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
Charlie Kirk Legacy
Charlie Kirk the right-wing political activist appreciated by President Donald Trump and the White House for his efforts on behalf of the Republican Party was assassinated for the things he said. The Left in their twisted minds in their own way equally appreciated the freedom of speech and First Amendment advocate. They could focus on Charlie as a rival and point man for everything contrary to their agenda for America. They are still fighting it out.
But Charlie Kirk was his own man. Turning Point USA was his organisation. He took his message to college and university campuses across the United States. His journey took him to England in May of 2025. He started a conversation and that is his legacy.
DEI or Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is gone crazy. The UK government is trying to make it work and is scouring the globe for a man who thinks he is a Komodo dragon. But that is another conversation.
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In May of 2025, C harlie Kirk came over to Anne Boleyn country, but he mistimed his visit. He was 500 years too late to meet the former Queen of England, who was executed in 1536. Anne was found guilty of witchcraft. For her punishment, she was beheaded. The body was dumped in a mass grave in the Tower of London. But for Anne Boleyn, there was worse to come. She was excommunicated by the Church of England. It became a criminal offence to talk about her. The greatest wrong committed against Anne was the denial of her existence. Anne's portraits and letters and documents were all destroyed. Anne was cancelled. Anne Boleyn, at 28 years of age, was killed and erased from history. The difference is that we know what Charlie Kirk stood for, what he said and what he believed.
Speaker 1:Charlie Kirk, the evangelical Christian came to Anne Boleyn country with no idea of who she was. The nearest he got to Anne Boleyn was the mention of William Shakespeare. This is because the plays with a humanist theme were inspired by Anne Boleyn. The playwright was a humanist. It is no coincidence that Shakespeare wrote a warning about Muslims. Othello, the Moor of Venice was written over 400 years ago. Charlie Kirk failed to find the source of Shakespeare's inspiration. What I'm trying to say is that the flavoured thinking of Charlie Kirk propelled him across the Atlantic Ocean to Oxford and Cambridge universities, but truth was lying dead and buried in the Tower of London.
Speaker 1:We know plenty about Anne Boleyn from the fact that she was cancelled by Catholics. We also learn about her from her daughter who according to Catholics was born out of wedlock to a heretic. Queen Elizabeth the First was the second Catholic-hating Queen of England. She even managed to get herself excommunicated by the Pope. In other words, the leader of the Catholics signed her death warrant, but England chose to defend her Queen. The daughter of Anne Boleyn, went on to put the record straight about her mother. Anne and Henry were like-minded people who, before finding each other, were already dissatisfied with Pope and Church. He was denied a male heir and she was a humanist. But they couldn't get married because Henry was already married to Catherine of Aragon.
Speaker 1:Christ made it clear that marriage is for life, and anyone who divorces to simply remarry commits adultery. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn started off as good Catholics. The last thing they wanted was to jeopardise their place in heaven with Christ, but Henry and Anne could not resist the call of love. Romeo and Juliet could not resist the call of love. Charlie and Erica could not resist the call of love.. There was no one happier on earth than Charlie Kirk. All sorts of people are helpless against the call of love and the desire for happiness. Henry and Anne were told to resist the call of love by the Pope. He would not be granting them happiness . Henry VIII decided to circumvent the Bishop of Rome.
Speaker 1:Imagine Charlie Kirk, the voice of Christianity, summoned by Anne Boleyn. Anne, the New Age Christian, would have the pleasure of telling him. Evangelicals are Catholics by another name. Both have a Pharisee for their prince of the apostles. Both believe Jesus of Nazareth is bigger than the solar system, and that's big. Both believe in the existence of spirit. Catholics and evangelicals believe everything told them by Saul of Tarsus, who was a Pharisee. Jesus the man was clear about the fact that there will be no Pharisees in the kingdom of heaven. (So much for DEI) Saul of Tarsus did the Pharisee thing he shut off the kingdom of heaven against men. The first time Pharisees closed the kingdom of heaven was when they passed a law prohibiting the mention of God by name. No one was allowed to say Yahweh. Not even Yahweh could say Yahweh, and when he did, he was crucified. To this day there are people who refuse to say Yahweh, probably because it is the name of a God of war.
Speaker 1:Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn were able to justify their love despite biblical condemnation and Catholic criticism. They took Jesus' advice and avoided teachers of the law. They avoided usurpers. They introduced humanism to the Gospels. Anne believed in the historical and existential Christ. Anne believed in Jesus of Nazareth, a man of his place and of his times. Anne changed the narrative of the Gospels to make them about the man and rejected the faith scheme of things because, as we humanists know, there is no such substance as spirit in the entire universe. Humanism and not witchcraft. But it might as well be witchcraft if you are a Christian. Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, with the help of their humanist friends at home and abroad started a new religion where it was okay to say Yahweh. But in 1536, Catholics reaffirmed their commitment to the Bible by murdering Anne Boleyn. The Catholic vocabulary was restored to England.
Speaker 1:In 1526, Anne Boleyn was introduced to England. For ten years she was the most talked-about woman, but people were not saying nice things. They called her the King's whore, an adulteress and a heretic. Whispers accused her of bewitching their Catholic king. Eventually, England started blaming the king for the religious upheaval. Discontent spread, rebellion was in the air.
Speaker 1:In 1534, freedom of speech had to be taken away from the people of England t o stop rebellion. T he Treason Act of 1534 was passed and it became a crime punishable by death to slander the king or question his authority. With Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, it was not about freedom of speech for its own sake. It was about keeping it real. England is called Anne Boleyn country because Anne was the last person to call God by his name. God was the victim of identity theft, but that turned into international misrepresentation. God demanded his name back and when he told them he was Yahweh, they had no idea what he was talking about.
Speaker 1:In the end, it was enough for God to have started a conversation. Anne Boleyn started a conversation. Charlie Kirk started a conversation about freedom of speech. Is it real or an elaborate illusion?