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Hypatia Taught: "All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrong is better than not to think at all! Fable should be taught as fable, myth as myth, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truth is horrifiying! Men will fight for superstition as quickly as for truth -- even more so, since a superstition is intangible you can't get at it, but truth is a point of view, and is so changeable!" FOR TEACHING THESE THOUGHTS TO MEN ... BISHOP CYRIL, DECIDED HYPATIA COULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO LIVE! 
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"Paul tells us women should be silent! Now this one obeys!!!"
CROWD:
"Oh my, what have we done!" and "Bishop Cyril told us to do it!"
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"I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met around the pile ... His death pang rent my heart! The insensate mob Uttered a cry of triumph, and I wept `Weep not, child` cried my mother, `for that man Has said, `There is no god.`" |
