Society & Culture - 13 June 2007

2007-06-13 06:30:09 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

Let me say first that I am an atheist. Many of the responces atheists give to being questioned about their lack of a belief in a God is that religious people are idiots for believing in a make believe being. Well I am going to try and answer in a more kinder way. If you are a Christian, do you believe in Zeus, or the Sun God, or Saturn, or Gaia? My guess is that you do not believe in any of these, which would make you a skeptic. Millions of people believed in these God's and you are questioning them? I guess simply put, I don't believe in the Christian God or any other God for the same reason I do not believe in any of those Gods that I listed.

2007-06-13 06:27:31 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

seriously, some of these questions are valid and posted by people that actually are wanting to learn about people different from them and all the replies they get are people calling them racist. if people are not free to talk about these things then nobody will learn and nobody will understand and the human race will not get anywhere because everybody will be too busy calling eachother racist to listen and try to understand one another. why even give a crap if it is racist. its just some retard posting things anonomously on the net.

2007-06-13 06:26:20 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

-Or am I just more blessed than most...I have a loving family, a great career, a nice home, food on the table, shoes on my feet.
-Even the poor in America live better than the middle class in many other countries....most have their basic needs met.
-Is this not a blessing from God?

So, why do so many fundamentalists think we live in such a terrible world? Why are they full of doom and gloom? Why do they not have joy? Has their God not blessed them the way he has blessed so many others?

Read their posts to the questions about pessimism, moral decay, and the state of our world. Their take on life is very depressing and creepy. Especially considering it is coming from people who are supposed to be filled with Christ's love.

The God of my heart is a God of love, mercy, compassion, kindness and joy....the God they seem to emulate with their negative attitude does not seem to be a good God at all.

If Christians are to be Christ-like, and you are a person of despair..

2007-06-13 06:26:04 · 18 answers · asked by G.C. 5 in Religion & Spirituality

accepted the volumes of descriptions that have been fabricated by all the earth bound geniuses? Trillions have lived and died on this planet and apparently have missed the boat. Just in the last 3 thousand or so years, man has invented how he wants it to be and has managed somehow to convince those who fear death how it will be. But..................he has failed to mention a few things. (A lot of things actually, but I won't go into them all.) a)Will you be issued a Toga and a pair of sandals?(If you are the modest type you should be concerned about this) b)Will there be others there that are Smarter or Dumber than you? c)Will you be given your own private living quarters or will it be a shared communal type thing? Hundreds of other questions but not here. Just wanted to alert the geniuses who continue babbling about their creation of a heaven, you don't know anything about God. It is all in your imagination or the imagination of others who have successfully brainwashed you.

2007-06-13 06:25:36 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-13 06:24:12 · 18 answers · asked by Agnes 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-13 06:23:42 · 13 answers · asked by Deena B 1 in Other - Society & Culture

1. i mean by that the white people who came from Europe to south Africa and live there do you call them African's " in general" ???

2.Another Question in my mind African-American they considered black ? or under what category " in general" i mean when you say African- American what comes on your mind black or white!

this was a discussion between me and someone and we decided to post it on yahoo.

Regards
Muji

2007-06-13 06:23:34 · 10 answers · asked by MMG A 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

DON'T THEY KNOW THIS IS RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY.

ATHIESTS HAVE NEITHER, SO WHY ARE THEY HERE??????????????????????????????????????????
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2007-06-13 06:23:27 · 15 answers · asked by Best Xian 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Fella, asserting that there's "not one shred of evidence for evolution" only highlights how ignorant and ill informed you are about the modern 'mainstream" scientific principles and explanations of the natural world.

There has been many references forwarded here, allowing access to all the "evidence" you could ever want regarding evolution, but you WILL NOT see it.. This doesn't make it non existant..!

You are merely parroting old and easily countered ridiculous religious dogma, so don't try to look clever, because you aren't..!

Maybe try: talkorigins.com, then do your research from there. Only then will you realise what a complete fool you are making of yourself when debating something you know nothing about with those who are more informed than you..

The question here is in the title..!

2007-06-13 06:23:12 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-13 06:22:14 · 61 answers · asked by * Xanthippe 6 in Religion & Spirituality

From an article in latimes.com:

Born July 10, 1917, in Waconia, Minn., Herbert later moved to Minneapolis and then La Crosse, Wis. He graduated from LaCrosse State Teachers College in 1940 and could have taught English or general science — his majors — but he recalled later that he was more interested in the theater.

He worked as an actor and stagehand in a Minnesota theater group before moving to New York City in 1941.

A year later, he volunteered for the Army Air Forces. As a B-24 bomber pilot, he flew 56 missions over Italy, Germany and Yugoslavia and received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with three oak-leaf clusters.

Herbert wrote several books, including "Mr. Wizard's Supermarket Science" and "Mr. Wizard's Experiments for Young Scientists."

...I feel like one of the pillars of my childhood is gone. RIP to that groovy guy.

