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Eat dirt move around only on your hands and knees Stab yourself with knitting needles

Could you do these things to your body ? Would it be right? Why/ why not? Should you respect your body, and do what it is made for?. Eat dirt move around only on your hands and knees Stab yourself with knitting needles Live underwater Not care if others caused you physical pain

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Eat dirt move around only on your hands and knees Stab yourself with knitting needles

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  1. Could you do these things to your body ?Would it be right? Why/ why not?Should you respect your body, and do what it is made for? • Eat dirt • move around only on your hands and knees • Stab yourself with knitting needles • Live underwater • Not care if others caused you physical pain • Live in a drugged up or alcoholic daze • Refuse to communicate with anyone • Throw up anything you ate • Commit suicide

  2. Is there is a “right” way to use the different parts of your body? X Natural Law • To define Natural Law • To explain how Natural Law helps us to decide about right and wrong • To evaluate the importance of Natural Law X X X X X X

  3. Draw the human body. Label what each part tells us about how we should live. Explain what “Natural Law” means What should we NOT do, if we do listen to the way our bodies are made? Think of 3 things that would be going against the Law of the body **Is living according to “natural law” a good way to decide how you should live? Natural Law means following the way your body works – the “law” of your body. Respecting it and “doing” what it is meant for. X MIND – think, be creative, reflect on life MOUTH – to communicate with others, building up friendship and co-operation HEART – to love others generously, with your whole heart STOMACH – to eat food appropriate to humans, as much as needed SEX – to have children and a family LEGS – to walk upright SPIRIT – to love God and appreciate beauty and truth. X X X X X X

  4. Is Natural Law a good way of deciding what to do? What should you do, according to Natural Law? • Should you have a tattoo? • Should you have a homosexual relationship? • Should you get drunk? • Should you live a lazy life? • Should you use contraception? • Should you vomit up what you eat (anorexic/ bulemic) • Should you just do things for yourself?

  5. The Church teaches that Natural Law should be followed, because God is the one who decided how we are made, & we should respect this. Our bodies show us how God wants us to live – it shows His plan for us. 1. How did God make you? Write down the sort of body you have – physically, mentally – what are you like? 2. What sort of things will the way you are made decide what you can do in your future? What sort of things are you likely not to be good at? **What would Natural Law say about homosexuality?

  6. According to Natural Law, homosexuality is wrong

  7. Natural Law Homework • Think about how you are made • Describe what talents, skills, abilities you have, because of the way you are made • Describe what you find hard to do, because of the way you are made • Explain what sort of future this might mean for you. What kinds of things would be it right/ wrong for you to try and do, as a future career?

  8. So…is Natural Law a good morality? Is your body a good teacher of right or wrong ? **Could Natural Law tell you whether or not you should pay your taxes ? ** Drugs are wrong My fab body shows me how I should live ! Loving and communicating with others is right Using my gifts and talents is right Casual sex just for pleasure is wrong Forgetting God is wrong

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