To be clear, Sappho was at most bisexual, not a lesbian in the modern sense at any rate. It's a minor point, but worth mentioning.

Suggested title change: Insufferable Ignorant Atheist Progressive Wastes The Time Of Charming And Intelligent Author. What an absolute fool. I wish Nixey was getting attention from better interviewers.

When you hear a journalist saying that the low points of Europe were the pogroms and the trial of Galileo, you know that a Cambridge education means ignorance.

I don't understand why you think the contemporary equivalent of early Christian fanatics is American evangelicals, rather than politically correct woke lunatics and the establishment that nourishes them.

Monotheisms such as Christianity and Islam are, in their natural feral state, inherently totalitarian. They claim to save, enlighten and redeem, but in fact primarily exist for the purpose of acquiring earthly wealth and power. They are the natural enemies of truth, justice and freedom. They are, in fact, a war on these things.

Early Christian Fathers demonized the pagan Gods. And I’m current times, the Christians are demonizing the Hindu Gods and Goddesses. Nothing changed in the thought and theology and practice of Christianity. They are destroying the current age too.

The current day Christianity is doing same around the world.

GREAT INTERVIEW!

What a beautiful heretic she is

Her book is more polemic than scholarship

Humans are fuckwits They deserve what they get I keep kicking my own arse for caring .

Just bought this book! amazing!

This 'Up to you' concept was learned by Romans from Indian Santana Dharma ( precursor of current Hinduism)

And what evidence is there for these bands of intolerant Christians destroying classical culture? I have yet to find any. In fact, the opposite seems to be true. You see the Christian monks in the eastern Roman empire preserving through translation the primary manuscripts of ancient classical civilization. The Imperial Library of Constantinople, founded in the 4th century, preserved ancient Greek and Roman manuscripts for 1000 years!

Her book is critically denounced not only by Christian scholars, but also by atheist scholars like Tim o'Niel.

Some aspects of her criticism of ancient Christianity reminds me of Nietzsche's criticism

It is well known that Christians have often been repressive and intolerant not only to pagans and Jews, but even to other Christians.

The Hebrews of the old Covenant did not call themselves Christians. Israelites/ Yasha'el

The Romans arent the only ones to have to suffer through this. They did the same thing to Indians. The Goa Inquisition is one big example of this, there is a Christian Pastor in india that wants a nation all for Christians. He wants to divide his own country, that man. They are silently converting indian pagans using deceit, and bribery and every way conceivable. The Indian Pagans give them freedom of practice and what not and they write Things such as Christ the only way on their Churches, some way of reciprocating Pagan Tolerance. You don't have to go back 2000 years to see how wicked this religion is. Just look at what they are doing to among the last of the few remaining pagans.

"So they were burning books, I mean it's like nazi Germany" What an incredibly stupid thing to say. No, if the Roman state was burning the bible, denouncing christian subversion and agitation, and encouraging them to leave - That would be comparable to nazi Germany.

Such poor, unscholarly history, getting so many things factually wrong.

I reccomend this book very strongly. One of the best books I have ever read.

WOW!!!

Peter Thonemann, professor of ancient history at the University of Oxford, argues that Nixey's work is problematic, and that "the argument depends on quite a bit of nifty footwork", because Nixey makes a large number of broad generalizations based on limited evidence. He also states that the deliberate destruction of ancient temples by Christians "seems to have been exceptionally rare in real life" and that the Christian book-burning was always directed towards heretical or "magical" writing, and not towards classical literature

So interesting to see parallels to early Christian intolerance and iconoclasm in 2021. Not just in the actions of ISIS and the Taliban but in attitudes and morality of the BLM movement, the social justice warriors, cancel culture and the Woke movement in general. If you look at these through a critical lens you cannot fail to discern a zealous and puritanical religious movement. It seems to me we are standing at the beginning of a new religious "awokening" of puritans fanatically looking to address and remediate perceivedacts of paganism.

we do it in india already. we dug up babri masjid to find ram mandir remnant below it. that was our classical hindu past. europeans should do it in europe instead of digging in egypt or india.

we should rethink Christianity again. we should dug the old church ground to find remains of our classical past and we should uncover that past from christian church to reclaim classical victory over christian present.

the same dark 🌑powers whoes hand is behind freemasons, is the same powers who create Christianity, islam to enslave people. the good God channel had exposed yahweh that he is the Satan himself, and also dr geni kin himself reveal this mystery in his channel real Bible seekers

It’s happening again.

Stoicism was very close to Christian ethics. A lot of Stoic ethics was borrowed by Christianity.

Heard of Nero?

Thanks for the video. The mask is falling off

This book is excellent

What a good interview!!!