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Re:Why Catholics Built Astronomical Features into Churches by manachar on Thursday November 17, 2016 @01:31PM (#12980024)
History is almost always more complicated than people's narratives.

Narratives are a model. Some are more accurate than others, but ultimately all of them are just models which simplify history (sometimes in verifiably false ways).

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Re:Why Catholics Built Astronomical Features into Churches by crpatino on Thursday November 17, 2016 @01:47PM (#12980181)
History that is not only innacurate, but conveniently presents the author's least preferred side as gratiously Evil?

We have a word for that: propaganda.

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