Religion and Life

• Dominion

  The Christian belief that humans rule over the world and everything in it.
• Stewardship

  The Christian belief that humans have the responsibility to look after every living thing on earth.
• Big Bang

  The theory that roughly 15 billion years ago the Universe expanded suddenly from one single point.
• Evolution

  The process by which different kinds of living organism are believed to have developed from earlier forms during the history of Earth.
• Purgatory

  The Catholic belief of the judgement before heaven where the soul undergoes purification.
• Fundamentalist

  A person who believes the statements in the bible are true.
• Christian

  A person who follows the Christian faith.
• Liberal Christian

  A Christian who believes the Genesis account to be a metaphor.
• Natural resources

  Resources that are found in the earth like natural gas and fossil fuels
• Non-renewable energy

  Energy sources such as fossil fuels that don't have an unlimited supply.
• Sanctity of life

  Only God has the right to give and take life.
• Quality of life

  How good your life is in terms of how well off you are.
• Euthanasia

  'Good death' in Greek
• Church

  A place of worship.
• Agape

  Unconditional love.
• Abortion

  the deliberate ending of a pregnancy.
• Animal Experimentation

  Tests on animals which could be for medicine or beauty products.
• vegetarian

  Someone who has made a decision not to eat meat.
• responsibility

  A duty of people to look after the world.
• awe and wonder

  Questioning the beauty of the world and how it was made.
• pollution

  the presence or introduction of something into the environment which may have damaging effects.