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Created by akhlaqhabib
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Question | Answer |
Assisted Suicide | Helping a seriously ill person to commit suicide |
Near Death Experience | When someone about to die has an out of body experience |
Paranormal | Unexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes e.g. ghosts, mediums |
Reincarnation | When souls, after death, are reborn in a new body |
Resurrection | When after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised |
Immortality of the soul | The idea that the soul lives on after death |
Adultery | A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their married partner |
Civil Partnership | A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple similar legal rights as a husband and wife |
Cohabitation | Living together without being married |
Contraception | The deliberate use of artificial methods or other techniques to prevent pregnancy as a consequence of sexual intercourse. |
Faithfulness | Staying with your marriage partner and having sex only with them |
Homosexuality | Sexual attraction to the same sex |
Nuclear Family | Mother,father and children living as a unit |
Pre-martial sex | Having sex before marriage |
Procreation | To Bring about a new life in the form of a child |
Promiscuity | Having sex with a number of partners without commitment |
Re-constituted family | Where two sets of children (stepbrother/sisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other |
Re-marriage | Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage |
Prejudice | Believe others are not as good as you without even knowing them |
Discrimination | to put prejudice into action |
Racism | To discriminate against people because of their race or colour |
Sexism | To discriminate because of gender, being male or female |
Multi-ethnic | Different races and cultures living together:less chance of war as different races/ nationalities will get to understand each other and intermarry. Helps society see all races have lots in common. More progress as new people bring new ideas. |
Multi-Faith | Different regions living together: learn what religions have in common. seeing other religions in action may make people more serious about their beliefs. Help people understand each other's beliefs. Encourage freedom and may discourage conflicts |
Community Cohesion | Community cohesion refers to aspect of togetherness and bonding exhibits by members of a community, the "glue" that holds a community together. This might include features such as a sence of common belonging or cultural similarity |
Non-Voluntary Euthanasia | Ending someones life painlessly in their best interest when they are incapable of requesting death themselves |
NUMINOUS | The feeling you get when you are in a great cathedral or look up at the stars and feel there is something much greater than you. |
Conversion | When your life is changed by giving yourself to God |
Miracle | Something which seems to break a law of science and makes you think only God could have done it. |
Prayer | An attempt to contact God, usually through words |
Design | When things are connected and seem to have a purpose, e.g. the eye is designed for seeing |
Causation | The idea that everything has been caused by something else |
Agnosticism | Not being sure whether God exists |
Atheist | Believing that God does not exist |
Moral Evil | Actions done by humans which cause suffering |
Natural Evil | Things like earthquakes and floods which cause suffering and have nothing to do with humans |
Benovolent | The belief that god is good/kind |
Omnipotent | The belief that God is all powerful/can do anything |
Omniscient | The belief that God knows everything that has happened and that is going to happen |
Sanctity of life | The belief that life is holy and comes from God |
Abortion | The removal of the fetus from the womb before it can survive |
Quality of life | The idea that life must feel like it is worth living |
Euthanasia | Bringing about a premature but painless and gentle death |
Voluntary Euthanasia | Ending life painlessly when someone in great pain requests death |
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