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- 11: Phyllis Wheatley
- Televangelists like Jimmy Swaggert and Jim and Tammy Fay Bakker promise the Christian faith to millions everyday. For the right price, anybody can have something- a.k.a. Christianity, God, and faith- in their lives. On these shows, there is no need to have believed in religion before, as long as there is a need for it now. Religious telecasts asking for money in ... who want spiritual justification for their greed. Most of us know that the religion professed on these telecasts is not about trusting in God or having a deep belief in his teachings, ideas that aggregate Christianity in society. Instead, the old, the poor, and the rich are buying something to have as their own when they have nothing else, whether it be in the material, social, or emotional sense. So-called ... are hoping to find freedom in knowing that their lives are less empty and without direction. It may seem that we can hardly relate the televangelist audience of the 20th Century to poetic views on Christianity of the 18th Century, but surprisingly, there lies many similarities between the two.. Both Anne Bradstreet and Phyllis Wheatley appeal to Christianity after their own personal tragedies. These women, like the many viewers who ...
- 12: Phyllis Wheatley
- Televangelists like Jimmy Swaggert and Jim and Tammy Fay Bakker promise the Christian faith to millions everyday. For the right price, anybody can have something- a.k.a. Christianity, God, and faith- in their lives. On these shows, there is no need to have believed in religion before, as long as there is a need for it now. Religious telecasts asking for money in ... who want spiritual justification for their greed. Most of us know that the religion professed on these telecasts is not about trusting in God or having a deep belief in his teachings, ideas that aggregate Christianity in society. Instead, the old, the poor, and the rich are buying something to have as their own when they have nothing else, whether it be in the material, social, or emotional sense. So-called ... are hoping to find freedom in knowing that their lives are less empty and without direction. It may seem that we can hardly relate the televangelist audience of the 20th Century to poetic views on Christianity of the 18th Century, but surprisingly, there lies many similarities between the two.. Both Anne Bradstreet and Phyllis Wheatley appeal to Christianity after their own personal tragedies. These women, like the many viewers who ...
- 13: Buddhism And The Six Point Att
- ... up humanity. In constructing this paper, first I will outline and explain these six aspects. Then I will attempt to explain why Buddha found them to be obstacles for spiritual development, and why Hinduism and Christianity endorse the importance of these six elements. The word authority as it pertains to the six elements of religion does not only pertain to God s final authority, but to the authority given to the ... second front was pointed toward individual people. The majority of the people relied on Brahmins to tell them what to do. Buddha challenged each person to seek his or her own religion. In comparison, true Christianity advocates authority in worship and in deed. For example, Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God ... to powerless gods. Buddha preached against these practices. He said, Belief in the efficacy of rites and ceremonies was one of the ten fetters that bind the human spirit. (The Worlds Religions pg. 65) While Christianity in many of its current forms and denominations seem to be shrouded in ritualism, true Christianity actually disdains ritualism. The early Christians left the written rituals and sacrifices of their temples and lifted them ...
- 14: Constantine And Christianity
- Constantine was a Roman Emperor who ruled in the early 300's AD, and was arguably one of the most powerful person in his part of the world. His conversion to Christianity had far reaching effects on the common practice of the religion and on all the factions of Christianity that are present today. His conversion happened during a war with a co-emperor, Maxentius. Constantine claimed that the night before a critical battle, in which he defeated this opponent, he had a vision of ... of the word Christ in Greek, and was the symbol that Constantine put on the shields of his soldiers. After the battle had ended, he attributed his victory to God and announced his conversion to Christianity. Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea, recorded this account of the Constantine's conversion. His conversion helped Christianity in many ways. Followers were safe from persecution, and the Emperor gave Christian leaders many gifts. Constantine's ...
- 15: Christianity In The New World
- ... The Catholic Church and the Spanish monarch, however, looked upon the native population in the New World as souls to be saved. They did not consider or treat the Indians as equals. The implanting of Christianity in the New World, and the treatment of the native population by the missionaries and christian conquerors was detrimental to New World. Through men such as Cortez and Las Casas accounts of the conversions have ... showing the alliance between Spain and the Church. The history of the Catholic Church in the New World began in the year after Columbus' first voyage. The Spanish monarchy sent the first missionaries to establish Christianity there. The number of missions sent to the New World accelerated in tempo until the final decade of the 16th century. The crown paid for the sending of missionaries, and its officials kept track of ... not sent them as missionaries. "By sending friars instead of secular priests to convert the Indians, Spain took advantage of an old evangelical strain in European monasticism". (Van Oss 3) In the times before the Christianity of Europe wandering monks roamed the countryside converting the rural populations. The monarchy put this old idea back at work. The Spanish monarch also picked the monastic orders to fulfill this task because they ...
