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1
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B. Do you think different religions should work together in the UK?

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✅ You can learn from each other
✅ It improves community cohesion and reduces discrimination and racism
❌ You may be exclusivist and believe your religion has the whole truth
❌ You may not care about other religions

2
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B. Do you think it is easy for different religions to work together?

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✅ There are lots of places that promote religious community cohesion
✅ Websites can help promote community cohesion
✅ Children learn about different faiths in school
❌ Being exclusivist can cause problems
❌ Believers aren’t always interested
❌ Issues will always arise between different religions groups

3
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B. Do you think Christians must believe in the trinity?

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✅ CCC - official teaching
✅ Creeds (statements of Christian beliefs) state beliefs in 1 God, Son of God and Holy Spirit
✅ Bible (word of God) - trinity present @Jesus’ Baptism
✅ God is revealed to us through the trinity
❌ Catholicism is a monotheistic religion - belief in a trinity could be seen as polytheism
❌ Scientifically illogical - how can something be 3 in 1?
❌ God is meant to be simple - the trinity makes God difficult to comprehend due to the theology behind it

4
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D. “God will welcome everyone, including sinners into heaven”

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✅ Jesus died for us sinners - letters of St Paul
✅ God forgives - benevolent
✅ All children of God - made in the imago dei
✅ Jesus offers salvation to the penitent and those who are contrite
❌ Not all people are sorry for their sins and therefore don’t deserve salvation
❌ Only Christians will be welcomed by God into heaven
❌ If you die without receiving reconciliation you will go to purgatory

5
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B. Do you think it is important for Christians to believe in the Holy Spirit?

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✅ Confirmation - Holy Spirit
✅ Bible - Pentecost
✅ Apostolic - taught by Church - the Church teaches the true faith
✅ Catechism - official teaching
✅ Creed - the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son
❌ Seen as polytheism
❌ Jesus is the most important person in the trinity because he offers salvation - The Holy Spirit is just omnipresent
❌ Your actions are more important than your beliefs

6
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D. “The Roman Catholic Church has to have Bishops”

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✅ Act as a link between the Pope and the diocese
✅ Responsible for looking after the Parish Priests
✅ Continue Apostolic Tradition
✅ Without Bishops there wouldn’t be a Pope
✅ Can give sacraments of Confirmation and Holy Orders
❌ Priests can look after the laity and are more involved with the needs of the Parish
❌ Pope is ex cathedra/ultimate authority
❌ Not needed to pass on messages to the laity
❌ Bishops aren’t that influential in the lives of Catholics
❌ Priests can also administer the sacraments

7
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B. Do you think Priests should be allowed to get married?

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✅ Could understand family problems better
✅ More people would want to join the priesthood
✅ Married Priests in the early church
✅ Marriage is a gift from God
✅ St Peter was married
❌ Family can cause distractions - St Paul said “an unmarried man is concerned with the Lord’s affairs”
❌ Church couldn’t financially support married priests
❌ Jesus wasn’t married - the Priest is in persona Christi at mass
❌ Teaching of the Apostles

8
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D. “The Church is the only means to faith”

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✅ Church offers sacraments=salvation
✅ Keeps Apostolic Tradition=authentic teachings from Jesus
✅ The Magisterium, inspired by the Holy Spirit, interpret the faith for today
✅ The Holy Spirit guides the church
❌ The Bible is the word of God and a means to faith
❌ Personal prayer strengthens a relationship with God
❌ Religious experiences
❌ Religious upbringing
❌ Examples of other people’s lives e.g. Mother Theresa

9
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D. “It doesn’t matter whether Bishops are the successors of the Apostles”

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✅ More important to follow the Bishop’s teachings
✅ Salvation can come from the Bible
✅ The Apostles lived 2000 years ago so their teachings are outdated

10
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B. Do you think going to Mass on Sunday helps Catholics?

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✅ Penitential Rite - forgives sins
✅ Eucharist - Body of Christ, spiritual strength, sacrament
✅ Homily - learn how to lead a better Christian life, opportunity for salvation, can understand how to put the readings into practice
✅ Creeds - statements of faith, helps reaffirm faith
❌ Charity - time could be better spent loving others which also shows love to God
❌ Reading the Bible can develop faith and lead to salvation
❌ You can pray anytime
❌ Going to Mass may be only a routine

11
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D. “All Catholics should be confirmed”

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✅ Become a full member if the Church
✅ Receives gifts of the Holy Spirit
✅ Without being confirmed you cannot take a more adult role in the Church
✅ Opportunity to declare faith to the community
❌ Still member of the Church without it
❌ Faith in God=salvation
❌ Not needed for salvation - acts of Charity are more important
❌ You may be forced into being confirmed
❌ Some Catholics may not have a strong enough faith to make the commitment

12
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B. Do you think the church should contain certain features such as an Altar?

