MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS CONCEPTION. It refers to the Christian belief that man comes into the world to serve Almighty God and that his actions will be evaluated after death and at the hour of the Last Judgment. Judaism also has a punishing God, but in this case religion is at the service of man. These conceptions led Christianity to a protracted struggle against the infiels and a slain ideological war against the Jews. and other minorities. Society was all dominated and its civilian life controlled by the clergy.