Christianity teaches that people should not work on the day of Sabbath as God himself didn’t and that it should be the day of rest. However, Jesus didn’t follow these rules and decided to do the most loving thing and heal a sick person on this day even though he wasn’t supposed to. Some could argue that situation ethics and its ideas about love fit into Christian theology perfectly because even Jesus broke rules to do the most loving thing possible. Johns part of the gospels state that “God is love” and from this we can interpret that Christians must live their lives by trying to be Omnibenevolent and doing the most loving thing in all situations no matter how extreme. Fletcher incorporated the quote from the gospels into his ethical theory and devised six propositions and four principles.
Europeans did not look at their religion this way. They focused on Christianity and the belief of their one and only God. They did not look upon the Indian spiritual religion as civilized and would convert the Indians to Christianity. The Europeans believed that if they followed Christianity they would go to heaven. The Indians did not have a belief in heaven or hell but the ones who followed Christianity worried whether their souls would only go to heaven where the Europeans were and not to their people.
By the 1530s Cabrillo established himself as a citizen of Santiago. In 1532, he traveled to Spain where he met and married Beatriz Sanchez de Ortaga. In 1542, Cabrillo went on his first expedition to explore what is now the coast of California. He was commissioned by governor of Guatemala for a voyage up the California coast under the flag of Spain. Cabrillo hoped to find a wealthy city know as Cibola, and somewhere in the Pacific coast, and a connecting route to the Northwest Passage.
Before the arrival of the Spanish, the Natives had their own indigenous beliefs and while some of them were easily converted, some resisted. In one such incident, a captured tribal chief who had a led a conquest against the Spanish was given the option of accepting Christianity or being burned alive. While the tribal chief refused to convert and preferred death instead, a lot of Native Americans surely converted when put under the sword. This mission to have the whole land converted to their form of Christianity was the main aim of such cruel behavior towards the Native Americans, according to
The conquistadors would read a document, when encountering native people, called the “Requerimiento.” This document, read only in Spanish and not understood by the natives, required Indians to be subject to the church and acknowledge it as a superior ruler of the entire world. The common belief among the Native Americans on land ownership was that the land was their life. No person could own it. The land was for the use of the community and all people. Spain on the other hand felt that the native people were not using the land to it's full potential.
This is what we were told about him in elementary school. Reading his descriptive letters introduced a new Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus was a man of God. He took a journey to new land with hope of returning with riches and proof of new land. He left his son to fulfill a dream.
Today in our education systems our student are learning that in 1493 Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discover America and portrayed as a heroic figure. I truly believe he wanted nothing more than to be praise by the king and queen and prove that he could indeed find gold. On Christopher Columbus first voyage he was joyful, energetic and pleasant of a man. At The end of that voyage Christopher Columbus was a selfish, greedy very nasty of a man
However, the terms were read in Spanish, so of course the Indians failed to follow the conquistador’s terms. And even if they had understood the Spanish demands, it’s unlikely that the Indians would have acknowledged Christianity as superior to their own religion. This unjust act displays a Spanish attitude of greed and domination toward the Indians. The second document deals with the same attitude as the first. It is a description of great conquistador, Cortez, written by Bernal Diaz in 1516.
Father LaForgue, unlike the previous missionaries, does not lie to the Huron, and explains to them that being baptized will not cure the Huron of their sickness, but their prayers may be heard by his lord and savior Jesus Christ. Even after this shocking news the Huron still agree to be baptized, and LaForgue completes his mission of converting the savages to Christianity. At the end of the film we find out that fifteen years later the Huron are wiped out by the Iroquois anyway, and that Jesuit missionaries are no longer allowed to visit the land of the
Perpetua’s father begs her to renounce her faith and even brings her baby. She refuses all pleas for the sake of her religion, Christianity, and God. In Ignatius’s “Letter to the Romans,” he also shows his detachment from worldly values by claiming he does not need or desire any materialistic things. He looks at martyrdom as a chance for him to strengthen his relationship with God. He views the world as a prison, rather than the actual prison itself.