History of the Orthodox Church

God and Allah condemn homosexual behavior, that homosexuals will not make it through the gates of heaven. The religious groups of Christianity and Islam choose to look at the surface picture of their sacred texts instead of delving deep into the history of The Holy Bible and the Holy Qu’ran. Modern translators have changed the translation of certain words in both The Holy Bible and the Holy Qu’ran to lean more towards homosexuality versus the true meaning of the original word. While God and…

a toilet an estimated 2,500 times each year (or six to eight times daily). As one of humankind’s most efficient and essential forms of maintaining sanitation and preventing disease, the flushing toilet was a byproduct of a special period in human history: the Renaissance. Including the influential invention of the flushing toilet, following the war-stricken period of Medieval Europe, the Renaissance was a time of great-accelerated change that gave rise to new, previously unexplored concepts,…

“Red Terror” (Beck et al., 2005, pp. 517-519). Under the Bolsheviks hundreds of academic professionals and artists were imprisoned and tens of thousands of churches were forced to close while many of the leadership and followers of the Russian Orthodox Church were imprisoned in forced labor camps or outright executed (Spindlove and Simonsen, 2013, pp. 211-212). Another use of terror on a long term basis started in 1970 with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA or IRA) and other smaller…

widely known for his reforms that were used to establish Russia as one great nation. Peter the Great created a strong navy, reorganized his army according to Western standards, secularized schools, administered greater control over the reactionary Orthodox Church, and introduced new administrative and territorial divisions of the country (Peter, 2015). He proved himself as a very effective leader, however, he Peter the Great was also known to be cruel and dictatorial. He was a man who receive…

Christopher Marlowe born in 1564, he was an english playwright, poet, translator of the elizabethan era. He was born to shoemaker John Marlowe. He was just two months older to his contemporary William Shakespeare. He was educated at King’s school Canterbury and at the Cambridge University. He was the foremost elizabethan tragedian of his day. Christopher Marlowe, he was the greatest dramatist of the medieval period. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus was based on German Faustbuch. Marlowe’s…

to power in 1881 he faced very different problems to his predecessor. Serfdom had gone and the new Zemstvos offered political experience. Autocracy still dominated however, and since Alexander III was educated in strictly orthodox ways, the power of the nobility and the church remained strong. Tradition remained very big and the pan Slavs were larger in number than the liberals. Following Alexander III’s death Nicholas II took the crown. He was welcomed with rapid economic growth but there was…

Rich was not a revisionist; rather, he viewed the history from an orthodox perspective. Rich claimed that Hitler did plan on a world war. Hitler did not just want to invade Poland; rather he also planned to make it a world war. Rich says “even during the hardest endurance tests of the Second World War racial dogma…

groups of people, today flamenco is recognized as a national symbol of Spain. Initially it seems difficult to understand how the music of social and political catharsis could transform to a larger national symbol and tradition. But, looking at the history of flamenco, there are a number of significant events that led to not only the development of the new style in Andalusia, but also fusion of flamenco styles across Europe, which allowed the art form to become representative of a larger nation.…

• Trading - Mehmed had a considerable interest in the trading and industrial sector in the nation. and he worked tirelessly on renovating them in all ways possible. Ottomans had a great amount of knowledge about international markets, seaways, roadways and they developed and upgraded old pathways, they also created new bridges which made transportation of goods much easier throughout the empire. Foreign countries had to make deals with the Ottoman Empire in order for them to practice the…

his own definition of religion as having two elements, Religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things which are set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them. (Durkheim 1912/1976:47) Religious identity Erik Erikson’s influential psychosocial theory of development has been used as a model for the past fifty years, showing the development of identity across the…