Society & Culture - 15 June 2007

2007-06-15 03:51:41 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If you believe in god what is the big deal.

2007-06-15 03:49:46 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If yes, then what is the use of Doctors.

If no then why we should pray

2007-06-15 03:49:36 · 29 answers · asked by ۞Aum۞ 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Well my mom has this new rule. When I get home, I cannot change out of my school uniform (Mon.-Thurs.) until all my homework is completed. Studying for tests do not count, but if I get a C+ or lower, I have to wear my school uniform all day Friday after school. I'm not even allowed to untuck my shirt when I get home. As for the weekends, Friday I can change when I get home (unless I got a C+ or lower). Saturday, I can wear whatever I want. But Sunday, after 8:00 AM Mass, I have to change into my school uniform and stay in it until all my homework is completed. I'm free to do any work on Friday and Saturday, but I'm usually busy those days. And since I'm in honors classes, and since it's a Catholic school, I'm get so much homework every night, especially on the weekends. So is this fair for me?

2007-06-15 03:49:26 · 14 answers · asked by trickyone9911 1 in Etiquette

Wasn't this they wat the apostles baptized?

2007-06-15 03:49:16 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I was looking at his questions and, they all seem to come back to porn.
Strange, no?
Anyways, what did Jesus have against it?
I never read anything bad 'bout Playboy in the bible.

2007-06-15 03:47:54 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Which sabbat do you look forward to most? What special way do you celebrate it?
Mine's Samhain. I live the whole feeling of autumn, and I go all out for Samhain.

2007-06-15 03:45:52 · 14 answers · asked by Goddess Nikki 4 in Religion & Spirituality

What's wrong with the nice guy who goes to school, works etc.. and wants to take you out.

2007-06-15 03:45:31 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

Seriously, does anyone come to this particular forum in search of answers? I know I don't. It's kinda' fun to vent at each other though isn't it. :) LOL! It's kinda' funny to think that none of us know who the other people are... I mean, you and I could be working together tomorrow and we'd never know... anyway, it's fun.

2007-06-15 03:44:44 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

the jews said their is to be a messiah and the christians accepted jesus as the messiah than the christians are the jews who accepted that the messiah has already arrived. In that case it could be either the christians or the non-christ believing jews who are the chosen people! So who are the chosen people?

2007-06-15 03:43:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The Book of Genesis tells us that everything was created by God—nothing "evolved." Every creature was given the ability to reproduce after its own kind as is stated ten times in Genesis. Dogs do not produce cats. Neither do cats and dogs have a common ancestry. Dogs began as dogs and are still dogs. They vary in species from Chihuahuas to Saint Bernards, but you will not find a "dat" or a "cog" (part cat/dog) throughout God’s creation. Frogs don’t reproduce oysters, cows don’t have lambs, and pregnant pigs don’t give birth to rabbits. God made monkeys as monkeys, and man as man.

Each creature brings forth after its own kind. That’s no theory; that’s a fact. Why then should we believe that man comes from another species? If evolution is true, then it is proof that the Bible is false. However, the whole of creation stands in contradiction to the theory of evolution.

Dr. Kent Hovind of Florida has a standing offer of $250,000 to "anyone who can give any empirical evidence (scientific proof) for evolution." Evolution— true science fiction. His website is www.drdino.com.

2007-06-15 03:43:14 · 23 answers · asked by sammyw1024 3 in Religion & Spirituality

What does it represent?

I heard it has the same meaning as the Washington Monument and other monuments like it.

Isn't there one at the Vatican? Like the Washington Monument.

2007-06-15 03:42:46 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Can anyone tell me why this would be a violation.You can see my question on my Questions Asked.It shows that it has been removed.What can be done about this?If we can't asked Spiritual Questions on the RS site where can we ask them?

2007-06-15 03:42:39 · 16 answers · asked by don_steele54 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-15 03:37:36 · 12 answers · asked by drees1971 2 in Other - Holidays

Many people in R & S have pointed out the drastic differences between the God of the New Testament and the God of the Old Testament. Like one person said, the God of the Old Testament is psychotic, vengeful, jealous, confused, murderous and evil, whereas the God of the New Testament is all about peace, love and forgiveness. This difference indicates that one of three things is true: 1) The Old Testament God is false and the New Testament describes the real God, 2) God changed between the time of the New Testament and the time of the Old Testament or 3) Both testaments are false. If possibility No. 1 is true, then Christians should never quote the Old Testament or refer to any stories from the Old Testament. Also, wouldn’t God make some kind of announcement to let us know that the god depicted in the Old Testament is not him? If possibility No. 2 is true, that would mean that, even if he changed, he is far from perfect. You would also think that he would speak to us in some way to let us know that he changed and why he was the way he was in the Old Testament. Shouldn’t he apologize? If possibility No. 3 is true, then it is all a moot topic. Your thoughts?

2007-06-15 03:37:10 · 12 answers · asked by Biggus Dickus 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I read Thomas Jefferson's when I was young.

In his day, gentlemen would annotate different parts of the Bible, underlining the parts of scripture that they believed were truly the word of God, and which parts they thought to be fabricated.

They would meet to discuss agreements and disagreements. The Bostonians’ Bibles would be almost without a mark. Thomas Paine's would have only a few sentences left. Jefferson's was somewhere in the middle.

