He also believed in peasants being freed from serfdom. This view was adopted by the peasantry and was a key cause in their uprising. Sebastian Lotzer and Christoph Schappeler were two preachers that strongly believed that peasants should not stand for mistreatment by their lords. They stated that lords should not force any more work on the peasants than they are being compensated for. This was major cause because the peasants demanded to be paid fairly.
In the 16th century the church played a huge role in the lives of people in Europe, however, in some parts and Germany in particular, the Church was seen as not responding to the appetite for spiritual fulfillment and failing in some of its duties. The Church was involved not just spiritually but economically, politically and educationally; therefore, any corruption within the Church had consequences all over Christendom. The role of the Church was to perform the seven sacraments in order for Catholics to reach their goal – salvation. Firstly, the Church was resented because it was corrupt. This was resented in Germany because it seemed hard to obtain salvation and live a spiritual life when the representatives of Christianity were dishonest.
The fact that peasantry took part in the 1905 revolution (also known as Bloody Sunday)shows that the suspicions of the peasants changing were true and to the Tsar and his government this could have appeared to be a threat because they always feared peasantry development, the Tsar and the Empress especially. However the peasants had not planned to overthrow the Tsar as they supported Tsardom, they only demanded for some changes that would reduce the working hours to 8 hours per day, allow workers to earn minimum wage of a rouble a day and to abolish overtime. From a point of view these demands would seem to be reasonable but to the soldiers these were perverse. When the 200,000 petitioners were instructed to retreat but didn’t because of the amount of people, the soldiers took it as if they were not cooperating and decided to open fire at the peaceful demonstrators. The reason why the soldiers were at liberty to shoot the demonstrators was because the Tsar was not present at the mass demonstration because after he was informed about the potential revolution the Tsar quickly decided to leave St Petersburg with his family to avoid trouble 15 miles away in Tsarkoe Selo.
Initially, the Natives taught the colonists how to grow crops and showed them the ways of hunting. Trading was mutual; it included fur for effective goods like weapons, this lead to an open warfare. With the fact that the English had no respect for the Natives, they began to take over land to help benefit themselves. Even though the French had the same goal as the English they just wanted to get rich and flee. The French considered a different way of inquiring land for themselves.
Although this helped increase people’s faith, it meant that doctors did not attempt to find out what was causing these plagues scientifically; resulting in no improvements made in medicine. The Christian church encouraged people to believe in Galen and the four humours, which meant that doctors were again discouraged to look for the real causes of disease and were forced to follow Galen’s wrong ideas. As a result, doctors were delayed and medical knowledge failed to progress However, the Christian church introduced hospitals which the sick, poor and old could stay in and were looked after by the nuns and priests, this had a great impact because it meant that people with certain problems had a safe place to go to and would get help, this helped medicine progress a lot. However, hospitals might have hindered the development of medicine a little because they did not allow people with contagious diseases to stay in these hospitals in fear that other people would catch them. This meant that these ill people had no choice but to go back home, which would have resulted in them spreading their diseases to people on the streets because they didn’t have proper medical care and weren’t under supervision and were not isolated from everyone else.
The emancipation of the serfs appeared to have strengthened the loyalty of most peasants to the tsarist regime leading the peasants to greet the Populists with hostility due to their loyalty to the tsar. The serfs were hostile towards the populists as the serfs felt that populists did not understand their way of life through the involvement of ‘going to the people’ which was an idea from Lavrov in order to encourage peasants to rise up to revolution. The church taught the peasants to see Alexander as ‘little father’ which meant someone who was on their side. In my opinion Alexander II dealt with opposition very successfully between 1855-81 as he had the majority of the population against the Populists as serfs took up 80% of the population. Another way Alexander II successfully dealt with opposition was through censorship, he had utter control of media throughout Russia making it very difficult for opposition groups to spread their ideas and communicate with each other.
The Amish are a society that is run by there religious convictions. Parts of their religious convictions are to detach themselves from the modern society of America. Since the Amish have limited themselves from the conveniences of the outside world, farming is primarily their number one source of income; hence they are an agriculturalist society. The belief that using technology such as electricity, home appliances, and certain farming equipment is considered “worldly” or superficial and goes against the Amish Christian religion. The Amish beliefs and values center on their religion.
Many of the accusers were men. Men who probably tried to put women in their places. Puritan society didn’t allow freedom of speech. It was within their society not to say anything bad about anything especially the church. Many of the witches who were accused were because of assaultive speeches against someone or church beliefs.
The government created camps in attempt to provide this basic support. The camps nonetheless did provide some senses of security, and the people were receiving better treatments. However, the despite the government’s effort to protect them, the farmers were still constantly in jeopardy due to the inability of finding rightful jobs to feed the family, and also being threatened by wealthy landowners trying to sabotage their unity, pushing them to their limit. In this battle between the rich and the poor, the government did not help the poor very much, because the government was passive and was incapable of solving the ultimate problem,
Many people were also accusing Ultima of being a witch since she didn’t use the power of the lord to cure people and instead used “magic” to do her bidding In Bless Me, Ultima, Ultima was pushed away from the people in the town because many believed she was a witch. They were merely mislead by others thinking that she used her powers for evil when she actually was at peace with the earth, maintained a religious catholic image by attending masses and praying, and using her herbs to cure the people of the curses placed by witches. The first day she made her appearance at church, people expressed their opinions in whispers. Some said “es una mujer que no ha pecado” (pg 33), she is a women who hasn’t sinned; one even called her a “hechicera, bruja (pg 33), a sorcerer or witch. Even after she cured Lucas of the curse the witches put on him, people were still skeptical saying “Hechicera, Bruja” (pg 104).