Eduqas GCSE Religious Studies Component 1 themes overview quiz quiz

The belief that life is holy and God-given and must be protected

The view that the quality of a person's life matters more than anything else

The right of a person to choose to end their own life when they wish

The belief that only human beings, and nothing else, have any value

Divorce is actively encouraged whenever the love between a couple fades

Marriage is permanent and the Church does not recognise divorce

Divorce is freely allowed, but remarriage afterwards is forbidden in any church

Divorce is the most hated of all the things that God has chosen to permit

Retribution, making the offender pay back

Deterrence, putting people off offending

Revenge for its own sake

Reformation, changing the offender

An eye for an eye (Exodus 21:24)

Be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28)

Establish prayer and give Zakah (Surah 2:43)

Forgive seventy-seven times (Matthew 18:22)

Prejudice is an unfair attitude; discrimination is acting on it

They are exactly the same thing under two different names

Prejudice is always legal, whereas discrimination is the only one that is illegal

Prejudice is only ever about religion, while discrimination is only ever about race

The parable of the talents, which teaches that people must use their gifts wisely for God

Galatians 3:28 (neither Jew nor Greek, neither male nor female, all one in Christ)

The Ten Obligatory Acts, which are the main duties of Shia Islam

Humanae Vitae, the Catholic teaching on marriage and contraception

Wealth is evil in itself and must always be destroyed

Only the poor are able to be holy; the rich never can be

Wealth is a trust from God to be earned honestly and shared

Wealth should always be kept for yourself and never given away to others

A branch of Christianity that focuses mainly on caring for other human beings

The belief that God exists but is completely unknowable to human minds

A type of meditation practised to bring inner peace and calm

A non-religious worldview based on reason, evidence and human wellbeing

By using reason, empathy and the consequences for human wellbeing

By carefully following the rules set out in the sacred religious texts

By asking a religious leader, such as a priest or an imam, for guidance

By praying to God and waiting for an answer to come to them

They agree on absolutely nothing at all, because their starting points are entirely different from each other

They often agree on core values like honesty and compassion, while differing on the source of authority

They agree completely on every single ethical issue, with no disagreements between them at all

Only religious people genuinely care about morality, while non-religious people do not care at all

Using up the earth's resources freely, however we wish to

Worshipping nature itself as if it were a god to be praised

Caring for creation as God's gift, answerable for how we treat it

Ignoring environmental problems and leaving them for others to solve

The sanctity of life, the idea that all life is holy and God-given

An eye for an eye, the call for equal payback for any harm done

The Five Pillars, the five core duties that all Muslims must carry out

Quality of life and the woman's wellbeing, rights and circumstances