Environment and Medical Ethics
Religion peace and conflict
Believing in God
Matters of Life and Death
Do you think you should be able to sell your organs
for transplant?
Do you think you can help to stop global warming?
Do you think more should be done to find the
answers to pollution?
Do you think pollution will spoil the planet?
Do you think natural resources will run out?
Do you think people worry too much about
pollution?
Do you think transplant surgery is a good idea?
Do you think humans are the stewards of the
planet?
Do you think infertility treatment should be
available to everyone?
Do you think humans have caused global warming?
Do you think it is always possible to forgive?
Do you think there will ever be world peace?
Do you think bullies should always be excluded
from school?
Do you think there can ever be a just war?
Do you think some wars are worth fighting?
Do you think everyone deserves to be forgiven?
Do you think religious people do enough to stop
bullying?
Do you think religion causes conflict in families?
Do you think religious organisations do enough to
promote world peace?
Do you think some actions are unforgivable?
Do you think the universe is designed?
Do you think suffering proves God does not exist?
Do you think science proves God did not create the
world?
Do you think a religious upbringing makes children
believe in God?
Do you think television or radio programmes or
films can affect a person’s attitude
Do you think that religious experiences prove that
God exists?
Do you think unanswered prayers prove God does
not exist?
Do you think miracles have happened?
Do you think a religious upbringing leads to belief
in God?
Do you think a numinous experience leads to
belief in God?
Should everyone agree with abortion?
Do you think that there is life after death?
Do you agree that the media should be allowed to
criticise what religions say about matters of life and
death?
Do you think that euthanasia should be legal in the
UK?
Do you think that abortions should be completely
banned?
Do you think everyone should have the right to die
when they want?
Do you think life after death is impossible?
Do you think belief in life after death should affect
the way Christians live their
Do you think Christians should agree with
abortion?
Do you think Christians should agree with
euthanasia?
b) questions are your chance to show you can justify what you think. Always make two points at
least and give evidence to explain why you think what you do. (4 marks)
Crime and Punishment
Rights and responsibilities
Marriage and the Family
Community Cohesion
Do you think drinking alcohol is a sin?
Do you think it is always wrong to break the law?
Do you think punishment changes people’s
behaviour?
Do you think Christians should support capital
punishment?
Do you think capital punishment is wrong?
Do you think laws help society?
Do you think it is important to reform criminals?
Do you think drug use is a problem in society?
Do you think the laws on drugs should be
changed?
Do you think society needs laws?
Should humans be cloned?
Do you think we should always treat everyone as
we would like to be treated?
Should everybody’s human rights be protected?
Do you think sixteen year olds should be allowed
to vote?
Do you think genetic engineering is a good idea?
Do you think you are your ‘brother’s keeper’?
Do you think people should be forced to vote?
Do you think a person’s conscience comes from
God?
Do you think the Bible helps people make moral
decisions?
Do you think everyone should follow the Golden
Rule?
Do you think family life is important?
Do you think attitudes in the UK towards
homosexuality have changed?
Do you think that sex outside marriage is
acceptable?
Do you think all religious people should accept
divorce?
Do you think that all religious people should
accept the use of contraception?
Do you think faithfulness within marriage is
important?
Do you think all Christians should accept the use of
contraception?
Do you think all religious people should accept
homosexuality?
Do you think all Christians should accept sex
outside marriage?
Do you think all Christians should accept
homosexuality?
Do you think there are benefits to living in a multifaith society?
Do you think the roles of men and women have
changed in the UK?
Do you think that women should have the same
religious rights as men?
Do you think living in a multi-faith society causes
problems for religious people?
Do you think that living in a multi-ethnic society
helps to reduce racism?
Do you think attitudes to the roles of men and
women have changed in the UK?
Do you think multi-faith societies cause problems
for religious families?
Do you think religious people should try to convert
other people to their religion?
Do you think problems are caused because society
is multi-ethnic?
Do you think women should have different
religious rights to men in Christianity?
Environment and Medical Ethics
Religion peace and conflict
Believing in God
Matters of Life and Death
Choose one religion other than Christianity and explain
why its followers should look after the environment.
Explain why some Christians agree with organ
transplants. (8
Choose one religion other than Christianity and explain
why some of its followers agree with infertility
treatment and some do not.
Explain why Christians should look after the
environment.
