Joseph Pearce
One of the most egregious examples of the dissemination of the false narrative of fake history is the bias and inaccuracy of the “official” history of England since the time of the Reformation.
William Cobbett
We live in an age when fake news is rampant. Yet fake news is nothing new. It’s been around for centuries. False narratives about what is happening now and what has happened in the past are always with us. They are a curse which prevents us from understanding where we’ve come from, where we are, and where we’re going.
It is, therefore, very important that we learn to discriminate in the true understanding of that word. To discriminate is to make the necessary distinction between things. In the case of that which is fake or that which is real, of that which is false from that which is true, this discrimination, this ability to distinguish, is vital and necessary.
One of the most egregious examples of the dissemination of the false narrative of fake history is the bias and inaccuracy of the “official” history of England since the time of the Reformation. This false narrative is what Hilaire Belloc called the “enormous mountain of ignorant wickedness” that constituted “tom-fool Protestant history.” Belloc sought to expose this bias in many of his own works. He wrote two panoramic overviews of the period of the English Reformation and its aftermath, How the Reformation Happened and Characters of the Reformation, as well as writing biographies of the key figures of those traumatic times, including Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cranmer, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, John Milton, and James II.
Although Hilaire Belloc continues to be overshadowed, somewhat unjustly, by his great friend G.K. Chesterton, he is sufficiently well-known to preclude his inclusion as one of the unsung heroes of Christendom. His praises are still being sung by many, » Read More
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