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50 Cards in this Set
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Believing in God |
Believing in God |
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agnosticism |
not being sure whether God exists |
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atheism |
believing that God does not exist |
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conversion |
when your life is changed by giving yourself to God |
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free will |
the idea that human beings are free to make their own choices |
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miracle |
something which seems to break a law of science and makes you think only God could have done it |
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moral evil |
actions done by humans which cause suffering |
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natural evil |
things which cause suffering but have nothing to do with humans |
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numinous
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the feeling of the presence of something greater than you |
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omni-benevolent |
the belief that God is all-good |
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omnipotent |
the belief that God is all-powerful |
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omniscient |
the belief that God knows everything that has happened and everything that is going to happen |
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prayer |
an attempt to contact God, usually through words |
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Matters of life and death |
Matters of life and death |
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abortion |
the removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive |
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assisted suicide |
providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide |
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euthanasia |
the painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease |
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immortality of the soul |
the idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body |
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near-death experience |
when someone about to die has an out of body experience |
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non-voluntary euthanasia |
ending someone’s life painlessly when they are unable to ask, but you have good reason for thinking they would want you to do so |
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paranormal |
unexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes eg ghosts, mediums |
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quality of life |
the idea that life must have some benefits for it to be worth living |
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reincarnation |
the belief that, after death, souls are reborn in a new body resurrection the belief that, after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised |
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sanctity of life |
the belief that life is holy and belongs to God |
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voluntary euthanasia |
ending life painlessly when someone in great pain asks for death |
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Marriage and family life |
Marriage and family life |
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adultery |
a sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner |
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civil partnership |
a legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife |
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cohabitation |
living together without being married |
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contraception |
intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring |
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faithfulness |
staying with your marriage partner and having sex only with them |
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homosexuality |
sexual attraction to the same sex |
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nuclear family |
mother, father and children living as a unit |
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pre-marital sex |
sex before marriage procreation making a new life |
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promiscuity |
having sex with a number of partners without commitment |
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re-constituted family |
where two sets of children (stepbrothers and stepsisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other |
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re-marriage |
marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage |
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Religion and community cohesion |
Religion and community cohesion |
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community cohesion |
a common vision and shared sense of belonging for all groups in society |
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discrimination |
treating people less favourably because of their ethnicity/gender/colour/ sexuality/age/class |
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ethnic minority |
a member of an ethnic group (race) which is much smaller than the majority group |
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interfaith marriages |
marriage where the husband and wife are from different religions |
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multi-ethnic society |
many different races and cultures living together in one society |
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multi-faith society |
many different religions living together in one society |
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prejudice |
believing some people are inferior or superior without even knowing them |
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racial harmony |
different races/colours living together happily |
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racism |
the belief that some races are superior to others |
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religious freedom |
the right to practise your religion and change your religion |
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religious pluralism |
accepting all religions as having an equal right to coexist |
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sexism |
discriminating against people because of their gender (being male or female) |