Section A Keywords: The universe, human beings, and their destiny.

Section A Keywords for RE: Religious Studies Qualification.

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Afterlife.

Continuation of existance after death.

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Animal Rights.

(The principle of) treating animals fairly.

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Cyclical (view of human existance).

(The belief that) time has no beginning or end, and that the soul of human beings is reborn again and again.

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Commonality (of all living beings).

(The belief that) all creatures are part of the same process of development.

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Determinism.

(The view that) every event has a cause, which may also involve believing that human beings cannot have free will, as their choices and actions are caused.

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Dominance (of human beings).

(The belief that) human beings have been given the right to exercise control over all other living beings.

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Free Will.

(The belief that) the human will is free, so human beings can choose and act freely.

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Greed.

An excessive desire for things, such as wealth or food, which bears no relation to actual needs.

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Human Destiny.

The future of human beings, or, what happens to them when they die.

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Ignorance (in relation to wrong doing).

Not knowing, or understanding, the difference between right and wrong, or what makes actions wrong.

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Immortality.

The idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body.

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Judgement (by God).

The decision of God about the destiny of human beings.

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Law of cause and effect (in relation to human acti

(The belief that) every human action has an automatic consequence.

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Linear (view of human existance).

(The belief that) time has a beginning and an end, and that human beings live only once on Earth.

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Physicalism.

(The belief that) the real world is nothing more than the physical world.

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Predestination (by God).

(The belief that) God has already decided the fate of human beings.

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Rebirth.

(The belief that) the soul is reborn into another body.

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Resurrection.

(The belief that) after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world, when it is raised.

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Selfishness.

Self-interest and concern with individual needs, or wants, which excludes considering those of others.

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Soul.

The spiritual or non-material part of a person.

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