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
Anne Boleyn and the Big Bang
Anne Boleyn threatened the feudal system where lords owned people as property. She posed an existential threat to Lord Thomas Cromwell and 27 other lords of England. Lord Cromwell seized control of the Church of England—an institution Anne herself helped establish—he systematically dismantled her reputation and branded her the Great Whore, an apocalyptic title from the Book of Revelation. This calculated character assassination worked for centuries.
In 1949 it finally became possible to restore Anne Boleyn’s good name. Fred Hoyle's introduction of the "Big Bang" metaphor in 1949 created public awareness of new cosmology. This podcast explores how the universe's potential contraction—the "Big Crunch"—opens doors to contemplating a universe that began with just one particle. This minimalist beginning suggests a universe where nothing existed outside of the single particle and its source. It is a moment in time just ahead of the hot dense primordial soup of matter found in the classic Big Bang metaphor.
The Boleyn humanist theory proposes that far from being a lost particle in this universe made of particles the first particle localized in Jesus of Nazareth. It is an alternative universe and one in which there is no such thing as spirit.