PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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They believed a Catholic couldn’t achieve the necessary government experience.
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They feared the influence of religious beliefs on civil rights.
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They feared the influence of an international religious organization.
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They feared a potential push toward a national Catholic religion.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why were so many Protestants wary of a Catholic candidate? They believed a Catholic couldn’t achieve the necessary government experience. They feared the influence of religious beliefs on civil rights.
Detailed explanation-2: -Half of Protestants (50%) say they think the Catholic religion is “very similar” or “somewhat similar” to their own religion, while the other half (49%) say Catholicism is “very different” or “somewhat different” from their own faith.
Detailed explanation-3: -These are three major ones: i) Protestants believed that you could not buy your way to heaven and opposed the sale of indulgences. They felt that the church was corrupt. They also attacked the ‘cult of saints’ – they argued that relics were fakes which could not cure illness or perform miracles.
Detailed explanation-4: -Warfare intensified after the Catholic Church began the Counter-Reformation in 1545 against the growth of Protestantism. The conflicts culminated in the Thirty Years’ War, which devastated Germany and killed one third of its population, a mortality rate twice that of World War I.