- 16: Violence In Religions Such As Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism
- Violence In Religions Such As Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism To say that all religions are spread by violence is equally unfair and untrue - because contrasted religions has been spread in exceedingly diverse regions of the world, by vastly different cultures. Islam, as ... Islam was no more violent than any other religion. In fact, not only is Islam not a fundamentally violent philosophy, but we can also see that many other religions normally considered non-violent, such as Christianity or Hinduism, have been spread through bloody conquest. Due to many incidents and conflicts of territorial ambitions, along with the want to save other less civilized cultures it is shown that Islam, Christianity, and of Hinduism have spread through conquest. Islam has, throughout the centuries, been somewhat a victim of circumstance - indeed it has been perceived by many as oppressive and cruel. This belief originated over a ...
- 17: The History of Christianity
- The History of Christianity The founder of Christianity is unknown. The religion is not really defined by any beginning dates, but it does still exist in the world today. The total amount of followers in this religion is around 1.7 billion people ... is to try to be like Jesus and commit as little sin as possible. When Jesus was 32 years old, the Romans crucified him, which fulfilled many prophets' visions made hundreds of years before. In Christianity's holy book, the Bible, it is said that Jesus will come back and save all of his followers and defeat Satan, or the devil. This will be known as the second coming, or ...
- 18: The Roots of Christianity
- The Roots of Christianity Religion is an impulse to explain. A natural impulse that everyone has and everyone one grapples with. It's an impulse that, sadly and ironically, has been exploited to convince people to take actions that ... is a set of rules, is a tool used by the people in power to keep other people powerless, and to compel them into serving the interests of the powerful. It is controversial who founded Christianity. Jesus of Nazareth - he led a movement that seems to have tried to reform Judaism. His death led to a spread of his words by his twelve closest followers. Simon Peter - seemingly designated by Jesus to lead after his death. Paul - it was his efforts that expanded Christianity into a religion distinct from Judaism. Each one of these men could be considered to have founded the Christian religion. The Christian religion began with the ministry of Jesus Christ. He proclaimed himself to ...
- 19: Christianitys Mission
- Christianitys Mission Christian missionaries that set out to convert the Germanic tribes had to face good and difficult times through their efforts to change a distinct culture, using logical or brutal force when necessary. As ... intelligence played a role in the way missionaries preached in the Germanic lands. A passage from Bedes history also includes a council meeting held by King Edwin to seek approval for the switch to Christianity. Another interesting source I will be analyzing will come from the passage that Bishop Daniel of Winchester writes to Saint Boniface concerning the methods of converting the Germanic peoples. Although all of this information is very useful so far, I will now begin my analysis on how I was able to conjugate these theories about what life was like during the times of Christianitys expansion throughout Germanic territory. It is apparent that the Christians of the new Western Roman Empire had a huge task that waited before them. Their attempts to convert many of the various tribes ...
- 20: Literature of Native Canadians
- ... we are and, maybe most importantly, why we are the people that comprise this enigmatic Canadian continent. But what if you aren't one of those fortunate enough to be of European Christian descent? Abstract: Christianity is one of the most profound influences this world has ever known. Almost every facet of Canadian life, past or present, is manifest with it. White Anglo Saxon Protestants came to this country with adventure ... their own. They found a people, different from themselves and with no loyalty to the Almighty God. This untamed, human was called savage' and, ignorantly, despised for their commitment to no one but themselves. With Christianity as their guide, the European settler managed to almost destroy that culture for no other reason than it was different than its own. The historical record of the literature of those two cultures serves as the proof that Christianity was at the center of the cruel treatment the European showed the Native Canadian. Systematically, through war, genocide, legislation and wayward Indian camps' the people were broken, their culture decimated and their souls eventually ...
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