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Christianity, the most important religion in the world. The most common. Most worshipped. Most loved. In all religions, none represent such a powerful god; Jesus Christ.
From the day of your birth you could be Christian – all someone needed to do was bless you in a vat of holy water. A wee little baby could be considered part of the Christian family and one of God’s people simply after baptism.
For a typical Christian, life on earth was far less a value than ever lasting life in heaven where you’d be free from all suffering, all pain and lust – basically have nothing but happiness. At times of disaster such as famine or floods. They were sure Jesus would be able to help them with any problem they had.
In a Christian’s eyes all were in equal. Anyone who was a noble man or noble woman easily gained their entry to heaven. No woman were excluded from this religion like they are in our society; they could participate in all they wanted to. Some could be nuns, (which meant they would never marry). However, woman were not allowed to order conduct in the church.
Going to heaven or hell was determined by the forgiveness of one’s sins. If you were sorry for them and forgave yourself for committing them, the chances were that you would go to heaven. They believed anyone Saracen would suffer in the fires of hell. The churches wanted to prevent this all they could and in the early days they tried to convert as many people to Christianity as they possibly could.
Christianity soon became tolerant of other religions such as Jewish and Muslim people. They never persecuted or murdered anyone simply for being another religion like Ancient Rome had done to them.
Pope Gregory came up with the idea of purgatory; a place where the souls who had committed little sin went off into a place where they were to wait until heaven’s gates finally opened for them.
The church wanted to protect its religion all it could and tried to keep people from soiling its name by setting up a special court in the twelfth century to deal with a serious offence called “Heresy.” Heretics were people who held different beliefs from those of the church doctrine. The court was called Inquisition, which meant “inquiry” or “investigation.” If the person did not confess right away they were often tortured. For those found guilty of heresy, they were burned at the stake. The Roman Catholic Church considered it to be justified punishment to keep from spreading evil ideas to people.
From the day of your birth you could be Christian – all someone needed to do was bless you in a vat of holy water. A wee little baby could be considered part of the Christian family and one of God’s people simply after baptism.
For a typical Christian, life on earth was far less a value than ever lasting life in heaven where you’d be free from all suffering, all pain and lust – basically have nothing but happiness. At times of disaster such as famine or floods. They were sure Jesus would be able to help them with any problem they had.
In a Christian’s eyes all were in equal. Anyone who was a noble man or noble woman easily gained their entry to heaven. No woman were excluded from this religion like they are in our society; they could participate in all they wanted to. Some could be nuns, (which meant they would never marry). However, woman were not allowed to order conduct in the church.
Going to heaven or hell was determined by the forgiveness of one’s sins. If you were sorry for them and forgave yourself for committing them, the chances were that you would go to heaven. They believed anyone Saracen would suffer in the fires of hell. The churches wanted to prevent this all they could and in the early days they tried to convert as many people to Christianity as they possibly could.
Christianity soon became tolerant of other religions such as Jewish and Muslim people. They never persecuted or murdered anyone simply for being another religion like Ancient Rome had done to them.
Pope Gregory came up with the idea of purgatory; a place where the souls who had committed little sin went off into a place where they were to wait until heaven’s gates finally opened for them.
The church wanted to protect its religion all it could and tried to keep people from soiling its name by setting up a special court in the twelfth century to deal with a serious offence called “Heresy.” Heretics were people who held different beliefs from those of the church doctrine. The court was called Inquisition, which meant “inquiry” or “investigation.” If the person did not confess right away they were often tortured. For those found guilty of heresy, they were burned at the stake. The Roman Catholic Church considered it to be justified punishment to keep from spreading evil ideas to people.