Society & Culture - 20 June 2007

Christians don't go around calling themselves theists. I mean why do you have to use the word atheist so much? You can still be an atheist and not not want religion to be true.

2007-06-20 16:49:21 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I'm 17 and my whole life i've used my right hand for everything, probably because I was trained to. I have very messing writing, but I was told today by a writing coach that I am probably left handed based on the way I hold my pen and cut with scissors.

This was an informal meeting we just randomely met so he didn't give me any advice. I would like to know if it would be better for me to continue going on right handed or should I train myself to use my "dominant" left hand.

2007-06-20 16:49:17 · 15 answers · asked by tim_bit_ca 1 in Etiquette

and why do people think it is not a choice.

2007-06-20 16:49:08 · 31 answers · asked by ainger452 3 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

my sis is thinking about it and i told her it is wrong but i want some other catholic views please.

2007-06-20 16:47:10 · 17 answers · asked by Shari 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Ok, so I admit. I was totally against the blocker button until a received an email from a fellow Christian calling me all kinds of bad names and hating on me for having Atheist in my contact list.

Since when did having Atheist, Hindu, Agnostic contacts discredit my Christian faith.

Apparently, sad to say, in most Churches now-a-days, Jesus wouldn't even be allowed in.

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2007-06-20 16:46:55 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

In veiw of the fact that 1Cor. 1:10 says that Christs followers should have, "no divisions among you, but be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgement," how can the arguing, divided, resentful, ignorant, defensive, hateful masses of fools calling themselves christain have Christs approval. Would these not be false christains of whom Jesus says, "I never knew you, depart from me, you that work iniquity."

2007-06-20 16:43:43 · 20 answers · asked by Kiril 2 in Religion & Spirituality

date? and why is important no know it? and only truly christians.

2007-06-20 16:43:11 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

POINT: "The simple fact of the matter is that abortion is murder. What you call a 'fetus' is an unborn baby, a human being, and an abortion is nothing but the deliberate killing of that human being."

COUNTERPOINT: "Murder is the deliberate killing of a human person, and though a fetus is certainly a human /something/, it's hardly a person. The the earliest stages, it is nothing but a mass of cells. Even in the later stages, when it begins to biologically resemble a human person, it still doesn't have anything remotely resembling a human life. It has no hopes, no plans, no concept of self, no stake in its own future. Sentimentalize it all you like, you still can't put a fetus ahead of the woman who carries it."

Can a fetus that is only three months old survive outside the womb? no.

Partial birth abortion IS wrong and that is not what I advocate. Abortion should only be performed in the first three months, after that it shouldn't be allowed.

2007-06-20 16:42:04 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I am looking for a biological answer please. No supernatural answers are needed.

2007-06-20 16:41:59 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Would you rather believe that in such a universe, anything the gods deem good is automatically good, even if they change their minds?

2007-06-20 16:39:11 · 10 answers · asked by Graciela, RIRS 6 in Religion & Spirituality

heeelp.

2007-06-20 16:38:52 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-20 16:37:55 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

My birthday is June 29th 1977 I was born at 3ish in Michigan. I really dont have one big question....just kinda general

2007-06-20 16:37:19 · 3 answers · asked by labattbeergirl 2 in Religion & Spirituality

And, this is a spiritual Question too cause Mars is in the Bible.
Ditto............

2007-06-20 16:36:48 · 18 answers · asked by maguyver727 7 in Religion & Spirituality

if there was a gay/lesbian running it? They wouldn't judge others & the country that they were running would at least be a fair one with no prejudices, don't you agree?

2007-06-20 16:34:10 · 13 answers · asked by For Da Be Dan- Liza p 3 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-06-20 16:33:39 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-20 16:32:57 · 18 answers · asked by Thomas g 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I'd like to know how many of you use the net solely for chatting rubbish/waffle or do you actually put it to good use and actually meet up with those you've briefly chatted to? Do you still think the internet is a bad place to meet up or do you think that with a little common sense, forethought and honesty it could be a fabulous means with which to meet people? Do you also realise that to meet someone in a bar or a club that you've never met before etc etc is more dangerous than to chat to them first online before meeting them? There's pictures of them you can see.. a face to face on a webcam each to be shared and of course voice-over-IP,.. (Skype etc etc),... then naturally the telephone,. so why the stigma attached to the internet as a means to meet people, (in person, in the flesh). Would love to know your opinions/views etc. Thanks!

