Philosophers of the age increasingly saw Christianity as incompatible with their moral codes and the Neoplatonism philosophy that underpinned their lifestyles. The philosophers of the future would be pagans, and firmly opposed to the Church, but they would suffer and for centuries by slaughtered for this opposition. Hypatia became a martyr for the philosophical movement.
I think this is a very wrong depiction of what was going on at the time. You state ''the philosophers of the future would be pagans'' which is very wrong, as there were multiple Christian philoshophers prior to Hypatia and of course after Hypatia. Justin the Martyr is a fine example.. A Christian martyr who found death at the hands of the Romans almost three centuries before Hypatia.
What about the thousands Christians who were persecuted by the pagan powers?
What about St. Augustine, or the early church fathers?
I think you are totally biased in your depiction against Christians.
Also, what makes a Christian? If I call myself a Christian and go slaughter and pillage, would you say that I am a Christian? I don't think so... It doesn't matter if I carry a cross around my neck and call myself a Christian, ultimatelly the judgement of my faith comes from my actions and not by how I call myself or how I externally look. But that's a whole different story.
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