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✅ Lectern important for Liturgy of the Word
✅ Stations of the Cross help us remember the love Jesus has for us and the suffering he went through so we could achieve salvation
✅ Tabernacle - stores consecrated hosts
✅ Altar - provides focal point, reminds of the sacrifice of Jesus, where transubstantiation takes place
❌ The Altar can give unnecessary attention to the Priest and there was no Altar mentioned in the Bible
❌ Statues are false idols
❌ The money spent on the decorations could be given to Charity
❌ Church community more important than the building
❌ It is more important that the church is a place of prayer

13
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D. “All Catholics should have their babies baptised”

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❌ Free will
❌ Jesus was baptised as a man
❌ Too young 
❌ Parents may be obliged
❌ Religious freedom
14
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B. Do you think more men should become Priests?

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✅ Fully devoted to God - strengthened relationship, salvation
✅ Spreading the word of God could lead to conversions
✅ Following example of Jesus - special vocation
✅ Sacraments=chance of salvation - love of neighbour
✅ On a pragmatic level there’s currently a shortage of Priests - more priests=more distribution of the sacraments=more holy lives
✅ Have to listen to God’s call
✅ Holy way of life
❌ Vocation=not for everyone
❌ Free will
❌ Reduced population if more people are celibate priests
❌ Not enough parishes if every man was a priest
❌ Costs a lot to financially support - money could be better spent on helping others
❌ Other vocations are of equal importance

15
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B. Do you think the Sermon on the Mount is important for Christians today?

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✅ Clear guidance - Golden rule leads to salvation
✅ More modern interpretation of the 10 commandments=more reliable
✅ Teachings of Jesus who is the son of God - we should follow his teachings
✅ Teaches us how to show love of others e.g. by using our money to help people and also love of God=eternal life
❌ Old fashioned - not applicable to modern life
❌ Magisterium is more useful
❌ Should abide by the law
❌ Conscience

16
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D. “Christians should never display their religion”

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✅ Bible tells us to worship privately - says so in Sermon on the Mount and the Bible is the word of God
✅ Faith is personal - you should pray privately
✅ It could make people of other faiths uncomfortable and could cause conflict
✅ Hypocrisy
✅ Jesus said you shouldn’t make a show of your religion
❌ Conversion helps others achieve salvation
❌ Community cohesion
❌ Apostles displayed religion @Pentecost
❌ Free will
❌ Jesus taught to “convert all nations” - Catholics should evangelise
❌ It is a witness to faith
❌ You should be proud of your faith

17
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B. Do you think everyone should have a religious upbringing?

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✅ Can help you on your spiritual journey- mass+sacraments=salvation
✅ Means they will go to a faith school and learn about community cohesion
✅ Helps develop moral character
✅ Parents are expected to raise their children in the faith
❌ Goes against religious freedom
❌ Should have free will
❌ May lead to lack of tolerance of other religions
❌ Children may want to change religion or may become atheist or agnostic

18
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B. Do you think God designed the world?

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✅ Paley’s design argument- watch needs watch maker because it exhibits complexity, universe needs universe maker because it also exhibits complexity and must have been designed so God must exist
✅ Complexity=omnipotent God
✅ Evolution caused by God
❌ Design argument shows designer but designer may not be God
❌ Natural evil challenges God’s benevolence and omnipotence
❌ No proof of God but there is proof for the Big Bang
❌ Evidence for chaos in the world

19
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D. “Miracles cannot happen today”

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✅ Cannot proven by science
✅ Coincidence
✅ God chooses=not miracle
❌ Do happen today - Lourdes
❌ To beatify saints they need to have performed miracles
❌ Can’t be proved by science=only God could have done it

20
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B. Do you think numinous experiences lead to belief in God?

