Society & Culture - 20 June 2007

Christians I know make the following claims:

God is selfless

God is all knowing

God created everything

God created man so he would have someone to be with {I guess even God can get lonely}

So God knowing that people would cause each other so much pain and agony, choose to create them anyway so he could have someone to be with.

That strikes me as more selfish then selfless. or am I missing some point here.

2007-06-20 05:57:34 · 19 answers · asked by Inez K 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-20 05:57:22 · 5 answers · asked by gwynwong31 1 in Languages

2007-06-20 05:55:18 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

I would prefer Christians only on this please....

Here is the verse:

Ecclesiastes 12:6
6 Remember your Creator before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the well.

Obviously this is a metaphor for the importance knowing God before you die. But do you think the "silver cord" mentioned has more significance?

Is this "silver cord" maybe what keeps us attached to this life....and then gets severed when we give up the ghost and go home to be with the Lord?

Just curious........

2007-06-20 05:55:07 · 18 answers · asked by primoa1970 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-20 05:54:42 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

It's my underestanding that dog owners, when they die, will spend eternity following each other around and smelling their rectums, in a state of total bliss. Also, they will deposit turds wherever they please.

The only beings happier than they will be the flies. Huge hordes of plump flies will hover in the fetid air, and congregate upon all fresh turds...

What? Yes, a truly blissful place for all dog owners...

2007-06-20 05:54:25 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

the original pages!!

2007-06-20 05:53:21 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-20 05:52:09 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

2007-06-20 05:51:50 · 14 answers · asked by . 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-20 05:50:52 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

In another question, I asked people how they would make the world better if they had God's knowledge and power:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhBPQxNrceD80976XIFVJNvsy6IX?qid=20070620091727AAiUGQs

To those who actually answered: thank you. Now ask yourself, if an imperfect mortal knows what needs to be fixed and WOULD fix it if given the chance, why wouldn't your God, who DOES have the power and who is infinitely more loving than you, do the same thing?

But most Christians dodged the question by saying they either couldn't or wouldn't take the power offered, even in this hypothetical situation. Which makes me wonder: is it a central part of their delusion that they insist that they engage in NO sort of "make believe" at all, in order to avoid considering even the POSSIBILITY that they might be making their religion up as they go along?

2007-06-20 05:49:02 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Seems like Muslims are the most easiest to offend and quickest to resolve the insult with violence. A stark contradictions to the religion as a whole.

2007-06-20 05:47:13 · 20 answers · asked by Alex 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-20 05:46:26 · 30 answers · asked by readergrl 2 in Etiquette

I believe that God and his ancestors could have evolved on his home planet; Planet H (Heaven). Planet H could have formed 13 billion years ago, shortly after the Universe was formed. That would make "God" and his parents 9 billion years more advanced than us; scientifically, technologically, and of course, evolutionarily. --

What would you add to this scenario?

2007-06-20 05:45:34 · 20 answers · asked by Uncle Wayne 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-20 05:45:18 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-20 05:44:18 · 19 answers · asked by "!" 5 in Religion & Spirituality

here's link that leads me to believe this might be true.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070620091232AAs1ga3&r=w

2007-06-20 05:44:07 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

BEWARE IT COULD BE DANGEROUS !!!
http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=7fc5586c0939b38c1212&page=1&viewtype=&category=mr

2007-06-20 05:43:30 · 3 answers · asked by rapturefuture 7 in Religion & Spirituality

If it wasn't for this country, I would be nobility and I would be in the line of succession for the British throne. But my retarded ancestors came here instead of staying in England. If I met them, I would have killed them for messing up my life. This country is too liberal and messed up. I hate democracy and I think America should be ruled by a king. I hate freedom and a monarchy or dictatorship is the best type of leadership, as long as I am the leader or part of the government.

2007-06-20 05:43:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-06-20 05:43:06 · 8 answers · asked by dusti1978 2 in Languages

Seriously asking...not trying to be disrespectful, but have any of you seriously tried to search out God for yourself and not just a "Okay God if you are truly there, then make my car levitate" response or something like that? Or do you just base all your opinions on research that you have found in books trying to disprove Christianity or the existance of God?

2007-06-20 05:43:05 · 25 answers · asked by The 2 points guy 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I know that there have been people in Pakistan and Iran protesting this, but why? I know that some would argue that this is an insult to Muslims, but is this knighthood so important? After all, if the Muslim clerics are correct, Salman Rushdie will face the wrath of Allah on the Day of Judgment and the knighthood will have meant nothing. At the end of the day, the knighthood is of no real consequence.

2007-06-20 05:42:26 · 14 answers · asked by tangerine 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I would really like to know!!!!!!;}

2007-06-20 05:42:08 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

What is so appealing about this religion?

2007-06-20 05:41:50 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

From the very Genesis, God discourages Adam and Eve's curiosity and thirst for knowledge, and throughout the Bible He commends and even calls those who blindly obey him, just for the sake of obedience alone, without questioning him a bit.

Galileo Galilei was forced to recant from his scientific findings, by the very CHURCH of CHRIST.....and even Giordano Bruno burned at the STAKE for daring to QUESTION the Bible, whereas the Inquisitor Robert Bellarmine, the one who oversaw his trial, was CANONIZED

(And don't start your answers by attacking the Catholic Church....all Christian Churches are lead in very similar ways by very similar people)

'Pan's Labyrinth' gives two gentle slaps on the face of dogmatic behavior.

2007-06-20 05:41:05 · 13 answers · asked by El Knoxville 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-20 05:39:50 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

My husband wants to read the entire Bible. I gave him my KJV, and he made it through Exodus before he said he couldn't stand to read anymore. Someone had suggested to me that a person should never read from front to back. Should I recommend a different order in which to read? Should I get a different version for him?

If you read the whole book, how did you go about doing it? And which version(s) did you read?

2007-06-20 05:39:07 · 32 answers · asked by KS 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Please see this question:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aoq9O8ge0EoWKraH993pLWQHxgt.?qid=20070620062003AAUjbSp

Nearly daily, atheists and other non-Christians are harrassed and asked what we are doing in the R&S section. Today, while perusing the General Science section, I come across this question from a known R&S member. At first, I beleive he is asking a serious question, so I click on it. Instead, I find him in the science section, spreading lies ala Kent Hovind, making claims that a growing segment of the scientific community is moving against the idea of a billion year old Earth. Fortunately, 9 out of 10 responders have put him in his place, and explained to him that even a ten year old child could see through the lies and arguments used...

So, what are you people doing in a section you have no business in? HUH?

2007-06-20 05:38:44 · 26 answers · asked by ? 5 in Religion & Spirituality

The very fact that you are still alive and able to make choices makes my posts a public service of sorts. Anyway here is the question. Can you HONESTLY say that there isn’t something in your being that says there has to be more to life than what this world exudes? Don’t you feel in your gut that you should be able to LIVE forever, not grow old or get sick or be cut down by some deranged lunatic? (Not by me, I may be a lunatic, but I’m not deranged). Group Hug. Now let’s go to Heaven.

2007-06-20 05:38:06 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The keyword is "legitimate". I mean scientists who are respected by the ENTIRE scientific community, not just someone who dons a lab coat and calls himself a scientist.

2007-06-20 05:37:05 · 25 answers · asked by Craig R 6 in Religion & Spirituality