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How a Protestant spin machine hid the truth about the English Reformation
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk ^ | May 23, 2014 | Dominic Selwood

Posted on 05/25/2014 4:39:43 PM PDT by NKP_Vet

Today, May 23, is the anniversary of King Henry VIII’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon —­ the event which started the English Reformation.

In 2003, Charles Clarke, Tony Blair’s Secretary of State for Education and Skills, expressed strong views on the teaching of British history.

I don’t mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the state to pay for them.

In response, Michael Biddiss, professor of medieval history at Reading University, suggested that Mr Clarke’s view may have been informed by Khrushchev’s notion that historians are dangerous people, capable of upsetting everything.­­­­­

In many ways, Khrushchev was correct. Historians can be a distinct threat —­ both those who create “official” history, and those who work quietly to unpick it, filling in the irksome and unhelpful details.

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To: impimp

Not gonna argue. Jesus is my savior.


41 posted on 05/25/2014 5:44:27 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: impimp
"If someone is in Heaven they are not dead - they are alive."

What has to happen for a person to get to heaven?

They have to die first.

42 posted on 05/25/2014 5:44:34 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: NKP_Vet
And following Edward’s reign, Elizabeth I repeated the command and finished what he had started. The result was the wholesale destruction of a millennium of irreplaceable English craftsmanship in windows, statues, frescoes, and paintings.

The Tate recently estimated that over 90 per cent of all English art was trashed in the period, and scarcely a handful of books survived the burning of the great monastic and university libraries. Oxford’s vast Bodleian, for instance, was left without a single book.

Shades of Moa’s great leap forward.

43 posted on 05/25/2014 5:46:17 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: cloudmountain

The son came from wife number three, and yes, he died in his teens.


44 posted on 05/25/2014 5:49:11 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: driftdiver
While I am not the greatest Christian in the world... I know enough to recognize the same thing you just eloquently stated. A certain internet meme comes to mind...


45 posted on 05/25/2014 5:52:49 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: impimp

I think you started drinking too early today.


46 posted on 05/25/2014 5:59:01 PM PDT by bramps (Go West America!)
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To: NKP_Vet

Reads more like Catholics trying to erase 1000 years of Church History with their own revisionism.

The Puritans who traveled to the New World, weren’t Catholics in a ground swell movement to return to Roman Catholicism. Rather, they didn’t believe the Anglican Church had gone far enough to remove all Roman Ritual from faith in Christ.

Re: Shakespeare, he managed to well conceal any devotion to Catholicism when he quotes the Geneva Bible.


48 posted on 05/25/2014 6:01:14 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: driftdiver

bttt


49 posted on 05/25/2014 6:02:20 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: ansel12
#47
50 posted on 05/25/2014 6:04:00 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.")
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To: bramps

Statistically, there is more abuse in Protestant Churches.


51 posted on 05/25/2014 6:05:34 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Pope Calvin the 1st, defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades)
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To: impimp

Well said, impimp. Tagline.


52 posted on 05/25/2014 6:05:44 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("In Christ we form one body, and each member belongs to all the others." Romans 12:5)
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To: NKP_Vet

Already posted...search is your friend

This guy is a supporter of De Molay and has other bizarre connections through out the middle east. His take is nothing new. He tries to pretend that somehow his ‘expose’ was never taught until him. Nonsense.


53 posted on 05/25/2014 6:08:21 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Nifster

The author resembles Johnny Depp, playing a pimp/gigilo.


55 posted on 05/25/2014 6:13:25 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: CatherineofAragon

But the soul is eternal. Bodily death is not the death of what matters - the soul.


56 posted on 05/25/2014 6:14:29 PM PDT by impimp
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To: CatherineofAragon

It IS sad that romans have to take these stupid pot shots.


57 posted on 05/25/2014 6:15:49 PM PDT by DManA
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To: NKP_Vet

You all know, there is no sexual nature in Heaven? We are all just pure spirits there, and devoid of the masculinity or femininity we need here on Earth for reproductive purposes? No one who was married on earth is also married in Heaven. But, as a male, alas, I WILL miss sex!!


58 posted on 05/25/2014 6:16:43 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: doc1019

Have you read St. Paul’s letters? He asks us to pray for one another.


59 posted on 05/25/2014 6:17:57 PM PDT by impimp
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To: 2harddrive

You plan on being horny ... forever? That sounds like Hell.


60 posted on 05/25/2014 6:20:29 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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