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Challenges For Religion Flashcards

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The importance of the Christian religious traditions in British society

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  • School terms are arranged around Christian holidays
  • Christian calendar influences days eg Valentine’s Day (a saints day), pancake day (shrove Tuesday)
  • The week has seven days reflecting the Biblical story of creation and how Sunday is the day of rest
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What is the established religion in Britain and the role of the Monarch

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  • christianity
  • The Queen is head of state and defender of the faith
  • crowned by the arch bishop of Canterbury
    Also she:
  • approves the appointment of senior clerics (archbishops, bishop, deans)
  • opens new sessions of the general Synod
  • keeps the coronation vow to maintain the church
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Role of religion in public life

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  • bishops in the House of Lords (not elected)
  • Christian services to mark key events (marriage, funerals, remembrance)
  • public holidays based on Christian celebrations (good Friday, Easter Monday, Christmas, Boxing Day)
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Church schools

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  • church schools
    • state funded
    • by law much teach re and have a daily act of worship
    • people believe they shouldn’t be state funded (national secular society, British humanist association)
    • religious groups argue: since they contribute 10% of the costs of some faith schools, they are actually paying for public education
    • The curriculum is the same and parents should be able to choose schools for their children that share their values
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Secularisation

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  • The idea that religious beliefs, practices and organisations are becoming less important in society
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The place of religion in a secular society

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  • Church of England has suffered the biggest decline, falling from 40% of the population in 1983 to 17% in 2014
  • 49% of population say they have no religion
  • The majority agrees with the statement: the Church of England should keep its status as official established church in England
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The effects of secularisation

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  • Fewer people attend churches and are willing to work in the church and fewer people are getting married and fewer people are baptised
  • Christmas and Easter have lost Christian significance
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The rise of humanism

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  • it is the way of seeing and reacting to the world using science, logic and reason, and rejecting religious beliefs and ideas
  • The word is used to describe views of the world that focused on human beings rather than organised religion

3 central principles:

  • A scientific view of the universe that rejects supernatural beliefs
  • A concern for the welfare of other human beings and animals based on reason, not divine authority
  • The need for each person to create meaning in their own life without a belief in life after death
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What do humanists strive to do

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The British humanist Association campaigns to:
• disestablish the Church of England
• remove the right of Anglican bishops to sit in the House of Lords
• abolish faith schools

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Potential clashes between religious and secular values in education

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  • religious education is compulsory in all state schools
  • National secular society is not against religion or the teaching of it but is against the idea of the state promoting religion
  • they believe nonreligious and humanist world view should be taught alongside religion and that no religion or world view should have greater importance than any other
  • The British humanist Association opposes religious worship in state schools and says religious worship ignores the right of children have freedom of belief
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Christian teachings and attributes about marriage

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  • they make a promise before God that their relationship will be faithful and permanent, regardless of circumstances
  • civil marriage is a legal contract between two people that sets out rights and duties between them, it must be secular
  • The Roman Catholic Church accepts marriage of non-Catholics through a civil ceremony, but do not recognise that Catholics can be married in this way because it is a spiritual bond and must take place in a church according to the laws of The church
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Views on same sex marriages:

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  • The church of England is opposed to same-sex marriage in a church but recognises the validity
  • catholic church does not recognise marriage between two people of the same-sex
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Different views on divorce

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  • Church of England sees marriage as a permanent lifelong union but it recognises that there may be circumstances in which divorce is inevitable
  • catholic Church does not recognise divorce and divorcees are not allowed to remarry in the Catholic Church
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Responses to forced, arranged and child marriages

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  • Christian churches teach that consent is important condition of marriage so oppose forced marriages, in the same way arranged marriages are not believed to be compatible with this aspect of church teaching.
  • in keeping up with the law in the UK, Christian churches set the minimum age for marriage to 16, with parental consent, or 18 without such consent.
  • The Catholic Church allows bishops in individual countries to set ages for marriage in their own country, The Catholic Church law does allow for males to marry with they are 16 and females when they are 14
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Christian attitudes to equality

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- christianity teaches that all people are equal, regardless of sex, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, class or disability. This is because:
• God created the human race
• God loves each person and excepts them as they are
• God created human beings in his image, which means each human being shared characteristics of spirituality, creativity and love
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Potential clashes with equality laws

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equality act of 2010 requires equal treatment of men and women in the access to employment. However, priests, monks, nuns and ministers of religion provisions act

  • The church of England, after many years of debate, allows women to be ordained as priests and bishops
  • The Catholic Church teaches that it is against the will of God for women to have leadership roles in the church

The marriage act of 2013 makes the marriage of same-sex couples lawful in England and Wales in civil ceremonies. The act insures that no religious organisations can be made to allow same-sex marriages to happen on their premises

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Euthanasia

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  • assisted suicide

Most Christians believe that it is wrong because:
• Life is precious because it was created by God
• It is deliberate killing in other words, it is murder and the 10 Commandments forbid murder
• Christians have a duty to care for those who are suffering

There are non-religious reasons for opposing it:
• A doctors duty is to preserve life, not end it
• medical advances mean that pain control is very affective and cures for illnesses are more likely
• some patients, particularly elderly ones, may agree to euthanasia against their will so as not to burden on relatives

However, those who agree with you euthanasia say that it is not murder. Murder is committed through hatred and anger but euthanasia is out of love and compassion. It is possible to put controls in place to ensure that the patient wants really wants to end their life

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The right to die

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If a persons life is there own, they should be able to decide to end it if they wish

Christians believe that a persons life is not their own because it is created by God and only God has the right to take it away. However a patient has the right to refuse medical treatment even if that treatment would save their life. Many people, including some Christians, agree with this, provided that person has the mental capability to make such a decision and these Christians would say that if the patient’s death is gods will, then it would be wrong to interfere.

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Abortion

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  • Christianity teaches that life begins at conception and the fertilised egg is a sacred God given life with the same rights as a baby, child or adults.
  • medical science tells us that about 70% of fertilised eggs do not become implanted in a woman’s womb so some people do not believe that fertilisation is a good point at which to mark the beginning of a sacred life
  • some say the fetus has increasing rights as the pregnancy progresses, Others believe at the end pregnancy and birth is the point at which it has rights
  • in most cases, and abortion must take place before the 24th week of pregnancy because after this time, it would be able to survive independently outside
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Views on abortion

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Those who believe that the moment of conception marks the beginning of life believe that abortion is always wrong. They are known as being ‘pro-life’ and include most Christians

  • Roman Catholic Church oppose it and consider it murder
  • The church of England is also against it, but sees that there may be circumstances, for example, if the mothers life is in danger, when it may be necessary
  • some people believe that women should have absolute right to decide whether or not to continue with her pregnancy. No one else should have the power to force her to continue and unwonted pregnancy, they are ‘pro-choice’
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Issues of genetic manipulation

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It is possible to make copies of cells that can be grown and used to cure someone of serious medical conditions and this is called therapeutic cloning
- The Roman Catholic Church is absolutely opposed to therapeutic cloning because it teaches that life begins at conception so the embryo is a human being and the deliberate destruction of embryos after stem cells have been removed is therefore absolutely wrong

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The creation of life: artificial insemination, and in vitro fertilisation

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Some Christians may take the view that their ability to have children is a matter for God to decide and it is interfering with gods plan

Artificial insemination:

  • Church of England allow it
  • Catholics do not

In vitro fertilisation:

  • Roman Catholic Church opposes IVF and research being conducted on embryos
  • Church of England accepts IVF and excepts the use of embryos for medical experimentation, so long as it is carried out within 14 days of fertilisation

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