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70 Cards in this Set
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Abortion |
The removal of the foetus before it can survive |
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Adultery |
Being married and have a sexual relationship with another person, who isn't your marriage partner |
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Agnosticism |
Not being sure whether God exists or not |
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Assisted Suicide |
Providing someone with a painful disease the means of committing suicide |
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Atheism |
Not believing in God |
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Civil partnership |
A ceremony for a homosexual couple to be given the same rights as a husband and wife |
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Cohabitation |
Living together without being married |
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Community cohesion |
A common vision and shared sense of belonging to all groups in society |
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Contraception |
Intentionally preventing pregnancy |
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Conversion |
When your life is changed by giving yourself to God |
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Moral evil |
Suffering caused my human actions |
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Discrimination |
Being unfair to a group of individual because of their: race, age, gender, sexuality and ethnicity |
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Ethnic minority |
An ethnic group much smaller then the majority |
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Euthanasia |
The painless killing of someone with a painful disease |
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Faithfulness |
Being loyal to your partner and only have sex with them |
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Free will |
The belief that humans should have the right to make their own decisions |
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Homosexuality |
Being attracted to the same gender |
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Immortality of the Soul |
The belief that your soul lives on even after your body is dead |
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Interfaith marriage |
Marrying someone from another faith |
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Miracle |
An event that defies the laws of science and makes you think only God could have done it |
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Conversion |
When your life is changed by giving yourself to God |
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Moral evil |
Suffering caused my human actions (e.g. 911) |
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Natural evil |
Suffering not caused by human actions (e.g. Natural disasters) |
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Numinous |
The feeling of a greater prescience then your own |
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Omnipotent |
The belief that God is all powerful |
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Omniscient |
The belief that God is all knowing |
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Omni-benevolent |
The belief that God is all kind and loving |
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Prayer |
An attempt at making contact with God, usually through speech |
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Near death experience |
When someone who is about to die has an outer body experience |
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Non-voluntary euthanasia |
Ending someone's life painlessly when they cannot ask for it themselves (but it is what they want) |
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Paranormal |
Unexplained happenings that supposedly have spiritual causes |
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Discrimination |
Being unfair to a group of individual because of their: race, age, gender, sexuality and ethnicity |
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Quality of life |
The idea that life must have some benefits for it to be worth living for |
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Reincarnation |
The belief that after your body has died your soul will return to another body |
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Resurrection |
The belief that after death your body stays in the ground until the end of the World |
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Sanctity of life |
The belief life is holy and belongs to God |
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Voluntary euthanasia |
When someone who is in great pain asks for their life to be ended painlessly |
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Pro-life |
Life begins at the moment of conception (therefore abortion is murder) |
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Pro-choice |
the belief that the pregnant women has the right to choose whether to continue her pregnancy or not |
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Living will |
When someone makes a statement saying they can refuse treatment of they become unable to answer at that time |
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Hospice |
A place for the terminally ill |
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Prime mover |
The theory thought by Aristotle that there are some beings which create but do not need a creator we themselves (this supports the theory of Gods existence) |
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Ethnic minority |
An ethnic group much smaller then the majority |
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Nuclear family |
A mother, father and child living together as a unit |
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Reconstituted family |
When 2 sets of children (step brothers and sisters) become one family as their divorced parents have married |
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Re-marriage |
Marrying someone after being divorced |
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Pro-creation |
Making new life |
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Pre-marital sex |
Having sex before you're married |
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Promiscuity |
Having sexual relations with a number of partners without commitment |
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Euthanasia |
The painless killing of someone with a painful disease |
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Faithfulness |
Being loyal to your partner and only have sex with them |
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Free will |
The belief that humans should have the right to make their own decisions |
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Homosexuality |
Being attracted to the same gender |
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Immortality of the Soul |
The belief that your soul lives on even after your body is dead |
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Interfaith marriage |
Marrying someone from another faith |
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Miracle |
An event that defies the laws of science and makes you think only God could have done it |
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Prejudice |
Thinking someone is inferior or superior without knowing them |
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Hajj |
The journey to Mecca for all Muslims to make - the 5th Pilar of Islam doff |
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Sexism |
Discriminating against someone because of their gender |
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Racism |
The belief that some races are superior to others |
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Multi-ethnic society |
Where different races and cultures live together in one society |
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Multi-faith society |
Where many different religious groups live together in one society |
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Racial harmony |
Different races living together happily |
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Religious freedom |
The right to practise your religion or change your religion |
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Religious pluralism |
The belief that all religions have the right to coexists together |
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Equality |
The belief that everyone has equal rights |
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Ordination |
When the church recognises an individual as a priest or vicar |
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Shari'ah |
The holy law of Islam |
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Hadith |
The teachings and messages from the last prophet Muhammad |
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Shirk |
The sin of associating things with God |
