Rights And Responsibilities key words Flashcards
Church
The community of Christians (with a small c it means a Christian place of worship)
Bible
The holy book of Christians
Conscience
An inner feeling of the rightness or wrongness of an action
The Decalogue
The Ten Commandments (in Old Testament of the Bible)
Democratic processes
The ways in which all citizens can take part in government (usually through elections)
Electoral processes
The ways in which voting is organised
The Golden Rule
The teaching of Jesus that you should treat others how you would like them to treat you
Human rights
The rights and freedoms to which everyone is entitled
Political party
A group which tries to be elected into power on the basis of it’s policies (e.g. Labour, Conservative
Pressure group
A group formed to influence government policy on a particular issue
Situation ethics
The idea that Christians should base moral decisions on what is the most loving thing to do
Social change
The way in which society had changes and is changing (and also the possibilities for future change)
