We of the West definitively
put wars of religion behind us with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648.
Not exact matches
while the writer has little knowledge
of the bible, he is also greatly lacking what he should know to write such a article, the laws give to people
of all walks
of life is the commandments given by moses,
religion does not have anything to do with goverments laws or rulings, he told us straight the one law that there is no forgiveness for is murder, rulers and goverments take it upon themselves to make the decision whether to go to
war, or if a person should be
put to death, as far as jesus and the apostles are concerned thier labours was a work
of love and true humanitarian towards all peoples, races,
religions, they never asked for anything for themselves, and they never took from one to give to another.
While Morelos's Constitution
of Apatzingán was never
put into practice, the plan
of Iguala (1821), drawn up by Iturbide after independence, also confirmed the official status
of Catholicism as the state
religion and denied toleration to all other
religions.32 The
war for independence, in other words, was reasonably conservative in purpose, especially with respect to the church.
Quit
putting us in
wars over
religion... we have enough problems on this planet to deal with as a species... real problems that will take all
of us, working TOGETHER, to solve.
However the enlightenment didn't
put a stop to
wars, even Richard Dawkins talks
of WWI and WWII not being about
religion.
In describing and accounting for the lives
of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance
of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy
of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise
of what has been called the New Right out
of the ashes
of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural
war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election
of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was,
of all things, a Democrat; the rise
of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching
of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil
war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between
religion and politics or, as we usually
put it, between church and state.
Fox believed that men should be guided by the Inner Light, protested against formalism in
religion, advocated an extreme democracy which would
put men and women on a basis
of equality, stressed simplicity in dress, food, and speech, opposed all participation in
war, and insisted on truth - speaking.
Many theories have been
put forward for the downfall
of Angkor, from
war with the Siamese to erosion
of the state
religion.