Mindmap
Re Unit 8
Inhalt der Mindmap
Re Unit 8
Rights and Resonsiblities
- Sources For making Moral desisions
- Bible
- Word of God
- Must be correct
- God is omniscient so has good guidence
- Must be correct
- outdated and unreliable
- thoughts at time of writing not now
- Word of God
- Conscience
- Inner Voice of God
- Must be correct as God is omniscient so has good guidence
- Warrior gene
- unreliable
- Inner Voice of God
- Situation Ethics
- Jesus followed this
- Good Catholics should follow his example
- He made important moral desisions and can be trusted as an example of how to make them
- 'Love thy neighbor'
- Jesus followed this
- Church
- Traditional moral values
- Body of Christ
- Jesus working in today's world
- Must have same authority of him that Catholics should follow
- Jesus working in today's world
- teaches not to use contraception
- Could danger peoples health (STDs)
- Bible
- Human Rights
- Right to life is a basic Christian belief
- Life is holy and belongs to God
- Humans are made in the image of God
- So humans are all one family
- So should all be treated fairly
- So humans are all one family
- It's an essential human right for christians to not be at a disadvantage to other religions
- Golden rule
- Feedom of Religion and thought is essential for Christians
- Treat others how you would like to be treated
- Right to life is a basic Christian belief
- Moral Duty
- Brothers Keeper
- God entrusted us to look after others
- Golden Rule
- Treat others as you would like to be treated
- Care for yourself so care for others
- Treat others as you would like to be treated
- 'Love thy neighbor'
- Teaching of God so must be followed
- as he is omnicsient
- Teaching of God so must be followed
- Parable of the sheep and goats
- Shows duty and helping the poor and suffering
- Bible is the word of God
- Must be followed as God is omniscient
- Bible is the word of God
- Shows duty and helping the poor and suffering
- Brothers Keeper
- Genetic Engineering
- For
- Messes with a body
- God made people in his image
- Changing this is messing with God's plan
- God made people in his image
- It is trying to play as God
- This is a sin
- It is wrong to try and make Humans perfect
- Only heaven is perfect
- Killing Embryos in genetic engineering is murder
- Goes against decalogue
- Th9s is a sin
- Goes against decalogue
- Messes with a body
- Against
- For
- Voting
- Gives people some control of things such as taxes
- Could effect what new laws are passed
- Ancestors fought to get the vote and democratic rights that we have
- If we don't vote we waste their work
- If we do not vote only a small amount of people would choose the government
- They could vote for someone who takes away the rights of those who did not vote
- Sources For making Moral desisions
Environmental And Medical issues
- Global Warming
- Sea levels WILL rise as ice caps melt due to sn increased atmosphere temperature
- Coastal cities and towns will be flooded and disapear
- Drastic changes in the weather
- more storms and hurricanes
- Destroy homes and kill people
- more storms and hurricanes
- Temperature change would change conditions in different habitats that organisms are adapted to
- this could endanger a speices or even make a species extinct
- Will effect plant growth
- less food will be available
- people become malnorished
- less food will be available
- Sea levels WILL rise as ice caps melt due to sn increased atmosphere temperature
- Pollution
- Acid Rain
- Burns things when come to earth
- Destroys crops
- Burns things when come to earth
- Human Waste
- Encourages rats
- Carry diseases that could kill people
- Encourages rats
- Eutrophication
- Lack of oxygen in water
- kills fish
- water polluted
- health problems caused
- Lack of oxygen in water
- Radioactivity
- Could kill
- Cancer developed
- Could genetically mutate unborn children
- Acid Rain
- Christians and the environment
- The Bible teaches that we have a responsiblity to make sure Earths resources are shared
- They will be judged on judgment day as to whether they have been good stewards
- They will go to heaven if they are good stewards and care for the environment
- The bible says they have a responsiblity to leave Earth a better place then they found it
- Muslims and the enviroment
- not produce pollutiom
- So they can be good Khalifahs
- The Shari'ah and Unnah tell Muslims that they should share the Earths resoureses
- to improve life in less economically developed countries
- They will be judged on their behavior as Khalifahs
- have a duty to protect the environment
- They believe in Unity and balance in creation
- They have a duty to preserve this
- not produce pollutiom
- Organ Donation
- For
- God will not need organs to raise the body
- Golden Rule
- you would want someone to donate an organ after their death to save your life
- Most loving thing to do
- Saves lives
- Against
- Ignores the Sanctity of life
- Should the surgeon save the life of the donater dying or save the person in need of a transplant by letting the other die
- Plays as God
- Great sin
- For
- Global Warming
Peace and Conflict
- Religious organisations Can achieve World Peace
- For
- They send aid workers who can start to prevent it
- They will not use violence
- Stopping wars follows situation ethics and is the foundations of their beliefs
