Anne Boleyn
They called Anne Boleyn the Great Whore. It is a Bible thing. Great Whore is a title from the Book of Revelation, and it is "end of the world" stuff.
An apocalyptic title is overdoing it a bit. They exaggerated the threat Anne posed. Or has history grossly underestimated Anne Boleyn?
Was Anne an existential threat to the Catholic religion and what is known as Abrahamic faith?
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I must thank historians Lucy Worsley, Suzannah Lipscombe and Tracy Borman
for introducing Anne Boleyn to me. I must thank William Shakespeare for humanism. I must thank Elizabeth I for Shakespeare.
Anne Boleyn
Whatever happened to Anne Boleyn's sins?
Anne Boleyn was found guilty of witchcraft, adultery, incest, and treason. But in her execution speech Anne did not ask for her sins to be forgiven. No surprise there because in the existential universe there is no such thing as sin and for Anne to have known this is evidence of genius. There were educators in France expecting a lot from Anne Boleyn and she delivered. She freed England from the Catholic Church.
If there is no such thing as sin, then Jesus Christ did not die for the sins of the world. He did not die for the sins of Vladimir Putin. He is not responsible for the latest Russian delusion, the cult of Putin. Russians murder Ukrainians because they believe in redemption. They have a licence to kill. They are deluded.
If you want to know why Jesus Christ died on the cross, then join me in exploring the existential narrative.
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