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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The Marvel comics go with the depiction of Ozma being Dorothy's age. Neill's illustrations, even in the same book. Age Lift: Ozma's age changes in John R.Ozma's eyes are also blue instead of their canon green. Neill's illustrations for that book) depict her as a blonde. Ozma's original design as described in The Marvelous Land of Oz (and John R. Ozma is depicted with her standard brunette design.The Marvel comics go with a middle ground: Dorothy has a dirty blonde color, starts off with pigtails, and later changes to a bob. Neill began depicting as a blonde with a bob haircut, which has been her most common hairstyle in future reprints of the books. Denslow depicts her as a brunette with Girlish Pigtails. The original The Wonderful Wizard of Oz illustrations by W.W. Dorothy has no known hair color in the text.Not to be confused with the HBO series OZ. 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What I’ve always come to understand about Jesus and the Catholic church is suddenly everything’s up for grabs and that shakes a lot of people up,” says NBC News analyst Father Thomas Williams of Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University. But readers are told right from the start that "all descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate." That provocative statement gives an air of credibility to the book's elaborate conspiracy theories and it's caused millions of readers to wonder how much they really know about Jesus and a woman named Mary Magdalene. That scene, from the opening pages of “The Da Vinci Code” is, of course, fiction. Agent: Laura Bradford, Bradford Literary. The incendiary epilogue compensates for the relatively superficial worldbuilding. 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