Society & Culture - 8 August 2006

As many of you know, I am an agnostic, with no desire to convert anyone to my way of thinking.

In the interest of creating a database of questions and answers, I ask the following of Atheists and Agnostics,

Besides being told verbally or in a written document that you will be punished for your sins, have any of the following happened to you in your life . . .

1. Someone put a gun to your head and demanded you believe in their God?
2. Has someone put you on a train, and sent you to a camp, and starved you, and put your moms and dads in a shower room? (This actually did happen to several million people in Europe, it is a documented fact that 12 million persons died in Germany because of the holocost).

So, outside of someone telling you that you were going to be punished in the after-life, has anyone threatened violence to you or your person if you didn't believe as they do?

This is not a defense of God or religious people, for read my other questions and you will see

2006-08-08 06:45:30 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-08 06:45:15 · 5 answers · asked by Puppy Zwolle 7 in Religion & Spirituality

i need a creative name for my young adult bible study. it is an all guys bible study.

2006-08-08 06:44:44 · 24 answers · asked by Blake C 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Apparently, everyone else got the memo!

2006-08-08 06:44:35 · 11 answers · asked by Invincible One 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I remember my Grandma always saying that to me!! She was from Wisconsin. I've never heard anyone say that in Texas.

2006-08-08 06:43:20 · 4 answers · asked by makingthisup 5 in Other - Society & Culture

Genesis 6: 1 and 2

Sons of God in hebrew as in the book of Job refers to angelic beings

2006-08-08 06:43:19 · 8 answers · asked by Brett Feldman 1 in Religion & Spirituality

LYING? I think it is an illness. What do you think?

2006-08-08 06:43:05 · 16 answers · asked by Jacks036 5 in Other - Society & Culture

So he can't have created the universe.

Or did he create "there" THEN create himself to be there?

2006-08-08 06:42:53 · 12 answers · asked by Mr. Mojo Risin 3 in Religion & Spirituality

open doors for us,raise the toilet lid and carry out the garbage

2006-08-08 06:42:53 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

accepted ways of dating human bones, to bring killers to justice, are constantly being picked apart by those who believe in death penalty enforcement? I mean, if those dating techniques (to find the age of human bones) are so GREAT in helping to kill the killers, then how come they are quote- "made up" or "make believe" by all the so called "anti God evolutionists"????
Personally, I give God all the credit, and I think he created everything TO evolve.
Thanks.
Click on my name for the other questions pertaining to this. Thanks.

2006-08-08 06:40:06 · 35 answers · asked by ♥ Krista ♥ 4 in Religion & Spirituality

It's August 8th, and I just found out two more coworkers and a friend have their bday today........ who else is a powerful LEO?

2006-08-08 06:39:22 · 6 answers · asked by ludwingdiaz 1 in Other - Society & Culture

Would u report them?

2006-08-08 06:38:56 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

It has been said by some not all Christians on yahoo answers that the human being requires a creator. It is stated that something can not come from nothing. It is further stated that this was the Judeo-Christian God who created the human being.

In the interest of creating a database of questions and answers I ask the following questions.

Who created the Judeo-Christian God?
The Judeo-Christian God is something, something can not come from nothing.

Also, if you state that it is your belief that God always existed (based on John 1:1-2); would it also make sense that a non-theist could believe that matter and energy always existed and does not require a creator? That the non-theist belief that matter and energy has always existed without a creator is just as valid a belief as the Judeo-Christian belief that God existed without a creator?

2006-08-08 06:38:38 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-08 06:38:17 · 7 answers · asked by nattah16 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I am always told to go to hell if I dont join a religion.

2006-08-08 06:37:54 · 35 answers · asked by Alyssa 2 in Religion & Spirituality

There is no doubt that there has always been a negative world view on the Jews. But what REALLY drives the hatred towards Jews? I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR REAL EDUCATED ANSWERS. It would be even more interesting to hear from people that ACTUALLY hate the Jews. Do you hate ALL Jews? Do you even know ANY Jews? If so, why do you hate them? Please answer with specific facts, not assumptions or stereotypes you have heard.

