While people are forgetting the reasons that made the times to be tough again and the mistakes made by those weak men the next generation will keep making those mistake and the history will keep repeating. In our time Vladimir Putin may become the next Adolf Hitler if people will let him to do whatever he likes and a new world was may begin soon, in the next months or the next years.
History is learning us that some of the atrocities of the age of Europe’s religious wars immediately became notorious and the next one also may become notorius in the same way. The execution of tens of thousands of women and men for witchcraft, by contrast, passed largely unremarked – until modern times, when this history was revived, rewritten and wildly exaggerated.
This lecture will ask why it suits each age to select, reinvent and suppress different parts of the history of religious atrocity. It was was done by Alec Ryrie, Gresham Professor of Divinity, in 6th of May 2020 6:00pm UK Time, and this lecture will ask why it suits each age to select, reinvent and suppress different parts of the history of religious atrocity, and why some victims, such as Anabaptist radicals, remain neglected down to the present.
