Kundun Religion

“Kundun” is a movie about the life and the struggles the fourteenth Dalia lama named Kundun. The film traces his life from his early childhood to when the Chinese invade Tibet and he has to flee to India. A very important scene from the movie shows Kundun talking to Chairman Moa, the leader of the communist party of China alone. Chairman Moa ends up telling Kundun that “Religion…is poison.” This quote is significant because of what it means to Moa, how it relates to the struggle of the Dalai Lama and his people, Buddhism, other religions, and history. When Moa says religion is poison, he is trying to tell Kundun that religion is like a drug that “weakens the race.” Kundun talks to moa about all of his new reforms and he even considers some

The Thirty Years’ War, which began in 1618 and ended in 1648 is considered by many historians to one of the most destructive wars in history. The war started when the future Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II, tried to impose Roman Catholic absolutism on his domains. This angered many Protestants and conflict broke out between Catholics and Protestants. Soon, some of the other major European powers got involved in the war, including France, Spain, and Sweden. The Thirty Years’ war lead to the deaths of many people and almost devastated Germany. Germany lost up to twenty percent of its population and a huge amount of land. In this situation, religion defiantly proved be a poison, but this is not the only case. The French Wars of Religions were a series of wars that started in 1562 and ended in 1598. The first war began when the French ruler Catherine de Médicis started to show more tolerance for Huguenots, which angered the Roman Catholic Guise family. In no time, some of its partisans massacred a Huguenot congregation and this lead to uprisings. The conflict between the two regions continued until the Edict of Nates gave Huguenots religious freedom in France. The French Wars of Religion also killed many people and once again religion proved to be a