RS Thematic Studies key quotes

Islam Perspective on Contraception

“God wishes to lighten your burden; man was created weak.”

RCC perspective on Contraception

“All sexual acts must be open to procreation”

CofE perspective on Contraception

“Sexual love is good in itself […] there can be good reasons for delaying parenthood.”

Humanitarian perspective on Contraception

“There is no difference between infertile period, artificial barriers and drugs regulating the period.”

RCC perspective on Cohabitation (fornication)

“For it is the will of God, that you abstain from fornication, that each of you knows how to control your body.”

RCC perspective on Cohabitation (sexual immorality)

“But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.”

CofE perspective on Cohabitation

If cohabitation leads to marriage, it is permissible

RCC perspective on Polygamy

“A man shall leave his father and mother and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”

Islamic perspective on Polygamy

‘A man may have up to 4 wives.’ But those wives’ must be treated equally’.

Islamic perspective on Homosexual marriage

“If you find anyone doing as Lot’s people did, kill the one whom does it, and kill the one to whom it is done”

Positive RCC perspective on Homosexual marriage

“If someone is gay and looking for the Lord, who am I to judge him.”

RCC perspective on Homosexual marriage (creation mandate)

“A man shall leave his father and mother and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”

RCC perspective on Homosexual marriage (chastity)

“Homosexuals are called to chastity.”

Islamic perspective on Divorce

“God has not allowed for anything loathed by Him more than divorce!”

RCC perspective on Divorce (wedding vows)

“‘Till death do us part.”

RCC perspective on Divorce (Simple declarative)

“The Lord hates divorce.”

RCC perspective on Role of parents

“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

RCC perspective on Role of Children

“Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.”

CofE perspective on Role of Children

“Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old”

Muslim perspective on the Role of Children (do good)

“Your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him and do good to parents”

Muslim perspective on the Role of Children (Say uff)

“Do not say to them: uff,- and do not scold them, and address them with respectful words.”

RCC perspective on the Role of Parents (Direction)

“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”