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48 Cards in this Set
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Agnosticism |
Not being sure whether God exists |
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Atheism |
Believing 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 the laws 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 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 attempt to contact God, usually through words |
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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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Religious Pluralism |
Accepting all religions as having an equal right to coexist |
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Sexism |
Discriminating against people because of their gender |
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Adultery |
A sexual assault 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 conception from occurring |
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Faithfulness |
Staying with your married partner and having sex only 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 two sets of children become one family when their divorced parents marry eachothet |
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Re-Marriage |
Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage |
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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 feather 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, e.g. Ghosts and 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 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 someone in great pain asks for death |