Choose one religion other than Christianity and explain
why some of its followers are against transplant
surgery.
Explain why some Christians are against infertility
treatments.
Explain how humans cause pollution.
Choose one religion other than Christianity and explain
why some of its followers agree with infertility
treatment.
Explain how the scarcity of natural resources threatens
the planet.
Explain why some Christians do not agree with
transplant surgery.
Choose one religion other than Christianity and explain
why its followers may be for or against war.
Explain why religion can cause conflict in a family. (8
Explain why wars happen, using examples from at least
one current conflict.
Explain why Christians believe forgiveness is important.
Explain how a religious organisation tries to promote
world peace.
Explain why Christians are against bullying.
Explain why some Christians will not fight in wars.
Explain how the United Nations works for world peace.
Explain why the just war theory is important.
Choose one religion other than Christianity and explain
why some of its followers are against war and some are
not.
c) questions are worth the most 8
marks. Try to write three paragraphs
with point, evidence and explain in each.
They are mostly about religious views
so make sure you use an example or
quote to explain why they believe what
the do.
Explain why unanswered prayers may lead some
people not to believe in God.
Explain how religious experiences may lead to belief in
God.
Explain why evil and suffering may lead some people
not to believe in God.
Explain, with examples, how television programmes
and/or radio programmes and/or films might affect a
person’s attitude to belief in God.
Explain how the followers of one religion respond to
the problem of unanswered prayers.
Explain how the argument from design may lead to
belief in God.
Explain how the causation argument may lead to belief
in God.
Explain why scientific explanations of how the world
began may lead some people not to believe in God.
Explain how the followers of one religion respond to
the scientific explanations of the origins of the world.
Explain why unanswered prayers may lead some
people to reject belief in God.
Explain why followers of one religion other than
Christianity believe in life after death.
Explain why most Christians are against euthanasia.
Explain why some non-religious people believe in life
after death.
Explain why some followers of one religion other than
Christianity do not agree with abortion.
Explain why Christians believe in life after death.
Choose one religion other than Christianity and explain
how their beliefs about life after death affect the way
they live their lives.
Explain why euthanasia is a controversial issue.
Explain why some Christians accept abortion.
Explain why some people do not believe in life after
death.
Explain what the British law says about abortion.
Crime and Punishment
Rights and responsibilities
Marriage and the Family
Community Cohesion
Choose one religion other than Christianity and explain
why its followers may be for or against capital
punishment.
Choose one religion other than Christianity and explain
why its followers are against using illegal drugs.
Explain why some non-religious people agree with
capital punishment and some do not.
Choose one religion other than Christianity and explain
why its followers may be for and/or against drinking
alcohol.
Explain why justice is important for Christians.
Explain how alcohol can lead to social problems.
Explain why some Christians allow the drinking of
alcohol.
Explain why society needs laws.
Explain why some people believe retribution is the best
theory of punishment and some do not.
Explain how alcohol and drug use can cause social
problems.
Explain why some Christians use Situation Ethics to
make moral decisions and some do not.
Explain why it is important to vote in elections. (8
Explain why some Christians believe they should follow
their conscience when making moral decisions.
Explain why human rights are important for Christians.
Explain why the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats is
important for Christians.
Explain why some Christians use only the teachings of
the Church to make moral decisions.
Explain why some Christians agree with genetic
engineering.
Explain why some Christians use only the Bible when
making moral decisions.
Explain why human rights are important in the UK.
Explain why some Christians do not agree with genetic
engineering.
Choose one religion other than Christianity and explain
why some of its followers accept divorce and some do
not.
Explain why most Christians are against sex outside
marriage.
Explain why some Christians accept homosexuality and
some do not.
Choose one religion other than Christianity and explain
why most of its followers do not accept sex outside
marriage.
Choose one religion other than Christianity and explain
why some of its followers allow divorce.
Explain why some Christians allow divorce.
Explain why family life is important for Christians.
Choose one religion other than Christianity and explain
why some of its followers accept contraception.
Choose one religion other than Christianity and explain
its views on homosexuality.
Choose one religion other than Christianity and explain
why it teaches that family life is important.
Explain why some Christians support equal rights for
women in religion and some do not.
Choose one religion other than Christianity and explain
why its followers should help to promote racial
harmony.
Explain why the government encourages community
cohesion.
Explain why Christians should promote racial harmony.
