Migration and Religious Pluralism

Question 1

Enoch Powell: the ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech

Answer 1

‘It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.’

Question 2

UNDHR Article 18

Answer 2

‘Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion’

Question 3

Protection given by Article 18 paplies to…

Answer 3

Comment 22: ‘theistic, theistic and atheistic beliefs, as well as the right not to profess any religion or belief.’

Question 4

Religious intolerance duty for jews in O.T.

Answer 4

Exodus ‘I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you

Question 5

Catholic closed inclusivist

Answer 5

‘The Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in (other) religions… (they) reflect a ray of the Truth that illuminates everyone.’

Question 6

Exclusivism with reference to…

Answer 6

John 14:6 ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’

Question 7

Acts - God no favourites

Answer 7

Peter says ‘I now realise how true it is that God does not show favouritism.’