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- 10611: The Opening of the Crusades: Pope Urban II
- ... of the Crusades: Pope Urban II The series of crusades initiated in the eleventh century brought the West into greater contact with Byzantium and Islam. These crusades demonstrated the expansiveness of the West during the High Middle Ages as well as the increasing power and activism of the papacy. The first of these crusades was called for in 1095 by Pope Urban 11 {n response to a request for help from ...
- 10612: Wicca
- ... she allegedly chose to practice her beliefs, so were the Riley's for choosing to go public with their beliefs. The third article I read was about an average American woman who is also a High Priestess of a Boston area coven. She tells of how traditional Protestant beliefs were not for her, and how Wicca seemed to fit her ideals better. Like the Riley's, she too has been the ...
- 10613: The Sacred Divine
- ... some of the ten commandments, and did not follow the good life, he was consigned to hell. Myself as a six-year- old I never wanted to go to hell. I remember what my Sunday school teachers told of this place where you live in a a fiery pit always in pain. I'm sorry, but that just doesn't sound like fun to me. I began from then on being ...
- 10614: The Spaniard Quietist Miguel de Molinos
- ... conflict arose when the Jesuits begun to question his practices and the teachings found in his writings which at one time were highly praise by the clergy . Molinos has taught that "if souls in a high state of prayer are tempted to commit the most obscene and blasphemous acts, they must not leave their prayer to resist the temptation; the devil if being allowed to humiliate them, and if the actions ...
- 10615: Different Religions
- ... were frequently changing. The Romans changed their religion three times. During the Middle Ages, there was a decline of intelligence, cleanliness, and overall morals. The church became the tax collection agency, the hospital, and the school, which is a direct correlation between the decline in morals. So the increase in power of the church in the Middle Ages was because of a change in morals. The Renaissance was a rebirth of ...
- 10616: Jews
- ... on the Warsaw Ghetto, although separated by nearly two thousand years have and eerie sameness. The Germans sealed off the Warsaw's Jewish population with and eight-foot brick concrete wall. The Romans built a high earthen barricade around Jerusalem to make certain the Jews could not escape. Germans shot, on the spot Jews discovered outside the Warsaw Ghetto. The Romans crucified the Jews they found, placing crosses atop the hill ...
- 10617: Religious Meaning of the Birthright Story
- ... only we could have the same zeal he had, maybe then there wouldn't be some many people in the world content with second best. If a kid does not make the basketball team at school, he should not go home discouraged, he should be out practicing every single day so that when the next chance comes around he will not only be on the team, but the best on the ...
- 10618: Priesthood
- ... by a person who a direct descendent of the tribe of Levi. This tribe is one of the original 12 tribes of Israel as set forth in Genesis 49. There exists among this tribe one High Priests who head of the other priests. He is the only priest who was allowed to view the holy Ark of the Covenant during the existence of the Temple in Jerusalem. These hereditary priests, unlike ...
- 10619: Mind over Matter
- ... on very softly. I guess, for me, the incessant noise of society makes white noise better for concentrating than absolute silence. This time, I quickly sunk into a sense of calm, all my thoughts of school fading away. I imagined myself a monk in the Chin Shan temple, striving for enlightenment. Just to add another level to the activity (by this time is was fairly boring) I attempted to decipher the ...
- 10620: Religion: Judaism or Judaisms?
- ... with varying faith in the many forms of Judaism as it existed toward the end of the Divided Monarchy. Hasmonean / Maccabean and Roman Era This time period in Jewish history is politically tumultuous, leading to high levels of splits and variations in the religion itself. One of the most disruptive types of all wars is a civil war. And this is exactly what occurs at the outset in the Jewish homeland ...
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