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48 Cards in this Set
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Bible |
The holy book of Christians
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Church
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The community of Christians
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Conscience
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An inner feeling of the rightness or wrongness of an action
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The Decalogue
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The Ten Commandments
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Democratic Processes
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The ways in which all citizens can take part in the government (usually through elections)
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Electoral processes
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The ways in which voting is organised
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The Golden Rule
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The teaching of Jesus that you should treat others as you would like them to treat you
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Human Rights
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The rights and freedoms to which everyone is entitled
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Political party
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A group which tries to be elected into power on the basis of its policies (e.g. labour, conservative)
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Pressure group
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A group formed to influence government policy on a particular issue
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Situaton ethics
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The idea that Christians should base moral decisions on what is the most loving thing to do
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Social change
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The way in which society has changed and is changing (and also the possibilities for future change)
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Artificial insemnation
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Injecting semen into the uterus by artificial means
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Conservation
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Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment
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Creation
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The act of creating the universe or the universe which has been created
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Embryo
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A fertilised egg in the first eight weeks after conception
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Enironment
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The surroundings in which plants and animals live and on which they depend to live
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Global warming
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The increase in the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere
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Infertility
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Not being able to have children
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In-vitro fertilisation (IVF)
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The method of fertilising a human egg in a test tube
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Natural resources
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Naturally occuring materials, such as oil and fertile land, which can be used by humans
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Organ donation
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Giving organs to be used in transplant surgery
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Stewardship
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Looking after something so it can be passed on to the next generation
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surrogacy
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An arragngement whereby a woman bears a child on behalf of another woman or where an egg is donated and fertilised by the husband through IVF and then implanted into the wife's uterus
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Aggression
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Attacking without being provoked
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Bullying
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intimidating/frightnening people weaker than yourself
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Conflict resolution
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Bringing a fight or struggle to a peaceful conclusion
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Exploitation
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Taking advantage of a weaker group
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Forgiveness
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Stopping blaming someone and/or pardoning them for what they have done wrong
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Just war
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A war fought for the right reasons and in a right way
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Pacifism
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The belief that all disputes should be settled by peaceful means
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Reconciliation
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Bringing together people who were opposed to each other
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Respect
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Treating a person or their feelings with consideration
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The United Nations
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An international body set up to promote world peace and cooperation
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Weapons of mass destruction
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Weapons which can destroy large areas and numbers of people
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World Peace
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The ending of war throughout the whole world
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Addiction
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A reccuring compulsion to engage in an activity regardless of it's bad effects
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Capital punishment
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The death penalty for a crime or offence
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Crime
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An act against the law
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Deterrence
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The idea that punishment should be of such a nature that they will put people off committing crimes
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Judgement
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The act of judging people and their actions
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Justice
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Due allocation of reward and punishment / the maintenance of what is right
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Law
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Rules made by partliament and enforceable by the courts
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Reform
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The idea that punishment should try to change criminals so that they will not commit crimes again
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Rehabilitation
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Restore to normal life
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Responsibility
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Being responsible for one's actions
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Retribution
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The idea that punishments should make criminals pay for what they have done wrong
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Sin
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An act against the will of God
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