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48 Cards in this Set
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Adultery |
A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their mairrage 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 occurring |
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Faithfulness |
Staying with your marriage partner and having sex with only 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-constitued family |
Where two sets of children (stepbrothers and stepsisters) become one family when their divorce parents marry each other |
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Re-mairrage |
Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage |
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Agnosticism |
Not being sure whether God exists |
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Atheism |
Believing that God doesn't 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-benevolent |
The belief that God is all good |
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Omnipotent |
The belief that God is all powerful |
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Omniscient |
The belief that God knows everything in the past, present and future |
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Prayer |
An attempt to contact 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 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, for example ghosts or 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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Resurrection |
The belief that after death the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it's 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 someone in great pain asks for death |
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Community cohesion |
Where a community lives together successfully |
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Discrimination |
Treating people differently and unfairly |
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Interfaith marriage |
Marriage between two people from different faiths |
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Multi ethnic society |
A society made up of lots of different racial groups |
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Ethnic Minority |
A group who comes from a race which is different from the majority in that country |
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Religious freedom |
Being free to practice your own religion |
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(Religious) Pluralism |
Accepting that more than one religion may be correct |
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Sexism |
Treating some unfairly because of their gender |
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Multi faith society |
A society made up of lots of different religious groups |
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Prejudice |
Judging someone based on preconceived ideas and feelings |
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Racial harmony |
Where different races live together peacefully |
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Racism |
Treating people from other races unfairly |
