Divine
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That, in the first Enlightenment, led to questions about the right of kings, the
divine
right of kings to rule over people, or that women should be subordinate to men, or that the Church was the official word of God.
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But still, if you're going to speak about a Muslim culture, this has a core: the
divine
message which began the religion.
But one thing was curious: most of those problems turn out to be problems that emerged later, not from the very
divine
core of Islam, the Koran, but from, again, traditions and mentalities, or the interpretations of the Koran that Muslims made in the Middle Ages.
Eight hundred years ago, approximately, the barons of England decided that the
Divine
Right of Kings was no longer working for them so well, and they forced King John to sign the Magna Carta, which recognized that even the king who claimed to have
divine
rule still had to abide by a basic set of rules.
In contrast, millions of Africans imagine that their religious faith will help their dream come true, and they spend so much time praying for miracles and for
divine
intervention in their lives.
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