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- 531: The Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation
- ... have a good intent, not just a fear of Hell. I believe that these facts were unimportant to converts compared to the facts that Luther had defined Lutherinsim much better that the Church had defined Christianity.
- 532: The Indians of New France
- ... since these beliefs helped the Indians relate to the missionaries' sermons, and the Indians were influenced by the lectures that they addressed. The Jesuits, while staying with the Indians during the process of conversion to Christianity, were required to adapt to the Indians' ways of life and saw many qualities of Indians, some of which the priests admired and found virtuous. In conflict with the missionaries, some native groups were very ...
- 533: The Medieval Crusades: Actually Fought Over Dionysean Worship
- The Medieval Crusades: Actually Fought Over Dionysean Worship Although it is a popular notion that the crusades of the Eleventh through Thirteenth Century Europe were launched to spread Christianity, it is a seldom realized fact that they were actually launched to spread the worship of the Greek God Dionysus. While many fundamentalist radicals and even some historians who ought to know better will dispute ...
- 534: The Toltecs, Aztecs, and Mayans
- ... the peninsula of Yucatan and the eastern part of Chiapas in Mexico, most of Guatemala, the western region of the Republic of Honduras. In the Spanish conquest only a few Mayans resisted the conversion to Christianity. The Mayans believe d that 13 heavens were arranged in layers above the earth, and under the earth were nine underworlds also arranged in layers. The concepts are closely related to those of the Aztecs ...
- 535: Greed
- ... didn't suffer; he didn't go into the slums. Mother Teresa went into the slums and she suffered. Milken persuaded wealth because of greed and Mother Teresa did charity work in the name of Christianity. People tend to believe charity work is nobler than making money. Greed isn't a nice thing or a noble thing. Unrestrained greed would mean theft, fighting, and taking by force. But as long as ...
- 536: The Use of Characters By Hawthorne and O'Connor to Teach Morality
- The Use of Characters By Hawthorne and O'Connor to Teach Morality Since early Christianity, a doctrine of seven deadly sins has been taught. Pride, or hubris, is considered to be the sin that pushes you further away from God then any other sin. This sin, whether the sinner knows ...
- 537: Female Infanticide in China and India
- ... number of Chinese women during the 1880's, made some attempt to ascertain "the extent of a great crime" and concluded that: The causes of this crime are two, poverty and superstition. The acceptance of Christianity brings about a cessation from child-murder, because it destroys the superstition, which is its cause, leading the parents to depend on God, not on male descendants, for comfort in the life to come. It ...
- 538: The Society Is Flawed
- ... the society of Marxs time is vital. Karl Heinrich Marx, a German economist, philosopher, and revolutionist, was born May 5, 1818 in Trier Germany, to Jewish parents. Faced with anti-Semitism, they converted to Christianity, partly to preserve Heinrichs, Karls father, a Jewish lawyer, job in the Prussian state. Karl, himself, was baptized in the evangelical church Georg Hegel (1770-1831) was the dominant intellectual influence throughout Germany ...
- 539: The Native Indians and the Cultural Encounters With the Europeans
- ... since these beliefs helped the Indians relate to the missionaries' sermons, and the Indians were influenced by the lectures that they addressed. The Jesuits, while staying with the Indians during the process of conversion to Christianity, were required to adapt to the Indians' ways of life and saw many qualities of Indians, some of which the priests admired and found virtuous. In conflict with the missionaries, some native groups were very ...
- 540: Power And Class In The United
- ... create a set of sacred collective beliefs and practices which, through their unification of individual actions and beliefs, created cohesion in society" (pg. 81). America is a Protestant country that is deeply rooted in its Christianity beliefs. We go to church to get married and our work ethics also deals with our religion. Like the older generation they say stop being lazy and work hard for the things you want. Weber ...
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