HTY 310A Course Paper Akri Çipa ID: 100092770 The Counter-Reformation In the beginning of the 16th century, the Church was facing multiple difficulties. First of all, several theologians were voicing the necessity and the urgency for reform. Their concerns spread across the whole of Europe and more and more people started to be convinced by their claims. At the same time, a lot of secular critics started to heavily target and criticize the religious practices
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin