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Agnosticism
not being sure whether God exists
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Athesim
believing that God does not exist
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Conversion
when your life is changed by giving yourself to God
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Free Will
the ideas that human beings are free to make their own choices
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Miracle
something which seems to break the laws of science and makes you think only God could have done it
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Moral Evil
actions done by humans which cause suffering
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Natural Evil
things which cause suffering that have nothing to do with humans
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Numinous
the feeling of the presence of something greater than you
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Omni-Benevolent
the belief that God is all good
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Omnipotent
the belief that God is all powerful
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Omniscient
the belief that God knows everything that has happened and evrything that is going to happen
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Prayer
an attempt to contact God, usually through words
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Abortion
the removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive
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Assited Suicide
providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide
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Euthanasia
the painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease
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Immortality of the soul
the idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body
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Near-death experience
when someone about to die has an out of body experience
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Non-voluntary Euthanasia
ending someone's life painlessly when they are unable to ask, but you have a good reason for thinking they would want you to do so
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Paranormal
unexplained things, which are thought to have spiritual causes e.g. ghosts,mediums
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Quality of life
the idea that the life must have some benefits for it to be worth living
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Reincarnation
the belief that, after death souls are reborn in a new 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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Sanctity of life
the belief that life is holy and belongs to God
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Voluntary Euthanasia
ending life painlessly when someone in great pain asks for death
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Adultery
a sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner
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Civil Patnership
a legel ceremony giving homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife.
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Cohabitation
living together without being married
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Contraception
intentionally preventing pregnancy from happening
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Faithfulness
staying with your marriage patner and having sex with only them
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Homosexuality
sexual attraction to the same sex
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Nucleur family
mother, father and children living together as a unit
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Pre-marital sex
sex befor marriage
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Procreation
making a new life
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Promiscuity
having sex with a number of patners without commitment
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Re-constitued family
where two sets of children (stepbrothers and stepsisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other
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Re-marriage
marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage
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Community Cohesion
a common vison ans shared sense of belonging for all groups in society
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Discrimination
treating people less favourably because of their ethnicity/gendar/colour/sexuality/age/class
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Ethnic minority
a member of an ethnic group which is smaller than the majority group
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Interfaith marriages
marriage where the husband and wife are from different religions
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Multi-ethnic society
many differnt races living together in one society
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Multi-faith society
many different religions living together in one society
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Prejudice
beleving someone are inferior of superior without even knowing them
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Racial Harmony
differnt races/colours living togetherhappily
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Racism
the belief that some races are superior to others
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Religious freedom
the right to practice your religion and change your religion
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Religious pluraism
the right to practice your religion and chnge your religion
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Sexism
discrminating against people because of their gendar (being male or female)
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believing that God does not exist

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Athesim

Card 3

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when your life is changed by giving yourself to God

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Card 4

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the ideas that human beings are free to make their own choices

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Card 5

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something which seems to break the laws of science and makes you think only God could have done it

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