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World Religions Week 33 Flashcards

1
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Jesus died for ____, so we should treat everyone respectfully

A

all

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2
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Love of Jesus cannot be exhibited through _______

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hatred

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3
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Statement that is contradictory because it is an absolute statement…

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“There is no such things as absolutes or absolute truth”

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4
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An argument that commits suicide is…

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a statement that as soon as it is spoken, it is false

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5
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Without God…

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objective moral values do not exist

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6
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Morality without God that is based on each persons opinion is…

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subjective

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Subjective morality applies only to the…

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subject

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8
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Without God, there can be no…and no….

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no evil and no good, just blind pitiless indifference

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9
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God wills something because…

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He is good

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10
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_____ is the standard of moral values

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God

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11
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If God doesn’t exist, no action should…

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be considered right or wrong

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Moral Argument is…

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  • If God does not exist, then objective moral values and duties do not exist
  • Objective moral values and duties do exist
  • Therefore, God exists
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13
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No ____, no _____

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God, problem

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14
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Be good for ______ _____

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goodness sake

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15
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Question raised by atheism is…

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whether we really can be good without God

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16
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You can be good without…

A

believing in God

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17
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Issue is not whether we…but it is whether…

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whether we believe in God, but whether God exists

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18
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Value of ______ so engrained in students today that they are afraid of making moral judgement

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tolerance

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19
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Values

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Have to do with something that is good or bad

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20
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Duties

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have to do with something being right or wrong

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21
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Just because something is good doesn’t mean…

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a moral obligation to do that something

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22
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Good or bad has to do with…

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Moral worth

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23
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Right or wrong..

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has to do with something being forbidden

24
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Subjective is…

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dependent on one’s opinions

25
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Objective is…

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independent of one’s opinions

26
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God is the ____ ____ meaning…

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Summa bonum, the greatest good or highest good

27
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Naturalism states…

A

everything that exists is determined by science

28
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_______ values are not required by science, therefore naturalism does not work

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moral

29
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According to naturalism, all the morality in our lives is just…

A

subjective illusion of human beings

30
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In atheism, moral values are just…

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byproduct of social biological evolution

31
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speciesism

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unjustified bias in favor of one’s own species

32
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Moral duties spring from…

A

God’s commandments

33
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Moral duties just…

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engrained into us by society

34
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According to atheism someone of defies moral obligations is just…

A

socially unacceptable and not wrong

35
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According to atheism there are no…

A

objective moral obligations

36
Q

Atheist often respond to argument with…

A

how dare you say I am a bad person that is immoral how dare you make a judgement like that

37
Q

Bible says there is an _____ moral compass by God

A

innate

38
Q

_____ is not necessary for morality, _____ is necessary for morality

A

Belief in God, God

39
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Euthyphro dilemma

A

named after character in one of Plato’s dialogues

Is something good because God wills it, or does God will it because it is good

Each of those statements are not right, so answer is that God wills something because He is good

40
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God nature determines…

A

good and the bad

41
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God’s will determines the…

A

right and the wrong

42
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Correct is…

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God wills something because it is good, and it is good because He wills it

43
Q

Plato thought that the good…

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simply exists, it is independent self existent idea

44
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Atheists also may say that good simply…

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exists, all on their own

45
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responses include…

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  • it’s hard to understand, doesn’t make sense
  • provides no basis for moral duties
  • improbable that evolution made these creatures whose life aligns with moral obligations
46
Q

Theism is more probable because…

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it holds God who holds both realms of reality, under one natural moral law giver

47
Q

Stubborn Humanism means…

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the atheist wants to affirm some moral values

48
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Shopping list approach

A

Philosophers just pick the moral properties they need in order for their system to work, no explanation here

49
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Many people will usually acknowledge moral objectivism if you give them…

A

illustrations

50
Q

The number of people doing an action does not…

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affect the morality of the action

51
Q

Genetic Fallacy

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attempts to invalidate a person’s point of view by showing how he came to hold it

52
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Atheism doesn’t aim at truth it aims at…

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survivability

53
Q

Atheism leads to…

A

skeptics of all beliefs, no way to know its truth

54
Q

How you treat people…

A

effects you based on your views or not

55
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World Religions (17 decks)

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