Absence on 02/04

Missing class this day allowed me to review some other blogs students wrote about chapter 15.
While looking over a blog, I would say that this, This document highlighted the faults of Christianity. During this time most people were already skeptical about corruption within the pope, clergy,  and the churches spending. For women, Protestanism didn't offer them more freedom than Christianity but within Protestanism the worshiping of female figures stopped. The invention of the printing press helped spread Reformation thinking. Violence between Christians and Protestants lasted for more than 30 years until King Henry IV put out the Edict of Nantes granting religious toleration. Another thing I learned was about conversion and adaptation is Spanish America. The Europeans believed that their military and political success was from the Christian God. The Spanish Natives agreed with the Europeans and millions got baptized. I also learned about how the Europeans approached China with Christianity. To hide their real agenda, the Europeans told China they were just interested in learning and exchanging cultures. However, spiritually the Christian missionaries didn't have much that the Chinese wanted. The elites had Confucianism while local people have Buddhism, Daoism, and other Chinese spirits." really stood out to me since it sums up pretty much all the big events. The issues with the spending of the churches and what not is interesting because I have heard stories that til this day, people believe that some priests just pocket a lot of the money that the church receives. From what I know there was never any proof to that but there have been many situations like this in many different places, like our school for example, what people really are questioning where the money that is getting put into it going. 

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