2007-06-13 06:21:29 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-13 06:20:43 · 8 answers · asked by Mo 1 in Etiquette

2007-06-13 06:20:15 · 27 answers · asked by Minnie J 1 in Religion & Spirituality

They can still believe in a God, just not that mean and ruthless God that they Believe in.

2007-06-13 06:19:54 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Have you ever found anything that you had lost after asking for St. Anthony's help and intercession? Are you doing anything special today to honor this great man of God? Starting a Novena, perhaps?

Here are some ideas:

http://www.fisheaters.com/customstimeafterpentecoststa.html

2007-06-13 06:19:42 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I've read the bible and have asked plenty of times on here and still haven't gotten a straight answer from anyone... but what will be the circumstances of Christs return?

I still thoroughly believe he's gonna be reborn into this world and carry out the same burden he did last time of life on Earth...

And his death will signal the apocalypse bein the "slain lamb" and all.

i don't wanna hear anything from athiests either, i'm just gonna delete it.

2007-06-13 06:19:15 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i just want the public's opinion.

2007-06-13 06:19:10 · 10 answers · asked by ~mz. freaky_shye~ 2 in Etiquette

Is the gift of "SPEAKING IN TONGUES" for all Christians ?

If a Christian does not have this gift are they looked down upon as less "holier" or less of a Christian than those that do ?

Is this gift primarily manifested by certain denominations ?

Is it an unequal yoke for a Christian who is Baptist to marry a Christian that is Pentecostal ?

Should I, as a Baptist Christian, feel left out because Pentecostals have the gift of speaking in tongues ?

dave

2007-06-13 06:17:43 · 23 answers · asked by dave777 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-13 06:17:20 · 12 answers · asked by WWTSD? 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I keep seeing this word. What does it mean? I think I need to get with the times.

2007-06-13 06:15:55 · 32 answers · asked by SLF 6 in Christmas

2007-06-13 06:14:59 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

2007-06-13 06:14:03 · 53 answers · asked by THE HUMAN GALAXY 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Does this animal's existence cause them stress over how they believe the world was made? I mean, an egg-laying mammal with a bill sure seems an awful lot like a "transitional species", doesn't it? Is that why they don't like it?

2007-06-13 06:14:02 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Atheists and Agnostics too if you want to answer....

If it is true, then is it not the very height of arrogance to assume you, or any other human being, could even remotely comprehend the mind of a god? Divinely inspired or not, you are still a human being, not a god.

So why would you ever consider yourself to have the right to speak for a god at any given time?

Do you not think, that even should a god exist, that they would be so far beyond human understand that you do not have the right to ever think that you would know what they are thinking at any given time, and that any human being that ever lived in the past (when we were much less advanced) could ever know a gods mind?

You are not a god. The people who lived in the past were not gods. Even in the infinately minute possibility that said god ever divinely inspired anything, how can you ever think that your limited human mind could ever understand what the god was telling you, or your ancestors, to say in some book?

2007-06-13 06:12:44 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Is it because deep down inside they know they're wrong and are desperate to convince themselves that there is no God?

2007-06-13 06:12:22 · 7 answers · asked by frank m 3 in Religion & Spirituality

He has been diagnosed with Prostate & Colon cancer. He isn't eating much and we aren't sure how he's going to come out in the end. Much thanks to all of you!

2007-06-13 06:11:54 · 26 answers · asked by socmum16 ♪ 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Hello!! :o) Do I have a right NOT to celebrate MY birthday? Do I have a right to request that nobody GIVES me anything in recognition of that day? I like to be alone on MY 'special day' and find it extremely frustrating that those in my life - year after year - guilt trip me info allowing them to buy me something. I don't want my birthday recognized. I don't want any gifts or cards or anything at all. I want my birthday to be completely ignored. THAT is want I WANT. Is that - or is that not - my right?! Thanks. Have a great day!! Craig!! :o)

2007-06-13 06:11:49 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Here are the verses:

31 So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.” 32 Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. 33 And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes. And immediately he and all his family were baptized. 34 Now when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them; and he rejoiced, having believed in God with all his household.

According to Scripture, universal salvation is a false teaching. When Paul made this statement about the guard's entire household being saved, do you think this applied to this man only in this particular situation or to all of us who believe as well?

Salvation is not hereditary....and just because we get saved doesn't guarantee it for the members of our immediate family.

Fellow believers.........What are your thoughts?

2007-06-13 06:11:43 · 30 answers · asked by primoa1970 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Here is the story;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/china_dinosaurs_dc

This by the way, creationists, is what we call a Transitional Fossil. It may be difficult for you to understand, what with this being a REAL discovery and not something from an outdated book of bronze age jewish mythology, or some inane prattle from Kirk Cameron, but this is real life, and this is a real fossil.

2007-06-13 06:10:55 · 29 answers · asked by Yoda Green 5 in Religion & Spirituality