Why the bloody religion Essays - Religion And Politics,

Wesley Prude 10/5/2014 Jacob Selwood History 4990 1:00-2:45pm Why the bloody religion? Project Description: This composition will debate the peculiar relationship in early modern England between the contradicting policies of religious intolerance and brutality with the nonviolent religious principles of Christianity. It will also discuss the attitudes of the citizens of the empire towards these religious policies before, during and following the conclusion of the English Revolution. This essay will be a comprehensive piece covering the English Isle, Scotland, Ireland and Wales from the years 1620 to 1670. While discussing this topic this composition will also investigate the use of propaganda and labeling to influence the attitudes of the mass population and justify the violence used in the name of religion. This treatise will first discuss the use of violence and labeling in the policies passed by the English government. It will then expose the tactics used in media before the war to give good reason for the persecution of all citizens practicing sects of Christianity contrary to the Chur ch of England by the government. There will be a brief sojourner where this essay will touch on the methods used by the monarchy to persecute these religious individuals. After the breakout of the Civil war this thesis shall focus on the newsletters and other such media published during the breakout of the Civil War to better understand public opinion throughout this event. This essay will also discuss how this topic is interpreted by scholars in history. Then to conclude it will discuss how the aftermath of this revolution affected the attitudes of the citizens of the empire as a whole towards the religious policy of the monarchy. Historiography: Since its founding principles of Christianity dictated that followers should learn to love their neighbors and turn the other cheek at offenses made at them. It is typically categorized by its non-violent message. Despite this fact the history of the Christian religion remains littered with brutality. One pivotal instance of this occurrence is the event known as the English Revolution, during which countless citizens of the English empire were killed in what was justified as a holy war. This event is given an assortment of names because of the ambiguousness of its true purpose, but What began originally as a revolution of the bourgeois over the economic policies of the King Charles and lead to the temporary abolition of the English monarchy, it soon became a war of rivaling Christian sects. Catholics, Protestants as well as several other sects all battled one another in what became known as the War of the Three Kingdoms. The main participants of this conflict England, Scotland and W ales each had their own particular sect of Christianity that was practiced by the majority of their inhabitants.