Freedom_of_Religion

Freedom of Religion Religion has always been a source for argument, Americans are lucky enough to live in a country that allows them to practice any religion they desire without fear of prosecution. This was not the case in medieval Europe, religious practices were either approved institutional church or condemned as heresy. The common people aware of the dishonesty of the church began to express their religious faith in new and different ways. Many people in this time could not read, without literacy reading about the lives of saints was not possible. These people learned the stories of Jesus and his saints through sermons and by seeing the stories set down on stained glass windows. Hand in hand with sermons, the men that could read learned about the lives of saints through stories called hagiography. These stories often presented ordinary people and how their lives were touched by God, and how this could be used as inspiration in everyday lives. One of the people that were included in these stories was Santa Claus. This may sound a bit odd, due to the fact that everyone knows that Santa does not exist, but he did. Santa Claus church, people, began, stories, saints, ways, santa, practices, middle, lives, ages, without, way, through, religious, religion, person, late, corrupt, claus, story, set, sermons, read, qualified, practice, power, own, one, offices, new, money, learned, itself, included