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- 2471: The Holy Bible and Its History
- ... s into the 1550's. The reign of Queen Mary (Bloody Mary) wanted England to return to the Roman Catholic Church. Mary went on to burn reformers at the stake by the hundreds for the "crime" of being a Protestant. This era was known as the Marian Exile, and the refugees fled from England with little hope of ever seeing their home or friends again. In the 1550's, the Church ...
- 2472: Comparing Buddhism and Christianity
- ... the amassing of large fortunes of personal wealth. Christianity thus seems to be ethically very hypocritical, and socially divisive, whereas most Buddhists are very clear about such matters and cannot become involved in killing, anger, crime, social divisiveness or indulgences like wealth. They realise the unhappiness (for self and others) which is created by involvement in such activities. Buddhism encourages personal poverty, moderation, frugality, restraint, gentleness, non-harming, simplicity and charity ...
- 2473: Crucifixion and Jesus
- ... The procession to the site of crucifixion was led by a complete Roman military guard, headed by a centurion. One of the soldiers carried a sign, titulus, on which the condemned man's name and crime were displayed. Later, the titulus would be attached to the top of the cross. At the site of execution, by law, the victim was given a bitter drink of wine mixed with myrrh, gall, as ...
- 2474: Prayer In Public Schools
- ... blame everything bad in America upon the absence of school prayer, but since the court outlawed prayer in schools, our nation has been in steady moral decline. Teenage pregnancy, teen suicide, child abuse, and violent crime, to name a few, has reached an all time high. There is a strong correlation between the expulsion of prayer from our schools and the decline in morality. Morals must be taught, and they cannot ...
- 2475: Christians: Criminals or Not?
- ... an oath , but not an oath to do anything bad rather an oath only to be good. Not to defraud people , not to do anything evil. I'm baffled a bit about what constitutes their crime, but I still execute some of them. One reason why I execute them is that there are some implicit crimes associated with the name Christian in the minds of people , thats why, when I investigate ...
- 2476: Sacred Cow, Holy Bull
- ... it stated that they would be better off not to. After this law, the Indian people took a different attitude about the cow. Shortly after that a new law was made that made it a crime to steal, hurt or kill a cow. Even if the cow was ill, a person would be punished by the government for any such actions (“Cows” 1). These days the Hindu religion has continued their ...
- 2477: Noah’s Arc, the Rip-Off
- ... both stories are the same. Both sagas start with the earth being extremely populated, with no foreseen break in the continuation of a booming culture. The earth was too full. People were rowdy and reckless. Crime was widespread and grew day to day. The difference pertaining to this, is the reason the flood was sent. Noah’s story rules that the flood was sent because the earth had become corrupt and ...
- 2478: Christianity
- ... also cut peoples ears off, cut them open and squeezed their guts out, and broke all the bones in their bodies and left them to die. All this simply because of being accused of a crime, or because they did not have the same God as the Christians. The period called the Inquisition which was first founded in 1232, brought of more Christian killings. In this era any non-Christian was ...
- 2479: What Is A Hindu?
- ... to fulfill called Dharma. (article, WWW, hindunet.org) If one fulfills one's Dharma, then that person is destined to move up to a better, higher caste in the next life. If one commits a crime, or does not fulfill their Dharma, they move down or eventually become an "untouchable". (Ashok, 52) The "untouchables" are the lowest caste in India. In fact, a lot of people don't even consider them ...
- 2480: The History of the Catholic Church in St. Augustine
- ... bitter provocation under which he acted, both personal and national. This sympathy is not shared with Menendez, who visited his wrath upon the Religious opinions of men, while DeGourges was an unauthorized avenger of undoubted crime and inhumanity. Both, however acted in violation of the pure spirit of Christianity which they alike professed to revere under the same form.” In any case, the Spanish still managed to have control of St ...
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