However when 3000 Christians were massacred, this began the ‘retaliation’ and therefore the beginning of The Crusades to release the Holy City of Jerusalem from the rule of Muslims. In this example, religion has clearly caused The Crusades as there would not have been any war if the city of Jerusalem did not have Christian significance. However, a contrary argument to this would be that it was the massacre of 3000 Christians which caused The Crusades to begin and not because of differing religious beliefs, although it is unquestionable that religion played a major part in the beginning of the Crusades as the massacre may not have taken place without a religious background. As the argument for religion causing war heavily outweighs the opposing argument, in this context it is fair to say that using this example, religion does cause war. Although the previous example concerning The Crusades suggests that religion does cause war it would be unfair to generalize this conclusion from one example of war to war in general.
These two completely different accounts describe the reasons and intensions of both the Christians and the Muslims. The attackers fled into the Holy land with joy which shows their strong devotion and reason. But for Muslims, Christians’ account and devotion showed their awful cruelty which slaughtered their people. All of those encounters happened on the “Holy Land”, which creates a really interesting and diverse meaning of “Holy Land” to both the Christians and the Muslims. As described by Fulcher of Chartres, it was Friday at noon when the Crusaders barraged the city; Friday, the day that Christ regained the world through his sufferings on the cross.
The crusades affected western culture because of their biblical practices that threatened it. By 1905, Urban II’s call for a crusade was only part of a larer shifting in theological interpretations and justification of warfare: the Reconquista in Spain, for instance, had been under way for over two centuries and was rooted in a re-fashioned understanding of just war theory. The explicit pilgrimage and warfare gave the First Crusade a unique potency that triggered widespread enthusiasm across feudal social boudaries. Pilgrimage was a common practice during Middle Ages and, given the perils of travel, pilgrims often armed themselves for defense. The ideology of the crusade, however, was one rooted in the practice redemptive pilgrimage as well as conquest.
Pentonville Prison was, in some senses, was hugely significant due to it revolutionary approach to punishment methods. It was widely believed in the mid-nineteenth century that criminals were evil because they had been open to wicked influenced, and that if exposed to purely good influences - Christianity in particular - then their nature would change for the better, and that it was possible to reform criminals or rehabilitate them by removing the influence of other criminals over them. This was the basic idea behind the separate system. However, the success of the introduction of the separate system within Pentonville can be viewed to a certain degree as a failure, as the mental state of the prisoners often deteriorated due to the nature of the constant isolation of the system. Evidence to support this view is found in the 1845 journal of Henry Baker, surgeon on a ship taking prisoners from Millbank, Parkhurst and Pentonville Prisons to Tasmania.
The need for a such a deity is seen as a messenger. A trickster can also be either a creator or a destroyer, also a repulsive liar, and selfish. The need for this spirit is really for the enjoyment of the stories told because they are entertaining. Believing in a certain type of religion or faith will bring a variety of all kinds of stories and testaments you read. Polytheistic and monotheistic is just a few examples of a belief and it brings along many stories like the
The unintentional reference to the Middle Age’s Crusades George W. Bush made in his response to the 9/11 attacks was justly criticized as it connected the problem at hand to the violence of religious warfare, inflicted anxiety upon a vast amount of the world’s population, and holds a fearsome truth. Whether he meant to or not, George W. Bush’s use of the word “crusade” in his 9/11 response speech portrayed the soon-to-be war as a religious one. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, America’s Best-Selling Dictionary, defines the word crusade as “any of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries to win the Holy Land from the Muslims.” However, The Crusades were not the only violent and gruesome religious wars. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Protestant Reformation led to a brutal war between Protestants and Catholics. Part of World War II was the fight against Adolf Hitler and The Nazi Party for their genocide, known as The Holocaust, which was (mainly) against those of the Jewish religion.
The more common form of racism today is religious racism, such as the Muslims killing as many Jews and Christians as they can. Most of these terrible atrocities do not happen as much as they used to, such as in the 1950’s, but they still do exist, and The United States, as a nation, should strive to stop racism in all forms. A second, and equally important, societal issue in the book, A Raisin in the Sun, is poverty. Poverty affects us all. With today’s economy being as it is, people have a hard time finding jobs, or a place to live; some people even struggle to keep food on the table for their families.
2007). Some psychological contributing factors include dysfunctional family unit patterns or even unsatisfactory expectation goals. Whatever the case is psychologically, people who are more susceptible to cult seduction tend to have issues with intimate relations, are seeking some self-development, seeking ideals, general dissatisfaction with daily life, and manipulation (8). These tensions and the desire to change them may influence people to cult conversion. Following the person being exposed to the cultic group; the
It would be logical to associate studies with knowledge and nobility, considering its connotations of enlightenment and education. However as the scene progresses the on-going internal conflict Faustus creates becomes more and more evident, his declarative ‘necromantic books are heavenly’ is heavily juxtaposed, not only does this represent the battle and confusion inherent within him, but would especially have shocked a deeply religious audience at the time of production, blasphemy being a punishable offence in the Elizabethan era. The nobility of Faustus that is highlighted here differs
Germany was to blame for the First World War, but only to a certain extent. Germany were not solely to blame, but did contribute greatly to the sequence of events that led to war. Germany were a major contributor to the Arms Race, caused tension between many European countries, made alliances, were extremely nationalistic and encouraged Austria – Hungary to declare war on Serbia. Despite this, Germany were not the only power hungry nation to blame for the war. Germany was part of the reason that the Arms Race happened.