Religion and Community Cohesion Flashcards
Teachings on equality
- Biblical quote from Galatians
- Stewardship
- Agape
- Good samaritan
- Golden rule
Galatians quote
‘There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male or female, for you are all one in Christ’- Galatians 3:28
Stewardship
Everything should be treated with respect
Everything/everyone is God given so should be treated with compassion and equality
God made us stewards of the earth to look after it and each other
Agape love
Unconditional love- treat EVERYONE equally and with respect despite their appearance or sexuality etc.
Jesus was a model of agape and loved everyone
Good samaritan
Treat people fairly despite what other people are doing and always do the right thing in situations
Even you have your differences (Jews and Samaritans didn’t get along), help each
‘Love your neighbour’
Golden Rule
‘Treat others as you would like to be treated’
Examples of sexism in our society
- Male terms used
- Men outnumber women 4:1 in Westminster
- In UK, women represent 5% of magazine editors (there is one) even though there are roughly the same amount of mean and women
- Women get 10% of the worlds income and 2%of the world’s property
- Women are expected to be domestic and look after children so can not advance in careers as much as men
Ordination in RCC
No women to be ordained
Ordination in C of E
Women priests and bishops, first priest in 1994
Ordination in Quakers
No ordained clergy- anyone can lead a service
Genesis quote
‘Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken from the man, and he brought her to the man’
Genesis
Women is from man, lesser than him
Eve lead Adam to evil
Conservative Christians follow this, no one else
They believe a woman belongs to a man
Eve’s punishment quote
‘Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you’
Eve’s punishment
Women are ruled over by men
They are sexual objects for child bearing
This is only taught by Conservative Christians
Exodus quote
‘You shall not covet your neighbours house. You shall not covet your neighbours wife… or anything that belongs to your neighbour’
Exodus
Women are mens property
Only Conservative Christians teach this
Teaching from Paul quote
‘A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent… but women will be saved through childbearing’
Teaching from Paul
Impacted RCC because it says women can’t teach, hence they feel it is against God’s will to ordain women
Paul’s letter to Galatians quote
‘You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus… you are all one in Christ’
Paul’s letter to Galatians
Quaker teaching
Paul is saying everyone is one in Christ which insinuates that equality is right
Jesus talking to woman quote
“The Samaritan woman said to him ‘you are a Jew and I am a samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink”
Jesus talking to woman
Although Jews and Samaritans did not get along, Jesus still spoke with this woman
This shows his agape love
Jesus teaches to act with equality despite society’s judgements and wrongdoings
Luke 8 (Disciples) quote
‘All the disciples were male but… these women were helping to support them out of their own means’
Luke 8 (Disciples)
Although all the disciples were men, when spoken of in the Bible, women were always around but they were not mentioned as disciples
They are seen in this text helping the men ‘out of their own means’
Resurrection quote
‘The women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb… they did not find the body of Lord Jesus’
Resurrection significance
The resurrection is possibly the most important text in the Bible and women were the first witnesses to it
Suggests they are more important then the disciples as they believed it however disciples were doubtful
Catechism & Madonna quote
Virgin Mary is an ideal woman and is highly respected (by men as well as women)
‘Each of the two sexes in an image of the power and tenderness of God, with equal dignity though in a different way’
Catechism & Madonna
Virgin Mary is a significant figure and is a symbol of perfection in Christianity. Her motherhood is not a flaw, but a gift.
With the quote this shows that women are not seen upon as less then men, they are different and are blessed with different gifts
Catechism recognises the importance of women
Governments promotion of community cohesion
- Implemented equality, race relation, racial and religious hatred acts
- Immigrants provided with info and language learning support
- Specialist immigration teams who work with councils and local authorities
- Community campaigns to keep people invested in theirs community
- Range of ethnicities as political leaders to represent community
Church’s promotion of community cohesion and why
- Supports refugees and asylum seekers by campaigning and individual support system
- Parable of the sheep and the goast, the Good Samaritan, agape love, St. Paul’s + Jesus teachings, golden rule
Problems of immigration
- Expensive for government to fund
- Different views on policing in cultures
- Immigrants taken advantage on eg workers rights
- Hard to integrate non language speakers
- People believe they ‘take up’ jobs
Benefits of immigration
- Better knowledge of issues worldwide
- Enriches culture and society
- Morally rewarding (asylum seekers)
- Combats ageing population
- Contributed to economy with taxes
Governments promotion of religious tolerance
- Complete legal religious freedom
- State schools are non denominational
- Interfaith marriage and legal and normal
- Courts prosecute against religious hate crimes
- Politicians meet with different religious leaders
- Church and state are separated
- Religious festivals are publicly celebrated
Church’s promotion of religious tolerance
- Don’t act out against people of other faiths and condemn this behaviour
- Accept inter faith marriages and families
- Respectfully debate issues
- Give aid to countries of different’s faiths
- Interfaith network- Christians and Muslims celebrate their similarities by planting trees
- Holocaust memorial day is celebrated by all
Muslim Council of Britain
After the Charlie Hebdo case there was a large surge in anti-islamist attitudes and to combat this the muslim council of Britain openly invite people to their mosques in order to learn more about their faith
Pluralism main ideas
- Religions should focus on reality
- All religions are equal and help people to find God
- Bible is one of several words of God
- People are experiencing God in different ways
Quote of pluralism
‘There are many rooms in my father’s house, and I am going to prepare a room for you’- Jesus
Who is pluralism practise by
Quakers
Who is exclusivism practised by
Evangelical Church
Who is inclusivism practised by
Roman Catholic Church
Quotes for exclusivism
‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me’ (John 14:6)
‘Outside the Church there is no salvation’
Quote for inclusivism
‘The Catholic Church recognises in other religions that search among shadows and images, for the God who is unknown yet near’ Catechism of the Catholic Church
Exclusivism main ideas
- Christianity is the only way to reach God
- Only Christians will reach heaven
- Based on the Bible and reinforced by Jesus’ teachings as he is the human form of God and his way of salvation is the only way
Inclusivism main ideas
- All religions can help people to reach God
- Christianity is the only religion with ALL the answers
- Jesus must be believed in to reach heaven
- Anonymous Christians who live a moral life will be saved in the end
Media- Vicar of Dibely
- About C of E
- Could insult v traditional Christians
- It speeded up the process of acceptance
- All views are shown but in different lights
- Woman accepted as vicar in the end and David Horton is shown as irrelevant