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✅ God is omnipresent therefore God is the presence
✅ Happen @churches or in the natural environment=made by God also=God’s presence
✅ Only God is transcendent
❌ Can be explained by science
❌ Very few people experience the numinous
❌ May not be God
❌ They could be lying
❌ May just be the building/environment
❌ Normally only happen to people with an existing belief in God

21
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C. Explain how Roman Catholics respond to scientific explanations of the origins of the universe

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Science and religion can be read accordingly:

  1. Evolution can be read in accordance with the Bible
  2. Big Bang needed a cause (uncaused causer=God) - cannot be an infinite regress
  3. Big Bang=”Let there be light”
  4. World perfect for life
  5. Big Bang had to occur @precise moment=God
  6. The Roman Catholic Priest Georges Lemaitre believed in both God and science
22
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C. Explain how unanswered prayers may lead to some people rejecting the existence of God

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  1. Cannot feel God’s presence
  2. God chooses who’s prayers he answers=not benevolent
  3. God us evil if he doesn’t answer prayers especially if they are for good things like world peace
  4. If God was omnipotent he could answer all prayers
  5. If he doesn’t answer your prayer you may feel angry
  6. God hasn’t ended evil and suffering
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C. Explain how the causation argument may lead to a belief in God

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  1. World exhibits cause and effect
  2. No infinite chain of causes e.g. Train example
  3. Nothing can cause its own existence
  4. God caused the universe because he himself is uncaused and unmoved
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C. Explain his scientific explanations can lead to people not believing in God

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  1. Evolution from fish and apes
  2. Adam and Eve gave original sin=humans weren’t the pinnacle of God’s creation
  3. Big Bang could have occurred without God
  4. Evolution shows no need for God
  5. Matter is also eternal which challenges God
  6. Science is more believable
25
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C. Explain how the design argument could lead to a belief in God

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  1. Universe needs designer God
  2. Universe exhibits complexity
  3. The universe is beautiful and cannot be an accident
  4. The universe is perfect for life
  5. Design argument - Paley’s watch
26
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B. Do you think the media should be allowed to criticise what religions say about matters of life and death?

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✅ Freedom of expression/speech
✅ We live in an open and questioning society
✅ Religious freedom
✅ Can help educate people
✅ Can help point out contradictions
❌ Only benefits religious followers
❌ Media may be biased 
❌ Blasphemy 
❌ Prejudice and violence
❌ Paints religions in a bad light
❌ Can cause offence
27
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B. Do you think people cause world poverty?

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✅ War 
✅ Unfair trade
✅ Debt 
✅ Access to clean water
✅ Access to education 
✅ HIV/AIDs 
✅ Corrupt governments
❌ Natural disasters 
❌ Climate change
❌ Access to clean water
❌ Natural illness e.g. Malaria
28
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D. “Religious people should accept euthanasia”

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✅ Most loving thing
✅ With modern medicine e.g. Painkillers and life support and scientific advances we cannot know God's plan
✅ Freedom of choice - self determination 
✅ QOL - no QOL=should allow euthanasia 
✅ Living wills
❌ Against CCC - official teaching
❌ Against 10 commandments 
❌ Forbidden in Bible
❌ Can never be sure it is what people want 
❌ Can be united with Jesus' suffering 
❌ Sanctity of life 
❌ Prepares for paradise 
❌ Can compromise doctor-patient trust
❌ Slippery slope
❌ Reduce suffering 
❌ Against the law
29
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D. “Beliefs about life after death affect the way a person lives their life”

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✅ Living a good life=salvation
✅ Gives life purpose
✅ Sacraments strengthen relationship with God
✅ Following the teachings in Parable of the Good Samaritan, Sheep and Goats and by following the Golden Rule you can achieve salvation 
✅ Will help others more
✅ Reward in heaven 
✅ Helps face suffering 
❌ Free will
❌ Concerned with present
❌ No proof in life after death
❌ Shouldn't be good just for a reward 
❌ Should follow church teachings
30
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C. Explain why CAFOD is trying to end world poverty

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  1. In an encyclical Pope John Paul II said to help the poor
  2. Teaching in Golden Rule, sheep and goats and Good Samaritan
  3. It is written in the New Testament that we should give riches to those in need
  4. Teaching in Sermon on the Mount
  5. Love your neighbour
31
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C. Explain how CAFOD are trying to end world poverty

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  1. Emergency aid for disasters - short term aid
  2. Long term aid e.g. Projects in communities such as putting wells in villages
  3. Lobbying governments
  4. Educating parishes and schools
32
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C. Explain how Roman Catholic beliefs about life after death will affect the way Christians live

