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Feb Islam question Flashcards

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1a What is meant by “commitment”?

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  • Dedications/devotion to an object or task
  • Example – keeping to your wedding vows
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1b Describe two reasons religious believers might have for disagreeing with the use of contraception.

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  • Firstly – Stops the will of God. His commandment to Adam was to “go forward and multiply”. Barrier methods violate this instruction.
  • The Humane Vitae states that each and every sexual act should lead to the possibility of creating new life
  • Secondly – In Islam permanent methods such as a vasectomy or sterilisation go against Allah’s plan for the world . Contraception may promote promiscuity and is Zina.
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1c Explain from TWO religions, beliefs about divorce
Islam:

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  • Triple Talak - occurs when a husband pronounces three rejections at once rather than divorcing his wife once, revocably, and simply allowing the waiting period to expire without taking her back.
  • Iddah – Reconciliation period 3 months
  • Divorce is the “most hated” thing permitted by Allah
  • Women can gain a divorce by “Khul” ( divorce for compensation, a wife returns her dower or pays some other sum to her husband in order to obtain a divorce.)
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1c Explain from TWO religions, beliefs about divorce.
CHRISTIANITY:

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  • Henry VIII formed CofE to divorce his first wife
  • Catholics see marriage as a sacrament – for life
  • Jesus taught about adultery on the Sermon on the Mount
    You shall not commit adultery Matthew 5:28
  • Quakers – acceptable reasons
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1d Women and men will never have equal roles in worship (15)
disagree

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  • There is no male or female – you are all one in Christ – Jesus
  • Quakers do hot have leaders – anyone is free to minister
  • CofE have allowed women vicars since the 1994
  • Sex Discrimination Act 1975
  • Male and female created Imago
    Dei
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1d Women and men will never have equal roles in worship (15) …
agree

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  • Original Sin (Eve)
    Genesis states Eve was a helper Jesus had 12 male disciples
  • St Paul – Women are subject to their husbands, must keep quiet in church and have no authority over men
  • Islam – Separation of genders, Imam is usually male
  • Hadith – the best place for women (during worship… is the back row)
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What is meant by ‘soul’

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  • Spirit that lives on after death
  • to be Judged
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2b Describe beliefs of Charles Darwin about evolution

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  • Origin of the species – a break with creationist theory * Survival of the fittest
  • Shared DNA
  • Evidenced in finches
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2c Explain from two religions, beliefs about being responsible for the environment (8) Islam

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  • Hadith – Live in this world as if you were to live forever
    Khalifah - (gods representation on earth)
  • Hadith on not wasting water – “Do not waste water even if you are at a running stream”
  • Ants and the Anthill There is not a moving (living) creature on earth, nor a bird that flies with its two wings, but are communities like you.” (6:38)
  • The Crying Camel all of allah’s creature should be cared for
  • Halal foods
  • “A woman was tortured and was put in Hell because of a cat which she had kept locked till it died of hunger.”
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2c Explain from two religions, beliefs about being responsible for the environment (8) Christianity

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  • Garden Eden was created perfect
  • Adam had dominion over the environment
  • He was given stewardship
  • Quakers LOAF principles
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2d Abortion should only be allowed when the mother’s life is at risk. Christian

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  • Legal until 24 weeks
  • When does life begin?
  • At Conception (Catholics)
  • Nidation (Embed onto wall of Womb)
  • Quckening (independent movement)
  • Viability (Able to live independently)
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2d Abortion should only be allowed when the mother’s life is at risk. Islam

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  • Shirk after ensoulment 120 days
  • Questioned on Day of Judgement
  • Recorded in Book of Deeds
  • Not for economic reasons
  • Slay not your children
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What is meant by sin?

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  • An Act that breaks the divine laws
  • Murder
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3c Death penalty Christianity

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  • Elizabeth Fry (Quaker) reform not revenge.
  • Thou shall not kill
    Imago dei
  • Catholics – Catechism
    Eye for an eye
  • Issues for doctors in Florida – Hippocratic Oath
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3c Death Penalty islam

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  • Permissible under Sharia Law for the following
  • Apostasy, Blasphemy, Homosexuality, wilful murder and adultery
  • Aim of Punishment is Deterrent
  • Amnesty international are campaigning to end stoning in Iran
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3d If God exists then there should be no suffering. Agree

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  • Epicurus was a Greek philosopher who was born in Athens, Greece in the third century BC. He taught that the purpose of life was to obtain tranquillity and peace with the avoidance of pain and suffering.
  • This is sometimes used by atheist to deny God’s existence.
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3d If God exists then there should be no suffering. Disagree

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The Story of Job
Mother Teresa – Suffering had value
Islam Fasting – Tidings to those who persevere

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4a What is meant by discrimination?

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Unfair treatment of a group based on prejudice
Eg. Sexism

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4b Describe reasons that religious believers might have for disagreeing with religious extremism.

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  • Extremists promote terror and violence
  • Extremist misinterpret religious teachings
    Extremists can disregard the value of human life
  • St Thomas Aquinas’ Just war theory rules out extremism
    Respect the law of the land you are living in
  • bible ‘‘Fight in the path of God those who fight you, but do not transgress limits. God does not love transgressors. ‘’
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4c Explain from two religions, how human rights are promoted.
Islam

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Hadith of the Prophet / last sermon– All are equal like the teeth on a comb – ensuring no racial discrimination
Peacefully protesting against injustice – marching/ boycotting
Working with underprivileged groups – Gandhi and the Harijans

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4c Explain from two religions, how human rights are promoted. Christianity

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  • Mother Teresa made the missionaries of charity
  • worked with the ‘poorest of the poor. ‘
  • In 1979 she received the noble
    Peace prize and donated the £192,000 prize fund to the poor in India.
    By 1986, she operated 517 missions in over 100 countries.
    Two years after she died in 1997 Pope John Paul II opened a formal process towards edification to make mother Teresa an official catholic saint.
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4d All religious believers should give money to charity Agree.

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  • In Islam one of the 5 pillars is zakah that is Fardh (compulsory)
  • Zakah means “purification”
  • Tithing is mentioned in the Bible (10%)
  • Charities operate to redistribute wealth and improve life chances
  • Money can be a wonderful servant…but a terrible master! “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36.
  • Matthew 19.24 it is Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
  • the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25)
  • Proverbs 21:13 says: “If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and not be answered”
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4d All religious believers should give money to charity Disagree

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  • Gifts of money can create dependency
  • Donation can be of material goods and time
  • Mother Teresa and mission/vocation as she did not give it to charity but did use it for charitable reasons.
  • Some people are too poor to donate so may receive zakat

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