to intervene in Italian affairs in the Crimean War and in Mexico. After Napoleon’s collapse, the Third Republic was hostile to the influential role of the Catholic Church played in French politics and introduced sharply anti-clerical legislation. In Russia religion’s influence was much different. There wasn’t much influence at all in the period of 1815 to 1919. Czar Alexander proposed the Holy Alliance under which monarchs would pledge themselves to rule according to Christian teachings; here alot of them didn’t have any sincerity, especially Alexander. Religion also intensified things as in France, Russia decided to intervene when the Greeks revolted against the Turks, claiming the need to protect fellow Christians from the Muslims. Russia has been Communist for a very long time already, and as such they are atheistic and they also persecuted organized religion as a rival for the people’s loyalty. But since the collapse of Communist for reasons other than religion, it has allowed churches to practice freely, like the Russian Orthodox, have shown a surprising amount of popular support.I believe that it was good for the religion to change because that way people don’t rely wholly upon religion for everything and tend to think more for themselves. Not only that there were more choices of religion, which may have been a bad thing because people would get confused on which to believe and it also caused many a war (Crusades). Humanism in the 16th and 17th centuries flourished. Political reformers argued that human reason rather than divine relation could produce just systems of government and law. People increasingly focused their attention on what people could do to improve their lives and others in the world. The British Empire for example, got to abolish slavery in 1833, and reformers in France also abolished slavery but in 1794. And in the 19th to early 20th century liberalism and socialism were both ...
