RE Exam 1 Flashcards - Extended

The divine or supernatural is inherent in the physical world, such as in the land and nature eg. Aboriginal spirituality

Separate from nature and humanity, outside of humanity's perception and grasp - a higher power

believing in one god

Non-religious

Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters

A person who denies the existence of God

one who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic; undecided

A person's view of the world

eg. Christian worldview, atheist worldview

The belief in phenomena beyond our laws of science and nature; eg. magic, miracles

says that a meaningful life is possible, but God or a supernatural element is unnecessary

God or the supernatural is unnecessary for a meaningful life, but what is meaningful varies from person to person

Belief that meaning is not possible

the belief that natural objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself possess spirit; eg. Aboriginal spirituality

Traditions which have multiple gods, often anthropomorphised, which share responsibility for everything, e.g. Greek mythology

Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa, eg Hebrew, Arabic, and Phoenician

Traditions on the 'western' arm which originated in the middle east from Palestine to Persia, e.g. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity

Devoted to a particular religious sect, particularly when referring to religious involvement in politics

the mythology of Aboriginal Australian spirituality

The Buddhist cycle of life, death, and rebirth (Reincarnation)

The process by which a person or soul is reborn continuously in new bodies

Enlightenment, liberation from the cycle of death and reincarnation (samsara)

A defence of God and God's goodness in the face of evil and suffering

The absence of good; wicked, depraved; very bad and wrong

pain, distress, hardship; can be mental, physical, emotional, financial, etc

A moral law, how your actions dictate your future - if you do good, you'll get good in return and vice versa

study of the last things; afterlife, judgement, apocalypse, end times

A question reaching the heart of humanity, existence, and meaning

1. Why are we here?

2. Who are we?

3. What happens after we die?

A visual of the 3-pronged development of the world's religions - Semitic, Indian, and Eastern

1. Practical and ritual

2. Experiential and emotional

3. Narrative and mythic

4. Doctrinal and philosophical

5. Ethical and legal

6. Social and institutional

7. Material

• Began with the teachings of Jesus, when people were Jewish or Roman

• Jesus claimed to be the Messiah, son of God and saviour of the Jewish people

• After Jesus' death and resurrection Christianity grew in size, beginning as a Jewish sect and growing into a major world religion

A Roman who persecuted Christians, but saw a vision of God + converted and spread Christianity across the Mediterranean in the 1st century

• Siddhartha Gautama was a Hindu prince who was sheltered from the world.

• He went out and saw an old man, a sick man, and a dead man

• He wanted to find the cause of, and way to end, suffering.

• He did fasting, meditation, and became ascetic before meditating under a tree and achieving enlightenment, creating Buddhism

evil for its own sake, performed for the express purpose of harming others, or for the enjoyment of the experience of watching others suffer

evil that occurs in order to carry out some other purpose; eg. coal mining to make money

evil that is "justified" by some greater cause; eg. the Holocaust

evil that occurs based on human incompetence, despite the fact that nobody wished it; eg. plane crash due to piloting mistake

• God is omnipotent

• God is omnibenevolent

• Evil exists

"The Fall" - Humans were created perfect, but choices made by 'Lucifer' and humanity meant the loss of perfection

• It's illogical that perfect beings were capable of sinning and committing evil

"Rise" - Humans were created imperfect, and suffering is a means to become better. God does not create evil, but nor does he intervene

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• How can a good God allow such immense suffering, even for moral growth?

• Suffering doesn't always help people grow - it can deeply affect them and make them worse

between the extremes of indulgence and self-denial, free from sorrow and suffering; a balanced or moderate approach to life.

Indulgence is fleeting and leads to suffering, while ascetism is awful

He despised the Hindu caste system, which doesn’t allow upwards social movement, said only through reincarnation can people get a better life, and only the highest cast could reach moksha - Buddha believed anybody could achieve enlightenment

Ethics (Right action, right speech, right livelihood)

Meditation (Right midfulness, right effort, right concentration)

Wisdom (Right view, right intention)

A visual representation of the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth; divided into six realms, Gods, titans, hungry ghosts, hell, animal, and human

all good / possessing perfect goodness

catholic belief - the immediate judgement the soul receives after death where we account for the good we have done and the sins we have committed

existing in all places

particular judgement, the last judgement

a system of values and beliefs or laws, providing an overview for many of the practices and ideas of the religion

music, art, symbols, architecture/buildings, etc.

focuses on the community of believers and the hierarchy/organisation of the institution

the idea that rules must be applied to uphold the values and understandings that a religion may offer the world

stories from a particular religion that aim to explain and inspire

worship, prayer, regular gatherings, rites of passage, etc.

emotive content behind ritual and prayers. people react emotionally when they encounter something they believe is very profound

god maximised the goodness in the world by creating free beings, and being free means that we have the choice to do evil things - a choice that some of us exercise

evil committed by humans

all powerful

existing at all times

At the end of time, the Lord will come again to judge the living and the dead. Those who have already died and have been judged will stay in Heaven and Hell. Those who have not died will now be judged and enter Heaven and Hell.

demonic, instrumental, idealistic, foolish

it does not resolve natural evil

1911

must be buried with 24 hours of death

all knowing

catholic

not having or involving a belief in a god or gods

the principle of not causing harm, or allowing harm to occur

end of the world

1. there is suffering

2. suffering is caused by our desires

3. we can manage our desires by changing our perspective instead of trying to change our circumstances

4. we can free ourselves from suffering by following the eightfold path/the middle way

Man’s Search for Meaning

the belief that the primary human drive is not pleasure, but the pursuit of what we find meaningful

1. he who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

2. the salvation of man is through love and in love

3. you can get used to anything

4. you can resist your environment’s influence

5. there is meaning in suffering

6. without hope, meaning, a future; death will soon come

7. logotherapy is a practical solution to your problems

cognitive technique that involves persuading people to engage in their most feared behavior

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1905-1997 (92 years)

the universe needs no explanation; it just is the way that it is; and this includes evil and suffering, which just happen

if god exists, and allows suffering, then he is not all loving

while God may exist, an orderly universe does not prove the existence of God

God wills that we endure and eliminate evil through a progression toward a perfect adherence to the moral law

viktor frankl

Buddhism and Taoism

a void where dead peoples souls go

where personalities come from before a soul is matched to a life

a personality / earth pass

some people just cant let go of their own anxieties and obsession’’s, leaving them lost and disconnected from life, and this is the result

don’t pay any mind to paul. people like him just bring other people down to make themselves feel better.

Good Karma for reflection and being truthful - links to the four noble truths / love thy mother and father

Being caught by Terry and being sent back to the Great Before because he cheated

Joe’s soul in the therapy cat - bad karma for being selfish so now he is put in the body of a selfless being

22 vs Joe in the subway

Joe’s meaning in life vs 22’s

gaining the earth pass for being selfless and kind