Revolution for Human Rights

Religion is a subject based off what a society believes. The roles of religion in society explain natural phenomena, obscure economic reality, frame morals, and involve social control. These roles changed as soon a science and knowledge began to grow. Starting off early, there was Galileo who argued against the church. Galileo argued about how natural phenomena should be explained through factual evidence by conducting experiments than going based on what somebody said. With the role of social control, the church took advantage of this role to disregard the idea Galileo had stated to keep power. Galileo did not win his side of the argument, but skepticism was bound to reoccur. Charles Darwin, was a man of science and evolution. Darwin believed there was not enough evidence to back up the explanation of the natural phenomenon of how humans were created. Instead of belief of creationism, Darwin wrote about how people originate from animals after studying the process of evolution.

He published a book about the origin of people which lead to controversy about what the church is telling the people. Social control was beginning to lose power as soon as a natural phenomenon was backed up by evidence. The Enlightenment was possibly the greatest change away from religion. That time was when a state began to fight against the church. Social control was one of the roles people fought against as the church was based off a hierarchy. Another role that was urged to change was moral when it came to slavery. There were revolutions to fight for the rights of people going against the church. The French Revolution was to seek the rights for men. The Enlightenment also encouraged society to grow. Knowledge was sought out to help society develop. As previous events have shown, knowledge had helped societies advance such as the Roman Empire’s technology and library in Baghdad.

With increased education, people were able to provide evidence and reasoning about superstitions. Part of the Enlightenment involved seeking out knowledge. As stated previously about Baghdad, the expansion of knowledge increased dramatically. There used to be a library, the House of Wisdom, about what the people have attained throughout years. The library was destroyed in a siege held by Ghengis Khan, so the people had to start from scratch to retrieve all the knowledge they had before. Related to the siege in Baghdad can be of the dark ages in Europe. Europe had a population crash which meant knowledge declined because the population can determine technology. After the dark ages, the renaissance brought society to retain destroyed knowledge.

All in all, the greatest events causing a population decline urged society to grow apart from religion. The roles of religion were later contradicted after attaining more knowledge to advance in society. Science assisted the people in going against what information the church has to provide. The Enlightenment was the most influential change to the many roles religion had on society. There were about 100 years of war fighting against the power the church had over society. The morals were misguided about slavery, the explanation of natural phenomena was simple without evidence to help understand where people came from, and knowledge was held back until major events took place, and people who took action against the church and religion.

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