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  1. Knowing God will judge them means they will try to avoid sin and live a good Christian life
  2. Following Jesus’ teachings=salvation
  3. Sacraments
  4. Gives life purpose
  5. Following church teachings=salvation
  6. Vocation
  7. Praying for saints to intercede
  8. Love God+neighbour
  9. Following 10 commandments
33
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C. Explain why some people don’t believe in life after death

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  1. Atheist
  2. No uniformity in religions
  3. Science shows the mind cannot live without the body
  4. No place for heaven
  5. All religious holy books contradict
  6. No scientific proof
  7. Logically impossible
  8. Nobody (except Jesus) has ever come back from the dead
34
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C. Explain why some Christians accept abortion

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  1. Most loving thing - situation ethics
  2. Free will
  3. Mother’s choice
  4. Otherwise could put mother’s life at risk
  5. QOL
  6. Life doesn’t begin at conception
  7. Love your neighbour
  8. God is a God of Justice (if abortions were illegal people who were extremely desperate would have backstreet abortions)
  9. Sanctity of life broken in a just war
  10. Bible says nothing about it
  11. Lesser of 2 evils
  12. Legal
  13. Some churches allow it in extreme circumstances
35
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C. Explain why euthanasia is a controversial issue

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  1. In the case of a person having no QOL it should be allowed
  2. Can never be certain it is what they want
  3. Human right to self determination
  4. Loving thing
  5. Murder
  6. Medicines may be developed which could cure or save the person
  7. May be brain dead
  8. Dignity
  9. Judges can withdraw medicine
  10. Who decides?
  11. Doctors should save lives
  12. Can be misused
  13. Puts doctors in an ethical dilemma
36
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C. Explain 2 different Christian attitudes to euthanasia

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Catholics:
Against Euthanasia but painkillers and turning off life support are ok:
10 commandments 
Sanctity of life
Suicide is forbidden in the Bible
Suicide and painkillers=double effect
Evangelicals 
Against Euthanasia and painkillers and turning off life support:
10 commandments 
Take Bible literally 
Murder
37
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B. Do you think sex outside marriage is acceptable?

A
✅ Ok in a faithful relationship 
✅ Gift from God
✅ May not want to marry
✅ Accepted in society
✅ Unitive 
✅ Media perception 
❌ Should be also procreative 
❌ Fornication and promiscuity 
❌ Adultery 
❌ Should be saved for marriage 
❌ Breaks up family
38
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B. Do you think attitudes towards homosexuality have changed?

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✅ Gay celebrities
✅ Civil partnership act/ same sex marriage act in 2014
✅ Was illegal now legal
✅ Genetic
✅ Organisations
✅ Homophobia is wrong
❌ Homosexual sex is nit accepted by Christianity
❌ Condemned in Leviticus
❌ Sin/unnatural
❌ Still unable to have gay marriages in most churches
❌ Homosexual activity seen as sinful

39
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D. “Religious people should never divorce”

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✅ Marriage cannot be dissolved by any earthly power
✅ Vows - life-long, covenant, sacrament
✅ Should get counselling rather than divorce
✅ Adultery
✅ Can make families unhappy
❌ Lesser of 2 evils
❌ Could be better for children
❌ Jesus allowed divorce in Matthew 19:9 in one exception
❌ Love your neighbour
❌ Better to live apart than in hatred

40
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B. Do you think marriage is important?

A
✅ Sacrament
✅ Permanent 
✅ Exclusive 
✅ Life-giving 
✅ Loyal to bringing up children in the faith
❌ Jesus and Priests didn't/don't marry
❌ Can cause suffering
❌ Not religious
❌ Less people marrying
❌ Can love each other without marrying and can be happy without marrying 
❌ Cohabiting more common
41
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B. Do you think faithfulness within a marriage is important?

