Heresy

ways of the church. He stated, “It surely is harmful to souls to make it heresy to believe what is proved.” He was ultimately confined to house arrest towards the end of his life. Galileo is responsible for developing modern astronomy. He enlightened many people during the Renaissance in Italy, and he continues to enlighten all of us today. He caused major advancements in science during the Renaissance and created an easier way of thinking. Although the task was very hard and nobody believed…

million lives saved from the immense hardship that is bound to affect them. Not only should abortion be legal, it should be a human’s natural right. Now, I realize I just opened the floodgates to rage driven arguments and claims of religious heresy. If you have a television, you know that the abortion topic has been on America's newsreel for years. Statistics shows…

“The Church believed that the reason for Pope Gregory IX's creation of the Inquisition was to bring order and legality to the process of dealing with heresy, since there had been tendencies in the mobs of townspeople to burn alleged heretics without much of a trial”. The inquisition started in Eastern Europe on 1208 to 1834. This is an age of boiling religious fervor. The holy Roman empire is determined…

"First they came for the Communists, - but I was not a communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, - but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, - but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me." Although this poem by Martin Niemoller speaks about the failure of good people to act soon enough against the Nazis, it could also apply to the characters of…

In “The Scarlet Ibis” it states “For a long time, it seemed forever, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain”(Hurst). The disadvantage that Doodle had affected him and caused him to pass away. What makes it worse is all he ever tried to do was make it happy while some may say it’s his brothers fault that Doodle died. They could say it’s his brothers…

Martin Luther was born in Eisleben, Germany on November 10, 1483, and died on February 18, 1546. He was a German professor of theology, a composer, and an influential figure in the Protestant Reformation. He was also a German monk who wanted to change things about the Catholic Church, and this is the main reason why he wrote the theses. He wrote the Ninety-Five Theses, also known as the Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences, to debate a list of questions and propositions. He…

Why would anyone knowingly marry a serial killer? In the most recent installment of Philippa Gregory’s Tudor Court series, The Taming of the Queen, the answer to that question becomes all too clear: because he is the KING! Kateryn Parr, the final Queen in the reign of Henry VIII, is the subject of this latest piece of historical fiction. Picking up shortly after the execution of Katherine Howard, King Henry’s fifth wife, this book introduces the world to the little known Queen Kateryn. With…

Pride, a term that is typically linked with a positive meaning. It can be used to show that someone is proud of their achievements or something significant that happened in their lives. In some cases pride can be overdone and given a negative meaning. It is possible that one can have too much pride and not always make good decisions concerning themselves and others. In the novella, Of Mice and Men,by John Steinbeck, pride is seen in a good way, for the reason that George takes care of Lennie,…

The Medical Renaissance: The Cardiovascular System Medical care today is something whose history and presence we take for granted. It is sterile, highly regulated, and only exercised by trained, experienced professionals. However, before and during the Middle Ages, medical care was almost nonexistent—due in large part to our lack of knowledge, or lack of correct knowledge, of how the human body functioned. Almost all of our understandings of the human body had been from Galen in Ancient…

As he got older he began to distance himself from the strict Muslim beliefs and started seeing value in other religions. As expected, this caused some outrage among his Muslim followers and allies, as it was seen as heresy. He had created a forum for the scholars of all religions to come and debate the merits of their faith. He founded the Religion of God or “Divine Faith” which took aspects of a number of religions and merged them together. This new religion didn’t…