RE

• Moral evil


  - actions done by humans which cause suffering
• Natural Evil


  things which cause suffering but have nothing to do with humans
• Conversion


  when your life is changed by giving yourself to God
• Miracle


  something which seems to break a law of science and makes you think only God could have done it
• Numinous


  the feeling of the presence of something greater than you
• Omniscience


  the belief that God knows everything that has happened and everything that is going to happen
• Prayer


  an attempt to contact God, usually through words
• Benevolent


  the belief that God is all loving
• Omni-potent


  the belief that God is all-powerful
• Abortion


  the removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive
• Assisted Suicide


  providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide
• Euthanasia


  the painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease
• Immortality of the Soul

  the idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body
• Near Death Experience


  when someone about to die has an out of body experience
• Involuntary Euthanasia


  ending someone's life painlessly when they are unable to ask, but you have good reason for thinking they would want you to do so
• Quality of Life


  the idea that life must have some benefits for it to be worth living
• Reincarnation


  The belief that, after death, souls are reborn in a new body
• Resurrection


  the belief that, after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised
• Sanctity of Life


  the belief that life is holy and belongs to God
• Voluntary Euthanasia


  ending life painlessly when someone in great pain asks for death
• Civil Partnership


  a legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife
• Adultery


  a sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage
• Contraception


  Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring
• Promiscuity


  having sex with a number of partners without commitment
• Community Cohesion


  a common vision and shared sense of belonging for all groups in society
• Discrimination


  treating people less favourably because of their ethnicity/gender/colour/sexuality/age/class
• Ethnic Minority


  a member of an ethnic group (race) which is much smaller than the majority group
• Interfaith Marriages


  marriage where the husband and wife are from different religions
• Multi-faith Society


  many different races and cultures living together in one society
• Prejudice


  - believing some people are inferior or superior without even knowing them
• Racism

  the belief that some races are superior to others
• Religious Freedom


  the right to practise your religion and change your religion
• Religious Pluralism


  accepting all religions as having an equal right to coexist
• Conscience


  an inner feeling of the rightness or wrongness of an action
• the Ten Commandments


  The Decalouge
• Democratic Processes

  the ways in which all citizens can take part in government (usually through elections)
• Electoral Processes


  the ways in which voting is organised.
• Golden Rule


  the teaching of Jesus that you should treat others as you would like them to treat you
• Human Rights


  the rights and freedoms to which everyone is entitled
• Political Party


  a group which tries to be elected into power (e.g. Labour, Conservative)