Rebels in Medieval Times

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In present times there are laws about religion being separate from government. In medieval and renaissance times things were not the same. Religion played a big part in everyday life and also in huge government decisions. At the start of these religiously ruled times the only source of religious guidance was the Roman Catholic Church. Therefore the Roman Catholic Church was the leading power of the medieval times. There were some in the common crowd who decided that the Roman Catholic Church was wrong for wanting all the power and started fighting back. The names of a few of these people are Martin Luther, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Galileo Galilei. They were some of the famous theologists and scientist of their times and because of their research they were the most capable of fighting against the church. Martin Luther was the first of the three mentioned to start fighting the church, and it was Galileo Galilei who was at the tail end of them with Copernicus in the middle. The three of them, with a few of their colleagues, were able to steal the power of the church and give it to the people lower down the ladder through what the church called heretical and pernicious doctrine. With that doctrine and persistence the “thinkers” of the Middle Ages took power from the church and brought it to more deserving people and they were completely correct in doing so. This was the start of a religious revolution and also separation of church and state. The church because of its governmental power was able to do many more things in the Middle Ages than are currently possible, today the churches in the United States are not able to control any part of our government as stated by the constitution as a separation of church and state. The Catholic C... ... middle of paper ... ...ules that you would be able to give up your lives for it. Some of the theologists and scientists of the medieval times did have that. Luther had to give up many of his friends and followers when the church came out with the Edict of worms. Copernicus was ridiculed by the non-thinkers of the world because he had the strength to put out his work even though he knew it would happen. Galileo was taken in front of a court twice to speak for the apparent crime of teaching what he believed to be right. All of these people were strong enough to stand up to the church and every time that each one of them did it gave the normal people, who were not in the church or positions of ruling, a little power. They started something that has affected us greatly by rightfully taking away the governmental power of the church. They were the fathers of religious change in the renaissance.

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