However, if the entire community did not follow God’s laws then the entire community would be punished. This main tenet of their religion gave the Puritan leaders the justification for condemning all other religious beliefs. The leaders at the time of Anne’s trial were concerned that other members of the
Renaissance is one of those historic events that needs to be understand not just for what it achieved but also for how it came to be in the first place. Renaissance helped the world in many ways. People gained alot from renaissance like, since, math, economics, art, literature and philosophy. People gained knowledge with much skill. Protestant reformation was a time where people only het religion freedom and learn about their religion when bible was translated.
The major changes first began became of the alteration of the philosophy. People changed their way of thinking; they started to question God, and began to enjoy their life. Even the church has begun the secularism that told people can enjoy worldly lifetime but it’s centered in religion. There was another way of thinking, humanism, where people taught to reach their potential and that human beings were more important than supernatural power. However, the secularism started to change to humanism, people didn’t want to be servants and please God for their whole lives.
Religion was the real reason that colonization began, with out it, the colonies all over the world would not have ever came to be. The fourteenth century was when factors that would eventually lead to the start of colonization began. The followers of John Wycliffe, also known as Lollards, had pushed their ideas of religious power on the religious community: both the bible and religion had ultimate power over everything (Reformation 4). Martin Luther was one of the first men to openly go against the Lollards ideas. He believed that the Catholic church was corrupt for selling indulgences as penance for sins in that the sale was a way for the Church to exploit the unfortunate and poor (Reformation 5).
It became important that one be well rounded in all intellectual areas as well as becoming knowledgeable about ones physical being through wrestling or fencing. Prior to the Renaissance one could only be educated in one field. They also practiced patriotism and humanistic learning on a daily basis. As the Renaissance continued to grow the “Age of Enlightenment” came around, leading to advancements in science and human reasoning. Intellectuals began to think that the new era of Renaissance was a time to liberate away from the superstitious times of the Middle Ages and to recognize the declining power of the Roman Catholic Church.
After reading this, a Christian will be horrified because they believe that even before the baby is born, since the moment when an egg is fertilized, that future individual is consider as a person with sentiments and rights. Furthermore, in our days abortion is bad seen by Christianity because you are killing a baby that has any fault at all, and in Brave New World the concept of mother doesn’t mean anything, its even consider as a bad word. Also, people in Brave New World, have none equality because they are conditioned to be different, to have different skills and likes, and like that, the government can separate them into social classes, where everyone is happy and there is no war. Furthermore, Brave New World’s god is named “Ford”, so their God, doesn’t exist neither. This world would be like an alien world for them.
Before the plague death was accepted and welcome. Now it was look upon as something to fear. “Some of the people were upset with the priest because they only would see the rich for money and they could not cure the plague as they had promised. (Religious Impact, 11-14-2005). In some cases it causes people to change to more extreme forms of religion like the flagellants, this was a movement that called for them to beat themselves for punishment.
The Czars were afraid of losing power so they created laws to persecute the Jews as well. In the middle of all these years was the fact that the nobility and the peasants were on both sides of the hatred of the Jews. When Paul saw the complete rejection of Christianity by the Jews, he was livid and that anger turned to hatred (Schloss, p. 89). This is really just an egotistical person unable to deal with rejection. The first crusade is another case where a power hungry pope decided to wage war in order to unite all to obey him.
The death of my grandfather had caused me to question everything, and then as I searched for answers, I ended up with more questions than I had before. That's when I started to lean more towards Atheism, and over time I began to see the major problems in religion that eventually influenced me to become an official atheist. As time progressed, I beg I to notice how my life was changing for the better. I began to participate in more activities that I never dared to try because of the unknown effect on my eternity. I actually had a spike in intelligence as I began to argue about religion with other classmates and Jehovah witnesses and I would dedicate time to expand my knowledge on the subject to make me more successful in my arguments.
They believe this was a right that they were given by our Four Fathers, which is clearly not true. Yes, they have the freedom of speech but when should the freedom be taken away? What about the rights of the innocent victims and their families? Hate crimes, because of their nature will always lead to violence and this is not a freedom that people should have. In my opinion, the penalties for hate crimes should continue to be more severe than that of a regular crime because so many innocent people are injured and even killed simply because they are different.