Part One: Religion and Science, 1450-1750

In reading the first part of chapter sixteen, "Religion and Science", I realized that religion was a huge part society and determined who you were in this world. During the 1500's, Europe was pretty much the only area that was involved in Christianity, besides other small areas such as Egypt, Central Asia, Ethiopia , and Southern India, who were plagued. The spread of Christianity caused the forcing of a religion to different areas of the world. I personally do not agree with this. No one should be forced into a religion, regardless of who they are or their social class in their community. Being that everyone doesn't share the same religion, i'm sure one who is not a christian today, would disapprove the forcing of it. Although Christianity was the most well-known religion, there were many other religions that people were practicing, and it was wrong of Europeans to just force it upon them. It was like christianity was the only way and no one could have their own personal ways of thinking and their own practices involved in their daily lives, because it wasn't acceptable. People who tried to go against the church such as Martin Luther, who thought that was having a lot of problems, and that faith was all you needed in order to get to heaven. Although Martin Luther was excommunicated from the church, I agree with him. It isn't about being apart of one unique religion, it is about having a relationship with God and having faith. Science was also becoming prevalent among the people, being that it became something much of a religion to them. People started turning to science for answers, because unlike religion, it had answers that could be proven. I think its interesting how people actually felt science was like a religion to them and could replace it so easily.