Documented Religious Views on War

Defining the view of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the United States Constitution is a controversial subject. Some highly reverence this document comparing it to scripture, and others believe it just to be semi-inspired. ... Using the word inspired leads people to believe that the whole document is inspired. ... Surely, we know that the Lord needed to set up a land that would have religious freedom. ... With the compromise slavery, the result led to the Civil War. ...

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This prompted an alliance with the Scots, who themselves were looking for religious assurances for which they had fought the Bishops wars with England from 1638-1640. I have chosen to discuss Anthology document 3.12, "The religious provisions of the Solemn League and Covenant, September 1643" in support of my argument the English state went through stages of being absent from dominance during this period. Written as a legal document between the English parliament and the Scots, it assures Scotland of the religious changes they were seeking (no bishops, no book of common prayer) in exchange for...

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I left my familiar fold and began exploring a (severely) religious life. ... It is easy to view the founding fathers in a "cultural vacuum" and to ignore their political motives.3 As the colonies drew closer to independence from Great Britain, they became a bastion for those seeking to practice their own religion. ... The very idea of the free exercise of religion was at stake "if civil rulers [went] so far out of their sphere as to take the care and management of religious affairs upon them."8 Preceding the Virginia Constitution of 1776, the Virginia Declaration of Rights was a document i...

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The Federalist Party viewed the Constitution as the starting place, as they believed that they could shape and improvise the document as they choose. ... By sticking true to the Constitutional document, Jefferson represented those ideals of a strict constructionist. In the year of 1808, Jefferson wrote a letter to Samuel Miller, a Presbyterian minister, stating "The government of the United States certainly has no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline." ... During the Madison administration, the federal government imposed a draft that ...

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Muhammad began to think about God at an early age, although it is difficult to know exactly what happened in his lifetime as little of it was documented, we still have a picture of what happened and what he did for the people in Medina. ... Firstly I will look at his religious policy and then the political ideas he had. ... He began to devise a new moral code, which to him was the key to salvation, however the ideas conflicted with the views of the time. ... Within two decades, Muhammad had united most of northern Arabia in his religious policy; he made an exodus (Hijra) for the unbelievers an...

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Polk in the war with Mexico, which started in 1846. ... At the end of the 1820s and into the 1830s, The Second Great Awakening, a religious movement based off evangelism, changed the approach of expansionism. ... Therefore, this Second Great Awakening inclined American Protestants to view Catholic nations south and west of their country as "a distinct challenge to their religion and security " (Greenberg 14). ... All of these anti " Catholic views and steadfast Protestant religion somewhat condoned religious discrimination dealing with territorial expansion and the idea of Manifest Desti...

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The title of the document is known as "The Human Condition." ... There were many things happening during this time that may have caused many Catholics to change their beliefs such as the Korean War and the Cold War. Both wars were causing an immense amount of bloodshed and many Americans were thinking about how the wars would affect America and God's plan. ... There are four major aspects of this document. ... The other lesson taught is that religious and social dimensions of life are linked. ...

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This is why the Federalists were opposed to any suggestions of war with Britain, even after the Chesapeake affair, which resulted in solidiers shot at close range unfairly. In fact, Republicans also believed that religious discipline and policies not specifically mentioned in the Constitution should be allocated to the states. Jefferson believed that the federal government had no control over religious beliefs because they were not specifically mentioned in any doctrine, therefore; the government has no right to meddle in their affairs (Document B). ... Jefferson greatly opposed the national b...

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For Japan and Europe, it was a time of death, war, and destruction, this time was known as the Dark Ages or Middle Ages. ... The European feudal contract was a legal document stating the obligations of a lord and his vassal respectively(Doc B). ... Based on the document, both samurai and knights have a binding loyalty to their lords for land, in return they provide protection and military service. ... Along with this they receive religious instruction and further advancements with horse training(Doc C). ... Japanese samurai and European knights had different views of death. ...

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