Explain why some Christians allow women equal rights
in religion.
Explain how an issue arising from this section (religion
and community cohesion was presented in one form of
the media.
Explain how religions work to promote community
cohesion.
Choose one religion other than Christianity, and
explain why some of its followers support equal rights
for women in religion.
Explain the benefits of living in a multi-faith society.
Choose one religion other than Christianity and explain
why its followers should encourage racial harmony.
Environment and Medical Ethics
Religion peace and conflict
Believing in God
Matters of Life and Death
“All Christians should support infertility
“Bullies deserve sympathy not punishment.”
“All religious parents should make sure their
children believe in God.”
treatment.”
“Religious people should all be pacifists.”
“Religious people should not drive cars.”
“The United Nations has done more to encourage “Only science can explain how the world was
created.”
“Religious people should do more than anyone
world peace than religion has.”
“Miracles cannot happen today.”
else to protect the environment.”
“Religion causes more harm than good in
“The world is so beautiful it must have been
“Religious people should donate their organs when families.”
designed by God.”
“No one should be an atheist.”
they die.”
“There should never be conflict in a religious
“There are no solutions to the problem of evil and
“All religious people should live lifestyles which do family.”
suffering.”
not harm the environment.”
“Religious people should never go to war.”
“Natural evil is proof that God did not create the
“Organ donation should be compulsory.”
“Some things are unforgivable.”
world.”
“Infertility treatment should be available to
“If everyone believed in the same religion there
“The media helps people to believe in God.”
“Religious experiences prove that God exists.”
everybody.”
would be no war.”
“God caused the world to exist.”
“People must use scarce natural resources for the “Bullies should be forgiven not punished.”
world to improve.”
“There will always be conflict in religious families.”
“Religious people are the best hope for the
d) Questions. Are always a quote. You will have to give your view and justify your answer
environment.”
“It is impossible to stop polluting the
in i). Then you need to give the opposing view, make sure you refer to a religious view.
environment.”
“The law on euthanasia should be changed.”
“No religious person should have an abortion.”
“The law on abortion should be changed.”
“Life after death is impossible.”
“Euthanasia is the same as murder.”
“Abortion should always be allowed.”
“The media should not be allowed to criticise what
religions say about matters of
“Euthanasia should never be allowed.”
“Religious people should accept euthanasia.”
“Beliefs about life after death affect the way a
person lives their life.”
Crime and Punishment
Rights and responsibilities
Marriage and the Family
Community Cohesion
“Not all criminals need to go to prison.”
“Capital punishment should be legal in the UK.”
“Christians should never drink alcohol.”
“Prisons do not reform criminals.”
“People must be made to pay for their crimes.”
“Capital punishment is a sin.”
“The law should never be broken.”
“No religious person should support capital
punishment.”
“Capital punishment is always wrong.”
“Religious people care more about justice than
anyone else.”
“The Bible is not relevant today.”
“Christians should support genetic engineering.”
“No Christian should agree with cloning.”
“All decisions should be based on situation ethics.”
“Using Situation Ethics is the best way to make a
moral decision.”
“Your conscience should always be your guide.”
“Christians should always follow the teaching of
the Church.”
“Christians should support all human rights.”
“A person’s conscience comes from God.”
“All Christians should use Situation Ethics to make
moral decisions.”
“Christians should never use contraception.”
“All religious people should allow divorce.”
“A religious family is a happy family.”
“Contraception should be accepted by all religious
people.”
“Marriage is the best way to begin family life.”
“Everyone should accept homosexual
relationships.”
“Sex before marriage is always wrong.”
“Attitudes to divorce have not really changed.”
“Religious people should never divorce.”
“Pre-marital sex is always wrong.”
“If everyone was religious, racism would not
exist.”
“The government alone cannot achieve
community cohesion.”
“All religious people should try to convert others
to their religion.”
“Men and women are still not treated equally in
the UK.”
“Everyone should accept interfaith marriages.”
“Multi-faith societies cause problems for religious
families.”
“Racial harmony is possible in the UK.”
“Religious people can achieve community
cohesion.”
“Men and women are treated equally in the UK
today.”
“Government laws lead to community cohesion.”
In your answer you should refer to at
least one religion.
(i) Do you agree? Give reasons for your
opinion. (3)
(ii) Give reasons why some people may
disagree with you. (3)