Religion

By Gabby, Jasika, and Emily 8.4

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During the Italian Renaissance we saw new innovations, where advancements in science clashed with the classic knowledge of religious creation, provoking a new way of faith and practicing Christianity. People communicated with God on their own, rather than through the church. Do you notice this continued in the present day? Are new findings in science forcing people to re-evaluate their worldview?

During the Italian Renaissance we saw how the humanist thinkers of questioned the church and their ideas on god. This led up to inquisitions, conflicts and rivalry between the church, its followers and the humanist thinkers. Do you see the same type of behavior today, where people question the churches ways of teachings? Specifically do we see within churches a conflict rising between the followers and the priest?

The Renaissance was a time when the recent, medieval view of life as simply a part of the journey to get to heaven was revived and reoriented. As new and exciting ideas began to develop and emerge, people began living the life they had and started believing that it could be the “Good Life” as well as the after life. What is people’s view of life in the current day? Specifically, is it more similar to the view of those from the medieval times, or those from the Renaissance?

The Printing Press was a new innovation in the Renaissance. The printing press helped spread new ideas by printing books and new newspapers. The Printing Press printed the bible for all to buy and read. The people started doubting what the church said compared to the bible. So they listened less to the church and more to the bible by going back to the source. Do you see people trying to learn by themselves/being independent learners? Specifically do you see people questioning what they were originally taught?

**Gabby** Since the renaissance they has been a wide spread flourishing of new branches and seeds of Religion. “In the first century there were many, many religions but Christianity was the one that flourished and became a dominant religion and spread out” spoke Keith D'Eall, Pastor, Varsity Bible Church, when responding to the question **During the Italian Renaissance we saw new innovations, where advancements in science clashed with the classic knowledge of religious creation, provoking a new way of faith and practicing Christianity. People communicated with God on their own, rather than through the church. Do you notice this continued in the present day? Are new findings in science forcing people to re-evaluate their worldview?** We discovered the rate at which scientific knowledge is growing is huge and accelerating and there has been an increase in new religions. In the renaissance (before martin luther and the reformation) the Christian religion was simply Catholic. Now there are over 20,000 cultural groups. Keith believes that Yes, People are more individualistic in their faith and yes, new findings in science are making people re-evaluate their worldview. Specifically he believes that scientists should still be able to do, and people still observe, following in the footsteps of God. He also believes that if someone has the will it is always possible to invent new ideas, or expand on others, and be more individualistic, they just have to have the will, which they do, as seen in our many new branches and cultural groups, first evolving by sheer will and ability of one individual. He states “For every person who gets a bible in their hands, there is going to be a pope in every pulpit. Every creature who has a bible now can say what they think and can say this is the word of the Lord.” By this he means there is the ability for individualism now, so everybody can form and foster their own beliefs about the word of God, and have confidence that that is the correct word of the Lord, because they read it from the bible. But really it’s the way they're interpreting it that counts.

"Christianity started out as a branch of Judaism. Jesus was a Jew and as were his followers. Christianity became a new religion Jesus came back from the grave and started to change everything," says our expert Keith D'Eall, Pastor, Varsity Bible Church. Before that there were many other religions but Christianity rose and was more wide spread than all the other. It soon became the dominant religion and spread out to Rome. It became the largest religion. Christianity was also associated with political leader, like the priest. When these leaders acted badly people began to lose faith in god because the priest was suppose to be god’s representatives. This still happens today, for example when one of the bishops was caught molesting a child in the Maritimes, people began to separate from the church. Also some people don’t like organized religions and so now we get all these different branches of religion all over the world. They associate the failures of the organization with god and it’s because of the loss of faith in the leaders. Also new discoveries in science are also leading to people question their worldview and belief in god.
 * __Jasika:__**

People think to scientiificaly to believe in god and super natural forces.

Emily: Basicly our expert sees people learning on his or her own and sometimes even taking religion into their own hands to learn by themselves to be come better educated. He believes that there should always be a final authority like the church for the Christians. He thinks that following religion is a good way of life but people shouldn’t take it so seriously. ·

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