Religion and Life 2 Flashcards
(22 cards)
What are the types of truth?
scientific, historical and religious
What are the beliefs about the origins of life?
Adam and Eve, literal or metaphorical
evolution by extinction and natural selection
Pope says bible only tells us why
Fundamentalist creation
‘let there be light’
‘image of God’
Non-literal creation
time period is wrong ‘iom’
Islam creation
‘Be’
6 periods of time
Big Bang Theory
13.8 billion years ago
Red Light Shift
Microwave background radiation
Christian life after death
Judgement day Jesus will judge the ‘living and the dead’
Sheep and Goats
evidence as Jesus was resurrected
Heaven, Hell, Purgatory
salvation through faith/works
Islam life after death
Barzakh - questioned by 2 angels as to how you have lived
judgement day and book of deeds
Akhirah
Other life after death
reincarnation and near death experiences
Islam Euthanasia
test of faith
not a just cause, haram
only Allah can decide
Liberal Christian Euthanasia
‘Blessed are the merciful’
free will
quality of life
80% UK want it to be legalised
Church of England Euthanasia
traditional
‘Do not kill’
only God can decide
sanctity of life
protects vulnerable - Jesus helped those in need
palliative care
Islam Abortion
rape and mother’s life - just cause
120 day ensoulment
‘Do not take life in fear of poverty’
Catholic Abortion
‘Do not murder’
can only use life saving treatments
‘God knows us in our mother’s womb’
conception
Church of England Abortion
‘Love one another’
lesser of 2 evils
‘Blessed are the merciful’
quality of life
UK Abortion
1967 with 2 doctors
Christians on food
choice
animals don’t have a right to life
Oxford Study - best thing we can do is be vegan (75% cleared land from agriculture)
Islam on food
Halal and Haram foods
Shari’ah law
factory farming vs free range
cannot be mistreated while alive- humans can distance themselves from pain through distraction and animals can’t
humans experience less pain as we have the intelligent capacity to think but animals rely on sensory experience
‘whoever kills a sparrow or anything bigger than that without a just cause, Allah will hold him accountable on the Day of Judgement’ (muhammad)
Christian medicine
human life is sacred
The Quaker’s - in 2019 around 182000 guinea pigs tested
ecocentrism - animals don’t have a choice
2012 - 4 million tests
doesn’t always work
Islam medicine
‘just cause’
‘There would not be a single person alive today having had an organ transplant, without animal testing’ (Dr Joseph Muray -1990 NPP)
Christian environment
Stewardship vs dominion
earth is loaned to us
‘image of God’
anthropocentric vs ecocentric
‘rule over’
‘the earth is the lord’s and everything in it’
Islam environment
Allah the creator (99 names)
Khalifah (Adam)
judged on judgement day
‘all creatures are God’s family’
