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1. Bridges

   • Bridge Over Troubled Water: Helping somebody to get over their troubles
   • Someone might say that their religion is a bridge to god
   • The word bridge is used as a way of getting over things e.g. relationships, feeling
   • A person finds it hard to cross without a bridge
   • Corrymeela bridge was like a symbolic bridge. A bridge connecting the two faiths.
   • The Mostar Bridge

2. Religions and Environment

   • Islam: Allah created everything and therefore is sacred
   • Hinduism: God is in everything and everyone so everything is sacred and should be treated with respect
   • Christianity: God left us with responsibility of looking after our environment. Mankind rule over everything.
   • Buddhism: To harm another living thing is the same as harming ones self as we are all one
   • Judaism: People make their own decisions on how they care for the environment
   • Sikhism: The environment can only be preserved if the balance created by god is maintained

3. Love and Forgiveness

   • Good Samaritan
   • 'I would be nothing unless I loved others'
   • Love isn't selfish or quick tempered
   • Love never fails
   • Love is always supportive, loyal, hopeful and trusting
   • Forgiveness-To ease feeling angry or resentful towards a person or
   • We find some things harder to forgive than others
   • Hate the sin, love the sinner