People just stopped caring about everyone else’s religion and the public discourse and popular culture turned more to matters of politics, economics, sociology, science and philosophy, which is why the Enlighten -ment was the intellectual power house it was. When it’s two competing sects of one religion, though, there are specific things to disagree on, and you get much more pointed arguments, as we saw with Christianity, and as I touched on in Judaism, though it’s much less of a right-wrong binary there, but that’s for its own reasons. Muslims are expected to adhere to the Koran’s teachings along with the Hadith, the reported sayings and acts of Mohammed, and the Sira, the collection of the official biographies of Mohammed. However at the end of each council the bishops would vote on which side would be adopted as the official belief. According to the Sumerian king list, Uruk was founded by Enmerkar, who brought the official kingship with him. Who a, wait Guys – aren’t we all here because we love Jesus? Eph 2:10 says “For we are His masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand in order that we would walk in them”. In other words, you are unable to recognize the medicine.

It also has a tendency to test whether people are worthy of receiving its power through a mysterious cube. Later, “God” communicates with Saitama, Flashy Flash, and Manako after they touch a cube. These are the attributes that God has ascribed to Himself or that his prophets have mentioned. God and forget about prayer. The Rosary is a prayer that always accompanies me; it is also the prayer of the ordinary people and the saints … 41. Jost, Walter. 2004. Rhetorical Investigations: Studies in Ordinary Language Criticism. These features make them further unlike birds and are evidence of just how diverse their lifestyles were during prehistoric times. It’s because of all this that we went back to the good old days, you know, when wars were fought for sensible reasons like politics and territorial disputes and centuries – old grudges between two countries that should probably just make up and kiss already.

It’s not going to make everyone happy, because being disagreed with feels kinda ughh, but being happy all the time is less important than being good to people. It’s thanks to the fact that everyone calmed down and got on that whole diversity of thought bandwagon that we ever got the Enlightenment in the following century at all, which is almost universally accepted as being a very good thing. The Wahhabi movement and its funding by Saudi Arabia is often described as being responsible for the popularity of contemporary Islamic fundamentalism. Nowadays many travel agencies started offering Saudi Umrah visa issued which is cheap and easy to get. Since a lot of Europe was kind of thinking the same thing as Martin Luther, and since the new invention of the printing press half a century before made large-scale communication a breeze, protest-ant-ism – Protestantism as it was called, get it – spread rapidly through the north. I think if we start from the platform that we all have a lot to learn about each other, we can do way more good than if we just assume we already know everything about everything. I’ll go into more detail when I cover Judaism in its own video, but basically it was an accepted and fundamental part of the culture to present individual interpretations of sacred texts and debate their respective merits with the understanding that there was unlikely to be one right answer.

You can check out Red’s series on Dante’s Divine Comedy for more on this, but the idea is that if you sinned, you can repay the church to cut down on the amount of time your soul has to spend in purgatory before ascending to heaven. Respect of woman in Islam might be evaluated by every living soul. I think sometimes the only option is to agree to disagree on certain things and respect the other person’s opinion. I like to think of it as an uncanny valley of religion. This is the fundamental unfortunate side effect of one of Christianity’s greatest strengths, for all the good it’s done, and please don’t think I’m underselling the importance of the orphanages, schools, hospitals and medical missions Christianity has consistently been a huge proponent of for centuries. This was all well and good until there were so many people coming up with their own interpretations that each person believed was totally right and that everyone else, especially Catholics, were obviously dead wrong, and then you get fighting – a lot of fighting.