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What if Arianism had won? – May 4, 2014Posted in: Videos What if Arianism had won? Lecture by Diarmaid MacCulloch Given at Princeton University on April 8, 2014 The fourth annual Princeton in Europe Lecture — Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch asks ‘What if Arianism had won?’ The most noticeable and remarkable thing about Western Europe in what we call the Middle Ages is its cultural and religious unity, united by a common alignment with the Pope in Rome, and a common language for worship and scholarship.

Western Europeans tend to take this united medieval phase of their history for granted, but it is unique in human history for a region to be so dominated by a single form of monotheistic religion and its accompanying culture for a thousand-year period. With this exercise in counterfactual history, Diarmaid MacCulloch draws on his experience of writing and filming an overview history of Christianity to consider how easily matters might have been different in the Christian West.

For All Time - World War II (parts 1-34) For All Time Pt. 1 December 20, 1941, White House, 7:00 PM "It's a good speech, just a little too long. " commented Franklin Delano Roosevelt, trademark cigarette holder clenched in his teeth, as he read Judge Samuel Rosenman's draft for his Christmas Address to the Nation. He looked up and grinned at his speechwriter, the former judge.

" It's damned good, in fact. Are you sure you don't celebrate Christmas on the sly, Sam? " Rosenman shrugged, smiling. "Hell, Franklin, if Christmas is about Christ in this town, or half the country these days, I'll eat that speech. Have you seen that new Coca-Cola Santa Claus? The two men chatted for another few minutes; they'd been friends and colleagues for a very long time, since before Roosevelt's first campaign for President in '32, but even with working in the same building and with Sa working for Franklin, they rarely got a chance to just sit down and shoot the breeze for a while.

Especially with what had happened earlier in the month. "Franklin? "

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