By Rodney Stark
ISBN-10: 1515960196
ISBN-13: 9781515960195
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ISBN-13: 9781599474991
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* The Catholic Church incited and actively colluded in approximately millennia of anti-Semitic violence, and Pope Pius XII continues to be rightfully referred to as ‘Hitler’s Pope’.
* just recently have we realize historic and remarkably enlightened Christian gospels, which narrow-minded Catholic gurus attempted to suppress.
* as soon as in energy because the legit Church of Rome, Christians fast and brutally persecuted paganism out of existence.
* the autumn of Rome and the ascendancy of the Church caused Europe’s decline right into a millennium of lack of understanding and backwardness, which lasted till the Renaissance.
* Initiated through the pope, the Crusades have been however the first bloody bankruptcy within the background of unprovoked and brutal Christian colonialism.
* The Spanish Inquisition tortured and murdered large numbers of blameless humans for ‘imaginary’ crimes, comparable to witchcraft and blasphemy.
* The Catholic Church persecuted and attempted to suppress scientists corresponding to Galileo, and the clinical ‘Revolution’ as a result happened mostly in additional tolerant Protestant societies.
* Being solely pleased with slavery, the Catholic Church did not anything to oppose its creation within the New global, or to make it extra humane.
* until eventually very lately, Catholicism’s hierarchical view of the best country has led to its sour resistance to all efforts to set up extra liberal governments and its keen help for right-wing dictators.
* It used to be the Protestant Reformation that broke the repressive Catholic grip on growth and ushered in capitalism, spiritual freedom and the trendy international.
In this robust and persuasive ebook Rodney Stark matters those and different widely-held ideals to a rigorous historic evaluate. He provides a compelling account of the way each one of them turned authorised because the traditional knowledge, how egotism and beliefs usually labored jointly to create fake or hugely distorted photos of individuals and occasions, and the way we have to work flat out to get well the reality if we’re to undo the cultural harm that centuries of anti-Catholic heritage has done.
Contents:
1. Sins of Anti- Semitism
2. The Suppressed Gospels
3. Persecuting the Tolerant Pagans
4. implementing the darkish a while
5. Crusading for Land, Loot, and Converts
6. Monsters of the Inquisition
7. medical Heresies
8. Blessed Be Slavery
9. Holy Authoritarianism
10. Protestant Modernity
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