Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Good and evil (Key words (Suffering- pain or loss which harm human beings.…

- - - - Virtues challenge our instinctive selfishness
      - Virtues are moral practices
      - Catholics believe that living a good life and following one's conscience is something that requires practice
    - - Catholics have an obligation to follow their conscience
      - The ability to discover natural law
      - St Thomas Aquinas defined conscience as 'the mind of human beings making moral decision'
    - - All humans have similar moral desires
        
        Worshipping God
        
        Living in society
        
        Seeking the truth
        
        Procreation
        
        Preserving life
      - Put forward by St Thomas Aquinas
  - - - Prayer, fasting- don't pray and fast for show
      - Giving to the needy- give in secret
      - Love your neighbour, hate your enemies- love your enemies, pray for those that persecute you
      - An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth- turn the other cheek
      - Do not break oaths- do not make an oath
      - Divorce is allowable- no divorce except for sexual immorality
      - Do not commit adultery- do not look lustfully at a woman. If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.
      - Do not murder- don't be angry. Settle arguments quickly
- - - - The saving power of suffering
      - Written by John Paul II
- - - - Evil is a consequence of free will- why wouldn't God make us want to be good
      - Evil helps us to become better people- Mackie argues that God should have made us perfect if that was his plan
      - Evil is necessary as an opposite of good- Mackie argues that there is too much and too extreme suffering
  - - - All of them cannot be true at the same time
      - God is omnibenevolent,
        God is omnipotent,
        Evil exists
- - - - The sorrowful mysteries
        
        Jesus is crucified and dies on the cross- this is when Jesus is nailed to the cross and, after six hours, dies on the cross
        
        Jesus is made to carry the cross- this is when Jesus carried his own cross to Golgotha, the place of his crucifixion
        
        The crowning with thorns- this is when the soldiers mocked Jesus, twisting thorns into a crown because he had been charged with claiming to be the King of the Jews
        
        The scourging at the pillar- this is when Pilate had Jesus whipped in an attempt to satisfy those who wanted Jesus to be crucified. It didn't do any good and Pilate condemned Jesus to death.
        
        The agony in the Garden- This is when Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane on the night before he died. He prayed to be spared the suffering he knew he was to come but in the end he accepted God's will out of obedience and love.
      - The joyful mysteries
        
        The finding of Jesus in the temple
        
        The presentation of the baby Jesus in the Temple
        
        The birth of Jesus
        
        Mary's visit to Elizabeth
        
        The Annunciation
  - - - Young people volunteer as helpers for the sick and disabled
      - Thousands of pilgrims go to pray at the grotto
      - The spring is believed to have healing qualities
      - Founded by a young girl called Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 after having had visions of Mary
      - One of the most popular shrines in the world
    - - Pilgrimage as a response to human suffering
        
        Allows people to accept and cope with the problems they face
        
        Helps sick people feel at rest or even cured
      - Reasons for going on a pilgrimage
        
        Pilgrims pray together and feel supported by each other
        
        A group pilgrimage may help an individual to feel part of the church community
        
        To come closer to God by giving him time and attention
        
        To do a penitential act as a reflection of sorrow for sin
        
        To seek physical, spiritual or emotional healing
        
        As a way of thanking God
        
        To pray for the sick
        
        To pray for something special
        
        To share the experience and their faith with other believers
        
        To help strengthen their faith
- - - - Presented as a mother
      - Mary is at peace
      - Mary is depicted as youthful and peaceful instead of as a broken-hearted and older woman
  - - - Statue of the saint after whom the church is named
      - Statue of Mary
      - Crucifix
- - - - It gives us a tendency to go against God
      - Sin and suffering is a result of Adam and Eve's actions
    - - Our actions would have no consequences without suffering, so having free will would be meaningless
      - How we use free will is not God's fault
      - Humans should have the right to chose between good and evil