AQA RELIGIOUS STUDIES UNIT 3 RELIGIOUS QUOTES

Again and again I faced the suffering of new birth - Christianity

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away (Christianity)

Don't you know that you yourself are God's temple? - Christianity

Jesus turns water into wine - Christianity 

If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn the other - Christianity 

Do not make your own hands contribute to your own destruction - Islam

• Taking drugs goes against the Fifth Buddhist Precept – avoid intoxicants.

• Rastafarians, however, smoke Cannabis as they believe the Bible says ‘God gave them herb’.

• Roman Catholics believe in purgatory. This is a process of purification before going to Heaven. Your soul is cleansed of sins, especially if you are not bad enough for eternal hell.

• Christian can be buried or cremated. Roman Catholics prefer burial as your body will be needed in the afterlife.

Muslims (Islam) and Orthodox Jews, however, believe body and soul will be reunited on Judgement Day.

• Buddhists see death as the end of life. The person’s karmic (karma) energy moves on to another life. This is rebirth.

• Buddhists cremate their dead. 

• Muslims believe the body must be buried within 48 hours.
• The body must be buried, as it is needed for resurrection on the Day of Judgement.
• On the Day of Judgement Allah will decide who goes to Paradise and who goes to Hell.

• Most groups of Christians have stated that they are against active euthanasia (except the Dutch Protestant Church).
• They believe that God makes life and He is the One to end life too.
• Humans are made in the ‘Image of God’ and we should not ruin that image.

• It is a basic Buddhist belief not to harm living things – ahimsa; this rules out euthanasia for many Buddhists.
• The 1st precept says to avoid taking life. Active euthanasia is taking life.
• Karma has to be worked through and suffering (in dying) might be part of that karma. Your pain is your karma.

Buddhists believe in hospices like Christians.

Many Buddhist temples look after the dying

A Christian teaching is, “Honour your mother and father”

Buddhists teach that care for the elderly should focus on metta – loving kindness

Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler, he who is led astray is not wise - Christian

Every intoxicant is Khamr and Khamr is haram - Islam

Alcohol is the mother of all evils - Islam

• The Bible says God ‘closed Hannah’s womb’ (1 Samuel). This suggests infertility is God’s will.

• The doctor shows metta (loving kindness) by helping the infertile couple. - Buddhism

Also, the Bible says the ‘body is a temple of the Holt Spirit’, which is protected by transplants.

• Jehovah Witnesses believe the Bible says blood transfusions are wrong. For example, Leviticus says that ‘the life of a creature is in the blood’. Therefore, a transfusion is taking someone else’s blood.

The Bible says ‘obey the authorities’. - Christians

• The Qur’an says “an eye for an eye” like the Bible. - Christian and Islam

The use of drugs inflicts very grave damage on human health and life. Their use, except on

strictly theraputic grounds, is a grave offence. - Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church

Justice should be tempered with Mercy - Christianity

Take not life, which Allah hath made sacred - Islam

A punishment by way of an example - Christianity (supporting retribution and reformation)

Allah fixes the time span of all things - Islam (suggesting that we shouldn't mess with his plan because he has fixed it so)

Nor can a soul die except by Allah's leave - Islam

Treat with kindness you parents and kindred, and orphans and those in need - Islam

Honour your mother and father - Christianity

The life is in the blood - Christianity

None can be their mothers except those that gave them birth - Islam (quote against designer babies / surrogacy)

So God created man in his own image - Christianity (we shouldn't have designer babies etc as the image of all people is in the hands of God)

If anyone had saved life it would be as if they had saved the whole of mankind - Islam

"God made us, we are all unique and special, only God can take our life away."