- Represnts a large group of people
- Against
- Not powerful enough
- You ca't control everyone's point of view
- The UN and governments have alot more authority
- They can cause wars
- The poe agrees with war
- Alot of people are not religious
- For
- Why do wars occur
- Terrorists attacks
- To fight for another countries human rigts
- To remove a dictator from power
- Religious differences
- Muslims and war
- Muhammed (great example of how to live life): fought in wars
- Qur'an: fight if you are attacked
- Muhammed taught to fight in just wars- final prophet of Allah
- Anyone who die fighting in a just war will go straight to heaven
- Bullying
- Viollence without any just cause is wrong
- It goes against situation ethics
- God/Allah may punish them o judgment day
- It does not fit Jesus teachings
- It is wrong to hurt God's creation
- Form of cruelty and Muslims should work to end cruelty
- Conflict in Families
- Burial: may not be able to be buried together due to being of different faiths
- Alcohol: Want to go out with friends who drink and parents may disagree
- Diets: Hindu's donot eat beef so if a catholic marries a hindu theere may be disagreement abut diet
- Disagreement over where the children should be baptised and attend church
- Contraception: different views about whether to use them or not
- Just war
- Must be the last resort
- The methods used are proportional to the cause (no wmd for tiny island)
- Avoid killing civillians
- Being fought in the intention of bring peace
- The UN
- Set up to work for world and to maintain world peace
- Aim to develop friendly relations among countries by resolving conflicts that have broken out
- They try to prevent conflicts from starting by providing negotiators to talk out problelms
- They send peacekeepers into troubled areas to maintain peace and order
- Religious organisations Can achieve World Peace
Crime and Punishment
- Is justice important
- Most loving thing to do
- Bible and qur'an teaches about equality whic justice allows
- punished on Judgement day for not not treating everyone fairly and seeking justice
- Jesus/ Muhammed fought for justice
- Punishments for crimes
- Retribution
- Makes criminals suffer for what they have done
- The crime may not be their fault so they suffer for no reason
- The idea that criminals should pay for their crimes
- Deterrance
- people would be too scared to commit crimes
- The idea that the punishment should put people off committing another crime
- some may be unafraid of the punishment
- Reform
- the idea that criminals should be taught not to commit crimes again
- It is the only way the criminal will not commit a crime agin
- there is nothing to stop the crime from happening in the first place
- Protection
- Stops people from getting hurt and protects the weak who would suffer most from the crimes
- The idea that punishment should protect society from the criminals
- Some criminals may not be dangerous so would not need this and this would not benefit them or stop them from committing crimes
- Retribution
- Capital Punishment
- For
- Life for a life- retribution
- Many religions support it (Christianity/Islam)
- It will act as a deterance
- They have been immoral and sinned
- Against
- Goes against the sanctity of life
- Jesus taught to forgive and killing is not forgiving
- It is inhumane and the Pope has critizised it
- If wrong person killed then it cannot be corrected
- For
- Health Problems and laws
- Drugs
- laws
- It is illegal to allow drugs to be taken or stored on your premises
- The police can stop, detain and searching people suspected of taking or posesing drugs
- It is illegal to supply or offer an illegal drug
- it is illegal to possess a controlled substance unlawfully
- health problems
- cancer-smoking
- Change you image
- dementia- smoking
- addiction- can not rely without it
- laws
- Alcohol
- laws
- Children under 16 can go into a pub with an adult but not have an alcoholic drink
- it is illegal to give an alcohlic drink to a child under 5
- Young people aged 16 or 17 can drink beer, wine or cider with a meal if it is bought and they are are accompanied by an adult
- It is against the law for under 18s to purchase an alcoholic drink
- health problems
- Accidents caused by dirnk driving
- heart disease
- liver problems
- obesity
- laws
- Drugs
- Muslims attitudes to...
- Drugs
- It goes against the shariah law
- If they are intoxicated they aren't being good khalifahs
- They will be punished on judgment day
- Also drugs lead to further sin and further away from allah
- Alcohol
- forbidden in Islam- punished on Judgment day
- Those who pour or sell it will be punished
- They believe it clouds judgment and turns people to sin against allah
- Qur'an says that intoxicants are a means by which Sata tries to keep people from God
- Drugs
- Is justice important
Key Points
- Muslims: Judgment day(+/-)/muhammad was againt it/Qur'an/Hadiths against it/sanctity of life/against Allah's plan/using knowledge allah gave us/2donot break the bones of the dead"/khalifahs/stewards
- LP: situation ethics/bible/church leaders/lesser of two evils/Jesus' teachings/quality of life/judgment day (+)
- Cathaolic: Catechism,/bible/pope/Jesus/encylicals/church leaders/ten commandment/sanctity of life/Natural law/judgment day (-)
