Society & Culture - 28 July 2006

If religion of any kind is great, why does it cause so many problems? Shouldn't we share the "Holyland" not blow it to an oblivion? Shouldn't we follow the moral's of our religion and not twist them? Shouldn't anyone be able to follow what they believe without being ridiculed or persecuted? Isn't everyone equal? Why, because someone has a different denomination, they are not given the same opportunity to reach salvation as those of the same denomination? Should people be prejudice towards the religion of a person or the morals of a person?

2006-07-28 07:05:57 · 53 answers · asked by BenJamin 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I keep hearing folks refer to a "Christian God". Do Christians worship a God different than the God of Abraham, whom Hebrews and Muslims also worship?

What is the difference, great or subtle, that I am missing here?

*If you choose to respond, I ask that you explain how this God is "Christian" from within Christian teachings; please refrain from simply using "their God is not our God" claims*

2006-07-28 07:05:28 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

This was a sign that had been on someones gate for 30 years, it had been put there because the owners of the house were disturbed by Jehovah's witnesses on xmas day 30 years ago.
Police have ordered the couple to take down the sign because they had recieved 1 complaint a few days ago.
Personally i think it's wrong for them to take it down, it just seems that society as a whole has lost it's sense of humour and is too quick to jump up and down on people for the pettiest of reasons in the name human rights!

What do you think????

2006-07-28 07:05:28 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

my mom was telling me that there will be a war between good and bad. God and Satan. Everyone on Earth will ge on one side or the other and fight against eachother. Then, this world will be gone and a new one will start up again. how is this possible? I didnt know that God could come down from Heaven to fight against all evil in the world. If this is true, even though I dont know how it is, will I have to fight against people I love who dont believe in God? Please help me understand.

2006-07-28 07:04:58 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-28 07:04:58 · 3 answers · asked by strpenta 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I'm going to be on my own tomorrow as my boyfriend's on a stag weekend. I want to do something exciting and different...any suggestions?

2006-07-28 07:04:49 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-07-28 07:03:38 · 22 answers · asked by b_sav510 3 in Other - Society & Culture

Ideas on some great ways to annoy people..at work, in the car, etc..
Other than "Stupid Questions on Yahoo Answers"..

2006-07-28 07:03:16 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

So much violence has been ordered and excused in the bible. I find this confusing. I am a Christian, but there are so many questions I have about things like this. We are suppose to turn the other cheek but there is so much fighting that Christians do. Can someone explain?

2006-07-28 07:01:31 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-28 07:01:24 · 23 answers · asked by batai_68 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-28 07:01:16 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I have the understanding that a Jew is some one born in Judea, Jerusalem, Israel.

Can some one not born in that geographical area become Jewish, the religion?

And why do people characterize it as one.?

2006-07-28 07:01:04 · 7 answers · asked by Marillita 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-28 07:00:55 · 33 answers · asked by Gingerbread Man 3 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-07-28 07:00:44 · 15 answers · asked by Suarz 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

First, those of you who say Christians are either brainwashed or just gullible...you're wrong! I choose to believe in God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Bible as God's word through faith. I don't need any more proof that there is a God than I needed proof to believe the things I was taught in kindergarden by a mere human. I believe because I feel a purpose in life as a result of my faith and my beliefs, I enjoy fellowship with others and know that it gives me strength and peace to do so, not because I'm afraid or because I feel I have to prove anything to anyone. I agree that there are so-called Christians who point fingers and ridicule those who do not believe as they do and that is wrong. God tells us to share gently and with love His grace and mercy, not point fingers and judge. God is to be the judge! The existence of God cannot be proven in a laboratory or through the complicated mechanisms of logic. Neither can love, nor beauty, nor happiness, but that does not mean they are not real. In the same way, just because you cannot "prove" that God exists as you can prove a chemical formula, it does not mean that He is not real. It only means you are using the wrong tools.

2006-07-28 07:00:31 · 26 answers · asked by amomentssunlight 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Where does it actually say its wrong?

