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Ethics - Unit 11
Love for God
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| covenant | The strongest possible pledge and agreement between two parties |
| voluntary doubt | The decision to ignore or a refusal to believe what God has revealed or what the Church teaches |
| incredulity | A mental disposition that either neglects revealed truth or willfully refuses to assent to it |
| heresy | Outright denial by a baptized person of some essential truth about God and faith that we must believe |
| apostasy | The total rejection of Jesus Christ (and the Christian faith) by a baptized Christian |
| schism | Refusal to submit to the pope's authority or remain in union with members of the Catholic Church |
| idolatry | The worship of false gods |
| divination | Attempts to unveil what God wants hidden by calling up demonic powers; consulting horoscopes, the stars, or mediums; palm reading, etc. |
| sacrilege | Profane or unworthy treatment of the sacraments; other liturgical actions; and persons, places, and things consecrated to God |
| simony | The buying or selling of spiritual goods |
| humanism | A belief that deifies humanity and human potential to the exclusion of any belief in or reliance on God |
| materialism | A belief that the physical, material world is the only reality, and that spiritual existence, values, and faith are illusions |
| blasphemy | Hateful, defiant, reproachful thoughts, words, or acts against God, Jesus, his Church, the saints, or holy things |