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Rodney Stark challenges anti-Catholic historical tropes in latest release

Rodney Stark challenges anti-Catholic historical tropes in latest release

Any person, moderately informed on a topic of current interest, will have experienced the Brandolini law, which can be paraphrased as: the amount of energy necessary to refute a false claim is an order of magnitude bigger than what it took to produce it. And if that individual happened to be Catholic, he would also know that Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice among nearly every high, middle, or low-brow segment of Western society. Most of us have neither the time nor the energy require

Any person, moderately informed on a topic of current interest, will have experienced the Brandolini law, which can be paraphrased as: the amount of energy necessary to refute a false claim is an order of magnitude bigger than what it took to produce it. And if that individual happened to be Catholic, he would also know that Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice among nearly every high, middle, or low-brow segment of Western society. Most of us have neither the time nor the energy require…