Things i forgot

Question 1

1 corinthians 7

Answer 1

“it is better to marry than to burn in passion”

Question 2

two non-religious attitudes to co-habitation

Answer 2

-utalitarianism - okay
-humanism - okay

Question 3

two religious attitudes to co-habitation

Answer 3

-RCC - wrong as destroys sanctity of marriage
-protestants- okay if leads to marriage

Question 4

Give one example of Christian aid’s work

Answer 4

working for sustainable peace in Sierra Leone

Question 5

Romans 13 (sin and crime)

Answer 5

“whoever rebels against authority is rebelling against what God has instituted”

Question 6

Aquinas on sin and crime

Answer 6

the same as through NML human law is derived from natural law

Question 7

liberalism (J.S Mill) on sin and crime

Answer 7

sin is moral and crime is political so are distinct - crime is more important as usually overlaps with harm principle

Question 8

Christian view of gay sex

Answer 8

“an abomination” (leviticus)

Question 9

Timothy (women)

Answer 9

“a woman shall not have authority over an man”

Question 10

divorce

Answer 10

to legally dissolve a marriage

Question 11

two views for family life

Answer 11

RCC - can learn moral values and teach christian values

Question 12

Richard Swinburne’s principle of testimony

Answer 12

we should trust people’s experiences unless we have a good reason to doubt their reliability

therefore we should trust NDEs

Question 13

disability

leviticus 21

Answer 13

“no-one with a disability may offer the food of their God”

Question 14

family

exodus 20

Answer 14

“honour your father and mother”

Question 15

family

1Timothy

Answer 15

“it is your Christian duty to obey your parents”

Question 16

a non religious attitude against family

Answer 16

Richard Seneca argued children have no responsibilty for their parents because the cause of our existence is of little importance to our ongoing lives

Question 17

evidence against family life

Answer 17

“if anyone comes to me and does not hate father, mother, wife and children….they cannot be my disciple” - Luke

Question 18

three types of family

Answer 18

• reconsituted
• nuclear
• single parent

Question 19

Augustine on the death penalty

Answer 19

permissable if it is neccessary for society to protect itself

Question 20

reparation

Answer 20

to ensure that a person puts right in some way what they have done wrong

e.g. community service

Question 21

vindication

Answer 21

to ensure that the law is respected by making people fear breaking it

Question 22

reformation

Answer 22

to change the character of a person away from criminality

key idea in new testament

Question 23

protection

Answer 23

keeping the public from being harmed or threatened by criminals

Question 24

deterrance

Answer 24

to discourage people from comitting a crime

e.g. fines

Question 25

retribution

Answer 25

punishing in a way that is equal to the crime | i.e. the principle of lex talionis

Question 26

two religious reasons to limit human rights

Answer 26

* evangelism - freedom of religion * aquinas - NML worship God - freedom of religion

Question 27

two non-religious attitudes to limit human rights

Answer 27

* J.S. Mill - harm principle (only physical harm) * utalitarianism

Question 28

two views for women's ordination

Answer 28

* "there are certain aspects of priesthood that are done better by a woman than a man" - Mother Ann Easter * Galatians 3:28

Question 29

view against disability

Answer 29

jesus tells 'invalid' he just healed to "stop sinning or worse will happen" to him

Question 30

evidence for religious inclusivism

Answer 30

"many will come from east and west and will eat with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of Heaven" - Matthew 8

Question 31

Richard Rorty's argument for inclusivism

Answer 31

all claims are relative to a particular way of seeing the world and none can be proven more true than another

Question 32

Richard Nozick on purpose

Answer 32

in order for something to have meaning it must obtain its meaning from something else with meaning | if we trace this back then we lead ourselves to God

Question 33

Argument against questioning meaning

Answer 33

Karl Marx - "philosophers have sought to understand the world; the point however is to change it"

Question 34

argumeny for questioning meaning

Answer 34

Socrates "the unexamined life is not worth living"