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Agnosticism |
Not being sure whether God exists |
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Atheism |
Believing that God does not exist |
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Conversion |
When your life is changed by giving yourself to God |
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Free will |
The idea that human beings are free to make their own choices |
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Miracle |
Something which seems to break a law of science and makes you think only God could have done it |
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Moral evil |
Actions done by humans which cause suffering |
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Natural evil |
Things which cause suffering but have nothing to do with humans |
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Numinous |
The feeling of the presence of something greater than you |
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Omni-bemevolent |
The belief that God is all-good |
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Omni-potent |
The belief that God is all-powerful |
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Omniscient |
The belief that God knows everything that has happened and everything that is going to happen |
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Prayer |
An atempt to contract God, usually through words |
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Abortion |
The removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive |
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Assisted suicide |
Providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide |
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Euthanasia |
The painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease |
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Immortality of the soul |
The idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body |
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Near-death experience |
When someone about to die has an out of body experience |
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Non-voluntary euthanasia |
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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Paranormal |
Unexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes, e.g. ghosts, mediums |
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Quality of life |
The idea that life must have some benefits for it to be worth living |
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Reincarnation |
The belief that, after death, souls are reborn in a new body |
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Ressurection |
The belief that, after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised |
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Sanctity of life |
The belief that life is holy and belongs to God |
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Voluntary euthanasia |
Ending life painlessly when soneone in great pain asks for death |
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Adultery |
A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner |
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Civil partnership |
A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife |
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Cohabitation |
Living together without being married |
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Contraception |
Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occuring |
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Faithfulness |
Staying with your marriage partner and only having sex with them |
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Homosexuality |
Sexual attraction to the same sex |
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Nuclear family |
Mother, Father and children living as a unit |
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Pre-marital sex |
Sex before marriage |
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Procreation |
Making a new life |
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Promiscuity |
Having sex with a number of partners without commitment |
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Re-constituted family |
Where 2 sets of children become one family when their divorced parents marry eachother |
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Re-marriage |
Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage |
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Community cohesion |
A common vision and shared sense of belonging for all groups in society |
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Discrimination |
Treating people less favourably because of their ethnicity/gender/colour/sexuality/age/class |
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Ethnic minority |
A member of an ethnic group (race) which is much smaller than the majority group |
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Interfaith marriages |
Marriage where the husband and wife are from different religions |
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Multi-ethnic society |
Many different races and cultures living together in one society |
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Multi-faith society |
Many different religions living together in one society |
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Prejudice |
Believing some people are inferior or superior without even knowing them |
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Racial harmony |
Different races/colours living together happily |
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Racism |
The belief that some races are superior to others |
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Religious freedom |
The right to practise your religion and change your religion |
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Religion pluralism |
Accepting all religions as having an equal right to coexist |
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Sexism |
Discrimination against people bacause of their gender |