Christianity should play no part in public life (Edexcel A-Level Religious Studies): Flashcards

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Secular humanism definition

Humans can live good and noble lives by reason, without religion

Two secular humanist thinkers

Freud and Dawkins

Children in CoE/Catholic schools in England

More than 1.8 million

Dawkins' criticism of faith schools

Diversity gone mad

Argument against faith schools - integration

Create isolated communities, fail to integrate pupils

Argument for faith schools - values

Offer education based on moral and spiritual values

France's secularity laws name

Laïcité

Theocracy definition

Religion should play role in public life and governance

Bishops in House of Lords (UK)

26 bishops sit as 'Lords Spiritual'

Prince Charles' preferred title change

Defender of Faith (not 'the Faith')

Freud's approach to explaining phenomena

Reductionist - material and mechanical terms

Jo Marchant's finding on people of faith

Live longer, happier lives

Forer effect in religious debate

View on religion validates one's worldview

Stephen Jay Gould on supernatural vs material

Supernatural can't be subject to scientific enquiry

Amsterdam Declaration - humanism is ethical means

All humans have dignity and worth

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