Morality Flashcards
To revise for the AQA GCSE in Religious Studies B
What is the Sanctity of Life?
The belief that life is sacred and comes from God. Only He can create or destroy it.
What is the Value of Life?
Some people believe that life’s worth is only financial, which implies that some peoples’ lives may be considered of limited value. Other people argue that life is more important than money, and that it cannot be given a value (life is invaluable). Think about what is meant by value.
What is Quality of Life?
The belief that life must feel worth living.
What is IVF?
In-vitro fertilisation; fertilisation of an egg in a test-tube. Embryo is then implanted back into the woman’s body.
What is AID/AIH?
Artificial insemination by donor/husband. This is when sperm is collected from a donor/husband and inserted in the lab into the neck of the womb.
What is FT?
Fertility treatment
Give reasons why Christians may be against AID/AIH.
Many Christians believe that AID is a form of adultery, because the woman would carry the child of someone other than her husband. The Roman Catholic denomination is also generally against AIH, because masturbation is required to obtain the sperm, which is considered adultery by RCs.
Christian teaching of why we should respect the human body
So God created man in his own image - Genesis 1:27
Muslim quote against surrogacy
None can be their mothers except those who gave them birth - Surah 58
Christian (Jehovah’s Witness) teaching against blood transfusions
The life is in the blood - Leviticus 17:11
Muslim quote against embryology
God has made life sacred - Surah 17:33
What is abortion?
The removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive
What is euthanasia?
Bringing about a premature but painless and gentle death.
What is voluntary euthanasia?
Ending life painlessly when someone in great pain requests death.
What is non-voluntary euthanasia?
Ending someone’s life painlessly in their best interest when they are incapable of requesting death themselves.
What is assisted suicide?
Helping a seriously ill person to commit suicide.
What is a near-death-experience (NDE)
When someone about to die has a mystical, out-of-body experience.
What does the concept of reincarnation state?
After death, our soul is reborn in a new body
What is resurrection?
The body remains dead on Earth until the end of the world when it is raised from the dead.
However, God can resurrect people; Jesus resurrected Lazarus according to the Bible
What is immortality of the soul?
The idea that the soul lives on after death.
What is surrogacy?
If a woman is not capable of carrying a baby, a fertilised egg (from the husband’s sperm) is placed in the womb of another woman for the nine months.
What is an ethical issue linked to surrogacy?
The surrogate mother may become attached to the baby as she shares hormones with it for nine months. Who does the baby truly belong to?
What do some Christians have against FT?
They argue that life is a gift from God (Sanctity of Life), only He has the right to give it. Life is a gift, not a right.
Give reasons why Christians may support IVF/AI
- Brings happiness to people who cannot have children.
- If life comes from God, anything which creates new life must be good.
- It can create loving families.
- Most loving action is to offer medical help and to use these God-given gifts of healing.
- God said “Go forth and multiply”.
Give reasons why Christians may be against IVF/AI
- Only God has the right to choose whether someone should have a baby or not.
- God may have chosen those people to devote their lives to other kinds of Christian work (e.g. becoming a monk)
- It goes against “natural law” to create children other than by sexual intercourse.
Quote describing sanctity of life in Christianity
‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness’
Exodus 20:12 – one of the Ten Commandments, suggesting that parents should be looked after in old age
Honour your mother and your father
Exodus 20 - 6th Commandment
Do not commit murder
Christian quote favouring sexual reproduction
Be fruitful and increase in number
Muslim quote against murder and supporting the sanctity of life
You shall not kill any person - for GOD has made life sacred - except in the course of justice
Quote stating that Allah chooses when we live and die
Allah fixes the time span for all things
Muslim quote: life is God-given
He gives daughters to whom He will and sons to whom He pleases
Muslim quote promoting value of life
If anyone has saved a life, it would be as if he has saved the life of the whole of mankind
Christian quote supporting good treatment of the elderly
Show respect for old people and honour them
Christian quote that states that God chooses when we live or die
He (God) sets the time for birth and the time for death
Christian quote against drinking alcohol
The right thing to do is to keep from eating meat, drinking wine, or doing anything else that will make your brother or sister fall
Another Christian quote against drinking alcohol
Drinking too much makes you loud and foolish. It’s stupid to get drunk
Yet another Christian quote against drinking alcohol
Do not get drunk with wine, which will only ruin you
Muslim quote against drugs which harm the body
…do not with your own hands contribute to your destruction
Muslim quote against alcohol and gambling
Believers, wine and games of chance, idols and divining arrows, are abominations devised by Satan. Avoid them, so you may prosper.
Christian quote emphasising a hardworking attitude
Whoever refuses to work is not allowed to eat
Christian quote against money
The love of money is the root of all evil
Another Christian quote against money
No one can be a slave of two masters; he will hate one and love the other; he will be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money
Christian quote supporting compassionate attitudes towards the poor
Love your neighbour as yourself
Muslim quote promoting hardworking attitudes
No one eats better food than that which they have earned by their own labours
Muslim quote promoting compassion
He who eats and drinks while his brother goes hungry is not one of us
Muslim warning against people who try to take advantage of religious charity
He who begs without need is like a person holding a burning coal in his hand
