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
verses Richard Dawkins
What happens when brilliant minds from different centuries arrive at startlingly similar conclusions about religion? Anne Boleyn and Richard Dawkins emerge as unexpected intellectual companions in this thought-provoking exploration of religious criticism across time.
The fascinating parallel between these two figures reveals how both discovered dual concepts of God within the Bible. Dawkins unearthed "a spaceman" and ancient Israel's "God of War." He was critiquing the omnipresent-spirit concept. Similarly, Boleyn recognised the human Jesus of the gospels and rejected the "omnipresent Jesus" of the Holy Trinity. God is a dual concept.
Discover how these intellectual rebels, despite centuries between them, followed similar paths of questioning, discovery, and ultimately transformation of religious thought. Their stories remind us that challenging established narratives requires both courage and disciplined thinking—regardless of the era.
Dawkins and Boleyn part company when it comes to the historical Jesus Christ. The atheist does not believe Jesus of Nazareth is God Almighty. But the humanist managed to accommodate Jesus the human for God. Anne Boleyn developed humanism as an intellectual alternative to spirituality. She maintained a human-to-human relationship with Jesus of Nazareth.