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Even if you dont share much sympathy for starks subject matter i guarantee that you will learn something very interesting
In the west the laughable claims of voltaire rousseau and other writers who as stark rightly point out had nothing to do with t... Read More
Reader will perhaps be even more annoyed and saddened afterwards by the dogged persistence of dark ages myth or mainstream cham... Read More
Rodney stark is a very good reference point in the polemics with the lies against historical facts that are repeated for the nu... Read More
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- This product had a total of 420 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 21 2022.
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I have read many books that conclude the church is evil antisemitic and opposes science and so on
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It is well documented that nazi germany bitterly attacked the catholic church had closed all the catholic schools and had arrested thousands of priests and nuns and sent them to dachau and other death camps
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The estimate stark gave was pope pius xii saved at least 70000 but probably as many as 860000 jews from certain death at nazi hands
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Stark also shows the claim that the church was antiscience is false as has been welldocumented by leading science historians such as ronald numbers and by numerous scholars so there was nothing new here for me
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In fact columbus estimated from the canary islands to japan was 2800 miles when it was actually closer to 14000 miles
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On his way he bumped into america which he thought was india thus called the people indians a name that stuck
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Best of all it was written by a man who wasnt catholic and wrote the book to defend history not to defend catholicism