Vocabulary – Ideas and Issues (I Am a Believer)


Believer

Non-believer/atheist

To believe in – what do you believe in?

Belief/beliefs – what are your beliefs?

Religious cult – for example the Moonies (the Unification Church)

Brainwashing

Religion – Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism

Church – Orthodox Church, Roman Catholic Church, Protestant churches – Lutheran, Calvinist,
Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian……

Protestant churches in the Czech Republic – for example Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren,
Czechoslovak Hussite Church

To go to church regularly

To attend religious services on special occasions (Christmas, Easter, funeral, baptism)

To pray/prayer

God/the Lord

Jesus Christ

Holy Spirit

Heaven and hell

Body and soul

Spiritual world

Devil

Darwin´s theory of evolution

Afterlife

Moral sense/moral values

Marriage

To meditate

To do yoga

Reincarnation

Superstition (walking under a ladder, a black cat crosses your path, broken mirror, horseshoe…)

To be superstitious

Lucky/unlucky

Good luck/bad luck