What Are The Abuse Of Religion In Medieval Times

Mark Moon

Mr. Adams

Honors World History P-3

17 March 2017

The Abuse of Religion Throughout history, religion has been used as an excuse for violence and transgression against other people. Such as in medieval times, Christians led crusades and ransacked cities while in modern times, Al Qaeda, an Islamic extremist group was responsible for the Twin Tower attacks. Just as a knife can be used to help and harm someone, religion can be used to create a positive society or to manipulate people into doing horrible things. Rulers and people of good and bad have kept this paradigm going for centuries.

In medieval times, Christians went on Crusades, or religious expeditions, to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims. The first crusade started on 1095

It gave temporary power to the current Pope at the time, Pope Sylvester I. It had gone unnoticed until it was clearly shown that it was a forgery in the fifteenth century by Lorenzo Valla after he showed that its’ vernacular writing style was dated in the eighth century, instead of the fourth when it was supposedly made. The other arguement he made was that the document used the word ‘satrap’ which he believes that Romans like Constantine I wouldn’t use. It was considered one of the best forgeries in history, as it not only gavethe Pope land, but it also gave him full power over all the land given to the church throughout Constantine’s empire and partial control of Antioch, Alexandria, Constantinople, and Jerusalem. The contents of the documents included the tale of the conversion of Constantine to Christianity after Sylvester I miraculously cured him of leprosy. It also explains the importance of Rome to the Church because it is the city of the apostles Peter and Paul. The second part of the forgery is where the actual donation is

There are two types of Christianity in this massacre, Catholic, and Huguenot (or Protestant). Henri the duke of Guise being the Catholic and Gaspard de Coligny being the Huguenot, being different sects of Christianity hated each other thinking one another were heretic. On August twenty-forth, Henri decides to send men to assassinate him and throw his body out the window of his bedroom. The Catholic majority on his side soon Mutilates his body and cuts multiple limbs and body parts and drags it across the street. The Catholics seeing that the King killed Gaspard de Coligny and the Mutilation of the body unleashes their explosive hatred upon the Huguenots and killed thousands of their kind. In the days that followed, three thousand were killed in Paris and eight thousand more were killed in other neighboring cities. The remainder of the Huguenots left and were forced to