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...is now opened. In fact, this was the most greatly desired dream of the Ottoman Sultans ever: to conquer the entire Europe and to subdue the symbol of Christianity, Vatican Fortress! This meant that the entire world should bow to them, and nothing should hinder from the world domination for many years! Nevertheless, for conquering Europe, the Ottomans needed to solve or...

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...olitics of the day, this book examines how the sanaatana 'Hindu' dharma came to survive in India, in spite of the combined onslaught of Islam and the Christianity on Hinduism for over a millennium. This book is for those who wish to be aware of the follies of their faith and the foibles of others to lighten the burden of dogma and reduce the baggage of prejudice postulated...

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...It’s thus Muhammad saw to it that Islam is all about Allah and His Messenger unlike Jesus who thought it fit to Commission the Twelve for the sake of Christianity. It’s as though the Seal of the Prophets imbibed the divine character of Jehovah the jealous God who couldn’t stomach sharing the Jewish affection with any other god.” The Muslim dilemma about how to tread on ...

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...ehold; it seemed very anxious to escape from that appeal, and as I respect Christianity sufficiently to detest the identification of its services with... ...ne and argue about God the more he remains the same simple thing. Judaism, Christianity, Islam, modern Hindu religious thought, all agree in declaring...

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...akes that treachery not only inevitable but sacred. That’s why I’m sick of Christianity.—At any rate this modern Christ- mongery.” “The finest thing t...

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...shly assumed by people whose senti- mentality outruns their knowledge that Christianity is es- sentially an attempt to carry out the personal teaching... ...It is nothing of the sort, and no church authority will support that idea. Christianity—more particularly after the ascendancy of the T rinitarian doc...

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...es to the Spaniards -- Destruction of the idols of the Totonacs -- An altar to Christianity erected on the pyramid of sacrifice -- Horrible punishment... ...he standard of Spain -- The King is converted arid baptized -- A great day for Christianity -- Levying tribute upon the Island of Matan -- The natives... ...sters of Italy, Greece and Sicily. At first heathens, they afterwards embraced Christianity, and led the van of the crusaders in the war for the recov... ...he conquest was to supplant the idol-worship of the Mexicans with the cross of Christianity, and to emphasize this intent in the minds of his men, he ... ...ir battles for them, and that they were but instruments in His hands to extend Christianity in the New World. The natives were first to attack with a ... ... declared that, having entered upon an enterprise of converting the country to Christianity, they were determined to persevere in the effort, and that... ...ing the wealth and glory which must follow their efforts to win the country to Christianity. A SELF-CONSTITUTED COUNCIL SET UP BY CORTEZ. Cortez now ... ...olic Church, which the Totonacs agreed to, and thus were the first converts to Christianity made among the people of Mexico. DESTRUCTION OF THE IDOLS ... ... professed. As Montezuma lent a willing ear to an explanation of the tenets of Christianity, Cortez was impelled to press his request for an abolition...

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... resembles Confucianism and, to some extent, Hinduism. Judaism and its offspring, Christianity - though heavily involved in political affairs thro... ...d, the affluent against the impoverished, the democracies against tyranny, perhaps Christianity against Islam and definitely the West against the O... ... of humanity – the tectonic clash between Rome and Byzantium, West and East, Judeo- Christianity and Islam – is still easily discernible. We are seat...

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...circumstances without precedent, and (wherever human nature is ennobled by Christianity) it may be confidently hoped—never to be repeated. The first p... ...e lost or were removed to an incalculable distance for their conversion to Christianity, without which in these times there is no abso- lute advance p... ...er, as his modern successor; or else it refers simply to the Greek form of Christianity professed by the Russian Emperor and Church. *Thoughts on Some... ... that might be mentioned,) the rule evidently acted upon by the Founder of Christianity was this—Given the purifica- tion of the fountain, once assume... ...tate through the centuries succeeding to Christ, during which paganism and Christianity were slowly descending and ascending, as if from two different... ... its patience, its suffering life, and its association with the founder of Christianity in one great triumphal so- lemnity. The very man who brutally ... ...- glish racer, by continual care. *Mahometanism, which everywhere pillages Christianity, can- not but have its own face at times glorified by its stol... ...ause their bodies were exclusively mangled. How little can it be said that Christianity has yet developed the fulness of its power, when kings and sen... ...itions of Paganism; and we have shown that, in the modern superstitions of Christianity, or of Mahometanism, (often enough borrowed from Christian sou...

