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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Not gonna argue. Jesus is my savior.
What has to happen for a person to get to heaven?
They have to die first.
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.
The son came from wife number three, and yes, he died in his teens.
I think you started drinking too early today.
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.
bttt
Statistically, there is more abuse in Protestant Churches.
Well said, impimp. Tagline.
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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.
The author resembles Johnny Depp, playing a pimp/gigilo.
But the soul is eternal. Bodily death is not the death of what matters - the soul.
It IS sad that romans have to take these stupid pot shots.
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!!
Have you read St. Paul’s letters? He asks us to pray for one another.
You plan on being horny ... forever? That sounds like Hell.
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