Reworking the script
Mar 14th, 2010 | By Ian Poulton | Category: Church of Ireland Comment“Protestants don’t do revisionism”, said my friend.
He being far cleverer than I, not a Protestant, and it being one of those arguments that was so subjective that no conclusion was possible, there seemed no value in arguing the point. Do we really not do revisionism? Do we really not rewrite the past in our own minds so that we appear differently from the way that others might see us? Is it the case that we don’t sometimes simply misremember things?
Revisionism is a rewriting of history and his point,…