For example, Europeans considered native men lazy and irresponsible because they allowed women to do all the farming and harvesting, a traditionally male role in European society. The men, however, earned their peaceful days during harvest because they would hunt all winter, living exposed to the harshness of nature from September through February. Europeans again misunderstood the gravity of the men's work because hunting was a sport practiced by the aristocracy. ... Europeans also suffered from imperialistic attitudes of superiority lent them by their respective kings, Puritans even ...

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Thus, Stanton asserts that the Canon Law consists of different moral codes for men and women. ... All rulers/kings in Europe became Christians. ... This oppression and discrimination against women which denies them equal rights with men is a clear violation of the rights of women under God's decree of equality for both men and women in Galatians 3:28. ... The Vatican obliged the leaders of the nuns to enforce the Roman Catholic Church's will that condemns abortion on all grounds on individual members. ... Consequently, women in the Roman Catholic Church have no say in almost all matt...

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"...the five Vicars of Christ who ruled the Holy See during Magellan's lifetime [1480-1521] were the least Christian of men; the least devout, least scrupulous, least compassionate, and among the least chaste - lechers, almost without exception. ... It was the largest landowner in Europe and all the kings of Christendom were considered vassals of the pope and with this power came corruption. ... He believed that what one construes in their conscience while reading the Bible is how they should live their life since the Bible has all of the answers. "All of this served to undermine the...

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By the middle of the 12th century almost all of these bodies had adopted the Rule of St Augustine. ... The dissolution of the monasteries in England by Henry VIII included all those belonging to the Austin Friars. ... As early as 1354 the order had provided 24 popes, 200 cardinals, 7,000 archbishops, 15,000 bishops, 1,560 canonized saints, and 5,000 holy people worthy of canonization, a number since increased to 40,000, and it had included 20 emperors, 10 empresses, 47 kings, 50 queens, and many other royal and noble people. ... The Reformation left not more than 5,000, but this number has sin...

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The same was true in England, but without such a negative consequence as the English kings were devout patrons, not power-politics. ... He was ruler of all the land and maintained his unquestioned power throughout the land by declaring the church a Landeskirche of which he was the supreme defender. ... William used the opportunity to keep the Church at bay and assumed personal control over all church politics, holding elections in his own chapel. ... Although the treaty did humiliate Barbarossa and forced him to kneel before the Pope and accede to his divine superiority, Alexander permitte...

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