What erroneous beliefs about history irritate you the most?

Question

I'm sorry I should have said what common erroneous beliefs...for example I don't think holocaust denial is a mainstream belief

Answer 1

History, itself, can be very irritating. We have nothing but accounts, written at the time, to educate us. And as we are all well aware, NO ONE is objective when recounting an event. They may have every intention to be objective, but it is impossible.

Accounts of wars are written with the end result as the fact. Wars consist of many battles, and one may have been lost intentionally to move forward the overall plan. But in the history books, that battle will be recognized as a loss by one party or another. Without the whole story, we have a very different perception.

Answer 2

That the earth was created 6000 years ago, that all people are descendents of Adam and Eve (and their two sons Cain and Abel, how gross is that?), that the whole world flooded but some Noah dude put all the animals on one boat (plus their required food), and all the other made up (or, at the very least, not meant to be taken literally) bible talk.

Answer 3

The Blood Libel, which claims Jews kill Christians (usually young children) to get blood for the Passover Matzo. Anyone who knows anything about Kashrut (Jewish dietary law) knows it's all about getting blood out, not putting it in. Nevertheless, the belief persists among ignorant people to this very day, and every few years, some poor schmuck gets accused of this, usually with tragic results.

Answer 4

9/11.

Did you know that there are photographs of girders from the World Trade Center, sticking into buildings that surrounded the site. I mean, huge peices of metal, weighing several hundred pounds were driven into buildings across the street, like arrows into a tree...

Also, There are several radio reports from fire fighters inside the world trade center buildings (during the fire) reporting hearing explosions on various floors, and stating that more victims of explosions are on their way down.

And, if you look at footage, you can clearly see smoke and debris shooting out of floors before the colapsing floors reached them.

We were lied to.

Answer 5

1. Jewish Holocaust of WWII did not happen.

2. Catholic Church collaborated with Nazis during WWII.

3. Bill Clinton allowed Bin Laden to escape, and is therefore responsible for 9-11.

Answer 6

My pet hates are
1. Reagan defeated communism
2. Hitler, Freud and Schwarzenegger are/were
Germans
3. That "democracy" (= rule of the common
people) describes the actuality of what's going
on in so called "Western Democracies".

Answer 7

The one that bugs me the most is that Presidents are here to serve us and are patriots. This is a lie. Presidents are all appointed puppets for the New World Order. I hope everyone sees 'Loose Change' and see that 9/11 was an inside job and the 'War On Terror' is a huge scam and lie.

Answer 8

That french fries are made in France.
That hamburgers come from Hamburg.
That the Swiss were neutral during World War Two.
Christopher Columbus discovered America.
Native Americans were savages. We proved who the real savages were.
Last but not least. Fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here. It galls the bile out of me every time I hear that one. History is like the bible, exaggerated.

Answer 9

That Britain was responsible for slavery.

1) Slavery was around way before Britain existed as a country

2) The first slavery in America was by the Spanish, way before any Brits had set foot on the continent.

Answer 10

WEll a lot of stuff be here are the two I hate the most!!!
columbus(by the way he was a religious fanatic, he decribes himself in his book as a holy warrior fighting a holy war) discovered America, and the biggest lie of all Lincoln liked black people.