Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Religion, Peace and Conflict
- United Nations
- Impose sanctions on those
threatening world peace
- Authorise use of force against those
threatening world peace
- Send in peace keeping force
- Pax Christi and Muslim Peace Fellowship
- Organise public debates about the horrors of
war
- Organise anti-war protests
- Work for economic fairness
- Why do Wars occur?
- Religion
- Nationalism
- Economics
- Ideological/political differences
- Just war theory
- St Thomas Aquinas
- Cause of war is just
- Fought in an attempt to restore peace
- Begun as a last resort
- Must avoid killing civillians
- Christian attitude to war
- Jesus said 'turn the other cheek'
- Jesus said 'love your enemies'
- Jesus said 'those who live by the sword die by the sword.'
- 5th commandment - Do Not Kill
- All churches say they can fight
in just wars
- St Paul said you should follow
orders of your government
- Jesus never condemned the soldiers that he met
- Jesus said 'Give to Caesar what is Caesar's'
- Islamic Attitude to War
- Greater Jihad - make yourself a good muslim
- Lesser Jihad - struggle with others through war
- Quran says Muslims must fight if attacked
- Muhammad fought in wars
- Muhammad said that Muslims must fight in just wars
- If Muslims die in a just war then they go straight to Heaven
- Religious conflict
- Children no longer want
to be a part of their
parent's religion
- Worry their children will not be with
them in the after life, or will become
immoral
- Children want to marry outside of their faith
- Which religion will their children be
raised in? Where will the couple be
buried?
- Children become more religious than their parents
- May become a priest so
the family will have no
grandchildren
- Child might criticise the
life of a parent
- Disagreements over moral issues
- A couple that decides
to live together outside
of marriage
- Forgiveness and Reconciliation
- Jesus dies to bring about forgiveness
of man's sins and to reconcile humans
with God
- God forgives those who ask, and so should
we.
- St Paul said Christians
should try to live in peace
with one another
- All churches teach
Christians to follow these
ideas
- "And forgive us our sins as
we forgive those who
trespass against us"
- God is
compassionate to
sinners, so
muslims should
be too
- Quran tells muslims to
forgive
- Hadith shows Muhammad forgiving
people and reconciling after battles
- Muslims can only ask for forgiveness if they have
been forgiving on Earth
- Muslims should not forgive those that work against Islam