RS Key Terms
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Not being sure if God exists or not...
Agnosticism
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Believing that God does not exists...
Atheism
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Changing from one religion to another or from not following a religion to following one...
Conversion
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The idea that humans are free to make their own choices...
Free will
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Something that breaks the laws of science and makes you think only God could have done it...
Miracle
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Actions done by humans which cause suffering...
Moral evil
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Thing which cause suffering but were not caused by humans...
Natural evil
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The feeling of the presence of something greater than you...
Numinous
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The belief that God is all powerful...
Omnipotent
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An attempt to communicate with God, usually through words...
Prayer
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The belief that life is holy and comes from God
Sanctity of life
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The removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive...
Abortion
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The idea that life must feel like it is worth living...
Quality of life
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Bring about a premature but painless and gentle death...
Euthanasia
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Ending life painlessly when someone in great pain requests death...
Voluntary euthanasia
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Ending someone's life painlessly in their best intrest when they are incapable of requesting death themselves...
Non-voluntary euthanasia
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Helping someone seriously in pain to commit suicide...
Assisted suicide
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When someone about to die has an out of body experience...
Near-death experience
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Unexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes...
Paranormal
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When souls, after deaths, are reborn in a new body...
Reincarnation
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When after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised...
Resurrection
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The idea that the soul lives on after death...
Immortality of the soul
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A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner...
Adultery
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A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple similar legal rights as a husband and wife...
Civil partnership
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Living together without being married...
Cohabitation
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The deliberate use of artificial methods or other techniques to prevent pregnancy as a consequence of sex...
Contraception
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Staying with your marriage partner and only having sex with them...
Faithfulness
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Sexual attraction to the same sex...
Homosexuality
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Mother, father and children living together as a unit...
Nuclear family
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Having sex before marriage...
Pre-marital sex
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To bring about a new life in the form of a child....
Procreation
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Having sex with a number of partners without commitment...
Promiscuity
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Where two sets of children become one family when their divorced parents marry eachother...
Re-constituded family
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Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage...
Re-marriage
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A shared sense of belonging for all groups in society...
Community cohesion
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Believing some people are inferior or supirior without even knowing them
Prejudice
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Treating people unfairly because of their race, colour, gender, class, age etc...
Discrimination
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An ethnic group smaller than the majority group...
Ethnic minority
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Discriminating agaist people because of their sex...
Sexism
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Discriminating against people because of their race and colour...
Racism
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Where different races and cultures live together in one society...
Multi-ethnic society
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A society where different ethnic groups live together happily...
Racial harmony
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Where people of differernt faiths live together in one society...
Multi-faith society
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The right to practice your religion and change your religion if you want to...
Religious freedom
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Accepting all religions as equally valid and correct and can all coexist...
Religious pluralism
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Marriage where each partner is from a different religion
Interfaith marriage
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Believing that God does not exists...
Back
Atheism
Card 3
Front
Changing from one religion to another or from not following a religion to following one...
Back
Card 4
Front
The idea that humans are free to make their own choices...
Back
Card 5
Front
Something that breaks the laws of science and makes you think only God could have done it...
Back
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