From the Big Yawn department. It is always the evil Christians! Fr. Barron has the scoop:
Here we go again. I just saw the new film “Agora,” which is a re-telling of the story of Hypatia, the brilliant woman philosopher from Alexandria, who was killed, supposedly by a mob of “Christians,” in the year 415. Along with the tales of Galileo and Giordano Bruno, the legend of Hypatia is a favorite of anti-religious ideologues. I first heard the story from Carl Sagan, the popular scientist whose multi-part program “Cosmos” was widely watched back in the 1970’s.
Read the whole article here
David B. Hart over at First Things has more.
Update: (H/T Mark Shea ) for an Atheists take down on the movie go here
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