Society & Culture - 7 August 2006

Sorry to reply to your e-mail publically but I am blocked from sending a private response.

You wrote :
Message: trust me there are many christians on Yahoo Answers that are hateful and bigoted and some are out right nazi if ya ask me and if you think christianity is full of love read what some of the fundamentalist say about gays and atheist all the time then you will understand why i am not a christian

My response:
I am sorry that others have treated you badly in the name of Christ. I do think that Christianity is full of love but part of love is not always fun - like when a parent punishes a child for doing wrong in order to teach that child to do right. I do not agree with the choices gay people and aethiests have made as I believe these choices do not match up with what God would have us do, but I do not harshly judge nor condemn them to Hell. That is not my job. I hope this explanation helps you in some way.

2006-08-07 08:12:35 · 7 answers · asked by desmartj 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-07 08:11:55 · 55 answers · asked by xavi 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-08-07 08:11:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I overheard someone on TV mentioning how "we" had to suffer through salvery and are entitled to this and that.

I don't get it. Yes slavery was a bad thing....150 years ago. It has absolutely nothing to do with this guy, nor anybody else alive on this planet TODAY. Those times are over, slavery has not been around for generations now...but yet many people feel they are OWED something because of it. Read a history book and see how many Greek/Roman battles occured in history. Many times entire societies were not only occupied, but literally owned. Do you see this cultures bellyaching about what is due to them today? NO. When it was over, they got off their a.s.ses, made a life for themselves and moved on. They didn't expect handouts, equal opportunity, or other gimmicks to ENTICE them to do something. Having a quality life was incentive enough. If only that could be the case today, in America. If you don't like what you have already handed to you, buy a boat ticket home

2006-08-07 08:11:11 · 7 answers · asked by taterhog mung-flower 2 in Other - Society & Culture

than murderers?

2006-08-07 08:09:54 · 48 answers · asked by tandypants 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-07 08:09:48 · 19 answers · asked by naked4u 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

How about just a city?

2006-08-07 08:09:24 · 39 answers · asked by Jeremy D 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-07 08:09:13 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I know a few atheist women who are happy more often than not, have a great sense of humor, don't generally get easily pissed off. I know quite a few believing women who are constantly depressed, have a poor outlook on life and sense of humor.

2006-08-07 08:08:05 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-07 08:07:08 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-08-07 08:07:04 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

I'm not talking about being Jewish. I'm talking about being a Zionist.
There is a big difference!

2006-08-07 08:06:05 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

They copy and paste acres of stuff from web sites to support their views yet they report ME for asking fellow atheists to set up our own website.

2006-08-07 08:05:54 · 43 answers · asked by Atheist 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-07 08:04:57 · 2 answers · asked by msbedouin 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-07 08:04:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-07 08:04:16 · 8 answers · asked by reading_is_dangerous 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-07 08:04:15 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

Do they like think there god made a flaw.

2006-08-07 08:03:36 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-07 08:03:31 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

blood transfusions, but quite readily accept organ donation? i dont understand the difference or significance of this...please explain..or voice your own opinion on this matter...

2006-08-07 08:02:23 · 16 answers · asked by sadie 69 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-07 08:01:45 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Late last year, Penn Jillette (the magician/juggler) wrote an essay for NPR's "This I Believe" segment for Morning Edition. It's a compelling short piece, and in it he says:

"Believing there is no God means the suffering I've seen in my family, and indeed all the suffering in the world, isn't caused by an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn't bothered to help or is just testing us, but rather something we all may be able to help others with in the future. No God means the possibility of less suffering in the future."

The link is below, where you can read the essay or download the audio. I'm anxious to read your comments.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5015557

2006-08-07 08:01:43 · 11 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Considering the record of christian girls maintaining their virtue, we should be able to replace them(Xians) soon.

2006-08-07 08:00:49 · 3 answers · asked by yosemitedude@sbcglobal.net 1 in Religion & Spirituality

mine is:
"the shark ethic prevails, eat the wounded. in a closed society where everybodies guilty the only crime is getting caught. in a world of thieves the only final sin is stupidity"
-fear and loathing in las vegas

2006-08-07 08:00:33 · 3 answers · asked by always thinkin 5 in Other - Society & Culture

A perfectly good holiday celebrating the collective greed of children and adults in a materialist, capitalist society is being ruined every year by a group of people claiming something about a baby being born during a census.
Who needs that? We have Santa and his reindeer. Let's get rid of these three wise guys who go around giving people gold (alright lets keep the gold) frankincense (stinky) and myyrh (stinky stuff to cover up the smell of dead bodies).
We need more holiday sales and less Salvation Army money grubbing.
More waiting in line for $20 DVD players all night and less midnight mass.
I say keep Christ out of our sacred holiday.

Keep Christ out of X-MAS.

2006-08-07 08:00:28 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

what do you do?

2006-08-07 08:00:23 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-07 08:00:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I don't want to fornicate. So what advise does the Bible give horny, single, grown, sexy adults who haven't had sex in months and months, but really really want to?

2006-08-07 07:59:30 · 15 answers · asked by letmesurpriseu 4 in Religion & Spirituality

It has been suggested that the Amendendment to the US Constitution to ban same sex Marriage is based on God's Law as found in Leviticus 18:22 where God says lieing with a man like another man is an abomination.

I am curious, since I want to follow God's Law, should we also repeal the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments immediately, since Leviticus 25:44 specifies the conditions I can have for owning slaves?

I know many of you are going to tell me that Romans 1 (and the smart ones will tell me 1 Corinthians 6:9) is where in the New Testement the New Testement backs the Leviticus 18:22.

So where in the New Testement do we see the eilmination of the slavery provisions of Leviticus 25:44?

I want to own slaves and obey God and Praise the Lord and Praise his holy name Jesus.

Additionally, Deuteronomy 13:6-10 instructs us to kill non believers. Shouldn't we start rounding up non-Christians and get an amendment to the US Constitution Amendment 1?

2006-08-07 07:58:36 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Does that have anything to do with the nature of people? Does the popularity of stupid, frivolous things in general say anything about popular things in general? Does the general populace have anything stupid to say about naturism? You are all naked under your clothes.

2006-08-07 07:58:06 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality