@HipsterDBag

@Archdukechocula

I don't think anyone is arguing that it didn't suck for Russia. But, even with a thorough understanding of how intensely crappy it was to live in Stalingrad or Leningrad during WWII, I'd still pick them over going to a concentration camp.

I just got tired of having every contestant explain over and over and over again that they were being judged by their team-mates and this was an opportunity to get rid of strong people.

As we mentioned above, the sack of the library may not have taken place - there isn't any specific historical record on the issue. And are you really blaming Christianity for the fall of Rome? That's a bit out-dated as a theory (like a 100 years out-dated).

That's fair, I guess. Hypatia is potentially interesting, and I suppose that the actual political/religious conflict she was caught up in (different types of Christians fighting over theological issues no one cares about anymore) was probably a little abstruse for a movie. I just find the idea that she was somehow…

I understand - it's just that it would be incorrect to describe the neo-platonists as non-religious. They believed in a divine being, from which all souls emanate along with a lot of other metaphysical things. Emperor Julian attempted to "save" paganism by fusing it with the neo-platonistic panthiestic view.

I don't think hating-Nestorians counts as a side anymore.