Religion and life

• The Creation of the Universe - The Bible/genesis

  'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.'
• The value/protection of nature

  'Since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have clearly been seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.'
• Humans' dominion over the earth - The Bible

  'Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.'
• Pollution - The Bible

  'The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it/'
• Human treatment of animals - The Bible

  'Every human act of irresponsibility towards creatures is an abomination.'
• Animals as food - The Bible

  'Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you.'
• Caring for animals - The Bible

  'Take with you seven of every kind of clean and unclean animal... to keep their various kinds alive throughout earth.'
• Not treating animals cruelly - The Bible

  'Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.'
• Caring for animals - The Bible

  'The righteous care for the needs of their animals.'
• Christians as vegetarians? - The Bible

  'The one who eats everything (meat) must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.'
• The Value of Animal Life - The Bible

  'Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.'
• The creation of Humans - The Bible

  'So God created mankind in his own image.'
• Anti-Abortion - The Bible

  'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.'
• Anti-Abortion - Tertullian, A Christian writer 


  'It does not matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to birth. In both instances, destruction is murder.'
• Anti-Euthanasia - The Salvation Army

  'All people deserve compassion and care in their suffering and dying. Euthanasia and assisted suicide should not, however, be considered acceptable responses. They undermine human dignity and are morally wrong.'
• Pro-Euthanasia/ pro-abortion - The Bible

  'Blessed are the merciful.'
• Anti-Abortion/ anti-euthanasia - The Bible

  “Surely you know that you are God’s

  temple, where the Spirit of God dwells.”
• Anti-Abortion - Didache 


  “Thou shalt not kill by abortion the fruit

  of the womb,.
• Anti-Abortion/ anti-euthanasia - The Bible 


  “The Lord gives and the Lord takes

  away.''
• Anti-Abortion - The Bible 


  “I have the strength to face all conditions

  by the power that God gives me.”
• Anti-Abortion - The Bible

  ‘Be fruitful and mutiply'
• Value of animals - The Bible

  “A man is worth many sparrows, but not

  one sparrow can die unnoticed in God’s

  world”
• Importance of human life - The Bible


  “Surely you know that you are God’s

  temple, where the Spirit of God dwells.”
• Anti- Abortion - Didache 


  “Thou shalt not kill by abortion the fruit of the womb,. .”