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What group established the Plymouth colony in order to escape religious persection?
the Pilgrims established Plymouth.
What religions came over to escape religious persection?
Jews and Jehovah Witnesses were under Nazi control, many were killed, tortured put into camps and walked on death walks. Many fled to the U.S to escape such persecution.
Who were the Thessalonians?
The Thessalonians were inhabitants of Thessalonica, on the road from Athens to Philippi, and the capital of Macedonia. Paul and Silas had organized a church there during his second missionary journey. The church there consisted of both ethnic Jews and Gentiles whom had conveted to Christianity. The Thessalonian church suffered persection and this is reflected in the letters Paul wrote to encourage and instruct them.
Where were the persecutions carried out under Emperor Decius?
AnswerThe emperor Decius.(249-251) condemned Christianity as a recent and criminal superstition, and instituted the most widespread and severe persecution of Christians prior to the Great Persection instituted by Diocletian. The bishops of the most considerable cities were removed from their posts by exile or death.: So opposed was Decius to the presence of a bishop in Rome, that the clergy of Rome were prevented from proceeding to a new election for bishop of Rome.during the entire sixteen-month period of the persecution.Dionysius, a friend of Origen, said that during this period, in the important Christian city of Alexandria, there were ten men and seven women who suffered some form of persecution for their profession of Christianity.
What people did bloody mary kill?
Bloody Mary was a militant Catholic, and during her five year reign from 1553-58 carried out a genocidal campaign of persection against the English and Welsh Protestants. No-one knows how many she had tortured and executed, but it runs into thousands if not tens of thousands. Many were burnt at the stake, others were hanged, beheaded or shot by firing squad. She also had no compunction about sentencing to death anybody who stood in her way when it came to Government policy, including all those who opposed her plans for an alliance with Catholic Spain. These included several senior and influential aristocrats, Government ministers and Court advisors. She was also responsible for the execution of Lady Jane Grey. When she died of ovarian cancer in 1558, few people regretted her passing apart from her most zealous Catholic supporters.
Why was the apostle Peter persecuted?
A:The apostle Paul wrote of Peter living in Jerusalem and travellin to parts of Syria seemingly unhindered and without persection. However, a second-century tradition is that Peter went to Rome and was either beheaded or crucified there. Against this, Clement of Rome, writing around 95 CE (1 Clement), spoke in general terms about the life and death of Peter but appears to have been unaware that Peter had even visited Rome and was certainly unaware that he had been executed in any way at all, although he surely would have known if this were the case.
Were pagans evil?
AnswerYou can argue both sides. In my opinion, yes, but that's only one opinion.AnswerIf we are talking about the ancient pagans of Rome, let's have a look at the record, side by side:AntisemitismThe pagan Romans accepted the Jewish religion and did not persecute the Jews for practising it. There was no officially sanctioned antisemitism.The Christian empire, from the time of Constantine, began the persection of Jews and created antisemitism.PersecutionIt has been said that in almost three hundred years under pagan Roman rule, Christianity suffered only 12 years of widespread, official persecution.From the time of Constantine forward, paganism suffered increasing and persistent persection, until less than one hundred years later public pagan worship was banned. There was no letup in persecution until paganism was wiped out.Theft of propertyMany of the Christian churches and other property were appropriated without compensation under Emperor Diocletian. Some pagan officials ignored the imperial edict and protected the churches, or merely closed them down, without handing the churches over or selling the property. The pagan temples themselves took little or no part in this crime, which was committed under imperial edict by a wide range of citizens purely for financial gain. The property was returned after the time of Diocletian, or fair compensation paid.From the time of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, the accumulated wealth of the pagan temples was plundered by Christians. In some cases, this was turned over to the state, but in other cases, and towards the end almost always, the loot was kept in the possession of the Church. The Christian Church used force to take over the numerous pagan temples of the empire as their own property. Compared to the earlier pagan attitude, few Christians sought to protect the pagan temples and their property from these excesses.SlaveryPagans kept slaves.Christians kept slaves. At the fourth-century Christain Council of Nicaea, there were even limits placed on the number of slaves each bishop could take in his entourage.Both pagans and early Christians committed crimes, but on the above evidence, which was more evil?
How many witches burned in the 1600s England?
It's impossible to give an exact figure, but the numbers would have been in the tens of thousands. Most of the victims were women, but some men were burned as witches too. It was a period of appalling genocide comparible to the racist persection of the Kurds by Saddam Hussein or the crimes of Idi Amin and Robert Mugabe. The persecutions continued both before, during and after the English Civil War- one of the most notorious perpetrators was Matthew Hopkins, the self-styled 'Witchfinder General'. A failed lawyer, Hopkins was a genocidal psychopath who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in the 1630s & '40s before-ironically- he was HIMSELF accused of witchcraft and put to death in 1647, aged only 27. Witch persecution was finally made illegal in England and Wales in 1750, although it continued to be legal in Scotland up until the 1820s and even after this time, some Scottish women suspected of sorcery were covertly murdered by their neighbours, who covered up their crimes.
What is Amsterdam University College's motto?
Île Amsterdam's motto is 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité'.
