Theology test MARCH

M. Scott Peck's Definition of Love

Will to extend oneself for anothers or oneself spiritual growth

Why is love not an emotion or just a 'feeling'?

The action of extending oneself is what makes this not a feeling

Why are we limited in the English language when it comes to describing or defining love?

In English we use to many realities to define love - "I love school" "I love my girlfriend" "I love this meal"
The Greek used different words for different kinds of love

Why did I say that if a couple wants to truly love, at some point they have to 'fall out of love'?

In a relationship there's going to be ups and downs and you have to pass the stage of "falling in love" and fall out of it and then after you have to love your other truly.

Why is 'falling in love' considered effortless, but loving someone is effortful?

ecause loving someone takes effort and putting in work to love them, but falling in love doesn't take effort to do.

What did I say is the primary work or main action we have to do when we truly want to love
Someone?

Listening YOU CANNOT LOVE SOMEONE UNLESS YOU LISTEN/PAY ATTENTION TO THEM
You need to take time out of your life to show that the person you love is worth loving for

Why did I say it was possible to love a person even if you don't know them?

Love is an action - you can nurture your own or someone else's spiritual growth by loving them

What are the four loves? What culture originally came up with that concept?

The four loves are Agape, Eros, Philia, and Storge
Agape: Love for strangers, God's love for people, Unconditionally
Eros: Desire to be with one another, two people looking at each other
Philia: Love of friends, two people looking in the same direction
Storge: Affection, love for pets
created by the Greek

Which is the love where we stand 'shoulder to shoulder'?

Philia

Which is the one that we say 'colors' or should be part of all the other loves?

Storge

Which is the term to describe the kind of love God has
for us?

Agape

Which is the love I said our culture often doesn't take seriously, even though each of us has had strong experiences about it?

Philia

Which is the love that is the desire for union?

Eros

What was going on in Kohlberg's era that really impacted and made him wonder about how people do or do not grow morally?

Senator McCarthy was spreading rumors of communists in America, getting people fired for their jobs for no reason, people conspiring against one another.
WWII was starting with Nazi's and Jewish persecution.

What was his method for developing his theory? What are some potential criticisms of his
Method?

He studied groups of male elementary and high school students
He excluded females.
Androcentric and too Western

What is 'Heinz' Dilemma'?

A woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to produce. He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about $1,000 which is half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said: "No, I discovered the drug and I'm going to make money from it." So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug for his wife. Should Heinz have broken into the store to steal the drug for his wife? Why or why not?

What are the three groupings of stages?

Pre-Conventional: Consider only one's needs
Conventional: Considers group but is bound by it
Post-Conventional: Considers group but is not snared by rules/union if it is immoral

In this case, what does the word 'conventional' mean?

Group

Define the basis for each of the six stages and be able to identify examples.

Stage One: Good deed to not get punished
Stage Two: Good deed for a return of a desire
Stage Three: Good deed pressured by conformity, fear of not conforming
Stage Four: Good deed by following law, knows why laws are there but can not escape if immoral
Stage Five: Not bound by group or selfish motives; motivated by social contract
Stage Six: Internalized human needs, would bare pain for good of others, practice daily

How were children viewed at the time of Jesus?

Rejected and viewed as working people/adults
How did the apostles treat the children when they were trying to approach Jesus? Apostles pushed away children from Jesus

How does Jesus defend children?

Jesus tells the people to be more like children \= powerless, ashamed, and weak

What does he mean when he says people should be more like children?

children \= powerless, ashamed, and weak

How many children experience child labor worldwide?

152 million child laborers

How many people are caught up in 'bonded labor'?

246 million bonded laborers

What inspired Craig to start his work?

Iqbal Masih was an escaped child labor, stood up for children's rights, returned to Pakistan and was murdered by rumored carpet mafia

What was the purpose of his trip and was it dangerous?

They performed raids on the trip and because he was white, he would be targeted. Purpose of the trip was to share the experiences of the child labors and broadcast them to Canada and the world

How did Craig manage to get a meeting with the prime minister?

The prime minister was in India for trade purposes and Craig asked the ministers people if they could set up an interview and they told Craig that he was too busy. Craig thought of an idea that while the Prime Minister was in a meeting, he would set up a press conference and talk about saving the children. This is what made the Prime Minister talk with Craig.

How did that change his public profile?

Prime minister was more famous, Craig was boosted into the public eye

Prime minister was less credible, Craig was boosted into the public eye

Free the Children

How did the organization illustrate 'solidarity'?

He shared the stories (stories came direct from child laborers) and raised money and schools for them, actively tried to help them across multiple countries with the child laborers themselves

What is 'human trafficking'?

A line of kidnapping and using people for illegal actions, slave like conditions and use people to the full extent of their abilities

What is 'bonded labor' and why is it an immoral practice?

A false promise to underpaid parents, sell children to pay off debt

What were some of the jobs you saw children do?

A girl was going through medical plastic containing viruses and blood, Brick workers were carrying heavy rocks, Sugar workers use machetes

Why were children needed in the carpet industry?

