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R.S Unit 8.1 Rights and Responsibilities Flashcards

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Bible to make moral decisions:

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  • Word of God, absolute authority
  • God’s teachings on how to behave, the Decalogue
  • Teachings of Jesus, Son of God (Sermon on the Mount)
  • Life of Jesus, how Jesus would respond
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Not just the Bible to make moral decisions:

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  • Not actual word of God, reflection of social situation
  • No modern day issues like contraception
  • Church interpret Bible
  • Conscience to decide to use Bible or other means
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Church to make moral decisions:

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  • Body of Christ, same authority
  • God speaks through Church
  • Authority from Magisterium interpret Bible
  • All believe same thing, rather than different opinions
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Conscience to make moral decisions:

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  • Voice of God
  • Church says to use conscience
  • Christian thinker, St. Thomas Aquinas
  • Direct voice of God
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Not using conscience to make moral decisions:

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  • Mistake voice of God, Yorkshire Ripper claimed God told him to kill
  • Teachings of the Bible
  • Teachings of the Church
  • If everyone followed conscience instead of laws, chaos
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Situation ethics to make moral decisions:

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  • Jesus overruled Old Testament to heal paralysed man
  • Wrong to ignore consequences of actions
  • Jesus’s statement ‘Love your neighbour’
  • Religion of love and forgiveness
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Not using situation ethics to make moral decisions:

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  • God made laws to follow
  • . Church knows better
  • Never know all facts to make decisions
  • All same thing better than individual ideas
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What do Protestants use to make moral decisions:

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  • Usually the Bible, issues like murder
  • Conscience about homosexuality
  • Modern issues, contraception, Church/conscience
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What do Catholics use to make moral decisions:

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  • Usually Magisterium, Church, modern life
  • Situation ethics issues like AIDS
  • Conscience about homosexual intercourse
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Why is it important to have human rights?

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  • Right to life, no death penalty, no killing innocent
  • Right to participate in free elections, everyone treated fairly
  • Right not to be discriminated, range of beliefs/cultures accepted
  • Right to an education, can get a job
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Why are human rights important to Christians?

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  • Right to life, sanctity of life
  • All made in God’s image, all treated fairly
  • Christians are protected to practice beliefs
  • Rights to procession, celebrate festivals such as Easter
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What are the problems with human rights for Christians?

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  • Right to form a civil partnership, homosexuality against Bible
  • Against marrying outside religion
  • Against homosexulas having a family (adoption)
  • Roman Catholics don’t allow women priest, discrimination
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Who are people entitled to vote for?

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  • MPs who sit in the House of Commons

- Local Councilors

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Why is it important to vote in elections?

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  • Gives some control over tax rates
  • Chance to affect new laws that may affect you
  • Ancestors fought for democratic rights
  • Countries whom do not have the right to vote usually treat their citizens badly
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How does Jesus’ Golden Rule affect Christian moral duty and responsibility?

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Golden rule - to treat others as you would like them to treat you:

  • Asylum seekers, put in their situation
  • Vote for candidates that will benefit people
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How does the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats affect Christian moral duty and responsibility?

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Parable of the Sheep and Goats - Accepting Jesus and following God - ‘Shepherd’:

  • Duty to feed the hungry, help homeless
  • Duty to help the sick, vote for policies with free healthcare
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How does the passage ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ affect Christian moral duty and responsibility?

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Am I my brother’s keeper?’ - Cain murders Abel in jealousy so God punishes Cain:

  • Duty to look after everyone, benefits
  • Human rights for everyone
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What is genetic engineering?

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  • The deliberate modification and manipulation of genetic material of an organism
  • Used to find cures of prevents diseases or disabilities in humans
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What is stem cell research?

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  • Cloning processes to grow healthy cells to replace malfunctioning ones
  • Involves creating stem cells from embryos or adult bone marrow
  • Stem cells are cultivated and kept alive, multiply
  • Legalisation in 2011 for stem cell research in UK, not US
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Non-religious arguments for genetic engineering:

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  • Offers prospect of cures for currently incurable diseases
  • Available to rich who can travel to countries where legal
  • Cure diseases by replacing malfunctioning cells with healthy cells
  • Cloning using cybrids does not involve loss in human life
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Non-religious arguments for genetic engineering:

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  • Offers prospect of cures for currently incurable diseases
  • Available to rich who can travel to countries where legal
  • Cure diseases by replacing malfunctioning cells with healthy cells
  • Cloning using cybrids does not involve loss in human life
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Non-religious arguments not in favour of genetic engineering:

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  • Not enough information about long term consequences
  • Irreversible effects so the change would be permenant
  • Treats human body as a commodity, like plants
  • People may be screened before life insurance
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Liberal Protestant view on Genetic Engineering:

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Good only to cure diseases:

  • Jesus was a healer so Christians should try to cure diseases
  • Discovering genetic make-up of humans improves lives
  • No different from discovering new medicines
  • Difference between creating cells and creating new people
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Catholic view on Genetic engineering:

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Allowed only to cure diseases without using human embryos:

  • Life begins at conception
  • Killing an embryo same as killing
  • Embryos produced by methods the Catholic Church does not agree with
  • However Jesus was a healer therefore Christians should try to cure diseases
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Other Christians are opposed to genetic engineering:

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  • God created genetic make-up of each person at conception, no right to interfere
  • Genetic engineering is ‘playing God’, sinful
  • Wrong to try to make the world perfect, preparation for Heaven
  • Treats human body like a commodity, should be respected as we are made in the imagebof God

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