TOPIC 2:RELIGION PEACE AND CONFLICT Flashcards
Reconcilliation
Restoration of friendly relations and when someone goes to church to be forgiven for their sins by God and the priest
Righteous anger
The anger against an injustice
Just war theory
Set of conditions that must be met for a war to be considered justified
Weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
Nuclear,chemical,biological weapons
3 examples of Non violent resistance
Non violent protests civil disobedince,boycotts
Torture
The act by which severe pain and suffering(physical or mental) is intentionally inflicted on a person by a public offical
Terroism
The unlawful use of violence usually against innocent civillians in order to achieve a political goal
Radicallisation.
When someone is influenced to hold extreme views on religous or political issue. Usually unwilling to see alternate views. This can be dangerous as it can lead to terroism and lead to threatining the stability of society
Martrydom
The death of suffering of a martyr who dies for religous beliefs
Bullying teaching (james 3:8-10) meaning
No human can’t control what words come out of their mouths and anyone who could would be in perfect control of their body
Forgiveness teaching (the lords prayer)
Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who tresspass against us
Teaching about violence in bible
You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment
3 things reconcilliation brings
No pressure or stress
It makes you better/stronger person
Appreciation + acceptance of others
Bible quote on Reconcilliation
mathew 5:24
Justice quote from bible (amos 5:24) and key message
But let justice roll on like a river,righteousness like a never-failing stream! = God wanted His chosen people to obey Him, by ruling justly and behaving righteously, to stop living as hypocrites and idolaters and return to Him.
3 Catholic teachings on justice
Justice important as injustice leads to a lack of self worth and dignity
Pope paul vi=”if you want peace work for justice”
“God goverens the world will justice and judges the people with fariness”(deutronomy 32:4)=if god does it so should we
Reasons for and against violent protests and an examples for both
For=
1.only option if peacful protests failed.
2.To make goverments of world take notice especially if goverment abuses their power.
3.if people are getting mistreated or abused themselves, why can’t it happen back
Anti apartheid protests
Againt-
1.It’s illegal and innefective
2.innocents could get harmed making problem worse
3.peacful protests can be more effective like martin luther king
Christian view on righteous anger
Jesus teaches that anger should be avoided where as possible but he was angry when merchents were in the temple scamming people and was like a market
The just war criteria
1.proper authority-war must be declared by a proper authoirty like the goverment
2.just cause-must be a good reason to go to war and not for greed
3.-right intension- reason going to war must be to do good and overcome evil
4.-last resort-peacful methods should be used to sort out the problem before like negotations/diplomacy
5.-proportianllity-the benefits of going to war must outweight the harm it will cause and tryimg not to harm innocents
6.-reasonable chance of success-must be possible to win and not fought vs a ovbisouly stronger oppenent.
3 reasons why the catholic church are against wmd
1.-the effects are dissproportinate to any possible success that may be achieved
2.-nuclear war only causes death and destruction
3.-pope benedict says that in a nuclear war there are no “victors only victims”
3 Contrasting views against wmd
1-lots of people think as they are needed for defence as other countries have them
2.-trident is an important symbol of britains importance and power in the world and its influence
3.-having nuclear weapons can deter attacks from other countries even if there is no intension to use them
3 concequences of modern warfare
1.-lots of buildings/homes are destroyed
2.-people become refugees and have to migrate to other countries willing to take them and are in a whole new enviroment-could be in really bad conditions in camps
3.-child soldiers
Catholic view on terrosim and what number teaching from ccc backs this up
Catholic church oppose the use of terror in any situation
ccc 2297
2 quotes from st paul in Bible suggesting why terrosim is wrong
“Never take venegnce” “thou shall not kill”
Two things the pope has done to bring peacful soloutions to conflict
1.-every week the pope leads the crowd in the vatican square in prayer to bring attendion to conflicts and pray for them
2.-in june 2014 he held a meeting between isreali and palestine leaders to get relation better and they prayed
2 catholic organisations working for peace and what do they do
Pax christi-aims to get involved at an early stage of a conflict to encourage people to solve disputes peacfully and fairly
Justice and peace commison-works in dioceses in england wales and raises awareness for situtations where people are deprived of their rights and needs
2 Catholic agencies helping victims of war and what they do
Cafod-after civil war in sierra leone they set up orphanges and rehabilliation programmes to help children who were child soldiers
Aid to the church in need-they provided shelter blankets medicine and food in syria and outisde for the civil war there
example of a holy war and it’s 2 religous reasons
The crusades
-tryed to free jerusalem the holy land from muslims
-were authorised by various popes who beleievd it was for good will
3 non religous reasosn for war
-self defence
-to gain land
-to gain resources
Bible quote supporting catholic views on pacifism( mathew 5:9) and it’s 4 key words
“Blessed are the peacemakers”
3 Christian pacifist views
1.jesus taught that violence was wrong so everyone should abide by that
2.-the invention of nuclear weapons have the chance to wipe out humanity with pacifism it would ensure the continuation of the human race
3.-war demoralizes people and the innocent suffer but pacifism avoids the instincs of cruelty and brutality
3 beleifs against pacifism
1.-jesus was not afraid to use violence to force the out the traders in the temple so suggesting he wasnt maybe a pacifist
2.-an evil or corrupt ruler would ignore peacful protests and it may be the only way to remove evil dictatorship and liberate the people
3.-wars have brought some of the best instincts of people like bravery and brotherly love
Catholic view on torture ccc 2297
Torture uses physicsl or moral violence to extract confessions to punish the guilty frighten oppenents
Catholic teaching on radicallization which is pope john paul II message to the people
Pope john paull II message to the people=in the past cultural differences have often been a source of misunderstanding between peoples and the cause of conflict and wars
Catholic teaching on martyrdom and christian martrys
a christian martyr is a person who is ready to suffer violence or even to be killed for christ who is the truth