They have tiny hands for details in carpets

What happens to them when they get too old?

What did Kailash Satyarthi do to rescue children from slavery?

Perform raids, children and parents would have PTSD

Who was Iqbal Masih and what happened to him?

Child laborer who escaped, advocated for rights, and went back to Pakistan and was killed by carpet mafia

Why is working in the sugar cane industry dangerous for children?

Machete use

In the NY Times article, what is the 'sponsor' factor in explaining how many migrant children are becoming child laborers?

How does the fact that they are often 'migrant' children contribute to why they are being exploited?

Migrant children are under immense pressure to send money back home so they want to work but it is immoral of the corporations exploiting them at long/ late hours with harsh conditions. Sponsors will manipulate migrant workers too.

What is the government agency in charge of overseeing these children?

Department of Health and Human Services

What are some of the reasons child labor in America is growing or allowed to continue?

H.H.S. is lazy and won't stop it; Sponsors are endorsed by government, but they are not all good and manipulate parents of migrants to "make them rich" and put them into child labor and take their pay

What is the dilemma between releasing migrant children early from detention
centers and yet preventing them from being exploited?

The sooner they get released, the bosses look better, so workers will release them early and won't care about the safety of the release

What were some of the food or clothing products mentioned in the article made from child labor that you might use regularly

J. Crew, Target, Walmart, Ben and Jerrys, Cheetos, Cheerios, Whole Foods

How regularly do law enforcement officials prosecute people who are profiting from exploiting
migrant children in child labor?

About 30 in the past decade

Does calling a hotline work?

No

How does working with 'Flaming Hot Cheetos' affect child laborers?

Hot cheeto batches would harm lungs of children in factories

Diane Nash

Active in civil rights in high school, dropped out of college to continue, challenged mayor directly, she made mayor admit that people shouldn't be judged by their skin color

Bayard Rustin

Organized the March on Washington; he was gay; MLK's mentor

Claudette Colvin

One of if not first people to refuse to give up her seat in the front of the bus, teenager who was prior to Rosa Parks; she didn't become the face of civil rights because she became pregnant early

John Lewis

Civil rights leader and on house of representatives; congress person

Coretta Scott King

Wife of MLK, continued his legacy by advocating for Black rights and LGBTQ rights with memorials during Aids, assistant was gay. Even though MLK cheated on her, she was able to forgive him and she stayed with him.

Peter Gabriel

Made Solsbury Hill, work against torture and prisoners, Amnesty International, founded Witness which helped people record videos of social injustice

Parkland Student Activists

Set up the largest student advocacy protest for gun violence after shooter killed their classmates
X Gonzales - Survivor, Non-Binary
David Hogg - Survivor, knowledgeable and young
Cameron Kasky - Participated in March for our Lives, activist, edgy

Sister Thea Bowman

Sister that got permission to not wear traditional nun clothing, advocated for more investment and attention to Black Churches, spoke in front of white religious men and persuaded them, was not Christian then converted at nun high school

Nina Simone

Known as musician born into poverty in south, attributes racism to why she couldn't get into higher schools, the two things that got her into music were the death of Medgar Evers and the church bombing that killed 4 girls during Sunday School

Craig Kielburger

Anti-child labor activist, inspired by Iqbal Masih. Started free the children went to India to stop the exploitation of children in the workplace

Iqbal Masih

Was a child laborer who escaped and advocated for child rights, went back to Pakistan and was killed by carpet mafia, inspired Craig Kielburger for his solidarity of child workers

Kailash Satyarthi

Trained Craig in movie, won Nobel Peace Prize same year as Malala, dedicated life to stopping Child labor

LA Bishop David O'Donnell

Bishop that worked non stop for migrant rights, wrote Loyola's letter to go to Kino border, murdered by housekeepers husband who wanted better pay

Fannie Lou Hamer

Sharecropper, advocated for Black rights to Vote, Had a forced and unplanned hysterectomy (uterus taken out).

Solsbury Hill

Peter Gabriel. Theme of personal freedom and liberation.

Pride (In the Name of Love)

U2. Song about Dr. King, Challenges people that your pride shouldn't be how many weapons or how strong you are but how much you do for love/others.

Teach Your Children

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. How war is taught to children when war is the only thing in the media/ lots of propaganda. Not only for parents to teach children but also for children to teach parents.

Just Like That

Bonnie Raitt. About organ donation, mother hears son's heartbeat after him donating his heart.

Mississippi Goddam

Nina Simone. About racism, song got her blacklisted and targeted by people and the government, people pinned her as a communist because she fought for Justice "too slow"(people saying movement for racism was going too fast and teller her to slow down but she said that everything was going too slow.)

Where Do the Children Play?

Yusuf/Cat Stevens. Song about stewardship for the environment, talks about exploiting children by leaving them with a dying world.

Explain why love is not what many people mistake it to be, and explain what it is.

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What CST themes did you see illustrated in our unit on child labor and exploitation?

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What has been a lesson, person of justice or song of justice that has inspired you?

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