Religion, Peace And Conflict 2️⃣✅ Flashcards
What is forgiveness?
Pardoning someone for wrong doing
What is greed?
(in terms of war)
Going to war for resources such as land or natural resources such as oil
What is holy war?
A war that is fought or religious reasons, usually backed by a religious leader
What is just war?
A Christian theory that asks if a war is being fought justly e.g. following the 4 conditions/ reasons for war
What is justice?
Bringing about what is right and fair, according to the law or Gods will
What is a nuclear weapon?
A weapon using a nuclear reaction to cause massive ammounts of damage
What is pacifism?
A belief that all forms of violence are wrong
What is peace?
A state of happiness and harmony
What is peace making?
Working towards bringing about and end to war and a state of peace
What is a protest?
A public expression of dissaproval, often in a big group, can be peaceful or violent
What are Quakers?
A Christian denomination who worship in silence and are well known pacifists
What is reconcilliation?
Restoring freidnly relationships after a war or conflict
What is retalliation?
Deliberately harming someone as a response to them harming you
What is self-defence?
Protecting yourself or others from harm
What is terrorism?
Using violence in order to further a political or religious message
What are the 3 types of weapons of mass destruction?
- chemical warfare - toxins/ gas
- nuclear warfare - atomic bombs
- biological warfare - bacteria/ viruses
What is the criteria for just war?
- Just cause - in self defence or to protect others
- Just intention - to promote good and defeat wrongdoing
- Last resort - only going to war if all other methods have failed first
- Proportional - excesssive force shouldnt be used and civilians must not be killed
What are the reasons for war?
- greed - to gain land or natural resource
- self defence - to defend ones country against attack or protect allies
- retaliation - to fight against a country that has done something very wrong or attacked you
What is a theocracy?
A country lead by god e.g. Iran
What is a Buddhist view on pacifism?
Most if not all Buddhists would support pacifism with the 1st moral precept stating - refrain from taking life and one of their core teachings bing ahimsa - non violence
What is a Christian view on pacifism?
Most christians would be pacifists as they follow by Jesus’ example, who was a pacifist himself, there are also multiple teaching such as Jesus’ golden rule - do unto others what you would have them to unto you and a teaching from the old testament that Chrisians must forgive 70 x 7 times
What are 2 contrasting Christian views on Violence?
- and eye for an eye OT - retribution
- Jesus’ golden rule - forgiveness + forgive 7 x 70 times
What is a Buddhist view on violence?
The first moral precept states that Buddhist must refrain from taking life. They also have a teaching called ahimsa - meaning non volence
What is the mnuemonic for the just reasons for war?
CLIP
JUST Cause
JUST Last resort
JUST Intention
JUST Proportionality
