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Flashcards by Kerris Linney, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Kerris Linney
about 9 years ago
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| 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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