Question | Answer |
Abortion | The removal of a foetus before it can survive |
Adultery | A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner |
Agnosticism | Not being sure whether God exists |
Assisted Suicide | Providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide. |
Atheism | Believing that God does not exist. |
Civil Partnership | A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as husband and wife. |
Cohabitation | Living together without being married. |
Community Cohesion | A common vision and shared sense of belonging for all groups in society. |
Contraception | Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring. |
Conversion | When your life is changed by giving yourself to God. |
Discrimination | treating people less favourably because of their ethnicity, gender, colour or class. |
Ethnic Minority | A member of an ethnic group (race) which is much smaller than the majority group. |
Euthanasia | The painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease. |
Faithfulness | staying with your marriage partner and having sex with only them. |
Free Will | The idea that human beings are free to make their own choices. |
Homosexuality | Sexual attraction to the same sex. |
Immortality of the Soul | The idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body. |
Interfaith marriage | Marriage where the husband and wife are from different religions. |
Miracle | Something which seems to break a law of science and makes you think only God could have done it. |
Moral Evil | Actions done by humans which cause suffering. |
Multi-Ethnic Society | Many different races and cultures living together in one society. |
Multi-faith society | Many different religions living together in one society. |
Natural Evil | Things which cause suffering but has nothing to do with humans. |
Near-death experience | When someone about to die has an out of body experience. |
Non-voluntary Euthanasia | Ending someones life painlessly when they are unable to ask, but you do have good reason for thinking they would want you to do so. |
Nuclear Family | Mother, Father and children living as a unit. |
Numinous | The feeling of the presence of something greater than you. |
Omni-benevolent | The belief that God is all good. |
Omnipotent | The belief that God is all powerful. |
Omniscient | The belief that God knows everything that has happened and everything that is going to happen. |
Paranormal | Unexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes, for example, ghosts, mediums. |
Prayer | An attempt to contact God, usually through words. |
Prejudice | Believing some people are inferior or superior without even knowing them. |
Pre-marital sex | Sex before marriage. |
Procreation | Making new life. |
Promiscuity | Having sex with a number of partners without commitment. |
Quality of life | The idea that life must have some benefits for it to be worth living. |
Racial Harmony | Different ethnic groups living together peacefully. |
Racism | The idea that some ethnic groups are superior to others. |
Re-constituted Family | Where two sets of children (set brothers and step sisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other. |
Reincarnation | The belief that, after death, the souls are reborn in a new body. |
Religious Experience | An experience that makes the person having the experience feel the presence of God. |
Religious freedom | The right to practise your religion and change your religion. |
Religious pluralism | Accepting all religions as having an equal right to co-exist. |
Re-marriage | Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage. |
Resurrection | The belief that, after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world. |
Sanctity of life | The belief that, after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised. |
Sanctity of life | The belief that life is holy and only god has the right to take it. |
Sexism | Discriminating against people because of their gender. |
Voluntary euthanasia | Ending life painlessly when someone in great pain asks for death. |
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