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Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries Of Anti-Catholic History by Rodney Stark (Paperback, 2017)
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ISBN-13: 9780281077748, 978-0281077748. The Catholic Church incited and actively colluded in nearly two millennia of anti-Semitic violence, and Pope Pius XII is still rightfully known as ?. Hitler's Pope?.
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The following historical statements all appear in well-established textbooks, and have become part of our common culture. Which of them would you say are true? * The Catholic Church incited and actively colluded in nearly two millennia of anti-Semitic violence, and Pope Pius XII is still rightfully known as 'Hitler's Pope'. * Only recently have we become aware of ancient and remarkably enlightened Christian gospels, which narrow-minded Catholic authorities tried to suppress. * Once in power as the official Church of Rome, Christians quickly and brutally persecuted paganism out of existence. * The fall of Rome and the ascendancy of the Church precipitated Europe's decline into a millennium of ignorance and backwardness, which lasted until the Renaissance. * Initiated by the pope, the Crusades were but the first bloody chapter in the history of unprovoked and brutal Christian colonialism. * The Spanish Inquisition tortured and murdered huge numbers of innocent people for 'imaginary' crimes, such as witchcraft and blasphemy. * The Catholic Church persecuted and tried to suppress scientists such as Galileo, and the Scientific 'Revolution' therefore occurred mainly in more tolerant Protestant societies. * Being entirely comfortable with slavery, the Catholic Church did nothing to oppose its introduction in the New World, or to make it more humane. * Until very recently, Catholicism's hierarchical view of the ideal state has resulted in its bitter resistance to all efforts to establish more liberal governments and its eager support for right-wing dictators. * It was the Protestant Reformation that broke the repressive Catholic grip on progress and ushered in capitalism, religious freedom and the modern world. In this powerful and persuasive book Rodney Stark subjects these and other widely-held beliefs to a rigorous historical assessment. He gives a compelling account of how each of them became accepted as the conventional wisdom, how egotism and ideology often worked together to create false or highly distorted pictures of people and events, and how we need to work hard to recover the truth if we're to undo the cultural damage that centuries of anti-Catholic history has done.Product Identifiers
PublisherSpck Publishing
ISBN-139780281077748
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Book TitleBearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History
AuthorRodney Stark
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicChristianity
Publication Year2017
Number of Pages276 Pages
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Item Height234mm
Item Width156mm
Item Weight413g
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Title_AuthorRodney Stark
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 12 Jul, 2018
Setting the record straight.
I've grown up in a country where the vast majority believe being Catholic means to be part of a freakish group who not very good at religion, are bigotted, anti-semitic and definitely anti-science. In almost my first conversation with my future mother-in-law I was told that Catholics don't read the bible. So it is an enormous pleasure to read the truth about what an enormous gift the Catholic church has been to Western and therefore world civilisation. Rodney Stark, who is NOT Catholic, writes with authority and pages of primary sources. Read it, folks, if you are fed up of the image that being a practising Catholic tars you with. Read it especially if you are one of those who enjoys painting us with that tar.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
