"A religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuries that sought to "purify" the Church of England of remnants of the Roman Catholic "popery" that the Puritans claimed had been retained after the religious settlement reached early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I." ... Protestants who were now converts from Christianity discarded the Pope as a spiritual leader. ... "Protestantism is the religious belief fostered by the Protestant movement." ...

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The main leader was Martin Luther and it began in Germany. ... But this Protestant movement affected politics more than politics affected it. ... The Protestant movement in England was more direct. ...

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The Catholic Church has played a significant role in the Ecumenism movement since 1965 with the Australia Act of 1986 and the Republic Referendum of 1999. ... In contemporary society the Pope and the Bishops are spiritual and moral leaders who are able to purely focus on the church rather than temporal power. ... Ecumenical docents such as the Decree on Ecumenism (1964), Decree on the Catholic Churches of Eastern Rite (1964) and the Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian churches of 1965 are examples of the Churches participation in ecumenical movement. ... The formation of...

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By this time the Catholic Church was extremely corrupted that its spiritual leaders, the popes were far away from their religion and holy duty, and did nothing but indulging themselves in fortune and fame. ... This humanism movement started during Renaissance period and it was based upon the study of classics, or the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome that emphasizes the dignity and worth of the individual. ... The popes, who were supposed to be the spiritual leaders of the Catholic Church, were too often more concerned with Italian politics and worldly int...

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As a result, people began to question the authority of the magistrate and what had made them special as religious leaders. ... In the turn of the 19th century, another revival movement spread through the nation. ... Around this time the evangelicals Jerry Falwell and Ed Dobson preached to convince Christians they had a higher calling than to protest in the Civil Rights Movement. In addition to that, the 1960s brought the Vietnam War, student rebellion, the hippie movement, flower children, recreational drugs, and the complete detachment of religion from politics. ... This is just how Martin Lu...

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The Puritan belief found its roots from the Holy Reformation and the Protestant movement. ... He didn't believe in democracy rather that he had been picked by God to serve as the leader of affairs in Boston. ...

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Doctor Martin Luther King Junior leaped into the proverbial lion's den of the civil rights movement in the 1960's and found himself under attack not only by white supremacists, but also by the white moderate. ... With these facts in mind it is clear that Doctor King's audience was specifically the eight Alabama Christian and Jewish community leaders. ...

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Many people view this movement as a way for Christians to sneak their religion into public schools through a back door. ... If students are raised with morals then someday they will be leaders of the country that will positive role models in that their actions are honest and noble. Would you rather have leaders with ethical values or one of which is conformed to the world in that he seeks to please his own desires and puts himself before others, lies, steals, and cheats? Let the Ten Commandments be examples to our children to rise up and become righteous leaders of future....

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Both More and Erasmus successfully used religion to create an audience for their respective works, More used Hythloday's voice to take a conservative approach by praising Christianity while Erasmus" uses Folly to voice his radical criticisms for the baseless traditions held dear by church leaders. ... Erasmus was not alone in his dissatisfaction as The Praise of Folly was received well by a large group of Christians, many of whom made up the Protestant Movement of which Erasmus never took part. ...

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Board of Education first initiated the movement to take God out of our public schools, and since then we have done so. ... Not that I am at all condoning other religions, but maybe if other religious leaders stepped up and voiced their opinions, not just the atheists, then we would be able to conduct all kinds of religious practices in public. ...

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These criticisms not only impacted on religion, but also on politics, economics, education and language, making him not only a leader and midwife of a new religious movement known as protestantism, but also since the 1980's, recognised as a revolutionary socialist hero. ...

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