Theme B

Hell

Hell is the ultimate consequence of sin itself - Pope John Paul

Moksha

Lead me from the unreal to the real - upanishads

Stephen Hawking - afterlife

Brains are “broken down computers which will stop working when its components fall. Heaven is a fairy story

Richard Dawkins - afterlife

The rules of the holy books are out of date and often barbaric.

Creation

We believe in one god, the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth - Nicene Creed

Creation

In the beginning, god created the heavens and the earth - nicene creed

God’s omnipotence

Nothing is impossible with God - Bible

Human creation

God made man in his own image - Bible

Use and abuse of animals and animal experimentation

Use and abuse of animals and animal experimentation

FOR

The earth is the lord’s and everything in it - Bible

FOR

Rule over the fish in the sea and birds in the sky - Bible

FOR

Everything that lives and moves will be food for you - Bible

FOR

Get up Peter, kill and eat - Bible

AGAINST

The whole universe is Brahman - Upanishads

AGAINST

Do not muzzle with an ox while it is treading out the grain - Bible

AGAINST

Cow slaughter and man slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin - Mahatma Gandhi

Environment

Environment

Hindu beliefs

The earth has enough for everyone’s need, not everyone’s greed - Mahatma Gandhi

Christian beliefs - stewardship

God put the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work and take care of it - Bible

Christian beliefs AGAINST

Everything that moves about will be food for you - Bible

Christian beliefs FOR

The earth is the lords and everything in it - Bible

Pope francis FOR

We can not be exploiter of nature

FOR EUTHANASIA

FOR EUTHANASIA

Neighbour

Love thy neighbour - Bible

Unconditional love

Agape

Desmond Tutu

Dying people should have the right to know how and when they leave mother earth

Hans Kung

He or she should be able to make a decision in personal dignity

AGAINST euthanasia

AGAINST euthanasia

Christianity

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away - Bible

Christianity

Thou shall not kill - Bible

Pope John Paul

Euthanasia is grave violation of the law of God

Religion and science can agree

Religion and science can agree

Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion with science is blind. They are independent

Religion and science cant agree

Religion and science cant agree

Richard Dawkins

Evolution is a blind process of God

FOR Abortion

Pro choice

Church of England

Abortion can be justified

Hindu belief

Reincarnation means that abortion can be allowed as it only deprives the soul/atman of one of its many births

Against abortion

Pro life

Pope Francis

Hire a hitman

Pope Paul VI

All human life is sacred