Contents Theology 2

Question 1

Card #1: Reformation

1. Protestant Reformation
2. Corruption in the Catholic Church: Simony
3. Many priest were virtually illiterate
4. Critics of the church.
5. Diet of Worms (1521)
6. Spread of Lutheranism
7. Revolt. Twelve Articles 100,000 peasants die during uprising.
8. Peace of Augsburg
9. Spread of Protestantism. Puritans in England
10. English Reformation
11. Henry the VIII
12. Anglican Church

Answer 1

Card #2: Reformation

1. Protestant and Catholic Doctrine
2. Catholic reformation
3. Council of Trent: Dogma for next 4 centuries.
4. Index of Forbidden Books
5. Results of Reformation

Question 2

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Card #3: Timeline of Christianity

1. Ancient: Egyptians give us our very first record of God.
2. The construct of the soul massively broadcasted by Pythagoras (570-495 BCE)
3. Bible adopts legal fiction of having a soul 400 CE.
4. Religion started with astrology and the signs of the zodiac.
5. Birth of Universe 4004 BCE by Archbishop James Usher, 1581-1656.
6. 940 Christmas is started Scandinavia.
7. Fictional gods merged with familiar gods from different lands.

Answer 2

Card #3A: Timelines continued

1. 1230 Sales of indulgences begin.
2. 1478 Spanish Inquisition started
3. 1517 Sales of indulgences go wild with pope Leo 10th.
4. 1517 Age of Enlightenment begins with Martin Luther. Protestant religion is formed.
5. 1553 Reign of Queen Mary
6. 1600 Giordano Bruno burned at stake for claiming Earth rotates!
7. 1673 comets are moved by angels.
8. 1813 Catholic church adopts the belief that the Magi journey to see the birth of Christ!
9. 1854 Clergy forbidden to read newspapers.
10. 1897 Pope Leo XIII forbade any further research into the origin of the trinity.
11. 1900 Book Wizard of Oz is published. Many religious groups try to stop it.
12. 1995, Time magazine article: Bible, fact or fiction.
13. 325 CE Hermes sign of cross adopted by Catholic church.

Question 3

Deck #2: The Great disappointment

1. William Miller proclaims Jesus returns October 22, 1844.
2. Over 150,000 people give away all possessions, all money and prepare to meet Jesus.
3. Multiple times for Jesus come and go, but everybody is heartbroken and totally broke! Some disappear into the mountains to never be heard from again.
4. Rapture story May 21, 2011.
5. Jim Jones mass suicides 1978.

Answer 3

Deck #3: Christians killing Christians.

1. Christianity: The bloodiest religion ever.
2. example of Lancet Fluke
3. People preparing for a future that does not exist!
4. St. Bartholomew’s day massacre
5. Charlemagne. 4,000 beheaded Saxons
6. Pogroms against Jews. 14 Million killed WWII

Question 4

Deck #4: Ignorance taught and enforced by the Church

1. All knowledge was passed down to the public by the church.
2. Church all powerful only gave parochial info.
3. Queen Mary burns people going to services not in Latin!
4. The silly beliefs of the church, eg. The Earth is flat.
5. Life is only about preparing for death.
6. Why question the church when they know?
7. Man has no right to cure disease, God does it through the priests.
8. The insane are inhabited by devils.
9. Insanity could be cured by prayer and buying gifts, amulets and charms paid to the church.10.
10. Epidemics are messengers of the good God. The black death was sent by the Father.
11. Beheading of nations that believed differently than the Catholic church.
12. Trials by ordeal becomes the legal court system.
13. Witch hunts.
14. Torture and crusades
15. 45,000 to 60,000 people were killed as witches in Europe.
16. listing of different types of torture devices.

Answer 4

Deck #5: Jewish persecutions by church and Hitler

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