This is how we came to have separation of Church and State, thank God, not by hiding from the Bible, but by studying it.

2007-06-15 03:36:08 · 13 answers · asked by TD Euwaite? 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-15 03:35:18 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

It must have started thousands of years ago and it is now societies way of thinking but i was wandering where the whole 'women are the weaker sex' thing originated.

If it is pure science that women dont have the same level of testosterone than men then that stands to reason.

I was also thinking over the many years has it become the normal way of thinking that women actually embrace the 'weaker sex' term as it portrays a message of women loving being feminine and protected by the stronger male?

I will say it right here, right now.............strong women are sexy! hands down!!

Women also can be strong and feminine

and yet when a guy meets a strong woman, he feels his role as protector is threatened.

In this modern world, do you all still believe women are the weaker sex?

2007-06-15 03:34:01 · 10 answers · asked by ? 1 in Other - Society & Culture

I understand that pornography is a choice and PPV on these services (many people don't know they offer hard core XXX channels).

I understand also that we can choose to watch good channels.

What I'm stating is, if all Christians who think pornography is disgusting, immoral, and adulterous were to cancel their whole service, then millions of subscriptions would be lost to Direct TV and Dish Network.

This would create an effect for these companies to re-consider even providing pornography through their service and send this smut back to the dark alley stores & mail order.

Basically "Why support a company that provies complete debachery channels and why not ban them until they change their ways".

Even though sombody has a right to pornography, we also have rights to boycott companies that provide and sell it.

No different than boycotting a video store with a "back room porn section" except this would be more powerful as satellite is "anonymous".

2007-06-15 03:27:18 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-15 03:25:47 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

rule over the earth. So I believe that these will rule over the "great crowd" the ones left on the earth who were found righteous and who serve the true God, Jehovah.
But for those people who believe that everyone is going to either heaven or hell, who do you think will be left on the earth for those 144,000 to rule over?

Just curious.

2007-06-15 03:21:48 · 27 answers · asked by SisterCF 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Tell me what you think...
1.Science expresses the universe in five terms: time, space, matter, power, and motion. Genesis 1:1,2 revealed such truths to the Hebrews in 1450 B.C.: "In the beginning [time] God created [power] the heaven [space] and the earth [matter] . . . And the Spirit of God moved [motion] upon the face of the waters." The first thing God tells man is that He controls of all aspects of the universe.
2.Medical science has only recently discovered that blood-clotting in a newborn reaches its peak on the eighth day, then drops. The Bible consistently says that a baby must be circumcised on the eighth day.
"The universe suddenly exploded into being...The big bang bears an uncanny resemblance to the Genesis command." Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal science writer
"New scientific revelations about supernovas, black holes, quarks, and the big bang even suggest to some scientists that there is a ‘grand design’ in the universe." (U.S. News & World Re-port, March 31, 1997)

2007-06-15 03:21:45 · 20 answers · asked by sammyw1024 3 in Religion & Spirituality

with there now being a multitude of religions out there, do any have the right to try and influence Law?
For instance should the Catholic church have any influence over how the law is shapped regarding abortion?

2007-06-15 03:21:05 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

It dosen't hurt anybody so why is it so bad (I don't mean racist swearing)

2007-06-15 03:19:21 · 39 answers · asked by Anony-mouse 3 in Etiquette

Is holiness optional or required?
Is it our holiness or someone else's?

2007-06-15 03:17:35 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I've been reading a lot of questions on evolution/intelligent design/creationism lately. Why is it that Athiests want to completely eliminate the second two options from schools? When I was in school I was taught all three, and it was left up to the students to decide which to believe. There was no forcing of any beliefs. (For the record, I believe in intelligent design which, at least as I understand it, is a mix between evolution and creationism. Or in other words, I believe in the same science atheists do, I just think that's how God moved things along, you can call it whatever you want.)

I agree that there should be a separation of church and state, but I think that trying to completely eliminate these other two teachings makes athiests the hypocrites they constantly accuse Christians of being by trying to force their beliefs on others. What's wrong with putting all three out as suggestions? It's not like intelligent design and creationism are minority views.

2007-06-15 03:17:07 · 41 answers · asked by Thom 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-15 03:17:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Royalty

judging by the christian response from my last question the old testament is old law and does not apply to today. so why do i still get answers from time to time pointing to the old testament as far as what god wants?

2007-06-15 03:13:39 · 26 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 in Religion & Spirituality

We've had a lot on this subject this week. Here's my thought. I am against abortion and do believe that life begins at conception. I have 2 kids and at both 5-week sonograms those were my babies, not things or fetuses. However, I do not think that pro-choice folks are bad people. I actually think that they seem to feel this way for understandable reasons. They are thinking of the young girl who is in no shape to be a mom (and the child's miserable life with her), the woman pregnant with the baby of her rapist, the pregnant parents faced with a terribly handicapped child or the parents faced with the possibility of losing mom to deliver baby. These are all horrible situations and it takes a kind-hearted person to try and figure a way out for these people. So, while I don't agree with the way out, I do think you pro-choicer's are still pretty good people! :) Maybe you just might like to hear that.

2007-06-15 03:13:00 · 25 answers · asked by Maria C 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-15 03:11:06 · 13 answers · asked by rachel c 1 in Religion & Spirituality