I would truly like to get to the bottom of anti-semitism. I think there are no REAL reasons for the hatred. All the "popular" stereotypes: Jews rule the World......Jews have all the money.....Jews have horns on their headd... Jews wnat to take over the world etc... are obviously false and no one can prove any of this crap. So I would like to hear from people that can actually THINK and come up with an answer. I WILL GO OUT ON A LIMB AND SAY THAT IF YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT IT YOU WILL COME TO REALIZE THAT YOU HATE FOR NO REASON.

2006-08-08 06:37:46 · 22 answers · asked by Eli 2 in Religion & Spirituality

i am just curious what those ladies on his show will do just to get his attenation.

2006-08-08 06:37:40 · 8 answers · asked by WEEDG 3 in Other - Society & Culture

I am so ad this happened to me. I went to a "go see" so I can get signed to a modeling agenacy and I presented myself. And the woman who managed the casting turned me down because I was "too dark, great personality too ethnic, and because my hair wasn't straight(my hair is silky and wavy but it looks slighty kinky); and they were looking for 'All American Beauty' ." I seen several other Black girls who were there get turned down also and all the models they had were all white or light-skinned Latinas. What's up? Why are Black women constantly being bashed? Why do we have to relax our hair to fit in with the "All American Girls"? Why is rascism still prevent in American modeling?

2006-08-08 06:36:01 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

What's so bad about judging? It doesn't say it's a sin it just says you'll get as much judgment that you gave.

2006-08-08 06:34:58 · 30 answers · asked by ☺Everybody still loves Chris!♥▼© 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-08 06:34:52 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-08-08 06:34:40 · 12 answers · asked by YESHUA Y 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-08 06:34:21 · 11 answers · asked by dingydarla 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-08 06:34:10 · 8 answers · asked by punkin 5 in Religion & Spirituality

So if you are a cop and you find the bones of a murder victim, and forensics tells you that the body had been killed over 35 years ago.. or 300 years ago.. then this same method of finding the age (dating) is a logical and precise way to determine the age of the earth, correct?
Click on my name for more questions pertaining to this Thx.

2006-08-08 06:34:07 · 24 answers · asked by ♥ Krista ♥ 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Let's say you read the Bible and you read homosexuality is a sin your gay and your partner doesn't know it is. Would you break up with them and be straight. Or be gay and still sin.

2006-08-08 06:34:01 · 20 answers · asked by ☺Everybody still loves Chris!♥▼© 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Toronto area only please.

2006-08-08 06:33:35 · 3 answers · asked by stmpy75 1 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-08 06:33:28 · 5 answers · asked by Tota 2 in Languages

ok, so my boyfriend of 2 years broke up w/ me about 3 months ago & I am still upset about it. Some days I hate him & other days I miss him & want him back. When he broke up w/ me he said @ first it was because I was possessive and then he told me he just wanted to be single for awhile. Well two weeks later he starts dating a girl who is 15 (he is 17) & she lives 3 hours away. And they only had met once before they started dating. I don't know what to do anymore. Ive been depressed for awhile & it feels like I will never get over it. Then school is going to start in less then a month and Im really scared to see him because I haven't seen him all summer and I loved it but Im afraid when I see him @ school Im going to get upset and the progress I had made will be gone. I just feel like noone would want to date me. I should just be patient, 3 months isn't really that long of a time right? Do you think that his relationship is just a rebound? What should I do?

2006-08-08 06:32:50 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Before you read this question, Im not a racist.... just very confused. What can we call people who are black, ( for want of the correct word. ) Some of my mates dont mind, some prefer black, some preffer coloured. They call each other niggers, but I dont understand that as noone else would, and it comes from the slave times which im sure they dont want to go back to. Does anyone else have the same problem. This is not ment to be racist, please honest answers....thanks

2006-08-08 06:32:39 · 19 answers · asked by Brittop 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-08-08 06:32:25 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages