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In Reply to: PLEASE POST YOU FIRST REQUIRED POSTING AS A REPLY TO THIS posted by TOM BACIG on December 13, 1998 at 19:30:06:

The change in human ideas from Medieval views to Renaissance views has to be the largest leap history has ever seen. Both periods viewed life, human nature, and God in completely different ways.

Medieval times was based soley on the belief of living your life for God. God came second to nothing. God was always in your heart, mind, and soul no matter what you were doing. A perfect example were the monks in the movie "The Name of the Rose". Even while eating scriptures were being forced into their heads. In order to keep religon above everything, God was made to be feared. Questions and doubt were not allowed. This was the key in keeping people working and giving to the church. As Kempis wrote in "Imations of Christ", "Put all thy trust in God, Him be thy dread; let him be thy love; He shall answer for thee and do well and as is best.... To God it belongeth to help and deliver from all confusion", God was the question and the answer to everything.

The renaissance era began the era of mulitple questions and anwsers. In Pico della Mirandola, "Of the Dignity of Man" he questions the Father and the lives everyone had been leading. Pico suggests we make our own destiny instead of relying on God, "after we have been born to this condition, we may understand that we may become that which we will to be." Not only were people explaning the possibilities that life had to offer but also art sprang forth and joined the church in importance. Artists were held in very high statue such as the great Michelangelo. He brought himself out of poverty to sit with the important leaders of this time. He made statues of dukes and kings that looked nothing like them and craved his own face on holy figures. He answered to no one and no one questioned his talents.

The great change from Medieval views to Renaissance views should be appuladed. For humans to make such a complete tun is unthinkable. Hopefully in the future, we can make changes similar to this with racism, sexism, and other problems we face.

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: The change in human ideas from Medieval views to Renaissance views has to be the largest leap history has ever seen. Both periods viewed life, human nature, and God in completely different ways. : Medieval times was based soley on the belief of living your life for God. God came second to nothing. God was always in your heart, mind, and soul no matter what you were doing. A perfect example were the monks in the movie "The Name of the Rose". Even while eating scriptures were being forced into their heads. In order to keep religon above everything, God was made to be feared. Questions and doubt were not allowed. This was the key in keeping people working and giving to the church. As Kempis wrote in "Imations of Christ", "Put all thy trust in God, Him be thy dread; let him be thy love; He shall answer for thee and do well and as is best.... To God it belongeth to help and deliver from all confusion", God was the question and the answer to everything. : The renaissance era began the era of mulitple questions and anwsers. In Pico della Mirandola, "Of the Dignity of Man" he questions the Father and the lives everyone had been leading. Pico suggests we make our own destiny instead of relying on God, "after we have been born to this condition, we may understand that we may become that which we will to be." Not only were people explaning the possibilities that life had to offer but also art sprang forth and joined the church in importance. Artists were held in very high statue such as the great Michelangelo. He brought himself out of poverty to sit with the important leaders of this time. He made statues of dukes and kings that looked nothing like them and craved his own face on holy figures. He answered to no one and no one questioned his talents. : The great change from Medieval views to Renaissance views should be appuladed. For humans to make such a complete tun is unthinkable. Hopefully in the future, we can make changes similar to this with racism, sexism, and other problems we face.

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