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Historical Presuppositions
Historical Presuppositions – When reading secular history, we sometimes think that facts are facts with no colorization. But history is more than names, numbers and dates. I got reminded of this in reading “Events that Changed the World.” You can learn a lot just by reading the table of contents. It concludes with Barack Obama being elected, but absent is the election of Ronald Reagan, or the election of any other US president. The first world changing event listed begins in 1215. Apparently nothing world-changing happened before that, like around 1200 plus years before that, which forms the numerical basis for dating the Magna Carta being in 1215 AD. No doubt, in 1215 the Magna Carta changed the world: “The Magna Carta (Great Charter) is the most famous document ever produced” (p.8). Apparently nothing more famous was produced around 1200 years before that, or even beyond that. I wonder how many coffee tables have the Magna Carta collecting dust, versus homes with well-weathered Bibles. Looking through the list of events, some are definitely world changers, but not for the positive. In 1859 Darwin’s Origin of Species is listed as being published, but there is no mention of another book that gives a different origin of species. Yes, history is history, but it is often his story, or her story, and not the real story. And sadly for too many, it is not HIS story.
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