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By reading the source, Two Swords; Heresy and Just War, in which Thomas Moore defends the use of violence to fight against Heresy, we can better understand religion in Utopia<\/em>.\u00a0 First we gain a better understanding of the time period in which violence caused by relgion was very prevalent.\u00a0 While Hythloday is discussing religion in Utopia he writes, \u201cIt is one of their oldest policies that no one should come to any harm because of their religion\u201d (Moore 118).\u00a0 In Utopia if someone hurts another citizen because of religion he will likely be banished.\u00a0 The source gives us a background of the time period which helps us understand the importance of this law.\u00a0 Moore lived in a time where many people were harmed and even killed because of their religion.\u00a0 In the article heretics have resorted to violence against Christians and Moore believes they must be punished with violence.\u00a0 But in Utopia he sees this cycle of violence and makes sure that can not occur in a just society.\u00a0 In Utopia the punishments for fighting over religion seem very harsh but it makes sense based on the religious conflict at the time.<\/p>\n In Utopia the idea comes up that the the less holy religions would be \u201cchoked like grain\u201d by worse people.\u00a0 When war and religion meet it is likely that the worse religions come out on top.\u00a0 Thus, the religions that are not as virtuous will come out on top.\u00a0 Conversely, in a society like Utopia where people can believe whatever they like and are not pressured to follow any religion the best and holiest religion will thrive.\u00a0 It seems contradictory that he is justifying the use of violence but in utopia any sort of violence relating to religion is severely punished.\u00a0 However, his argument is that the use of violence is necessary in the current society.\u00a0 If they just accept the violence of heretics eventually Christianity will suffer.\u00a0 Because the heretics are using violence then it is okay for them to use violence as well.\u00a0 In an ideal society, like Utopia, there would be no initial violence.\u00a0 The utopians made sure that no one could fight over religion foreseeing the effect it would have on religion; the worse ones would win out.\u00a0 To counter this in Moore\u2019s time he believed they must use violence as well to contain the heretics.\u00a0 This law is vital to a utopian society to ensure that religion does not result in death and controversy like it had been during the 16th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By reading the source, Two Swords; Heresy and Just War, in which Thomas Moore defends the use of violence to fight against Heresy, we can better understand religion in Utopia.\u00a0 First we gain a better understanding of the time period in which violence caused by relgion was very prevalent.\u00a0 While Hythloday is discussing religion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portfolio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/utopias15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/utopias15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/utopias15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/utopias15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/utopias15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/utopias15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/utopias15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/utopias15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/utopias15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}