Can the British royal family now marry Roman Catholics?
They probably could these days with not too much trouble, but traditionally the monarch of England is the head of the Anglican Church, a variant Christian church which was started by Henry VIII when he broke from the Roman Catholic Church in order to divorce his wife. The British royal family is, by tradition, members in good standing of the Anglican Church.
What was the relationship between church and state in the first three centuries and then in the fourth century?
AnswerFirst three centuriesBy and large, during the first three centuries of Christianity, the Roman Empire chose to ignore Christianity, or merely to display curiosity towards it. It is generally agreed that there was no organised, general, centrally directed persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire before the edict of Emperor Decius in 249. There were some short periods of persecution, but historians now say that official persecution of Christianity was limited to the three persecutions of 249-251, 257 and 305-311 CE. A later Christian tradition is that there were ten periods of persection, but historians can find no evidence for this. Euan Cameron (Interpreting Christian History: The Challenge of the Churches' Past) tells us, "Persecution was sporadic, intermittent, and mostly local."Another later tradition was that Emperor Nero (54-68 CE) instituted a period of persecution of Christians, but the evidence indicates otherwise. However, Nero probably did unfairly blame some Christians in Rome for starting the Great Fire.Pliny, who had clearly never assisted in any judicial proceedings against the Christians, submitted to the emperor Trajan an impartial and, in some respects, favourable account of the new superstition, requesting that Trajan would resolve his doubts and instruct him on dealing with Christians. Though Trajan directed the magistrates to punish such persons as are legally convicted, he prohibited them from making any inquiries concerning the supposed criminals. Nor was the magistrate allowed to proceed on every kind of information. . He rejected anonymous charges and strictly required, for those to whom the guilt of Christianity is imputed, the positive evidence of a fair and open accuser. His successor, Hadrian, inflicted capital punishment on any witnesses who unsuccessfully accused their fellows of being Christians. These edicts remained in force and were observed until 303 CE.Martyr Acts, invented in the second century, were a new genre of Christian literature that helped create a tradition of persecution and suffering under the tyrany of pagan leaders. They were brief and purposive accounts of martyrs' heroism, suffering and death, read out in church meetings and on the anniversaries of martyrs' deaths. The events they described were most unlike the corresponding Roman court transcripts. There seems to be a common structure, which is too formulaic to be believable for modern readers:The hero's modest reluctance but unshakeable faithThe volunteer who then fails and recantsA crude, uncultured Roman underlingThe governor/judge's initial courtesy and evolving crueltyHis curiosity about Christianity and his easy deception by the martyr, whose double entendre jokes only the Christians understandThe martyr's incredible bravery and endurance under tortureThe pagan crowd as chorus and swing votersA loyal minority of fervent ChristiansMiraclesDeath, burial and more miracles.Both Jews and Christians sought Roman support for one side or another in their bitter disputes. Edward Gibbon (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) tells us:The provincial governors declared themselves ready to listen to any accusation that might affect the public safety; but as soon as they were informed that it was a question not of facts but of words, a dispute relating only to the interpretation of the Jewish laws and prophecies, they deemed it unworthy of the majesty of Rome seriously to discuss the obscure differences that might arise among a barbarous and superstitious people. Fourth centuryIn the fourth century, Emperor Constantine gave state patronage, including substantial financial support, to the Christian Church. He called the Nicaean Council, in order to encourage unity and establish a single, agreed dogma for the Church. The army refused to participate in his persecution of the pagan temples, so Constantine sent Christians from the palace, to plunder the temples of their treasures. His mother, Helena, went to Jerusalem and miraculously discovered place of the crucifixion of Jesus, the surprisingly close place of his burial, and the three crosses, still intact, used for Jesus and the two who were crucified with him. With only a brief interlude under Julian the Apostate, the Church flourished, at the expense of the increasingly persecuted pagan temples. By the end of the fourth century, the triumphant Christian church could, with state connivance, destroy and pillage pagan temples for the Church's enrichment.
How do you calculate masses?
"it isn't calculated it is weight in grams or kilograms" /_\ T Big Failure to whoever gave this answer. What the answerer was referring to was WEIGHT. NOT MASS. Mass is the amount of matter inside a body. Weight is the force that gravitation exerts upon a body, equal to the mass of the body times the local acceleration of gravity: commonly taken, in a region of constant gravitational acceleration, as a measure of mass. So, let's differentiate mass from weight: You can take an apple and weigh it. A lot of people should already know is that the mass of this apple CANNOT change without physically changing it (biting a portion of apple, etc.) In other words, (for argument's sake) if you're going to get an apple and bring it to somewhere which is the gravitational pull is in any case different from the Earth like the Moon, in which everyone who went to grade school already know has 1/6 of the gravitational pull compared to Earth's, you will get different WEIGHT but the MASS will not change. It shall remain the same as if you're on Earth. Computation of Mass: Relative equation: Computation of Density: M/V Computation of Volume: M/D so, Computation of Mass: V*D Although the computation can only be done with the given variables which is related to mass. e.g. Volume, Density, Gravitational force. The formula will change whenever the given variables changes.
