While I do not completely agree with his whole book, Shane Claiborne speaks some truths on many ugly topics of our society. I agree with him that there needs to be a higher concern in our society for the less fortunate, poor, and those who do not have a voice in local government. He speaks for an alternative thinking, conveying an idea that the traditional church isolates itself from the poor and disenfranchises many LGBT people. He communicates to his audience; it is okay to question a church that may be wrong in their views or traditions. I believe our generation subjects themselves to staying neutral on controversial topics.
Sociology Mock A) One reason why traditional religious oraganisations may have lost support and membership over the past 30 years could be because Churches such as the Church Of England do not try to attract support. The church of England is the main church for Christianity. This means that there is no competition, so the Church Of England does not try to improve its services to attract people believing in other faiths. Whereas, in America there is a lot of choice, there is Religious Market Theory. This is where churches are run like a business and they compete against each other, which creates lots of improvements to get new people in.
Christianity and Islam’s Attitudes on Merchants and Trade Christianity and Islam’s attitudes towards merchants and trade were that they discourage people for becoming rich, emphasize trade as if it’s a good thing for society, and tolerate it as long as it’s fair. Documents #1 and #4 shows how Christianity is different in their attitude towards merchants and trade than Islam in that they discouraged people or society for becoming rich and wealthy which were mostly the merchants. Matthew, (1) author of the book of “Matthew” in the New Testament, wrote that a rich man has a hard time entering heaven and discourages wealthy people for their inability to inherit the Kingdom of God. He probably had this point of view because he wanted to reach out to the poor people who were more open to his message and accept Christianity. It was a new religion in that time and he wanted more people to join and spread his religion everywhere.
The present society appears to have an identity predicament with the Church, because there is a tremendous amount of self-help propaganda in this society; therefore they simply do not care about a commitment with the Church, but can read about how to be better people in the comfort and safety of their own homes. This concept is safe and they do not open themselves up for disappointment or tedious Church tasks. Billings notes, “Participation in Church life is not seen as crucial for the practice of Christianity, it is the practice of Christianity that British people think important.” (Billings, 2004, p. 104) The British thinking has become a
Question 1: Anne Hutchinson was a threat to Puritan society in a combination of ways that other dissenters were not, which is the reason she was banished. The Puritan society in Massachusetts was established not so that people can exercise freedom of religion, but only so the Puritans can freely exercise their religion. These were a very intolerant people of any one else’s religious belief; and, their leaders did everything possible to keep other religions from prospering. Their main belief was that the entire community had to follow God’s laws as interpreted by their leaders and if they did then God would reward them. However, if the entire community did not follow God’s laws then the entire community would be punished.
Luther wrote the “95 Theses” because he saw that the church was doing wrong and he decided that it should be changed. But King Henry VIII only formed the Church of England only to divorce his wife so he could have a son. One man fought for he thought was right and the other did out of selfishness. Even though many man and women do things like they mean well their motives may say otherwise. They could it out of love the need to be free or they could do it out of hate selfishness witch doesn’t make it
The Baptist church was frequently criticized by other churches that were supported by public taxes. Church clergy were always insulted and many were whipped and abused because of their public beliefs (Baker). The churches characteristics greatly define who they are and make it a great divider from other religious denominations. The Baptist faith believes wholly in the idea that Baptisms are only for believers and should be left as a personal decision not something that is given to an infant. However, even though Baptists believe that the idea of getting baptized is important it is only looked upon as a symbolic
Reformation of the Church Despite the similarities of scripture and the beliefs of followers during the Lutheran and Catholic reformation their differences kept the two sides apart as enemies. During the start of the sixteenth century, people were displeased with the corruption and specials favors the church offered to few individuals which started a great Reformation. People from all social classes began to resent the power behind the church and question their authority to decide who gets into heaven. While the starting point of the Lutheran Reformation was when Martin Luther posted his theses, that caused the beginning of a long needed Reformation across Europe. The ideas of the Reforms came from the side of Martin Luther and the common people of the Catholic church who had started to question the clergy of the Catholic Church such as the pope.
Communists do not stand apart from other workers, but are made up of the most advanced political sections of the working class. Marx says that Communists have been "reproached" for desiring to abolish the "right" of acquiring private property through the fruits of one's labor. However, he points out laborers do not acquire any property through their labor. Marx said " we communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personally……..to be the groundwork of all personal freedom, activity and independence.” (374) Marx wanted to abolish all individuality freedom, and independence. Marx argument was against the "infamous" communist proposal of abolishing the family.
People kept praying, and they insisted that death could be avoided if they believed in Christianism. However, the ruling class, which consisted of the government and the church, felt quite helpless in the face of the plague as well. Not only the priests fled from their post, but also the government was paralyzed, and it led to the problems such as the chaotic administration system. In addition, the plague did not disappear at all while more and more people were killed, which made people lose their confidence in the ruling class, and the limitation of their thoughts was broken too. It assisted in laying the foundation of religious reform, thereby initiated the coming of the Renaissance.