Year 10 Section 1: Rights and Responsibilites Flashcards
Bible
The holy book of Christians
Decalogue
The Ten Commandments
The Church
The Christian Community (with a small ācā means the Christian place of worship)
Conscience
The inner feeling of the rightness or wrongness of an action
Situation Ethics
The idea that Christians should base moral decisions on what is the most loving thing to do
Human Rights
The rights and freedom to which we are all entitiled
Democratic processes
The ways in which citizens can take part in government
Electoral processes
The ways in which voting is organised
Political party
A group which tries to be elected into power on its policies
Pressure group
A group formed to influence government policy on a particular issue
The Golden Rule
The teaching of Jesus that you should treat others like you would like to be treated
Social change
The ways in which society has changed and is changing (and the possibilities for future change)