2007-06-20 16:32:31 · 3 answers · asked by wildimagination2003 4 in Other - Society & Culture

I know you have the big three: The super duper good one where you get to meet/become the heir of God, The pretty darned good one where you go if you are a good person but you didn't fully except the word or whatnot, and the okay one where all the lame people go.

A little background on me. I am an Atheist in the sense that I am 100% faithless and I see no reason to give the supernatural any more credence than the Tooth Fairy. I do however consider myself quite open minded in the sense that if I am presented with appropriate evidence I will immediately shift my understanding to whatever has been shown. Also, I am a very friendly and highly moral person.

Now, presuming you guys turn out to be right I figured I was going to the second tier afterlife, but a recent conversation with some missionaries has left me wondering. More to come, darn character limit.

2007-06-20 16:32:08 · 11 answers · asked by The Lobe 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-20 16:30:15 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i was at my friends house and my cousin called him up and told him there was a bible study on friday and asked if he would like to come. i felt bad not knowing what a bible study is since im a catholic. and the wierd thing is that my friend is not even cahtolic or christian, matter fact he is buddhist. so why would he go to a bible study? what do you do in a bible study? how long does it take? whats the point of it? and when i think of bible study i think of it as if it was church like and church is boring so why would my friend said sure he would go to the bible study this friday? and why isnt bible study on sunday?

2007-06-20 16:29:06 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-20 16:28:17 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

One of the founders of the "ex-gay" group Exodus International, Michael Bussee, left the group after falling in love with another "ex-gay." They had a commitment ceremony and were together until his partner died more than a decade later. Bussee said he hadn't "met one who went from gay to straight. Even if you manage to alter someone's sexual behavior, you cannot change their true sexual orientation."

An Exodus spokesperson, John Paulk, was photographed at a Washington DC gay bar. Paulk denied that he visited the bar, but later changed his story and said that he didn't know that it was a gay bar and only entered to use the restroom. Paulk stayed for over an hour and purchased drinks for other bar patrons.

The current president of Exodus, Alan Chambers, said in a June 2007 interview that he has “come to resent the term ‘ex-gay’", "he still struggles at times with homosexual temptation" & "By no means would we ever say change can be sudden or complete.”

2007-06-20 16:26:00 · 18 answers · asked by χριστοφορος ▽ 7 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

when god sends someone problems as a punishment for something they did, does he know how the person will recieve that problem, for example if he sends someone a hernia, is he gonna know that to someone that just means a trip to the doctor while to someone else that creates anxiety and all other sorts of health problems?

2007-06-20 16:23:58 · 13 answers · asked by Ivan D 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-20 16:20:51 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If God is stable, why would a spirit acts like it can't find its bearing until it gets itself reunited of sort with a flesh? If God is stable he doesn't need it but the spirit is behaving like a separate entity from God, like a matured father and a curious son. It puzzles me the need of Jesus to take His body with him instead of leaving it rotten to the ground. Is it right then to assume that the reason God is stable because he is complete in its make-up(both the spirit and flesh) and the spirit is actually undergoing the process to achieve the same state as shown in the end by Jesus ressurection? Is it then but natural for the spirit to seek permanence on physical attachment to be both perfect and complete?

2007-06-20 16:20:25 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Some christians claims that freewill was the primary cause for Adam/Eve to commit the first sin(even though the serpent intervene so it negates the function of freewill) .....However, if the serpent wasn't present, would Adam /Eve disobey god's word???

note: according to some theist, the serpent was there to test Adan/Eve, but they failed to include that it's still possible to test Adam/Eve's freewill without the serpent. i.e. without any intervention, just god's instruction vs. Adam/Eve's choice.

2007-06-20 16:20:06 · 10 answers · asked by 8theist 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Could be food, activity, movie or favorite song

2007-06-20 16:18:58 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

2007-06-20 16:18:42 · 11 answers · asked by Mr. Potatohead 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Jesus spoke of laws in matthew about anger, lust, divorce,vows,retaliation,loving enemies,giving to the needy,prayer,fasting, money, worrying,criticizing others,etc,

no matter your religion is or isn't do you think these are good to live by?
what are your opnions?

2007-06-20 16:16:50 · 10 answers · asked by delana 4 in Religion & Spirituality