Affected humanity becomes Fe

Affected humanity becomes Fe Faced with fears of a pandemic such as avian influenza or worried about mad cow disease, hantavirus and Ebola, the mode society is usually in science and medicine to explain? and then? disaster.But avoided in the history of civilization, this is a recent development.During humanity? Biomedical s worst disaster of the Black Death from 1347 until 1350, when neither academic nor priest can stop the tide of the plague, people have the convenience of an angry God.Amid what seemed to be the end of the world, the 14th Cree century citizenship that humanity? s own sins and follies caused terrible devastating disease Europe.Such knowledge has helped to meet the human need to find the meaning of insanity, said John Kelly, author of the 2005 book The Great Mortality: an intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time. ? We have an intrinsic sense, probably genetic, to find order in chaos? He said. ? It is necessary for their operation. What? It gives us a religion. European civilization? despite a population decline of 30 percent and many subsequent outbreaks of plague? below. The religious response to the pest, even acts of generosity and selflessness, as well as acts of terrible evil vengeance.Today the concept of God who has caused a disaster as a punishment for the sin of man? if the AIDS epidemic and the tsunami in Asia? is viewed with skepticism by most religious leaders. However, this is a concept that survives, nor in the claims that Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans Whacked ways from their evil, or the evangelist Pat Robertson? S conclusion that God caused the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon? S stroke.Evidence suggests that the Black Death was bubonic plague, carried by fleas and the proliferation of rats. In the Middle Ages, however,? Medical science was totally perplexed by the plague? Morman said Franco, associate professor of Italian studies at Boston College and an expert on plague-related art. Nobody knew how it spread. Folk remedies were in vain and astrology has found solutions to the stars or the motion of Satu. The church had a very simple answer: because the last of the plague is a God who is angry to punish humanity for their sin? Morman said. ? No? Sa terrible message and theologically wrong, but the consolation is to have a ready answer. Therefore, the only way to prevent the disease was to lead a Christian life? an advantage for both the victims and society.While plague many people have fled the city and entrenched in the house, a surprising number chose to care for family members or friends affected. This was evidenced by the number of people surrounding someone in a time of death as recorded in surviving and related wills.Many priests left their posts or charges for extra services, many others stayed to serve and sold with their herds, said Kelly. With the city in ruins? People do not? Do not tu away from religion? has become more private and less institutional? said.The religious impulse that also found their distance in fine arts. Certainly, the macabre? Dance of death? skeleton reasons I was in art and literature for decades. However, many painters have a different approach, as shown in the hope and healing: Painting in Italy in time of plague 1500-1800, shows a point of reference Morman helped organize in 2005 the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts. Contrary to expectations, many linked to plague paintings document destruction, instead? The final role of art was to be a mirror of hope and healing? Morman said.The paintings on display uses only the symbols of the plague (for example, people who have the nose because of the victims? Stench) and presented the saints associated with the disease? San Sebastian, St. Roche, Santa Rosalia and San Miguel Arcángel. These served as? Reminders of their availability as intercessors and respectful saviors? Morman said. Paintings were often commissioned by local authorities for public exhibition for building messages? The great appeal of charity. What we call social services collapsed in the society even more dependent on the kindness of the people? Morman said.Religious excess created horrors during the plague years. The Jews were the entries that the spread of plague by poisoning the water and led to violent attacks against Jews in Germany and France. According to the University of Minnesota? S Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2,000 Jews were bued alive in Strasbourg in 1349. Therefore, the search for sin is often targeted innocent scapegoats, although Kelly noted, Pope Clement issued two bulls in 1348, which condemns the attacks Jews.Groups? Flagellants? including monks and lay people, wandering the streets flogging in public to bring to God? s punishment for all human beings themselves. Unfortunately, these groups of people, often bringing the plague carrying fleas, roaming from town to town, said Kelly. Even the act of bringing people together in churches could be extended to local authorities to implement the quarantine disease.Eventually when outbreaks occurred. And, for whatever reason, subsequent outbreaks of plague, which continued in the 18th century, when they were less devastating.By the great influenza epidemic of 1918 that, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, killed as many as 40 million worldwide, medical science has replaced theology in the search for solutions. However, the tendency to attribute the disaster to divine retribution, still persists today. The need to see order in chaos? It may be something we need to survive? Kelly said. Stephanie Schorow is a freelance writer for Science and Theology News.