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  • In places with historical disputes around an existing religious structure, This house supports the implementation of the ‘places of worship’ act

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    For the purposes of this debate, The ‘places of worship act’ freezes the religious identity of places of worship of each religion, and prevents the destruction of existing religious structures

    The 17th Christ University Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Open Quarter Finals · 2025-01-17

  • This house prefers a world where religions predominantly entail beliefs of Collective Salvation rather than individual salvation

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    Collective Salvation is the religious belief that members of a religious group collectively influence the salvation of the group to which they belong, while Individual Salvation is the religious belief that one solely influences their own salvation

    The 17th Christ University Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-01-17

  • This house supports policies that discourage couples with genetic diseases, orthose with a high likelihood of passing genetic diseases to their children, from having offspring. Info: Thalassemia is an inherit!ed blood disorder that affects the production of hemoglobinIn Cyprus, the Church required premarital screening certificates for Thalassemia as a precondition for religious marriage.

    NHSDLC British Parliamentary Open 2025 · 八强赛 · 2025-01-17

  • This house prefers a world where the existence of purgatory was the dominant religious norm.

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    Purgatory is the concept where those who are seen as ‘morally grey’ or ‘morally neutral’ are placed into an afterlife which is neither heaven nor hell, but somewhere in the middle. This is in contrast to most religious beliefs which only have a heaven or hell

    Seasons Novice British Parliamentary 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-01-11

  • This House, as the Holy See, would adopt the "two-speed Church" policy

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    The Holy See is the central governing body of the Catholic Church (including the Pope). The term "two-speed Church" refers to an approach within the Catholic Church in which local or regional churches determine doctrines and practices or adopt reforms at varying paces, depending on their context.

    Panama World Universities Debating Championships 2025 · ESL Grand Final · 2024-12-27

  • This House would set sail to find the distant land

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    In Ancient Greece, the sea was viewed as the end of the mortal world, belonging only to the Gods and controlled by the God Poseiden. You are a senior Army Officer stationed in a Greek port city during the reign of Alexander the Great. You and your forces have free access to the city's ships, and are curious about the sea and what lies beyond it. You recieve word of a distant land beyond the horizon, populated by other mortals.

    Pre-WUDC Vienna Online Open · Novice Finals · 2024-12-21

  • This house opposes Stirner’s ethical egoism

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    Max Stirner’s ethical egoism asserts that individuals should act solely in their own self-interest, free from all restrictions. He encouraged egoists to reject religion, capitalism, materialism, and moral philosophies, viewing them as authorities that suppress genuine self-discovery.

    SSE Riga IV 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-12-14

  • This house, as Catholics, P a world where the Catholic church continued to allow quantified indulgences

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    Indulgences in Catholicism are a practice whereby the Church grants full or partial remission from the punishment of sin (reducing the time spent in purgatory). Quantified indulgences refer to quantifying what is being given (i.e. money, alms, prayers, pilgrimages), and quantifying the remission from the punishment of sin (days or years shaved off of purgatory). By the late Middle Ages, indulgences were mostly used to support public works like hospitals, churches, and schools until financial indulgences were banned under pressure from the Protestant Reformation. Reforms in the 20th century largely abolished quantified indulgences.

    Queens's Holiday Open 2024 · Junior Semifinals · 2024-12-14

  • This house regrets the US Court decisions expanding funding to religious education, reallocating resources away from secular education

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    In the US, government funding for specific religions has traditionally been prohibited based on the constitutional principle of separation of church and state, as well as concerns about fairness to atheists and adherents of other religions. However, recent Supreme Court rulings have shifted this perspective, viewing state restrictions on public funds for religious purposes as unconstitutional. Notably, the Court ruled in 2020 that a Montana law prohibiting scholarships to religious schools violated the Free Exercise Clause, and in 2022, it deemed Maine's refusal to provide public funding to religious schools unconstitutional.

    Momiji Cup 2024 · ラウンド4 · 2024-12-14

  • This house would reveal the evidence to the world.

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    You are a scientist. While working alone in a lab, you discover irrefutable evidence that the Christian God was real, but is now dead. You are very certain that no one else will uncover this information.

    Cambridge Mini 2024 · Silver Finals · 2024-12-14

  • This house, as Satan, would refuse to punish sinners

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    Satan, a former angel also known under other names such as Lucifer or Beelzebub, was banished from heaven after staging a failed rebellion against God. He was cast down to hell and tasked with punishing those that God deemed as sinners.

    SSE Riga IV 2024 · Novice Finals · 2024-12-14