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…master or patron, she had little choice but to become his concubine.” Christian conception of marriage is completely opposite to that which emerges from Germanic laws. Christian marriage is based on the free consent of both partners. This Christian vision…

…a devout society a set of rules that are believed to be punishable by an omnipotent non-human entity. Whether or not the religion is Christian, which believes a ritual turns bread and wine into flesh and blood, or the Ibo religion, which believes…

…period influencing even the way the world works today. This despise of the Papacy from the Europeans did no only bring about not only a breakaway from the Catholic Church but ultimately Christianity as a whole resulting in a almost completely secular…

…think that Christianity and Hinduism would have nothing in common, but in some ways there are some similarities between the two. In this comparison that I am making one can find these similarities and differences. To define Hinduism is very nearly impossible…

…the poem. “The Inferno is part epic, modeled in some ways on Virgil's Aeneid. It is also a deeply Christian poem full of traditional symbolism, describing a Hell quite differently from that of the Ancients”(Chiarenza 82-83). Hell is not simply the underworld…

…killed four Phalangists during an attempt on Pierre Jumayyil's life. Perhaps believing the assassins to have been Palestinian, the Phalangists retaliated later that day by attacking a bus carrying Palestinian passengers across a Christian neighborhood, killing…

…between the warrior's code on one side and Christianity of the antithetical side. The warrior code calls for the knight to "defy death in acts of heroism and thereby gain worldly fame" (55). However, the Christian doctrine demands that the knight surrender…

…). The Hindu creation myth clearly shows that God did not differentiate between His creations, and valued them equally. Hence he entered into every being including humans. The Christian creation myth seems like a combination of Islamic and Hindu myths. According…

…the 1960s. Liberal groups started the trend, but conservative groups are now just as common. <Tab/>To better define the role of Interest Groups it is important to look at the emergence and history of the Christian Coalition (hereafter CC). Knowing…

…Crusade. The facts. The year was 1095 and the Arabs had for over 400 years been controlling the sacred land, Palestine. Arabs at that time wasn't called Arabs but they where called Mohammedans or "the unfaithful" by the Christian people. The Arabs where…