Re unit 3 keywords

Question	Answer
Agnosticism	Not being sure whether God exists
Atheism	believing that God does not exist
Conversion	when your life is changed by giving yourself to God
Free Will	the idea that human beings are free to make their own choices
Miracle	something which seems to break the law of science and makes you think only God could have done it
Moral evil	actions done by humans which cause suffering
Natural evil	things which cause suffering but have nothing to do with humans
Numinous	the feeling of the presence of something greater than you
Omni- benevolent	the belief that God is all-loving
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
Prayer	an attempt to contact God, usually through words
Abortion	the removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive
Assisted Suicide	providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide
Euthanasia	the painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease
Immortality of the soul	the idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body
Near - death experience	when someone about to die has an out of body experience
Non - voluntary euthanasia	ending someone’s life painlessly when they are unable to ask, but you have good reason for thinking they would want you to do so
Paranormal	unexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes eg ghosts, mediums
Quality of life	the idea that life must have some benefits for it to be worth living
Reincarnation	the belief that, after death, souls are reborn in a new body
Resurrection	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 belongs to God
Voluntary euthanasia	ending life painlessly when someone in great pain asks for death
Adultery	a sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner
Civil partnership	a legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife
Cohabitation	living together without being married
Contraception	intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring
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	sex before marriage
Procreation	making a new life
Re- constituted family	where two sets of children (stepbrothers and stepsisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other
Re - marriage	marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage
Community cohesion	a common vision and shared sense of belonging for all groups in society
Discrimination	treating people less favorably because of their ethnicity/ gender/ colour/ sexuality/ age/ class
Ethnic minority	a member of an ethnic group (race) which is much smaller than the majority group
Interfaith marriage	marriage where the husband and wife are from different religions
Multi-ethnic society	many different races and cultures living together in one society
Multi-faith society	many different religions living together in one society
Prejudice	believing some people are inferior or superior without even knowing them
Racial harmony	different races/colours living together happily
Racism	the belief that some races are superior to others
Religious freedom	the right to practise your religion and change your religion
Religious pluralism	accepting all religions as having an equal right to coexist
Sexism	discriminating against people because of their gender (being male or female)

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