Relationships

Relationships

1. What is love

   • Key concepts
     • Agape: Unconditional love
     • Philia: Love in the sense of loving family and friends
     • Storge: Warm affection and linking something
     • Eros: Sexual affections
   • Religious Teachings
     • In the new testament, Jesus uses the word agape. This type of love is the basis of the christian religion
   • Other Perspectives
     • The word Love in our society is used in many different ways, i.e: love of their family, love of their friends, love of their country

2. Commitment and Responsibilities

   • Religious Teachings
     • Christian: A commitment that christian`s have is to read the bible every day. A committed christian would want to find out more about God`s relationship with humankind and the bible helps them with this
     • Jews: When young Jews take on the responsibility of living as part of the Jewish faith, they have to make a public statement, Bar Mitszvah for boys and a Bat Mitzvah for girls.
   • Other Perspectives
     • There are many responsibilities in our society, these include jobs and taking care of children.
   • Key Concepts
     • Commitment: A sense of dedication and obligation to someone or something

3. Contraception

   • Religious Teachings
     • Christianity: Roman Catholics oppose all artificial methods of contraception yet the rhythm method is fine.
     • Judaism: Contraception is accepted with a few exceptions like any barrier method like condoms
     • Sikhism: Sikhs do not oppose any forms of birth control
   • Other Perspectives
     • People generally use contraception as they do not want to start a family or they are unable to financially support more children

4. Promiscuity, adultery, cohabitation

   • Key Concepts
     • Promiscuity: This is when people have casual sexual relationships, sometimes before marriage and sometimes during.
     • Adultery: This is when a married man or woman has a sexual relationship with someone other than their partner
     • Cohabitation: This is when a couple lives together before marriage. The term also implies there is a sexual relationship
     • Chastity: This means not having sex before marraige
   • Religious Teachings
     • Adultery is not accepted by any religion
     • Christian, Jews and Sikhs believe all these life choices are wrong.

5. Marriage and divorce

   • Religious Teaching
     • In religion, marriage is the binding of a couple in love. All religions allow marriage. However all religions don`t take divorce lightly, in Judaism and Sikhism divorce is only to be used as a last resort.
   • Remarriage
     • Same Sex Relationships
       • Religious Teachings
         • In Sikhism, Homosexuality is not acceptable as it is against the code of conduct. However there is nothing about same sex marriage in the Guru Granath Sahib
         • Homosexual relationships are forbidden by Islam due to strict rules that talk about only intercourse between husband and wife.
     • Religious Teachings
       • For Christians remarriage is a controversial issue, some roman catholic would allow a remarriage to take place at a place of worship yet some would not. This is due to the fact that the vowels have been broken.