This week at Harvard we watched a movie called Luther. It was back in the day when they all wore huge hat and had really long hair.In the movie he was a monk who did not like how the church of was saying you give us more and to get your friends and family out of hell. so he stared to wright these book that told want he thought and the king and the pope got really mad they wanted him dead and they burned all of his books and then all they did the important part of his life is when he was made the persist of this one church and then he stated to right his book and this got the people of hat town  thunk and  believing that this could really work so then they stared to tell people and it spread like wild fire then when he got married to a ex nun and they and 6 kids this is important cuz they were not supports to get married and not have kids. I think that he was a important part of the church today with out him we mite all be Catholic  and we would have to follow the same rules that they had to bIn 1517, a dispute about who was entitled to a cut of the revenues generated by itinerant papal indulgence sellers provoked the controversy that led the Augustinian monk, Martin Luther, to nail his 95 theses to the church door at Wittenburg. The upshot of Luther's theses was that Christians are saved by faith, and faith alone, and that no amount of works (including the purchase of indulgences) made any difference at all. A drastic enough view, but not one that was immediately perceived as having the ultimate consequences that it eventually did. The Pope, Leo X, was a fairly easy going fellow, not inclined to vigorously prosecute this first appearance of heresy. There were plenty of heterodox views in the air at the time, and he thought it could be worked out diplomatically.
As it turns out, it could not. Luther was not immediately burnt for a heretic; he was allowed to present his case in court and had a powerful effect on the populace. He also had a powerful patron and protector in the Elector of Saxony, who shielded him from the ecclesiastical authorities. In addition, the media explosion brought on by the printing press spread his message much further than it otherwise might have gone, and made him the focus for all sorts of religious, spiritual, political, and economic discontent. The right to read and interpret scripture lead to the throwing off of the chains of papal and ecclesiastical authority; and taking this to mean political and economic freedom as well, there were widespread revolts among the German peasantry. This horrified Luther and many of the civil powers.
The deep belief that religious uniformity was essential for political and and social stability made heterodox opinions a potential act of treason. It was not the desire of the intellectual reformers to challenge civil authority, but it was a consequence. The German states were small political units: principalities, duchies, electorates, and so on, all theoretically owing loyalty to the Holy Roman Emperor as overlord, but most exercising a fairly independent course a lot of the time. As the leaders of these states made their choices for or against the new opinion, their populations went with them (like it or not). For many, the attractions of "nationalizing" church property was a powerful incentive to become a reformer. Political alliances were made and remade in the name of religion throughout the rest of the century. ( I got this from www.lepg.org/religion.htm)

skip row

this week we watched a video on skip row it really opened up my eyes on what really happen down there there was some guys down there that stared a basketball games on every week and alot of people come down there to watch and to play.it is keeping some young men out of drugs and gangs and just some other stuff that goes on down there. Then there is a man who runners a store and everyday he get stuff and goes to skip row and just gives it all away. Then there is the Jonah House that is wear mother and there kids can go and stay for sometime and the feed them. They all just leave on the street and it is really hard on them we thing it hard cuz you don't get to drive your car. They think it is hard to find out there next meal and where they are going to sleep. We think it hard being to hot or cold  waken thy can just go in houses and get cooled off they have to deal with it.and put more clothes on when it is cold they have to find them and we get made if we can sleep where we wont while look at were they sleep

In our class the last few day we have watched the movie lord save us from your followers. In the movie their are some people on the town hall steeps and they were saying that gays and wrong and they should not be gay in the movie there was a guy named sister marry timothy  at first i thought that he was just another gay but in the movie he told us some about his life when is was young his mother died and his father beat him and after that i got a different side of him that he was just another person that God loves. He went down to Louisiana and saw where people were helping and they did not matter what the color of there skin was or race or religion i think that it is really awesome that when there is a need that people will drop everything and go and help at the end of the movie he set up a booth where people go in and he talk to then and tell them his sin. Many people went and he stared talking and  most of the most of the said that  they wish that more people would do what he is dong and just come talk to them and they are wanted to talk but people just wont because there gay and At the end of the movie he went to a place were every Friday night they feed the homeless and talk to them and just help with there needs there are people that come from all over to help this one laddie said that people go to church and they say the same thing every week but they don't do anything about they probables in there town or state If God was here i think that he would go down to the homeless places and the bars and other places and talk to the lost  he would not just sit in church and not doing anything for the people in need.One of the homeless guy answer and question why would these people come down here and he answered that they must have God in there heart. I really like this movie but it kinda scared me what some people thing of people that are followers

