Nor does he claim that the Church, or those that claim to act in the Church’s name, are uniformly blameless. Each chapter begins with a number of examples of writers condemning the Church for some fault, which is useful in showing that Stark is not going after straw men. Thus this book.Įach of the book’s ten chapters addresses a subject concerning which the Catholic Church has been held to have behaved badly. However, the people who read pop history do not typically read serious historians, and so only a work of pop history can correct the errors in other works of pop history. Rodney Stark, while doing research into the history of religion, discovered that the popular history of Catholicism is rife with errors, errors that have been repeatedly exposed as such by serious historians. Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History
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