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...nderstood it to Prince Andrew. He said that Freemasonry is the teaching of Christianity freed from the bonds of State and Church, a teach- ing of equa...

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... said it. “But they insisted on their own view: love of one’s neighbor and Christianity—and all this in the presence of young Nicholas, who had gone i...

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...sumed that every man will worship a God, and no allu- sion is made even to Christianity. In Massachusetts they are again hardly honest. “It is the rig... ...sts, Pres- byterians, Methodists, Anabaptists, and every denomina- tion of Christianity; and the meeting-houses prepared for these sects are not, as w...

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...lar widow of Boki, the tragic entrepreneur-chief, was dissuaded from launching an armed revolt against the Regent Kaahumanu. Now a fervent convert to Christianity, Kaahumanu imposed new ns and over the spirit. A miasmal melancholy hung listlessly over the land."...

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...mplaint. But I hold it to be compatible with the principles of an advanced Christianity to prefer food that is palatable. I never could get any of tha...

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...y of itself. The little he taught her sounded to Noemi’s puzzled ears mere Christianity instead of controversial Cal- vinism. And, moreover, he never ...

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...is highly likely that you would be a Muslim.‖ —―I‘d have to agree with you. But you know there are many Muslims who have converted to Christ... ...aac to his progeny, the Jews. Jesus of course was always a Jew. He, like many other Jewish thinkers, taught a different concept of his faith. Christ... ...m the first born son of Abraham, Ishmael, born of the Arab slave Hagar before Abraham‘s wife Sarah had conceived Isaac. ―So Judaism, Christ... ...e same attributes and the same world view, you are not only immoral, but you cannot see that god in heaven. The religious reactionary right in Christ... ...d for worshiping rights at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem at Eastertime in 2008. Their claims to ecclesiastical exclusivity of Christ... ...dvanced level of sciences, literature and the arts. Agriculture was improved. Architecture advanced. The Moslem achievements dwarfed those of Christ... ...estral county. ―But while some find comfort in the past others look to newer groups to find comfort. They may convert to Islam from Christ...

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...nk, the Will to Power, and the Transvaluation of all Values. He assumes that Christianity, as a product of the resentment of the botched and the weak,... ... sight of that egre- gious example of a transvaluation of all values through Christianity, whereby the whole of the deified mode of life and thought o... ... refined and made more profound by the schooling which two thousand years of Christianity had provided) effect another such revolution within a calcul... ...ls, merely an expedient for protecting a certain type of man. In the case of Christianity this type was, according to Nietzsche, a low one. Conflictin... ...erses he reveals the nature of his altruism. How far it differs from that of Christianity we have already read in the dis- course “Neighbour-Love”, bu... ...course. Slowly but surely, he thought the values of 305 Friedrich Nietzsche Christianity and Judaic traditions had done their work in the minds of me... ...usness, thirst of power, and selfishness,—the three forces in humanity which Christianity has done most to garble and besmirch,— Nietzsche endeavours ... ... a poetical form, we get Nietzsche’s description of the course Juda- ism and Christianity pursued before they reached their final break-up in Atheism,... ...on for decadents, its decadent values emanate from the higher and not, as in Christianity, from the lower grades of society. In Aphorism 20 of “The An...

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... of peace. The natives kill the missionary: he flies to arms in defence of Christianity; fights for it; con- quers for it; and takes the market as a r...

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... which is to obtain for virtue the victory over vice. This aim was that of Christianity itself. It taught men to be wise and good and for their own be...

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...rt has served Religion; artists have found the most exalted inspiration in Christianity; but the light of Transfiguration which has illumi- nated the ...

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...er- stood it to Prince Andrew. He said that Freemasonry is the teaching of Christianity freed from the bonds of State and Church, a teaching of equali... ... said it. “But they insisted on their own view: love of one’s neighbor and Christianity—and all this in the presence of young Nicho- las, who had gone...

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...lish fable, like the Pope, to whom he is a pitiful purveyor. 458 His very Christianity may be questioned. 459 He ought to expect more severity than ... ... of Billingsgate can never be the language of charity, nor consequently of Christianity.’—P . 311 ‘On Codrus’ old, or Dunton’s modern bed:’ of Codrus... ...rd Oxford. Tindal was author of the ‘Rights of the Christian Church,’ and ‘Christianity as Old as the Creation.’ He also wrote an abu- sive pamphlet a...

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...haps valued highest in his work were his contri- butions to the defence of Christianity; one of which, in par- ticular, was praised by Hutchinson Stir...