The Solution To Poverty?

How long before their chanting Seig Heil at Trump's rallies?

You have a lot of hate yourself, so accusing people of having hate when you have it yourself is hypocritical.

You do have a lot of hate yourself.

Have your predictions about Trump come true yet?

How long before their chanting Seig Heil at Trump's rallies?

1m × 350m = 350 billion

Poverty is.

Poverty is an intrinsic part of human social structure.

War on poverty is just a worthless soundbite.

 Fix our broken education system

get rid of near-useless low-paying college majors like Lesbian Dance Theory

stop going soft and easy on illegal aliens and criminals.

information that is several centuries old, that doesn't apply today.

The Roman Catholic Church was the dominant religious institution in western

Europe. The leader of the church—the pope—and his bishops had great political

and spiritual authority. In the spiritual realm, church leaders determined most

matters of faith. Parish priests interpreted the scriptures and urged the faithful to

endure earthly sufferings in exchange for the promise of eternal life in heaven,

or salvation. Priests also administered important rituals called the sacraments—

such as baptism and communion—that were thought to ensure salvation.

Hand in hand with the belief in salvation was the call to convert people of

other faiths. This missionary call spurred Europe to reach out beyond its borders

first to defend, and then to spread, the faith.

CRUSADING CHRISTIANITY By the early 700s, Muslim armies had seized

huge areas of Asia and North Africa, along with most of the Iberian Peninsula,

where Spain and Portugal sit. To regain this territory, Spanish Christians waged a

campaign called the reconquista, or reconquest. By 1492, the forces of the combined kingdoms of Queen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon, who

married in 1469, finally drove the Muslims from the peninsula. This victory

ended more than seven centuries of religious warfare. A

united Spain stood ready to assert itself internationally and

to spread Christianity around the globe.

Meanwhile, Christian armies from all over western

Europe responded to the church’s call to force the Muslims

out of the Holy Land around Jerusalem. From 1096 to 1270,

Europeans launched the Crusades, a series of military

expeditions to the Middle East in the name of Christianity.

In the end, these bloody Crusades failed to “rescue”

the Holy Land, but they had two consequences that

encouraged European exploration and expansion. First,

they sparked an increase in trade, as crusaders returned

home with a new taste for products from Asia. Second, the

Crusades weakened the power of European nobles, many

of whom lost their lives or fortunes in the wars. Monarchs

were able to take advantage of the nobles’ weakened ranks

by consolidating their own power. Eventually, monarchs

sponsored overseas exploration in order to increase their

wealth and power.

DECLINE IN CHURCH AUTHORITY The Crusades had a

third long-term consequence: the decline of the power of

the pope. The ultimate failure of these campaigns weakened

the prestige of the papacy (the office of the pope), which

had led the quest. Power struggles in the 1300s and 1400s

between the church and European kings further reduced

papal authority and tipped the balance of power in favor of

the monarchies.

Disagreements over church authority, along with outrage over corrupt practices among the clergy, led to a reform

movement in the early 1500s. This movement, known as

the Reformation, divided Christianity in western Europe

between Catholicism and Protestantism. This split deepened

the rivalries between European nations during the period of

American colonization and sent newly formed Protestant

sects across the Atlantic to seek religious freedom.

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