Sources of religious moral guidance: commandments, precepts, leaders, stories and sanctity of life

What this note covers

1. Where ethics appears on the paper
2. Judaism: Torah, halakhah and rabbinic reasoning
3. Christianity: scripture, natural law, magisterium and conscience
4. Islam: sharia, its sources and its purposes
5. Hinduism and Buddhism: dharma, ahimsa, precepts and intention
6. The sanctity of life across traditions
7. Writing a Criterion 7 paragraph on an ethical issue

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