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46 Cards in this Set
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adultery
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a sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner
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civil partnership
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a legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife
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cohabitation
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living together without being married
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faithfulness
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staying with your marriage partner and having only sex with them
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contreception
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intentionally preventing pregnancy from happening
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homosexuality
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sexual attraction to the same sex
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nuclear family
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mother, father and children living as a unit
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pre-marital sex
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sex before marriage
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promiscuity
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having sex with a number of partners without commitment
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procreation
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making a new life
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re-constituted family
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where two sets of children (stepbrothers and sisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each others
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re-marriage
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marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage
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community cohesion
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a common vision and shared sense of belonging for all groups in society
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discrimination
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treating people less favourably because of their ethnicity/gender/colour sexuality/age/class
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ethnicity minority
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a member of an ethnic group (race) which is much smaller than the majority group
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interfaith marriages
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marriage where the husband and wife are from different religions
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multi-ethnic society
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many different races and cultures living together in one society
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multifaith society
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many different religions living together in one society
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prejudice
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believing that some people are inferior or superior without even knowing them
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racial harmony
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different races/colours living together happily
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racism
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the belief that some races are superior to others
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religious freedom
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the right to practise your religion and change your religion
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religious pluralism
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accepting all religions as having an equal right to coexist
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sexism
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discriminating against people because of their gender(being male or female)
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numinous
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a feeling of the presence of something than you e.g. in a church or looking up at the stars
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conversion
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when your life is changed by giving yourself to god
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miracle
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something which seems to break a law of science and makes you think only go could have done it
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prayer
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an attempt to contact god, usually through words
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design
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when things are connected and seems to have a purpose eg - the eye is designed for seeing
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causation
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the idea that everthing has been caused (started off) by others
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agnosticism
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not being sure whether god exists
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atheism
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believing that god doesn't exist
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moral evil
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actions done by humans to cause suffering
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natural evil
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things which cause suffering but have nothing to do with humans e.g earthquakes
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omnipotent
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the belief that god is all powerful
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benevolent
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the belief that god is good/kind
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omniscient
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thee belief that god knows everything that has happened and everything that is going to happen
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resurrection
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the belief that after death the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised
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immortality of the soul
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the idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body
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sanctity of life
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the belief that life is holy and belongs to god
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assisted suicide
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providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide
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euthanasia
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an easy and gentle death
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voluntary euthanasia
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the situation where someone dying in pain asks a doctor to end her/his life painlessly
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abortion
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the removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive
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non voluntary euthanasia
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ending someones life painlessly when they are unable to ask but you have a good reason for thinking they would want you to do so e.g. switching off a life support machine
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paranormal
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unexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes e.g. ghosts,mediums
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