Religion and Morality Quotes: Unit 2

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Religious Attitudes to Matters of Life

Christianity 

  • "Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's spirit lives in you?" - 1 Corinthians 3:16 
  • "A person ... needs to be treated ... as an end in itself, not a tool for someone else's agenda." - Archbishop of Canterbury 
  • "Love your neighbour as yourself" - Mark 12:31 
  • "You shall not murder." - Exodus 20:13 

Islam 

  • If anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people." - Qur'an 5:32 
  • "It is he who created you from a single person." - Qur'an 7:189 
  • "Do not take life - which Allah has made sacred - except for just cuase." - Qur'an 17:33 

Hinduism 

  • "Do not to to another what you do not like to be done to yourself." - Mahabharata 
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Religious Attitudes To Drug Abuse

Christianity 

  • "Don't you know that you yourself are Gods temple and ... if anyone destorys God's temple God will destroy him." - 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 
  • "Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise." - proverbs 20:1
  • "It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that will cause your brother to fall" - Romans 14:21

Islam 

  • "Make not your own hands contribute to your destruction." - Qur'an 2:195 
  • "Concerning wine and gambling ... in them is great sin ... the sin is greater than the profit." - Qur'an 2:219 

Hinduism 

  • The mid of a drunken person becomes confused, then the confused mind commits sins..." - The Veda's
  • "He must not get willfully addicted to any substance of self gratification." - Laws of Manu  
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Religious Attitudes To Death and The Elderly

Christianity 

  • "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever belives in him shall not perish but have eternal life." - John 3:16 
  • "Respect your father and your mother so that you will live a long time in the land I am giving you." - Exodus 20:12
  • "Honour your father and mother" - Exodus 20:12

Islam 

  • "May his nose be rubbed in dust who found his parents approaching old age and lost his right to enter paradise beceause he did not look after them." - Hadith 
  • "Nor take life - which Allah has made sacred - except for just cause." - Qur'an 17:33 

Hindusims 

"Let your mother be God to you. Let your father be God to you." - Taittiriya Upanishad 

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Religious Attitudes to Crime and Punishment

Christianity 

  • "Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the Lord your God gave you." - Deuteronomy 16:20
  • "An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" - Exodus 21:24-25  
  • "If your brother sins, rebuke him and if he repents, forgive him." - Luke 17:3 

Islam 

  • "Allah doth comand you ... when ye judge between man and man, that ye judge with justice." - Qur'an 4:58 
  • "As to the theif, male or female, cut of their hands: a punishment by way of example." - Qur'an 5:38 
  • "If anyone is killed unjustly, we have granted the right of retribution to his heir." - Qur'an 17:33

Hindusims

  • "An eye for an eye end up makeing the whole world blind." - Gandhi 
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The 10 Commandments

l. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me 

ll. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image

lll. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain

lV. Remeber the sabbath day, to keep it holy 

V. Honour thy father and thy mother 

Vl. Thou shalt not kill 

Vll. Though shalt not commit adulty 

Vlll. Thou shalt not steal 

lX. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour 

X. Thou shalt not covet 

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