Religion's Role In Failure To Address The Conflict Between France And Germany

As quoted by McGrath in his book, French Protestantism to the Present Day. From Britain in the west to Hungary and Poland in the east, thousands of towns and

The rise of Christianity and Islam happened during a turbulent time in history, when major civilizations like the Roman Empire and the Persian Empire were in decline due to political infighting, disease, and outside barbarians constantly applying pressure. Christianity was adopted in the heart of the Roman Empire, as a way to continue the influence of Rome, while not being able to control all of Europe militarily. (Rise of Christianity, 2012) Therefore, early Christianity, as adopted by Rome, was about maintaining influence in the continent through the use of priests and monarchs under a feudalist system of control. The main benefit of Christianity came from its use of Latin and the Bible, a common language across the old Roman Empire, as well as a new technology in books that enabled priests to record extremely deep and convincing stories in an easily index able format. The Roman pagan religion used tablets for its mode of communication, tablets which could not hold very much information at all, and that lost legitimacy compared to the life of Jesus and the depth of the biblical writing style. Christianity rose during an age of danger in Europe, and the feudal system with knights and castles was simply the most beneficial system of governance that humanity had. (Stark, 1996)

Religion has played a big part of history around the world. Through religion we have learned so much about different cultures, beliefs and Traditions. Some of the religions that we discover in history are still dominate religions until this day. The Christianity and Islam Religion are two of the most practiced religions around the world today. From Christianity and Islam you get Christians and Muslims. The Christians and Muslims during the Crusades have similar and not so similar views on personal virtues and religious practices.

Importance of the Weaknesses of the French Crown in Explaining the Outbreak of the French Wars of Religion in 1562

The eight wars of religion escalated thought-out 36 years, with intermittent interruptions. The Protestant progressing originated in Northern Europe in the early 16th century. but escalated in the 19th century. It began as a reaction to the Medieval Roman Catholic doctrine and practices. After a procession of European religious wars in the 16th and 17th centuries, and especially in the 19th century, it spread throughout the world. Wherever Protestantism arose, it altered the social, economic, political, and cultural life of the area The wars would end with the Edict of Nantes an edict that ingrained a limited tenacity. Frances struggle with religious turmoil between Catholics and Protestants was an ongoing crisis, however, the Spaniards belief in religion provided vast support to the moral code and allowed the police authoritative power of the state to loosen its grip on the community. History shows that atheistic, totalitarian states used force rather than religion to enforce obedience to government tyranny1 .

Discuss the political, economic, and religious developments in France during the reign of King Louis XIV, and how the other states of Europe reacted to create a 'balance of power' designed to check France's rise in power and influence both in Europe and overseas.

Politics and religion in the world of today aren’t subjects that generally go hand in hand in our own society. This was not always the case however; in Europe the two were synonymous up until relatively recently, (recently meant in the loosest sense of the word,) and are still closely tied in foreign parts of the world, the most obvious example being the Middle East. The duos intimate relationship was exemplified during the late sixteenth century, extending into the seventeenth century, during a series of wars which would later on come to be called “the wars of religion.” But is this title completely appropriate? For wars claiming to be centered on religion, they seem to carry an awfully heavy load of political baggage. In fact, one

In this paper, I will be discussing the French Religious Wars that took place on March 1582 and lasted till April 1598. This war was fought between the Roman Catholics or “Catholic League” and the Huguenots.

Prussia was a kingdom that existed nearly half a millennium ago as a patchwork of territorial fragments, with no significant resources founded yet or a coherent culture. With its capital in Berlin, “Prussia grew from being a small, poor, disregarded medieval state into one of the most vigorous and powerful nations in Europe.”1 Prussia 's involvement in the continent 's foundational religious and political conflagrations. From the devastations of the Thirty Years War through centuries of political machinations to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. From the enlightenment of Frederick the Great to the destructive conquests of Napoleon. Then from the "Iron and Blood" policies of Bismarck to the creation of the German Empire in 1871, and all that implied for the tumultuous twentieth century.

This excerpt from Pierre de l’Estoile’s writings highlights the use of propaganda to justify and spread Catholic fears and contempt towards the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion. During the conflict, predictions were a type of propaganda issued by both Catholics and Protestants; the “prediction” mentioned in the text anticipated the dissipation of all Churches in France, the persecution of Catholics, and the arrival of German Protestants who would aid the Huguenots in their quest to establish control in France. Due to its content, many presumed that the Huguenots issued the prediction; however, because Catholic propaganda deliberately and convincingly utilized both Protestant language and ideals, it’s difficult to determine a

Religion in Europe before and during 1848, the year the Communist Manifesto was written, was full of trials and tribulations. This is not a new thing for religion, ever since the creation of religion there has been problems. Religion is the one uncertainty that has caused disputes even wars in the past and in the present. Religion is discussed briefly in the Communist Manifesto. However, There is enough content about religion to see Karl Marx’s views on the matter but he does not go into depth on those views. Religion around the time of the Communist Manifesto was very unstable; two events prior to this time that contributed to this instability are the Separation of Christianity

The year was 1870. After years of muted acrimony, France finally declared war on Prussia-what we now know today as Germany. Under Emperor Napoleon III's militaristic guide, France sought to conquer the leading state. Unfortunately, the French bit off more than they can handle. On 2 September 1870, not only did the overpowering German forces conquer the French army in a humiliating defeat, they also lost Alsace and Lorraine.

They relate to each other by the influence religion had on the people and politics influenced religion by manipulating it into their own benefit. The Catholic Church signed the concordat of 1933, which in their point of view would benefit them, by obtaining freedom, leaving the vatican the right to communicate with German churches , and continue collecting taxes and donations, once the Nazis obtained what they needed they broke their agreement and arrested whoever opposed them, to prevent the people from being influenced. Equally affected was the Protestant Church, which since it was divided into Anti-Nazis and Supporters, it was easier to control. The Reich Church was controlled by the Nazis and The Anti-Nazis Protestant Church were sent to concentration camps if they opposed. To conclude, during Nazi Germany the relation between religion and politics was not at all independent, politics in this case had an influence on religion and approved or prohibited what the church could say and up to what level they could influence, allowing the government to gain

Religion has its shares of promoting violence. Many will argue that a cause of religion wars is for economic and political reasons, but others argue that those who start wars are, by definition, not religious. In reality, separating religion out of economic and political motives can be involved in such a way finding religious motives innocent of much. Excuses for Christianity responsibilities cannot be accepted whether the person has misappropriated the message of Christ. The primarily set of doctrines is not Christianity, but by living through past background it personified the visible actions of Christians. In other words, Christianity, Islam or any other religion has no intention of excusing from survey. Given certain conditions,

European French and German don’t look different regarding culture, personalities. First of all: French is (partly) a Mediterranean country, this has a huge difference on the personalities culture, etc. Mediterranean countries and people tend to share a lot in culture temperament etc. Also, French is a strong Latin influence, as a former part of the Roman empire sprawling from Egypt and Minor Asia to England. This does make a difference while Germans do also have been part of the Roman Catholic world for ages, they do have a different level of integration with this distinct Roman culture that shaped the western civilization. French is seemed to be a little bit more approachable (although with the barrier of language) on average from most Germans (Huwaë & Schaafsma, 2017). Not so direct or easy going but again they do have a Mediterranean “flavor” on them. Similarly, France maintains a tradition of secularism and has not officially collected data on religious affiliation since the 1872 national census, which complicates assessments of France's religious composition while Germans have Roman Catholic 29%, Protestant 27%, Muslim 4.4%, Orthodox Christian 1.9%, other 1.7%, none or members of unrecorded religious groups 36%