by RedPossum on 10/12/2009 07:32:49 PM EST

My Bad (none / 0)
In the movie the burning of the library isn't shown, maybe I supposed it 'cause I knew the library was eventually burned so don't take my word for it. What is true is what happens to poor Hypatia

I think thre movie isn't anti cristian, its anti religious fundmentalism. Also late Greeks were more into Neoplantonism not exactly pagan religion but religion based more on Reason (Like the Deist) and not on fairytales.

by JaimeH on 10/13/2009 03:11:09 AM EST

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Plato was full of shit (none / 0)
Sorry, but, Plato was full of shit.

Go read Plato's Republic and you'll see what I mean. It does not describe any sort of a Republic, but rather an antlike, rigidly-stratified society based on castes fixed at birth with no movement between castes possible. It is a nightmare totalitarian society straight out of George Orwell.

Plato was an asshole, in my book. Had Socrates lived to see what Plato turned into, he would have disowned and rejected him entirely.

by RedPossum on 10/13/2009 11:31:14 AM EST

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Wow! (none / 0)
Now that's philosophy in layman terms!!

by JaimeH on 10/13/2009 01:58:55 PM EST

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