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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...


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To: DManA

Its also sad that some people pretend the potshots are only coming from one side.


61 posted on 05/25/2014 6:20:30 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

Got no problem with the Biblical concept of praying for one another, I just go to Jesus with the prayers and not some saint that may or may not hear me. And as I said in my original post ... why pray to a dead saint for intercession when I have the ear of G_d?


63 posted on 05/25/2014 6:22:00 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: doc1019

Most of my prayers are directly to God.

It is good to know that you aren’t as opposed to the concept of prayer to the Saints as I thought.


66 posted on 05/25/2014 6:25:45 PM PDT by impimp
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Well there is no doubt where this one started.


67 posted on 05/25/2014 6:26:45 PM PDT by DManA
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To: ansel12
"They didn’t have planes back then did they"

Excellent observation. How very insightful of you to grasp this surprising fact.

68 posted on 05/25/2014 6:28:05 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Pope Calvin the 1st, defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades)
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To: ansel12

The muslims and the mongols perpetrated many a mass murder. The Catholic Church? Not so much.


72 posted on 05/25/2014 6:30:25 PM PDT by narses (Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
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To: doc1019

“why pray to a dead saint for intercession when I have the ear of G_d?”

Maybe God likes the saint better than he likes you.


73 posted on 05/25/2014 6:31:17 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Pontiac

LOL, how does your saying they weren’t the only ones, demonstrate a weakness in my accurate history that I described.


74 posted on 05/25/2014 6:31:38 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: Nifster

Daily Telegraph is more conservative than Faux News will ever be. You best believe what you read on it.


75 posted on 05/25/2014 6:33:01 PM PDT by NKP_Vet ("It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died;we should thank God that such men lived" ~ Patton)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Protestant isn’t very specific, and I’m not aware of any denomination except the Catholic one that has such a problem not with lust, but with lust for male flesh.

It isn’t like the catholic denomination is famous for it’s leadership falling for females.


77 posted on 05/25/2014 6:33:55 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

You know what they say about statistics.


79 posted on 05/25/2014 6:34:35 PM PDT by bramps (Go West America!)
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To: NKP_Vet
How a Protestant spin machine hid the truth about the English Reformation

And this, on the religious forum of FR, no less, the biggest Roman Catholic spin machine on the planet...hiding the truth about their own history, a long history of totalitarian rule and persecution. Hiding the truth that they are not the church Christ founded as they claim, but an impostor religio-political machine that arose in the seventh century.

80 posted on 05/25/2014 6:35:07 PM PDT by sasportas
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