It should in turn be given to and read by students and professors everywhere, whatever their beliefs.

Bearing False Witness is one more gift to history from Rodney Stark. In the end, readers of Bearing False Witness will have a more accurate history of the Catholic Church and will also understand why it became unfairly maligned. Why have we held these wrongheaded religious ideas so strongly and for so long? And if our beliefs are wrong, what, in fact, is the truth? In each chapter, Stark takes on a well-established anti-Catholic myth, gives a fascinating history of how each myth became the conventional wisdom, and presents a startling picture of the real truth.Ī majestically argued, gorgeously written, and essential book by one of the truly indispensable minds of our time. Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History, written by Rodney Stark JOP Icons should be here. In this stunning, powerful, and nearly persuasive book, Rodney Stark, one of the most highly regarded sociologists of religion and the bestselling author of The Rise of Christianity, attempts to argue 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. Off-white colour paint is a great choice for walls and false ceilings. Editions for Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History: 1599474999 (Hardcover published in 2016), (Kindle Edition published in. 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. Unlike stark white, off-white hues have a softer and more welcoming personality.

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