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This is a more advanced book. To fully understand it, I found myself doing lots of research on the references made. This is not the author's fault as there is just too much info to put into one book. If you want to learn about the history of the Church and the amazing impact it has had on society, this is a good book. Just be prepared to do dig deeper when you may not know a reference. It also inspired me to think that that the Church is meant to evolve and adapt as organism. That does not mean their teachings should change, but that the strategy of spreading the truth can change. I look at this as an intro to learning about the history of Church that focuses on the positive impacts to society. It is only an intro as there is so much more that written in the book. It is quite an eye opener. After reading, just ask yourself, what would the world be like without the Catholic Church. I do not want to dwell on the answer as it would be a much worse place than it is today.Read full review
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I am a Baptist who is good friends with a non-computer person and order books from time to time for him. We have many discussions on many subjects, including our respective religious beliefs. We get together over his coffee and my Diet Coke at a local Burger King and talk about the differences and similarities in our beliefs. He tells me that the book is highly informative and full of "Catholic" facts. We have found the book to be historically correct in the happenings and have used it as a basis of discussion on several occasions. While neither of us have been converted to the other ones belief, we do have many good talks using this book.
This is a must have. The mainstream history paints the middle ages as the "dark ages". Yet is hard to reconcile the "dark" when you consider figures of the stature of Saint Thomas Aquinas, the technological advances and hospitals and university systems that originated in these "dark times" Thomas Woods, renown historian, goes over the history of Europe and the western civilization in a easy to read, yet deep and well sourced book.
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Tom Woods is a great man with an ability to look at things in a fresh light, cutting away the age-old tropes, canards, and lazy propaganda that we have been taught to take almost for granted. It's great to be able to find such a book in hard cover format at such good value!
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Great book. Full of interesting facts. Well written!!!
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