Explain How Religion Affected Europe

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Religion affected Europe in both bad and good ways. The good ways are people were caring and helped the poor. “Each person gives to the poor for the love of God”. this quote supports the statement that religion impacted Europe in some good ways. This also proves that the poor were not just treated like trash and were actually cared for.

Religion affected Europe in some bad ways as well as good. Some bad ways are that kings would use religion as an excuse to conquer land and expand to other regions and it made them think that any other religion was praising devils and that their religion was the best. “ These idols of yours are not gods, but evil things - devils is the term for them… Let us put up a cross on top of this tower… where you Uichilobos and Tezcatepuca
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An example of this is christopher columbus (second man to find America) when he set foot on American soil. “As many men for the service of the Navy as their majesties may require, I promise also rhubarb and other sorts of drug… but these great marvelous results are not to be attributed to any merit of mine, but to the holy christians faith… let christ on earth, as he rejoices in heaven in the prospect of the salvation of the souls of so many nations hitherto lost”. This supports my statement that religion affected Europe in good an bad ways at the same time, it was good that christopher found land but we all know that he took natives as slaves.This also supports that statement because Christopher found new materials that Europe had never had or been exposed to but at the same time Natives died from European diseases that they were not previously exposed to. Finally Europe got a surplus of goods like gold, spices, cotton, and mastic but at the cost of natives being worked 24/7 with barely any rest and not fed good and being beaten when passing out from exhaustion so religion was a mix of good and