Ags Rs - Gcse Edexcel Religious Studies, Religion And Life

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Agnosticism

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Not being sure whether God exists.

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Atheism

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Believing that God does not exist.

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Omni-benevolent

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The belief that God is all-good.

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Omnipotent

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The belief that God is all-powerful

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Omniscient

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The belief that God knows everything that has happened and everything that is going to happen.

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Baptism

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The Christian rite of passage that welcomes a person into the Christian community and leads to belief in God.

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Confirmation

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Where a young Christian makes the baptismal vows for his or herself and leads to belief in God.

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Miracle

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Something that seems to break a law of science and makes you think only God could have done it.

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Conversion

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When your life is changed by giving yourself to God.

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Numinous

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The feeling of the presence of something greater than you.

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Prayer

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An attempt to contact God, usually through words.

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Design Argument

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The idea that the appearance of design and order in the universe leads to belief that God exists.

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Causation Argument

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The idea that everything in the universe has a cause of being and the cause of the universe itself being must be God.

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Moral Evil

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Actions performed by humans that cause suffering.

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Natural Evil

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Things that cause suffering but have nothing to do with humans; they occur naturally.

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Free Will

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The idea that human beings are free to make their own choices.

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Immortality of the Soul

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The idea that the souls lives on after the death of the body - an after life.

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Resurrection

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The belief that, after we death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised.

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Near-death Experience

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When someone about to die has an out-of-body experience.

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Paranormal

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Unexplained things that are thought to have spiritual causes.

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Reincarnation

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The belief that, after death, the soul is reborn into another body.

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Abortion

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The removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive.

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Sanctity of Life

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The belief that life is holy and belongs to God.

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Assisted Suicide

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Providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide by themselves.

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Euthanasia

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The painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease.

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Non-voluntary Euthanasia

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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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Voluntary Euthanasia

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Ending life painlessly when someone in great pain asks for death.

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Quality of Life

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The idea that life must have some benefits for it to be worth living.

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Civil Partnership

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A legal ceremony giving a same legal rights as a husband and wife.

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Cohabitation

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Living together without being married.

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Homosexuality

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Sexual attraction to people of the same sex.

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Nuclear Family

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Mother, father and children living together as a unit.

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Re-constituted Family

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Where two sets of children (stepbrothers and stepsisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other.

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Adultery

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A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner.

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Faithfulness

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Staying with your marriage partner and having sex only with them.

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Pre-marital Sex

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Sex before marriage.

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Promiscuity

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Having sex with a number of partners without commitment.

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Re-marriage

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Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage, or after the death of a marriage partner.

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Contraception

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Intentionally preventing a pregnancy from occurring.

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Procreation

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Making a new life.

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Discrimination

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Treating people less favourably because of their ethnicity, gender, colour, sexuality, age or class.

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Prejudice

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The belief that some people are inferior or superior without even knowing them.

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Sexism

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Discrimination against people because of their gender (being male or female).

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Ethnic Minority

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A member of an ethnic group (race) that is smaller than the majority group.

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Multi-ethnic Society

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Where many different races and cultures live together in one society.

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Racial Harmony

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Different races living together happily.

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Racism

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Discrimination against people because of their race (ethnicity).

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Community Cohesion

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A common vision and shared sense of belonging for all groups in society.

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Multi-faith Society

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Where many different religious groups live together in one society.

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Religious Freedom

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Where people have the right to practise their religion or change their religion if they wish.

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Interfaith Marriage

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Marriage where a husband and wife are from different religions.

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Religious Pluralism

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When religious people accept all religions and believe they have an equal right to co-exist.