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All Year 11 Key Words Flashcards

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Athiesm

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Believing god does not exist

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Conversion

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When your life is changed by giving your self to god

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Free will

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The idea that humans are free to make their own choices

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Miracle

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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

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Actions done by humans which cause suffering

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Natural evil

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Things which cause suffering but have nothing to do with humans

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Numinous

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The feeling of a presence of something greater than you

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Omniscient

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The belief that god knows everything that has happened and everything that is going to happen

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Prayer

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An attempt to contact god , usually through words

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Abortion

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The removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive

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Assisted suicide

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Providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide

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Euthanasia

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The painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease

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Immortality of the soul

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The idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body

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Near death experience

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When somebody about to die has an out of body experience

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Non voluntary euthanasia

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Ending someones 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

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Unexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes eg ghosts and mediums

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Quality of life

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The idea that life must have some benefits for it to be worth living

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Reincarnation

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The belief that after death souls are reborn in a new body

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Resurrection

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The belief that after death the body stays in the grave until the end of the world where it is raised

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Sanctity of life

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The belief life is holy and belongs to god

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Voluntary euthanasia

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Ending life painlessly when someone in great pain asks for death

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Adultery

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A sexual act between a married person and someone other than there marriage partner

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Agnosticism

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Not being sure whether god exists

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Civil partnership

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A legal ceremony giving homosexual couples the sane right as a husband and wife

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Cohabitation

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Living together without being married

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Contraception

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Intentionally preventing a pregnancy from occurring

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Faithfullness

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Staying with your marriage partner and only having sex with them

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Homosexuallity

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Sexual attraction to the same sex

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Nuclear family

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Mother, father and children living as a unit

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Pre-marital sex

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Sex before marriage

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Procreation

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Making new life

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Promiscuity

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Having sex with a number of partners without commitment

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Re-constituted family

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Where sets of children (step brothers and step sisters) become one family when divorced parents marry each other

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Re-marriage

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Marrying again after being divorced previously

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Community cohesion

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A common vision and shared sense of belonging for all groups im society

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Discrimination

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Treating people less favourably because of their ethnicity/gender/colour/sexuality/age/class

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Ethnic minority

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A member of an ethnic group which is much smaller than the majority group

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Interfaith marriage

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Marriage where husband and wife are from different religions

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Multi ethnic society

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Many different races and cultures living together in one society

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Multi faith society

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Many different religions living together in one society

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Prejudice

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Believing some people Are inferior it superior without even knowing them

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Racial harmony

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Different races/cultures living together happily

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Racism

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The belief that some races are superior to others

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Religious freedom

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The right to practice and change your religion

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Religious pluralism

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Accepting all religions as having a right to coexist

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Sexism

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Discriminating against people because of the gender

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