Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Religion & Conflict
- Good and Evil
- Evil makes us
value good
- Evil exists to help people learn
and grow spiritually and
morally
- The world
is 'corrupt'
- Free will can lead
to suffering and evil
- The devil or
Satan tempt
us
- Makes us realise
human weakness and
to make thing right
- The Fall in Genesis, explain
the suffering and evil in
God's good creation
- Interfaith
- Interfaith council, where
different faiths hold a meeting
and meet each other
- Leicester has a youth interfaith council
- Religious groups work together to
decide what to teach in RE
- Interfaith week encourages schools and
workplaces to celebrate religion and
work together
- Ways of Suffering
- Natural Evil
- Floods, earthquakes, famine and drought
- Moral Evil
- War, murder, rape, prejudice and discrimination
- Personal Loss
- Death of a loved one, home or redundancy
- Responses for suffering
- Christian
- Free will leads to evil and suffering
- Life is a test
- We should follow the Christian
way and embrace good
- Develop as good people by
helping and dealing with suffering
- God knows the answer, but
humans cannot
- Follow Jesus and help
those in need
- Parable of Good Samaritan
- Islam
- Life is a test
- God created humans to
look after the earth, and
they will have Islam to help
them
- Shaytan will have
permission to use evil to
tempt humans to betray
Islam
- In the Judgement day,
Allah will judge those
who gave in to Shaytan
and tthose who did not
- Suffering people
are to be treated
with compassion
- Christian Aid
- Helps poorer nations
- Helps in over 60
countries
- Makes sure
communities are self
supportive
- Educates people to
help poorer countries
- God loves the
world and all in
it
- They worked in Senegal where
they help farmers improve their
farming methods
- War
- Christianity
- Some people
are pacifists
- 'Do not kill'
- Turn the other
cheek
- Jesus didn't let
Peter fight
- Just War
- St Thomas Aquinas
said Christians should
fight in just wars
- Jesus did not
condemn
soldiers
- War fought for the right
reasons, in the right way,
for the right outcome
- Only way that
justice can be done
- Started by a goverment
- Begun as a last resort
- Civilians are protect and used
necessary force
- End of war brings a
better situation
- Clear possibility of winning
- Christians should
obey the orders of
the state
- Islam
- Means 'peace', but
should fight if attacked
- A war must be Jihad
- Qur'an says that
Muslims should fight if
attacked
- If you die in Jihad
you will go straight
to Heaven
- Muhammad fought in war
- Hadith says that Muslims
should fight in wars
- Forgiveness
- Christianity
- Duty to bring reconciliation
between families and
friends
- Should forgive those who attacked them
- Jesus did on the cross to bring
reconciliation and forgiveness
- Jesus told Peter to forgive them
seventy seven times
- If Christians do not forgive
themselves they will not be forgiven
- Forgiveness is
a Golden Rule
- Corrymeela
- Young Catholics and Protestants meet
together and begin to understand each
other
- People who have lost family in the
conflict meet people from the
other side
- Encourage reconciliation, forgiveness
and peach
- Bases on the Golden
Rules, love your enemy,
turn the other cheek and
treat other like you would
like to treated
- Islam
- Allah-
compassionate,
merciful and
forgiving
- Judgement day- if you
want to forgive you must
give it to others
- Qur'an says to forgive those who offend
- Hadiths – Muhammed said Muslims should
be forgiving
- Don’t forgive those who work against Islam
- Pacifists
- Archbishop Tutu
- First black Archbishop of South America
- Refused to use violence
- Jesus teachings
- Led truth and reconciliation
committee, where people told
the truth but do not get
revenge
- Because of his work – there was no
bloodbath at the end of apartheid
- Gandhi
- Hindu believer and
activist for Ahimsa
- Used
non-violence
- Led marches, fasts
and was imprisoned
for his activities
- Never fought back
- Satyagraha- philolophy of
non-violence
- Went on hunger strikes
to stop violence