A
✅ Permanent 
✅ Adultery
✅ Wedding vows and prep course emphasise it
✅ Adultery against the 10 commandments 
✅ Rings
❌ Forgiveness is more important
42
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C. Explain why some Christians accept divorce

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  1. Jesus allowed it in Matthew 19:9 in the case of adultery
  2. Anglicans allow remarriage
  3. Situation ethics - better for children
  4. We all make mistakes
  5. Legal to divorce
  6. Lesser of 2 evils
  7. Love your neighbour
  8. Reconciliation is possible after a divorce
43
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C. Explain how the purposes of marriage are shown in the Roman Catholic wedding ceremony

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  1. Exchange of rings - life-long
  2. Priest asks couple if they are willing to accept children as a gift from God
  3. The prep course teaches how to bring up children
  4. Sacrament=covenant
  5. Exchange of vows - exclusive
  6. Bible readings - procreation
44
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C. Explain why Roman Catholic Christianity teaches that family life is important

A
  1. Where children learn morality
  2. Basis of society
  3. 10 commandments
  4. Purpose of Catholic marriage
  5. Continues faith - sacraments
45
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C. Explain why some Christians do not accept homosexuality

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  1. The CCC teaches that homosexual sex is wrong
  2. Homosexual sex cannot be procreative
  3. It is against the natural law
  4. “You shall not lie with a man in the same way as you do with a woman. It is an abomination”
  5. Being homosexual is an evil choice - Evangelicals believe the power of the Holy Spirit can help rectify that
46
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C. Explain how Roman Catholic Parishes help keep families together

A
  1. Leaflets
  2. Mass reminds of marriage vows
  3. Financial support
  4. Priests support and guide their parish
  5. Specific church organisations promote the importance of family
  6. Social events
47
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C. Explain how Roman Catholic Parishes help with the upbringing of children

A
  1. Catholic schools
  2. Youth clubs
  3. Children’s liturgy
  4. Sacraments
  5. Marriage prep course
48
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C. Explain why some Christians allow artificial contraception

A
  1. Stops spread of diseases
  2. Limits family size - better QOL
  3. Nothing against it in the Bible
  4. Sex should be unitive and enjoyable
49
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B. Do you think men and women should have equal rights in religion?

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✅ Equal rights in society
✅ Made same time in Genesis
✅ St Paul - no male or female in Christ
✅ Women Priests in early church
✅ Jesus teaches women are equal and he treated women equally e.g. Samaritan woman at the well
✅ It would be discriminatory to treat women unequally
❌ St Paul taught that men were made first and should have more authority
❌ The priest needs to be in persona Christi
❌ The 12 Apostles were men

50
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D. “The Government needs to do more to encourage community cohesion”
In your answer you need to refer to Roman Catholic Christianity

A

✅ Catholic Church gives money to groups that support community cohesion
✅ Parishes say mass in other languages and give legal advice
✅ The 7/7 bombers show that more needs to be done
✅ Good Samaritan
✅ More laws
✅ Working @ a local level
❌ Terrorism isn’t common
❌ Laws
❌ National curriculum
❌ Schemes to have more minority groups as judges and MPs
❌ Problems are cultural

51
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B. Do you think that living in a multi-ethnic society reduces racism?

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✅ Tolerance 
✅ More understanding
✅ Benefits
✅ Educates people
❌ Could cause alienation 
❌ Conflicting ideas 
❌ Free will and rise of groups like the EDL
❌ There will always be racism
52
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D. “All religious people should try and convert others”

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✅ Holy Books
✅ Jesus said “I am the way, the truth and life”
✅ Salvation
✅ Loving neighbour
✅ Whole truth
✅ “Convert all nations”
❌ “In my father’s house there are many doors”
❌ Religious pluralism
❌ Prejudice - Religious freedom and Religious pluralism
❌ Offence
❌ CCC proclaim but don’t proselytise
❌ SOTM - don’t display your religion
❌ Don’t know everything about other religions or your own

53
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D. “Living in a multi-ethnic society can cause problems”

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✅ Isolation and alienation 
✅ Violence
✅ Extremism 
✅ Different ideas and cultures
❌ National curriculum 
❌ Tolerance and acceptance 
❌ Uk is welcoming 
❌ Brings different ideas and lifestyles
54
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D. “Men and women are treated equally”

In your answer you should refer to Roman Catholic Christianity

A
✅ Laws
✅ Equal pay act
✅ Ministers in some Christian churches
❌ Pay gap
❌ Can't become priests
❌ Men have higher paid jobs
❌ Different expected roles
55
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D. “ Religious people can achieve community cohesion”

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✅ Love your neighbour 
✅ Bible
✅ CCC
✅ Golden Rule
✅ Sheep and Goats
❌ Conversion 
❌ Whole truth
❌ Some may not want it