Religious Studies ☸️

Question 1

Banality of evil

Answer 1

Thoughtless evil acts can be carried out by normal people without meaning that they are bad people

Question 2

Sunni and Shia difference ?

Answer 2

Sunni- pray 5 times a day , Shia - pray 3 times a day

Question 3

IVF

Answer 3

When egg is removed from woman’s ovaries and and is fertilised by sperm in a laboratory

Question 4

What is Ahisma?

Answer 4

Non-injury

Question 5

Satyagraha

Answer 5

Truth force

Question 6

What is pacifism?

Answer 6

Belief that violence is wrong

Question 7

What was the colour bar?

Answer 7

Discriminatory practices in England that prohibited black people from
certain types of employment, housing etc.

Question 8

What is a creed?

Answer 8

A creed is a statement of a person or a groups most important beliefs

Question 9

What is the United Nations?

Answer 9

an international organisation that aim to establish human rights

Question 10

What is prejudice?

Answer 10

to pre-judge: an opinion that is without reason or experience

Question 11

What is discrimination?

Answer 11

prejudice in action: treating someone differently because of, for example,
their race, religion or gender

Question 12

What is segregation?

Answer 12

To separate and keep apart

Question 13

What is righteous indigantion?

Answer 13

A sense of injustice at what is morally wrong.

Question 14

Give an example of how Jim Crow laws affected African Americans

Answer 14

There were separate toilet facilities in public places

Question 15

What is a Samaritan?

Answer 15

A person living in the region of Samaria in biblical times. Samaritans and
Jews disliked each other.

Question 16

What is a parable?

Answer 16

A story used to show a moral or spiritual lesson

Question 17

What is the salt march?

Answer 17

A peaceful protest in India regarding the Salt taxes imposed by the British

Question 18

What is Lynching?

Answer 18

to kill someone for an alleged offence without a trial especially by hanging

Question 19

What is a fact?

Answer 19

a thing that is known or proved to be true

Question 20

What is a belief?

Answer 20

A belief is an acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof

Question 21

What is an opinion?

Answer 21

a view or judgment formed about something, not
necessarily based on fact or knowledge

Question 22

Give two examples of a creed?

Answer 22

Apostle’s Creed, Fireman’s creed

Question 23

What is Kamma

Answer 23

the law of cause and effect, where the intention behind your
actions also counts.

Question 24

What is samsara?

Answer 24

the cycle of birth, death and rebirth

Question 25

What is rebirth?

Answer 25

the belief that a soul substance is reborn in a new form after your die. Your rebirth is based on your kammic merit in this life.

Question 26

What is Annica?

Answer 26

is the concept that nothing stays the same and everything is always changin

Question 27

What is Dukkha?

Answer 27

Accepting that suffering exists and Suffering comes from craving thin

Question 28

What is Anatta?

Answer 28

the idea that humans have no soul or self

Question 29

What are the three poisons?

Answer 29

Greed, Hatred and Ignorance

Question 30

What is absolutism?

Answer 30

the view that certain actions are good or bad.

Question 31

What is relativism?

Answer 31

the view that whether an action is good or bad depends on the situation.

Question 32

What is utilitarianism?

Answer 32

the theory that the best action in any situation is the one which creates the greatest amount of good for the greatest number.

Question 33

What is the hedonic calculus?

Answer 33

Jeremy Bentham’s way of calculating which actions are right and wrong.