The Black Death led to numerous consequences that affected human life in the late 13th century, including: a growing disbelief in God, advances in knowledge, and the achievement of a higher quality of life. These were also factors that helped lead to humanism in post-bubonic plague European culture. The plague led to a decrease in faith in God because everyone was under the impression that God sent the plague so they would pray and ask for forgiveness for their sins and yet it changed nothing. Even popes and priests died, no one was safe from the plague and this further diminished the power of the church, people turned to different religions to find a cure against the plague, even creating new religions such as that of the Flagellants, who believed that if had they self-harmed the Black Death would no longer have spread, yet it was useless that there was still no religion that could save them from the plague. People's religious views were a haggard relic of their former glory and they needed something else to believe in. So they needed something else to focus their energy on., ...