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11 group 1 (I forgot to put a heading on this last Thursday. It was deleted.
Sorry)
The inquisition was a series of trials held in the
16th century questioning writers, philosophers, and peasants who
spoke of god in a manner that was not Catholic. This was during the Renaissance
period and it was a great time of reformation of religion. People began to live
openly on their own independent religious or spiritual beliefs. I find it
interesting how the book expresses at this early time period “anyone who
questioned religious doctrine” was commonly called Lutheran. Lutheran is now a
religion practiced by many people. Noel Journet questioned The Book of Moses in
the Bible claiming he could not have written the Book of Deuteronomy because it
talks about his death. He claimed it was a “fable”. The Inquisition burned him
with his books. Menocchio was a peasant.
He became mayor of his village. He spoke of the air being God. He explained God
was made up of different combinations of things and how people perceive them.
He felt it was impossible for the Virgin Mary to give birth to baby Jesus. There
were many secret Lutheran groups. Geneva was a town where people could openly
express their religious beliefs. Menocchio was sentenced to solitary
confinement for years. Bruno was a priest who spoke of the position of bodies
being relative to one another. He was accused of having an outrageous
scientific theory. He believed God was “the same thing as the universe, and the
world as we know it”. He was thrown in a dungeon for six years. He then
attacked the professors for mocking his ideas and he was burned at the stake. By
the end of the 16th century the king had his Catholic noblemen kill
about “100 reformed church friends and family members”. He feared what they
might do. It started more killings by Catholics that grew to 3000 people.
Fact: What term was used commonly by people to
describe anyone who questioned the religious doctrine? Lutheran
Discussion: The king having killed because people
had reformed from the Catholic religion and were independent is a prime example
of how someone can use religion to gain power over large masses of people. Do
you think the trials would have ended in death if they were more evolved? Or do
you think the idea of having power and control over people by killing the
accused would have been more important? We must live under a system that
operates for the better of society. I think exceeding the limitations of power
by denying people of their rights and their freedom is reversing the idea of
evolving into a better life for society.
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