In 1529, Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli met at the Marburg convention to bring together Protestant factions.
They disagreed over how reformation of the Catholic Church was possible. Luther believed the ability to reform laid in the gospel and convincing people to change based on the teachings in the gospel while Zwingli wanted to use political means to force changes.
In ancient times, the Japanese believed that all natural phenomena, animals, and plants possesed kami, or divine power. This belief came to be known as Shinto and was established as an official religion after Buddhism and Confucianism were introduced to Japan from the Asian continent. Buddhism came to Japan from the mainland Asia in the sixth century. Its teachings were embraced by the rulers of the time and then spread to the general public during the Heian period (794-1185) and the Kamakura period (1185-1333).
Shinto and Buddhism have both become important parts of daily Japanese life. On New Year's eve, for example, the ringing of Buddhist temple bells fills the air. And on New Year's Day, people visit both Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples to pray for good fortune in the coming year. During the spring and autumn equinoxes and also Bon festival (in July and August), families perform Buddhist memorial services for their ancestors. Also through the year, towns and villages hold lively Shinto festivals, where participants carry portable shrines around on their shoulders and tow floats through the streets. Wedding ceremonies are usually Shinto style, while funerals tend to be Buddhist. In addition, many families have small-sized Shinto shrines and Buddhist altars in their homes.
Christianity has also taken root in Japan; a Jesuit missionary from Spain, Francisco de Xavier, introduced the religion to Japan in the sixteenth century. The country's feudal rulers banned Christianity during the Edo period (1603-1867), but it made a comeback during the Meiji era (1868-1912). Today, Shinto has the largest number of believers, followed by Buddhism, and Christianity.
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<em>1. Abolitionists used bible based references to show the moral decay associated with slavery as demeaning and ungodly.</em>
<em>2. Abolitionists showed that slavery permitted and exemplified human cruelty from one human to another.</em>
Explanation:
On the basis of moral decay, slavery was seen as morally degrading. <em>The allowance of a human being to reduce another human being to nothing more than a property that could be bought and sold at the owner's whim was seen as one of the worst form of sin that could be committed on a fellow man</em>. Abolitionists tried to prove this as not right and drew references and conclusion from the bible that this was not the way humans were intended or supposed to treat another. <em>The abolitionist equated slavery to a big sin before God and man.</em>
On the basis of cruelty, <em>slavery justified the use of force by the slave owner to curtail or control his/her slave</em>. Physical abuse and mutilation of slave was seen as a strong characteristics of a good slave owner. <em>Constitutional laws were put in place to take care of disobedient slaves in the most cruel way possible, and deadly harm done on a slave was met with the mildest punishment as if it was done on a farm animal. Slave were not seen as been above farm animals.</em>
