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religion peace + conflict Flashcards

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What is reconcilliation

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  • sacrement in the catholic church
  • restoring friendly relations post conflict
  • something catholics believe will bring you closer to god
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two types of protest

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peaceful and violent

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example of a peaceful and violent protest

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  • peaceful would be the martin luther king protests to end segregation which eded in changing the us laws and bringing about the civil rights for all
  • violent is the london 2011 riots
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main reasons for war

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  • greed
  • retaliation
  • defense
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what is a just war + conditions

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  • st thomas aquinas proposed it and is accepted by all religions
  • has to be in defense in order to defeat a greater wrong
  • must be in self defense
  • must be fought usig no excessive weapons and no innocent civilians can be harmed
  • intermational conventions must be followed and has to be approved first
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what is a holy war

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  • fighting in the name of god
  • must be authorised by a religious leader
  • many believe it will give them spiritual rewards and they will go to heaven if they die in battle
  • most chrisitans today think its much better to seek peaceful alternitives
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christian organisations that help aid victims of war

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  • caritas
  • christian aid
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jesus teaching towards violece

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  • agape
  • turn the other cheek in the face of violence
  • got very angry at the traders in the temple making it a ‘den of thieves’ shows violence is sometimes needed to protect areas, holy war?
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who are pacifists

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people who disagree with all forms of war
- ‘blessed are the peacemakers’ beatitudes

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what are concious objectors and example

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people who cannot due to their moral conscience participate in fighting as they disagree with violence
- the quakers are pacifist objectors
- Desmond doss was a us corporal who served as a medic in ww2 and saved up to 75 men but refused to carry a weapon due to his christian beliefs

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different christian beliefs towards war

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  • CofE and catholics accept a just war as they value justice and freedom above opression however they preach agape and reconcilliation
  • quakers believe in pascisifism and no form of violence as moral
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christian beliefs towards WoMD

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  • roman catholics/ Methodists see them as immoral but as a necessary detternt to prevent a greater violence- eye for an eye
  • quakers think it is unacceptable under any circumstance
  • ONLY GOD SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO END LIVES, this is called the sancitity of life, MURDER IS ONE OF The ten commandments so it should never be done
  • it does not meet the conditions for a just war to excessively kill innocent people
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how can religious organisations help victims of war + teachings

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  • work as peace makers to help rebuild the lives of those impacted
  • provide them with shelter, medical aid and food
  • jesus teaches to ‘love thy neighbour’ and in the parable of the good samitan preaches gaape regardless of race and background
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key concepts of peace

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  • absecnce of conflict
  • resetment post war can make peace even harder
  • feeling of harmony, hapiness and tranquility that can come through prayer
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Downsides to forgiveness

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  • luke 17:3 says we should only forgive those who repent their sins
  • priest julia nicholson stepped down as she was unable to forgive london bombers who killed her daughter
  • she felt they did not repent and so she could not fogive
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reasons for and agaist terrorism

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for; fighting for god, mean of giving yourself a voice, aim to create social
against; many causes of terrorism are illegitimate and warped, murder and violence is relgiiously immoral, targets the innocent rather than the perpertraotrs of social innequality

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christian beliefs towards the three causes for war

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  • greed; wrong, its depicted as one of the 7 deadky sins and a direct root of evil, immoral reason for violence
  • relaiation; jesus asks people to turn the other cheek when someone has done wrong, but retaliation is sometimes needed to prevent a greater evil
  • defense; when country is under attack or to help others under attack, this is usually the conditions for a just war as long as all peaceful alternitives have already been used
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examples of nuclear weapons

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  • us forces used nuclear bombs on heroshima and agasai in 1945
  • this brought about the end of ww2 and so peace
  • many people will use this as the argument that the usa is justified
  • many countries develope their own nuclear weapons as a deterrent (way to fight a greater evil)
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three types of WoMD

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  • nuclear, chemical and biological
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chrisitan teachings for and against the just war

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  • eye for an eye- self defense is soemtimes granted
  • you shull not murder- one of the ten commandments
  • protecting a country is acceptable at most costs
  • the resentment that comes from war is taught by jesus as immoral, ‘anyone angry at a brother or sister will be subject to judgement’
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peacemaker example

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  • betty williams and mairead corrigan
  • catholic and protestant who formed ‘peace people’ in the troubles
  • oranised peaceful marches across england
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examples of a just war vs injust

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  • first gulf war was to prevent the threat of the iraquis from occupying the kuwait peoples land, it did not harm civilians and it was apporved by international conventions
  • the nazis were knwon for the blitz and in retalliation the brits underwent carpet bombing in order to take down german factories, however in doing this they bombed huge amounts of innocent germans
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apocalyptic warfare

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war that will end in the destruction of the world

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technological warfare

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Develipement in technology to advance weapons- often when two sides have a huge asymentry of power
- eg the brittish bomb drones vs the afgan army

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Sanctity of life

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Only god has the right to end lives

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Anti Christian involvement in politics

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  • romans 13:5, authority and political figures are appointed by god and we should submit
  • phymouth brethren abstain from voting
  • britan has become very multicultural and the lords spiritual is unfairly skewed towards Anglican’s
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Pro Christian involvement in politics

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  • voting is important to find a political party that aligns w Christian values
  • way to serve god by enacting change
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Involvement of the church in politics

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  • cofe is established, meaning it is linked with the state of England
  • 26 bishops make up the Lord spiritual, obligatory place in the House of Lords for spiritual consideration
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Three Latin words for the just war

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Jus ad Bellum- wether it’s right to go to war
Just in bello- actions during war
Just post bellum- correct actions post war towards peace

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Examples of holy war

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  • book of Joshua when god commanded israelites to go to war for his land
  • crusades where Christian’s fought to reclaim the holy land from the Muslims
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Church response to terrorism

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  • catholics: just war is required to respond to it, motivation of a bettter society is not enough for violence
  • COfe: force should be used as a response, members of cofe should promite understanding and respect in multicultural communities
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Church réponse to holy war

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No church has called on believers to defend the faith since the crusades in the 15th century

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Christians for and against technological warfare

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  • worries that drones can make war seem less real and so less concerning over sanctity of life.
  • worries it leads to immense asymmetry of power
  • however with precision drones can reduce civilian casualties
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Conditional pacifism

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  • violence often has incredibly negative consequences but is sometimes less bad than the alternative
  • cofe and catholics teach violence as a last resort in a just war
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Christian beliefs pro reconciliation

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  • jesys says no one should judge others as they are not without sin
  • jesys condemns those who attack an adulterous woman and he personally forgives her
  • it is a sacrément
  • Matthew 6:14 Jesus says our own sins cannot be forgiven if we doesn’t reconcile with others
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Ways Christians work towards social justice

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  • buy fair trade prouducts
  • support groups like cafod, Christian aid or Salvation Army

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