RELIGION AND SOCIETY

1 - Rights and responsibilities

Key words -
Bible - the holy book for Christians
Church - the community of Christians (non-capital C means a Christian place of worship)
Conscience - an inner feeling of the rightness or wrongness of an action
The Decalogue - the Ten Commandments
Democratic Processes - the ways in which all citizens can take part6 in government (usually through elections)
Electoral processes - the ways in which voting is organised
The Golden Rule - the teaching of Jesus that you should treat others as you would like them t treat you
Human rights - the rights and freedoms to which everyone is entitled
Political party - a group which tries to be elected into power on the basis of its policies
Pressure group - a group formed to influence government police on a particular issue
Situation ethics - the idea that Christians should base moral decisions on what is the most loving thing to do
Social change - the way in which society has changed and is changing (also possibilities for future change)