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Faith and Secularism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| humanism | beliefs and values come from human experience |
| voltaire | author of candide |
| fundamentalist | bible is inspired and infallible in all respectes |
| jean jacques rousseau | noble savage |
| holiness movement | renounce/give up things |
| deism | god created universe then abandoned it |
| industrial revolution | transformation from agrarian to manufacturing capital based economy |
| empiricism | all knowledge is from the senses |
| secularism | should understand reality without reference to god |
| enlightenment | belief in the power of human reason |
| cosmology | understanding of nature of things, human nature |
| creed | beliefs members hold |
| monotheist | one God distinct from creation |
| social anonymity | people can be unknown or unacknowledged by society |
| institution | set of values too important to leave to the whim of individual |
| agnostic | doesn't know about God's existence |
| cult | how religion engages the divine |
| code | how members live in light of their religious convictions |
| cosmic obstacle | stops us from attaining the happiness we desire |
| intellectual veto | religious teaching contradicts reason, person should stop believing |
| dharmatic religion | religions of india |
| karma | chain of cause and effect in morality |
| mantra | oooohhhmmmmmm |
| bodhisattva | postpones entering nirvana |
| nirvana | extinguish the finite self |
| yoga | any method one takes to attain freedom from the samsara cycle |
| samsara cycle | vital energy |
| wu wei | being in the zone |
| tao | the way of the cosmos |
| shiva | destroyer god |
| covenant | basis for jewish claim as the chosen people |
| rosh hashanah | jewish new year |
| koran | sacred book of islam |
| ramadan | holy month of fasting |
| yom kippur | day of atonement, holiest day of the year |
| shema | hear o Israel the Lord our God is one |
| kosher | meal prepared in accord with jewish law |
| hajj | pilgrimage to mecca |
| talmud | tradition used to explain and apply jewish law |
| prophet | emphasized justice |
| philosophy | love of wisdom |
| ockham's razor | simplest explanation is usually truest |
| metaphysics | studies nature of existence, being |
| stoics | passions are root of what ails us |
| skeptics | cant really discover truth, best to suspend judgement |
| epistemology | study of how we know |
| furies | personify vengeance |
| gnosticism | religious belief based on acquiring secret knowledge |
| form | abstract idea that is highest kind of nature; idea of Plato's |
| speculative knowledge | knowledge for its own sake |
| Judaism | covenant with god, prophets, shema, messiah, rabbi |
| Eastern Orthodox | great schism of 1054, issue with supremacy of pope |
| Islam | five pillars, muhammad, mecca and medina, sunni and shiites, pray 5 times a day |
| Lutheran | Martin Luther, germany, 95 theses, missouri synod/ECLA, consubstantiation |
| Anglican/Episcopalian | henry VIII, archbishop of canterbury, closest to catholic |
| Methodist | john wesley, emphasis on service, ecumenical |
| Presbyterian | John Calvin, Switzerland and Scotland, elders, predestination |
| Anabaptist | adult baptism, amish, mennonites |
| Baptist | adult baptism, baptism by immersion, southern US |
| assembly of god/pentecostals | baptism in the HS, speaking in tongues |
| Hinduism | no founder, oldest, vishnu, shiva, krishna, yoga |
| Buddhism | Siddhartha, Four noble truths, eightfold path, egalitarian |
| Taoist | Lao Tzu, value of water, wu wei, yin yang, |
| Confucian | value on education, right relationships |
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