Documentary Summary: 'No Rest For The Wicked'

"No Rest For The Wicked" The ambition of the Protestant Reformation was to "place God everywhere," when in actuality it made today's world even more secular than it was. The main goal was to create a world of profit in a strong world of morality. The documentary follows the Protestant religion's beginnings to the present day. In the 1536, a young pastor named John Calvin was recruited to start a new church in Geneva following a break from the Roman Catholic Church. Calvin was inspired by Martin Luther another French theologian whose temperament was fun than that of Calvin's. However, both men had similar beliefs. They believed in predestination and that faith was the only way to salvation. By the sixteenth century, things began

Barbados was a very rich island because of its number one commodity - sugar. The Anglican ministers brought slaves to the island to work the sugar plantations. Approximately three million slaves died during transportation from Africa. The Anglican ministers used the bible to justify slavery by twisting the words and message; a moral blindness that never challenges the issue of slavery head on. This drove a rift between Protestants and a group of non-conformers demanded that the Methodist ministers take a stand. The Anglican church collapsed and the Methodist minister was now trying to win the hearts and minds of these oppressed

Now there is not only minority slavery, but also the underclass were in slavery bondage of factory work. When slavery was abolished, the Anglican church gave money to the slave owners for their "losses." Ninety percent of the factory workers were Anglican and were exploited. Conditions in the factories were deplorable, and people like Eliza Marshall were damaged for life. She was the nine year old girl who worked from five in the morning until eleven at night. An Anglican campaigner named Michael Sadler was gripped by moral indignation and pursued legislation to protect women and children. It was writers like William Blake who shed light on the darkness of the factory. His poetry demonstrates his sensitivity of the mutated worker and the evil