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Martin Luther's Views On Science And Religion

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Science deals with knowledge and the study of the world. It focuses with religion such as live in China and India and their beliefs for society. What would happen if Europe never had scientific revolution? What way would Uac Newton and Martin Luther have impacted a way in science and religion in this world?
Science has 4 rules. These rules don't only follow for science, but for outside resonas like beliefs as well. Rule number three states, “Science can predict the results of experiments not yet done,” Also, rule 2 states, “answers do not change with location.” This shows how countries all over the world use science and interpret it in all ways such as religious beliefs.
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His goal was for ordinary people to read the Bible for themselves and formulate their own beliefs, theory rendering the professional clergy of the catholic Church useless and obsolete.” (Pg.6, What Made Martin Luther So Mad?) If Luther did not have his backup followers, His goal for the people to translate the Bible from Latin to German, for the christians wouldn't have come true. The past christianity views could have stayed the same and gotten worse for the christians and their future. There wouldn't have been any thoughts otherwise than to stick to what the beliefs where then without any open mind to say otherwise. Without a scientific revolution in Europe, how would the change for christianity ever happened? How would people's thoughts be interpreted or put into religion and beliefs. How would they have a …show more content…

In India, they are forced to their spiritual world and that karma was the only way reincarnation would be possible. In legalism, china was very direct with orders, “all books, save the memoirs of Qin, will be burned. Those who dare to talk to each other about books should be executed and their bodies exposed in the marketplace. Anyone referring to the past to criticize the present should, together will all family, be put to death.” (Pg1, Philosophies of China Compare and Contrast). In India, one of the main focus was reincarnation. Which is rebirth in a new life after death. Hinduism and jainism both shared the same thoughts of reincarnation. Hinduism-”We are continually suffering through a never ending karma- driven cycle of birth, death, and reincarnation.” Jainism-”Mahavir mediated for twelve years to achieve liberation from samsara the endless cycle of death and reincarnation.” (Pg, 2, Religions of india). Without a path from history of the scientific revolutions knowledge, China and india's religions beliefs would be known today. Non existent. China and India's beliefs for religion are based on basic science and laws that they're forced to follow their God and what he tells them to

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Martin Luther writes a letter specifically to Pope Leo X to address the 'evils" within the Roman Catholic Church (96). Luther states various reasons to challenge the church and Pope Leo X. One of his reasons to challenge the authority of Pope Leo X is because he feels that the pope has cheated "the people of Christ" and feels the responsibility of a "debtor" to restore the good (98). He claims that the pope and his cardinals have taken no actions to stop the overflow of "worst things" into Rome. Martin states his discontent with the pope and his people because according to him they have not done their duty to "apply a remedy to these evils" (98). Luther's other reason to challenge the pope is "not from any desire to teach, but as a duty" (104).

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