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Summary: This is how a true Christian operates!
Review: Many years ago, Ralph Woodrow made a serious mistake. In his earnest desire to root out paganism in the Body of Christ, he took extremely seriously the work of the late Alexander Hislop "The Two Babylons". Mr. Woodrow took this work so seriously that he wrote his own work "Babylon Mystery Religion". Being that Mr. Woodrow is a 20th century American, rather than a 19th century Englishman, many American readers found his work more accessible than Rev. Hislop's.Then, something happened. Mr. Woodrow discovered, through a long process of prayer and historical research, that Rev. Hislop's book was inaccurate -- inaccurate to the point of being fraudulant. Mr. Woodrow COULD have taken the easy way out. After all, anti-Catholic books sell like hotcakes in certain sectors. But Mr. Woodrow has the true integrity of a Christian gentleman. When he discovered -- beyond a shadow of a doubt -- that the information in his earlier work was incorrect, he withdrew that book from publication (at some personal expense) and wrote this volume to explain the whys and wherefores. The result was predictable. Many of Mr. Woodrow's "friends" turned on him. (Just take a look at the tenor of some of the other reviews, and you'll see what I mean!) But other Christians, recognizing integrity in a man (whom they still disagree with on other issues -- like myself) choose to give credit where credit is due. Now I am not a Roman Catholic -- and never have been. But as a trained historian, I have been shocked and saddened at much of what purports to be research directed against the Catholic Church. I'm glad to see one man willing to say "I was wrong". God bless you, Mr. Woodrow. May you increase in faith and godly wisdom.
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Summary: A very good turn of opinion
Review: Thirty years after he wrote supposed proof of the non-authenticity of Catholic Christianity because it was riddled with paganism, Ralph Woodrow made an about-face and wrote that this kind of attack on Catholicism is pointless. In an obvious spate of realization and self-correcton, he writes that he based his biased views mostly on Hislop's The Two Babylons - another bigoted work - and sees that there is actually little connection between Catholic Tradition and pagan religion. If there were any, the connections are few and negligible, and maybe even helpful. Woodrow actually attacks Hislop now and claims the Two Babylon's writer's methodology as faulty and careless. Just a few similarities of letters or syllables in language became the basis for Hislop to conclude that these similarities were actually proof of the same story of a dead god, a great whore queen, and so on. But this theory could not be proven, and so it fell. Catholicism is exonerated. Reason and trust are restored.
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