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Bearing False Witness
- Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History
- Lu par : Paul Boehmer
- Durée : 8 h et 20 min
- Catégories : Religion et spiritualité, Christianisme

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As we all know, and as many of our well-established textbooks have argued for decades, the Inquisition was one of the most frightening and bloody chapters in Western history, Pope Pius XII was anti-Semitic and rightfully called "Hitler's Pope", the Dark Ages were a stunting of the progress of knowledge to be redeemed only by the secular spirit of the Enlightenment, and the religious Crusades were an early example of the rapacious Western thirst for riches and power. But what if these long-held beliefs were all wrong?
In this stunning, powerful, and ultimately persuasive book, Rodney Stark, one of the most highly regarded sociologists of religion and the best-selling author of The Rise of Christianity, argues that some of our most firmly held ideas about history, ideas that paint the Catholic Church in the least positive light, are in fact fiction. Why have we held these wrongheaded ideas so strongly and for so long? And if our beliefs are wrong, what is the truth? In each chapter Stark takes on a well-established anti-Catholic myth, gives a fascinating history of how it became the conventional wisdom, and presents a startling picture of the real truth.
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- jjdoctor
- 10/12/2016
Enlightening
Very well done. Learned things I wish I'd learned years ago. Nothing like understanding history to give meaning to today.
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- bgdade
- 12/01/2017
Historical Accuracy needed in modern world
As a former protestant and now a new convert to the Catholic faith, I found the information very valuable in explaining some of the prejudices I have encountered since becoming a Catholic
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- Craig E. Campell
- 03/02/2017
Excellent and much-needed history.
This book is very much in line with other books by Rodney Stark. It addresses many very important misconceptions still commonly believed in our world today. As an amateur historian, and as someone who cares about the truth, I highly recommend this book.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 10/08/2017
Fixing propagandist history
Stark does a good job fixing propagandist history about the Roman Catholic Church. Eye opening for those open minded enough to see past enlightenment propaganda.
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- Michael
- 17/05/2017
This book is very exacting and informative
this book as much detail what is necessary to clearly illustrate what and how the biases affect history
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- M Hansen
- 18/01/2017
Great book about historical lies. The performance, not so much.
This would be a 5 star book, except for the narrator. I think this book would sound only slightly worse if read by a computer. His phrases are choppy and his tone doesn't flow. Think a computerized reading. It's hard to follow the narrative of the author because of this reading.
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- Amazon Customer
- 24/02/2018
A Mostly-Compelling Work to Restore History
The audiobook quality itself is excellent. Great narrator. For those who cannot trust Roman Catholics scholarly works themselves, this Protestant-minded work does much to undo the rampant exaggerations and lies that have cropped up against the Roman Catholic Church in the past few centuries. Some of you will need to hear this sitting down... As a Catholic who has read much on many of these topics, I was disappointed that at times the author seemed to fall back upon Protestant myths in order to paint what he thought was a complete picture of the Catholic Church at various points in history. At other times, like with his explanation of the issue involving Galileo and the church, it seemed that he had not read much more comprehensive, contemporary works on the subject. Perhaps he was just being cautious. Or avoiding Catholic scholarship. However, the overwhelming majority of this book seems to be good secular/protestant scholarship with credible sources to back his often shocking claims (especially if one was raised protestant and/or attended secular schools). His writing on some of the most controversial topics is his best. There are better books on the topic, but if you can't bring yourself to read Catholic scholars yet, start here. This book might blow your mind. And help you better understand the history of the west. And, I hope, help you to see that Catholocism isn't the wicked institution that so many still make it out to be.
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- Howard Jung
- 06/08/2017
Great read to balance out stereotypical views
this is a great book to balance out the stereotypical views of the catholic church
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- Erik Nelson
- 20/01/2019
2 sides to every story and this is the other side.
Much needed counterpoint To the usual monologue. The real history of the Catholic Church is not as. Simplistic and single sided as some would say.
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- One Love
- 16/01/2019
Outstanding
Cuts through 500 years of B.S. I gave thus book to a friend before reading it myself. He sees Catholics as fellow believers whereas before he spoke all manner of calumny against them. Rodney Stark does a much need service to Christendom.
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