Ethics: Religion and Equality mindmap
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- RELIGION AND EQUALITY
- EQUALITY
- Christianity believes in the equality of ALL human beings.
- JESUS
- Treated people the same and cared for all- even if they were outcasts, female, sick, foreign.
- Taught us to love our neighbour- PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN.
- Died for all.
- "love thy neighbour"
- "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
- RACISM, PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION.
- Jesus challenged the prejudices of people of his day.
- PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN- Jesus recognises a hero Samaritan who stopped to help and injured Jew.
- "Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you."
- CHURCHES VIEWS
- QUAKERS: "Jesus stressed the unique nature and worth of each individual."
- ROMAN CATHOLIC: "Discrimination on grounds of sex, race, colour, social conditions, language or religion is incompatible with God's design."
- CHURCH OF ENGLAND: "Racism has no part in the Christian Gospel."
- DESMOND TUTU: "I pray that Our Lord would open our eyes so that we would see the real,the true identity of each one of us..."
- MARTIN LUTHER KING: "We must love our white brothers, no matter what they do to us.."
- CHRISTIAN RESPONSES
- Sit-ins to protest white only establishments.
- Challenging those who make racist comments or jokes.
- Boycotts until the racism and discrimination stops.
- CHRISTIANITY AND OTHER RELIGIONS
- Some Christians believe that only Christians will receive eternal life.
- CHristians believe that only people who follow Jesus' beliefs and follow his teachings, will be given eternal life.
- Some christians refuse to mix with people of other religions.
- Some Christians believe that there are good moral teachings in other religions and some beliefs are like theiur own
- Christians want all to have eternal life which is why they evangelise.
- All are equal in the eyes of God,so Christians should treat people who believe different things as equals.
- SEXISM IN CHRISTIANITY
- SEXIST
- "Women... be subject to your husbands."
- “Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house and bear children"
- “A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I permit no women to teach or have authority over men, she is to keep silent. ”
- "Women should stay silent in church."
- All of Jesus' disciples were men.
- St Paul's teachings say women should not lead and teach men.
- NOT SEXIST
- Jesus repeatedly talked to women, and even 'outcast' women such as prostitiutes.
- Jesus appeared to women first after his resurrection. Gave them the responsibility of telling the other disciples.
- Perhaps Jesus did not make women disciples because men would not have spoken to them.
- "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
- Anglican churches allow women to be priests and bishops.
- The Church of England allowed women to become vicars in 1992
- SEXIST
- EQUALITY
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