This book presents a good introduction to the otherwise uninitiated willing to begin questioning the conventional historical wisdom regarding a wide variety of topics. Unfortunately it suffers from a lack of depth that I believe this author could have remedied but did not. It attacks each successive topic primarily by making generalized statements about where the typical account is wrong with sadly little specific facts to back that up even if I do not doubt most of the author’s assertions having encountered many of the same topics in other books, articles and lectures on this and similar subjects.
The narration leaves much to be desired as well, mangling words far beyond just the odd non-English name. Words that I would not have expected to be a problem such as “papacy” and “historiography” are repeatedly mispronounced.
Not a terrible listen, but the Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism or the several Great Courses series’ on Christianity, the Catholic Church, and the history of Christian theology would all provide more material for those interested in the same subject matter.