okay this week in class we watched a Jesus camp I thought it was OK i like how she had a heart for the lord and wanted to share but then she had some thing that i did not like the kid she talk to are 7-9 year old and she was saying that there were the most likely to accept Jesus and so that all she talk to in the video   and she was saying that like harry potter was like the devil and thing like that she was like brain washing the kid and at the start of the movie she ask the kids how she look and then she started talking how that they should not be lazy and eat all the time and eat right when she is a little over weight . I like how she was living her life for the lord and giving it all to him I did not like how she was like in the name of the lord I say light do not go out. But what if the lord wanted to have a candle lit service  she was telling the kids that if the  do thing that are not good then they are going to hell  the in the m movie it showed a service with Ted haggard  and he was talking about gays  then after the service a kid went up there that wanted to be a preacher and he told him to relay on his boyist charm till he had some good stuff to really get people moved in the word of God in the movie their is this ladie that is brain washing her son and she want him to just  that thing are stupid and not know much about them  in the movie he put his faith in god to make him bowl a strike and if he dose not then he might not think god is all power full this a bad thing to be teaching young kid  the ladie say that in the name one the lord light do not go out but want if god want them to have a candle light services  overt all i like the movie  i am happy that she is giving to hole life to the lord but i wish she would not do some of the thing she did to

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Today in class we watch glee it was the one about God or no God. It was really funny
I think they are trying to say that God is just a some one that you can pray to if you need something or want something And it give people who don't go to church a bad impress in about people that do go to church
      the show, it talks about the different denominations,  and also in the scene when Kurt goes to church, the church accepting of him, and t the church accepts anyone The parts that are inaccurate is that it seems like they think that Jesus is just something that if you pray to him tha you will get something that you always wanted to get .here a photo of the picture of grilled cheesus

I think that the web page about hallween got me to think about How halloween really got started i think that some people do get carryed away with it i think it is a fun day that you can get some free candy ya some people think that it is for that devil but come one really now waht do little kid think when they go trick of treating  to get fre candy or to warship the devil I would put money on it that they would want to get some candy time, we don't think about the spiritual world, and  think we should think about it more.  mean there mite be bad sprite or bad mojo  in the world today.as Christians,  i think it is ok to out handout candy and to minister to kids who may not know God. But, as the dude said, we can't just give the  a tract,we have to explain it to them and show them how God has changed our lives.  i think  it is okay to go trick or treating , but I  think it is ok  that we  go to Halloween parties where people wear costumes, that is not that bad I think it is okay to do the things of the things in hallween

On Monday I got to help with the  Special Olympics bowling when we got their i though it was going to be just the worst thing ever but when i got their  I realized that God had created them to.When we got their I was put on lane two we had one that lane a thing that i put the bowling ball on and the person pushes the ball down and then it went and hit some pines(sometimes).Each person got to bowl three games. there was four people in my group. There was a laddie in a wheel chair named marry.And a guy named john, then a laddie named Denise and a laddie named Timi. In my group order was Marry then John then Denise then Timi.
after everyone got thought two games they stop for lunch. Then we stated up again I could tell that every one in my group was getting really tried and ready to go home so we got done bowling all of the last games then after that we toke all of the score to the people who were in running the whole thing. Everyone got ribbons in my group, Going into this i thought it was just a free day that i did not have to go to school, Then at the end of the day i really want to be there God changed my heart. I think that God  that i lucky to be the way I am and how i complain about the things in my life that i think are hard but in real life it is really not that hard so I really had a good time Special Olympics.