Society & Culture - 15 September 2006

All religions basically teach peace. Love your neighbor, worship god, be good to others. That sort of crap.

Now, I find this very interesting as you can look back to a lot of the major conflicts of the world and see that that they were usually motivated by land, power, and religion. I put those things in that order because the land and power is usually what the war is REALLY about. The sad thing is that the leaders use religion as the major reason to have their followers fight, i.e. the Crusades, the Jewish/Muslim conflicts, Bosnian and Serbian conflicts, etc.

The leaders present the war as 'God's will' and they use words for their enemies such as savages, infidels, non-believers. These words dehumanize enemies and makes the bad things you do to them seem to be fine with God. 'You aren't killing a human.. you're killing an infidel!'

My question is this. If religion is supposed to be teaching peace, why does it condone the poor treatment of those who do not believe?

2006-09-15 02:39:19 · 17 answers · asked by bleedcoltsblue 2 in Religion & Spirituality

That modern day religions are based on believable facts?

Are they better than old religions like the ones the ancient Greeks and Romans believed in?

Did every person that ever lived before Jebus/Allah/Whatever go to a supposed bad place like hell?

Do the majority of people in the world go to hell since there is no one religion that dominates the entire world? Would the loving and understanding god that is described in most modern religions let something like this happen?

Was religion initially created to explain the things people could not explain before technologies came along?

Are the Thundercats cool?

2006-09-15 02:39:10 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

"If we confess our sins He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
1 John 1 v 9

2006-09-15 02:37:53 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-15 02:36:53 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

My friend says that the world will always be filled with hate and crime and war and injustice. I don't think so. He said Martin Luther King's dream is never going to come true. I told him it's only a couple years away. Racism doesn't exist as much as it used to. Good always overcomes evil. In a few years, everyone will love each other and racism and injustice will be gone. Who's right?

2006-09-15 02:35:54 · 29 answers · asked by Seviper S 1 in Other - Society & Culture

As an example, in Exodus 21:20-21 it allows for slave masters to go unpunished after beating their slave if the slave lives for more than 24 hours after the beating. In Leviticus 25:45 it specifies the conditions for when it is permissible for children to be owned as property.

No where did Jesus say, the rules regarding slavery are eliminated.

We in the 21rst Century find such things deplorable. We don't believe in owning people as property, even thou in the Christian Mythology in the passages I have just referenced God makes this a legal institution to them.

So who is currently setting the standard of Morality. Can that person at any time say no its ok we are allowed to have slaves its God's word, and will modern Christianity follow?

Just wondering who sets the policies for when its ok to have a morality different from the Judeo-Christian God as it outlines in the mythology.

2006-09-15 02:35:36 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Many people seem surprised by what he said about islam: can you please tell me what he exactly said? Did he commit a blaspheme?

2006-09-15 02:33:42 · 14 answers · asked by Axel ∇ 5 in Religion & Spirituality

recently while talking on the phone to a strange lady, discusing the opitomitrist procedure of dialating eyes, i refered to after affects as"staggering around like a blind man" after eye dialation only to discover that she was blind herself. should i try further apology let it go or what?i feel like a dog about it.

2006-09-15 02:33:05 · 14 answers · asked by houdini 3 in Etiquette

see, all of us are connected at the atomic level to everything, like the trees, your cat, that computer your staring at, and that donut you just stuffed your face with. Most peope will have a hard time understanding this. BUT WE ARE ONE, and living in the BODY OF GOD.

2006-09-15 02:33:01 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If anyone knows of a decent online devotional or Bible Study for women who have a paying job, I'd appreciate an address.

Thanks!

2006-09-15 02:32:58 · 5 answers · asked by Searcher 7 in Religion & Spirituality

have sex b4 marriage, seen pawn b and few more and he says his sorry he did things wrong hen he came to england but he still thinks his a good muslim but is he, what do u muslims think

2006-09-15 02:32:57 · 14 answers · asked by kim in guildford 1 in Religion & Spirituality

... Doughnuts, such as the unnamed ones which are lacking, more holey yet less holy?

2006-09-15 02:32:28 · 10 answers · asked by Nerdly Stud 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Exactly who do you think you are offending? Do you think that 'god' has needs and if it did, do you believe they can fail to be met?

Or that god gave you free will and then stated that if you exert that free will it will punish you???!

And then you call this God's love - how's that then?

2006-09-15 02:31:22 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Yes or No: ESPN, being born, sleeping, eating, and death are the only things that can be counted on as truth in life.

2006-09-15 02:31:17 · 11 answers · asked by rjakjr 3 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-09-15 02:30:04 · 14 answers · asked by essex_serpent 2 in Royalty

HOW MANY ABUSED
WOMEN ARE THERE IN THE U.S.?
Women age 12 or older annually sustained almost 5
million violent victimizations in 1992 and 1993.

Women and girls ages 12 and up annually reported about 500,000 rapes and sexual assaults, almost 500,000 robberies, and about 3.8 million assaults.

WHO ARE THE ABUSERS
In 29% of all violence against women by a lone offender, the perpetrator was an intimate (husband,ex-husband, boyfriend or ex-boyfriend).

Women annually reported about 500,000 rapes and sexual assaults Friends or acquaintances of the victims committed over half of these rapes or sexual assaults. Strangers were responsible for about 1 in 5.

HONOR KILLINGS IN AMERICA?
Of the 5328 women murdered in 1990, FBI data indicate that about half or more of them by a husband or boyfriend.

2006-09-15 02:29:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

the gulf between religions & cultures of the World nations??
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The pope 80 yrs old attacked Islam and its Prophet during his lecture to the staff & students at Regensburg University in his native Bavaria/Germany last Tuesday .The pope said ** quote >>Show me just what Muhammad
brought that was new and there you will find things only evil & inhuman such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached ** unquote

2006-09-15 02:29:22 · 16 answers · asked by alsahran_ye 4 in Religion & Spirituality

So the Christians are saying that we aren't under the old law, because of Jesus. But without a belief in Jesus according to Rev 20:11-13 the individual is given a 2nd throne judgement, and then cast into a lake of fire. Of course this is why we see many who believe the Christian mythology telling non-Christians they are "going to hell".

So, is it really that we live under grace, or is it that we live under law.

It seems to me the person would be living under the new law of believe in Jesus or go to hell.

Am I misinformed?

2006-09-15 02:29:17 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

he has branded mohomed an evil man who spread islam by the sword, which is very true.
dont you think the pope is a very brave man ?

2006-09-15 02:29:08 · 15 answers · asked by ahmed 1 in Religion & Spirituality

If a girl has a big mouth and it ends up getting her man beaten up trying to stand up for her, she is a trouble maker and does it alot on purpose.

2006-09-15 02:29:00 · 4 answers · asked by Morgan J 3 in Other - Society & Culture

love is the best part of life or the most terrible do you belive in it or think it a play ... is it easy 4 u to say i love you then say i don't ? have you ever wounded an one how bad was that wound ?have you ever loved a true love ? have you ever stayed with a wounded friend of yours ?have you ever talked with ur parents about it what do they say? do you belive that marrige is the love grave!!!!

2006-09-15 02:28:43 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-09-15 02:28:21 · 10 answers · asked by mads 1 in Other - Society & Culture

Is it true that according to the Sharia court if a woman was raped she would need to produce 4 MALE witnesses if not she is will be considered as commiting adultery and be charged for it.
Wouldn't this just make woman not want to report rape? how is one suppose to come up with 4 witnesses? They make this impossible?
Please answer this intellectually if possible with verses from the quran.

2006-09-15 02:26:41 · 8 answers · asked by Pudge_Monsta 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Just wondering. I posted a similar question and got few answers so I figured I'd repost and change the heading. I ask because I also posted a question about a friend of mine whose boyfriend wanted to have a threesome with me. (I don't do threesomes nor do I like women.) She was very drunk, and agreed, but I am the reason it didn't happen. Some responses I got is that you are not responsible for what you do while drunk, or that she was agreeing to it to please her man. Does this only apply to women? I don't drink so I can't relate to being so drunk that I would have sex with a woman when I am not attracted to women, and I would be pissed if my man asked me to do it.

2006-09-15 02:26:33 · 16 answers · asked by GreenEyedSista 4 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

After seeing that he illegally took money last year from agents looking to sign him as their client?

I'm talking about Reggie Bush of course, "The Savior of New Orleans"

2006-09-15 02:26:24 · 8 answers · asked by Southpaw 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-15 02:26:02 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

is it possible a leader of leaders is also a folower?

2006-09-15 02:25:28 · 7 answers · asked by what is the good word? 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I always worshiped entenmanns donuts in the morning over coffee but now I am beginning to question this because of Krispy Kreme - what should I do?

http://www.entenmanns.com/

2006-09-15 02:24:47 · 11 answers · asked by rab2344 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-15 02:24:41 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

to know more on the details of shanmatham

2006-09-15 02:24:07 · 2 answers · asked by chomesh 1 in Religion & Spirituality