In the meticulously researched book, “Politicizing the Bible,” research historians Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wiker dig deep into the Middle Ages and Renaissance to show that Christendom’s long term apostasy began with the appropriation, deconstruction and paganization of scripture by politically motivated interpreters. Among them were early Popes, Machiavelli, Marsilio of Padua, Henry VIII, Thomas Hobbes, and Descartes and Spinoza, who sought an empire of science.
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(Republished from November 2, 2016, and October 11, 2020)
"If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power." – Dwight Eisenhower
"The lie in the Soul is a true lie." – Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893)
Divine Inspiration or Human Creation? The fascinating debate surrounding the authorship of the Bible, the most important collection of books in Western civilization, remains important.