2006-07-28 07:00:11 · 7 answers · asked by A.J. R 1 in Religion & Spirituality

you must believe in something right? well what is it

is it the fact that you don't believe or the fact that you refuse to believe?

why are people afraid of the truth?>

2006-07-28 07:00:07 · 13 answers · asked by lymber1 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I mean, what does it take to become a Craven, Antonio or UncleFrunk? Am I destined for Answer! stardom?

2006-07-28 06:59:50 · 3 answers · asked by Vincent 3 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

After i got done with my haircut the other day my stylist looked at me like i ripped her off! and i paid $85!!

2006-07-28 06:59:14 · 14 answers · asked by shelleyluvzboyz 3 in Etiquette

What gives?

2006-07-28 06:59:09 · 6 answers · asked by Special Ed 5 in Other - Society & Culture

Maybe we should all submit our own log questions and smoke this fella out??? Who's with me?

2006-07-28 06:58:32 · 13 answers · asked by Vincent 3 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

The fact that christians, and less offensive religious sects are so ignorant really bothers me as a scientist, and offends me as a person. But is there any hope in helping them or should we just let them swim in their stupidity and laugh from the sidelines?

2006-07-28 06:58:00 · 28 answers · asked by dino_ou812 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I was wondering if it is gay to want to have sex with a male to female transexual? Some of them are smoking hot that it is almost impossible not to lust after them. Does this make a man gay if he finds a shemale attractive?

2006-07-28 06:57:32 · 6 answers · asked by Al G 4 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

The first thing to realize is that an evangelist is a performer, and as such his name is his calling card. Consider Billy Sunday. Where would he be today if he'd gone by his real name - John Davis? Probably dead and in his grave. And what of Estus Pirkle, Rod Parsley, Creflo Dollar, and Benny Hinn? Where would they be today if they'd kept their respective given names: Ed Clark, Tom Johnson, Mike Smith, and Jeff Hill?

What would you call yourself?

Brother Creflo M. L'Impe? Pastor Wick "Bo" Timbers?

2006-07-28 06:56:46 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Other slaves were spoils of war. On their way out of Egypt, when they fought against the Midianites east of the Sinai, the people of Israel 'slew every male' but 'took captive the women of Midian and their little ones.' Then they brought the captives to Moses. He said it would be better to kill the grown women, and save just 'the young girls who have not known man by lying with him.' So 32,000 Midian virgins got Hebrew husbands (Numbers 31: 15-35). Even before they left Canaan, Jacob's daughter Dinah got raped by a Hivite prince, and her brothers obliterated the Hivite males, but saved 'all their little ones, and their wives' (Genesis 34:29). Then after they'd resettled in Canaan, Jacob's son Benjamin's descendants went looking for girls in Jabeshgilead, and destroyed every man and every woman who'd 'lain with a male,' but brought 400 virgins back to Shiloh (Judges 21:11).

2006-07-28 06:56:42 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-28 06:56:35 · 23 answers · asked by thevagabondster 2 in Religion & Spirituality

It seems like major God bashing going on here. That really scares me. The most important thing is that people accept Jesus as their Savior and it seems like so many are completely blaspheming God, the Bible, etc. for whatever reason, mocking Christians for believing in God.

2006-07-28 06:56:20 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Like a butchy chick with a feminine guy, or a transgender female with a transgendered male?

2006-07-28 06:56:20 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I don't think this is something Jesus would be doing.

What do you think?

2006-07-28 06:56:20 · 7 answers · asked by happy 4 in Religion & Spirituality

OK, now we are getting somewhere. Based on the answers to this question:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkMzAvzs40njVz19YoztMVrsy6IX?qid=20060728104224AAtCNVo

We can conclude that a lack of evidence that something has been done isn't a valid proof that the thing can never be done.

If I say something like "curing Alzheimers is impossible", then it is fair for someone to ask me to explain why I think it is impossible. Right?

2006-07-28 06:55:59 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality