Society & Culture - 2 November 2006

If I didn’t like a black person because they were black, I’d a racist.

But I don’t like really religious people because they are religious – so what’s that? I don’t mind if someone is kind of religious or they do ‘good’ to get into heaven etc, but when people believe in texts written 700-1000 years ago really annoys me.

Everyone knows the difference between right and wrong – well every ‘well rounded individual’ - but believing that your religious text is ‘The Word of God’ is being stupid. Has any really religious person every thought that the Holy Bible may have been altered (it has, but have you ever considered it?) to suit the Status Quo of that particular time.

Like Easter is a Roman holiday of fertility, that’s why you have the rabbits and eggs. And Christmas, that was some holiday where you just gave gifts in honour of some random god

What about the Qur’an – that wasn’t written down for several hundred years – PEOPLE JUST LEARNT IT WORD FOR WORD, and passed the stoy on

2006-11-02 22:37:57 · 19 answers · asked by speedball182 3 in Religion & Spirituality

if yes then(1) what proof do you have and(2) how does it if at all benefit/help freemasons.
And is lions club anyway related to these groups

2006-11-02 22:36:59 · 3 answers · asked by micheal o 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

What is the proper name for the attire of the time (the dress like thing)?

2006-11-02 22:36:56 · 3 answers · asked by Oli 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Your God has no problem literally tearing the flesh of small children for doing what many little children do. The don’t know any better.

2 Kings 2:23-24. "23. And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. 24. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them."

God's ego was so bruised that he decided to butcher children who naturally mock and play! Efforts are made by apologists to say that the world for "children" can be translated "young men." If this is true, I must ask what young men would find funny about a bald man to the extent that they mock him publicly? This is something children, only small children, would do, and thus, it shows how intolerant and ferocious the god of the bible really is.

2006-11-02 22:36:02 · 11 answers · asked by atheistradio 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-02 22:35:54 · 6 answers · asked by ? 2 in Mythology & Folklore

I say they celebrate march 1st while others say february 28th, which is correct?

2006-11-02 22:30:09 · 12 answers · asked by yayagirl46 1 in Other - Holidays

It causes people to fornicate. Thus it is evil.

2006-11-02 22:27:29 · 24 answers · asked by seven 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-02 22:23:50 · 7 answers · asked by CHEESUS GROYST 5 in Religion & Spirituality

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2434625,00.html
I was reading this article, I was thinking what is that in Islam that made the preist commit suicide.

2006-11-02 22:21:27 · 8 answers · asked by inin 6 in Religion & Spirituality

its for homework

2006-11-02 22:21:24 · 15 answers · asked by smile please 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Where do I find the complete prayer to Archangel Michael that starts out with

I ask the Archangel Michael to use the flaming blue sword to sever all psychic hooks and . . . .

Maybe calling it a "Prayer" is the wrong word for this?

thanks
Karola

2006-11-02 22:20:33 · 8 answers · asked by Karola W 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Whats the difference between being buriel or being creamated

2006-11-02 22:20:27 · 2 answers · asked by teresa donna conner 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-02 22:19:28 · 3 answers · asked by srevalsan 3 in Religion & Spirituality

KI2 24:8 “Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.”

CH2 36:9 “Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.”

If it is a typo, then why has it not yet been fixed after so many centuries?

If it is the word of God, then why did he contradict himself?

Either way, I find the fact that it has yet to be fixed to be quite pathetic.

2006-11-02 22:18:29 · 8 answers · asked by atheistradio 1 in Religion & Spirituality

if u tell anyone something ( some fact) who hasnt heard of it, would u say a fact that,,,,, or the fact that,,,,,?

2006-11-02 22:18:17 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

I am looking to modify 'Veni, vidi, vici' to read 'I came, I swam, I conquered'. Unfortunately we didn't do Latin at my school, in fact we barely did English. Please can anyone help.

Thanks

2006-11-02 22:17:30 · 11 answers · asked by The Wet Fish 1 in Languages

For years my grandma always said she wanted me to have her engagement ring when she died. She passed away in September and my uncle gave a ring. It was not grandma's engagement ring. I raised my concerns but he maintained that it was. I questioned where her wedding ring was all her other jewellery and he said that was all there was. He did admit that his wife had taken her gold watch. With that said you can only summize what's happened. However back to issue of the ring which was given to me. On my return home I actually lost the ring in my car, and I kept misplacing it. My partner was looking at it and then went and lost it. it was found in the middle of the driveway! I then had a kitchen fire and burned my hand. I didn't want the ring my house as it didn't feel right. My partner took it to his place of work and put it in the safe. A day later the person who rents his compound at the back of business had done a moonlight flit. His gearbox on his work blew without warn

2006-11-02 22:16:40 · 13 answers · asked by Mermaid 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-02 22:16:32 · 7 answers · asked by Cindy 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-02 22:15:43 · 17 answers · asked by david UK 2 in Mythology & Folklore

society.

2006-11-02 22:12:32 · 21 answers · asked by vidhipam_13 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-02 22:08:42 · 1 answers · asked by mnovicem 1 in Other - Society & Culture

can someone give me the rationale behind this goofy thinking?

2006-11-02 22:07:59 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-02 22:05:57 · 17 answers · asked by russellhamuk 3 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Are you correct in following your brance of monotheism and are the other 2 groups incorrect in following their paeticular branch of monotheism ?

I phrase the question like this because for some weird reason the good people at YA removed it twice when I asked in a more direct and simple form.

2006-11-02 22:04:39 · 7 answers · asked by Cindy 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-02 22:03:16 · 29 answers · asked by Amber 2 in Christmas

2006-11-02 22:02:20 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

community and culture

2006-11-02 22:01:27 · 6 answers · asked by vidhipam_13 1 in Other - Society & Culture

...or God made it or God wanted it this way isn't it?. Do the theists who ask questions here think too much and just not have much faith in their God after all.

2006-11-02 22:00:35 · 7 answers · asked by CHEESUS GROYST 5 in Religion & Spirituality

My priest said thet he cannot do anithing for me. Where should I go for help?

2006-11-02 21:58:43 · 10 answers · asked by a theist 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-02 21:57:50 · 30 answers · asked by sris 2 in Religion & Spirituality