RS - RELIGION, PEACE AND JUSTICE
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- RELIGION, PEACE AND JUSTICE
- PUNISHMENT
- Proportional punishment
- When the punishment is proportional to the crime
- Exodus 21:23-25 "But if there is serious injury you are to take life for life, eye for eye..."
- When the life of a criminal is ended by the state
- Exodus 21:23-25 "But if there is serious injury you are to take life for life, eye for eye..."
- When the punishment is proportional to the crime
- To make people suffer for their wrong actions
- Capital Punishment
- When the life of a criminal is ended by the state
- Aims of punishment
- Protection
- Retribution
- Revenge
- Exodus 21:23-25 "But if there is serious injury you are to take life for life, eye for eye..."
- to get back at someone for something they've done to you or a loved one
- Exodus 21:23-25 "But if there is serious injury you are to take life for life, eye for eye..."
- Revenge
- Vindication
- To uphold the law
- Reformation
- Deterrence
- Types of Punishment
- Death Penalty
- Lethal Injection
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- Lethal Injection
- Fines
- Prison
- Community Service
- Electronic Tagging
- Penance
- An act of self-mortification or devotion performed voluntarily to sorrow for a sin or other wrong doing
- Death Penalty
- Proportional punishment
- JUSTICE
- Fair treatment of all people by the stare according to their actions
- Social Injustice
- Unfair treatment in society
- Agape
- Do the most loving thing
- From a branch of Christianity called Situation Ethics
- In the Bible
- Genesis-Adam and Eve: Punished for their disobedience
- Eating from the tree when God told them not to - so God banished them from the Garden of Eden
- The Final Judgement: All people will be judged on their actions whilst on Earth
- The Prophet Isaiah: "Learn to do right; seek justice, defend the oppressed. take up the cause of the fatherless (Isaiah 1:17)
- Exodus 21:23-25 "A life for a life; an eye for an eye"
- Genesis-Adam and Eve: Punished for their disobedience
- Christian may help fight social injustice by...
- Joining an organisation
- Amnesty International
- Christian Aid
- Salvation Army
- Praying
- Preaching
- Joining an organisation
- Liberation Theology
- Christians have a duty to fight to oppose social injustice and governmental abuse of power
- People must oppose the law of a country if it acts against then in an 'un-Christian' way
- Camillo Torres
- Oscar Romero
- Modern Development of the Christian Church
- Has followers from both catholic and protestant churches
- Catholic Church criticises it for using too much violence
- WAR
- Pacifism
- The belief that all war and fighting is wrong, regardless of the purpose or eventual outcome
- Exodus 20:13 "Do not murder"
- Matthew 5:44 "Love your enemies"
- Best known group of pacifists are Quakers
- Non-violent actions a Christian could take instead of war
- Negtiation
- Sanctions
- Non-violent protests
- Boycotts
- withdraw from commercial or social relations with- a country, and organisation, or a person- as a punishment or protest
- ConsceintiousObjectors
- A person who is opposed to war- and if asked to fight, they refuse
- Forgiveness
- To make peace with someone who has done you wrong
- Matthew 5:9 "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God
- ConsceintiousObjectors
- A person who is opposed to war- and if asked to fight, they refuse
- ConsceintiousObjectors
- War in the Old Testament
- Deuteronomy 31:1-6
- God tells his people to of to war with the Amorites
- "the Lord will destroy those people"
- Joel 3:9 "Prepare for war; call you warriors
- God is encouraging the people to of to war and preparing his people for it
- Joel 3:11 "Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations and gather in the valley"
- God is preparing 'all nations' for war
- Deuteronomy 31:1-6
- Bible Quotes
- Exodus 20:13 "Do not murder"
- Exodus 21:23-15 "But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye..."
- Genesis 9:6 "Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God had God made mankind"
- Matthew 10:34 " do not think that i have come to bring peace to the earth. i have not come to bring peace, but a sword
- Some say that this quote in terms of converting and getting people to convert to Chrisitanity
- When two sides are in dispute wit each other, this sometimes may include violence
- Holy War
- a war declared and waged in support of a religious cause
- Pacifism
- PUNISHMENT
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