Society & Culture - 27 June 2007

Do you think you can prove (yourself at least) that God does not exist?
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While answer this question please have in mind the following:
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Let's employ some logic.
During this lifetime there is no way you can search all the little parts of the universe where He can hide, therefore during lifetime can not prove He does not exist.
Now, assuming there is nothing after death: how can you then prove anything? I mean... you will no longer be in existence. So will not be capable of anything.
The only thing that will ever be possible to prove beyond any doubts is that God is real.
I haven't proved here that God is real, I proved here just that only He's existence will ever be possible to prove.

2007-06-27 04:33:42 · 22 answers · asked by Even Haazer 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-27 04:31:25 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

"Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law."

"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology."

"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to my god and myself alone."

"Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one-half the world fools and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth."

"Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god."

http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/jefferson.htm

2007-06-27 04:31:04 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

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I would like to remember this time, when what I thought was impossible became possible.

2007-06-27 04:30:35 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

Compare these statements...

"I have faith in X. I really feel that it is true."
-vs.-
"I have rationally demonstrated X. It can be proven using verifiable evidence."

Are they the same? Two paths to reality?

2007-06-27 04:30:21 · 18 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I first started thinking about this when I saw people protesting the opening of the creationism museum.

I'm having a bit of difficulty wrapping my mind around it. From where I'm standing it really doesn't seem to be of much consequence.

2007-06-27 04:29:30 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

just how do pornstars manage to get such big ***** inside them?

2007-06-27 04:27:50 · 6 answers · asked by Troubleshooter 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

I see a lot of people mentioning contradictions in the Bible. Would someone please share what these contradictions are? I was raised Christian and have yet to see any contradictions. If the Bible is misread and taken in literally sense, then I could see how someone might find what look like contradictions in the Bible.

Please share these contradictions.

2007-06-27 04:27:10 · 25 answers · asked by Yahoo Sucks 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-27 04:26:22 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

2007-06-27 04:25:42 · 31 answers · asked by Dro 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Cenam foedam

2007-06-27 04:25:37 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

to the fact of the hudge crime rates, school shootings, and general gung-ho life of America. I also feel this is at all levels of society over there, politics encluded. Does this country have a chance to change this? or will they just keep shooting each other and degenerating into chaos?

2007-06-27 04:22:45 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2007-06-27 04:22:30 · 11 answers · asked by ? 3 in Religion & Spirituality

It seems that each time I answer a question, if I mention that I practice Voodoo, I get thumbs down more than usual!!!! Why?

2007-06-27 04:22:00 · 24 answers · asked by nottashygirl 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Because someone has drilled it in your head for your lifetime that this man made book is the "word" of God?

Does it really make sense that a supreme being would flood the whole earth because we misbehaved?

Please use the brain that God gave you. I would be offended if someone thought I was capable of murder.

2007-06-27 04:20:32 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

....if there wasn't a God or Bible we wouldn't have morals, or a sense of good and bad? So the only thing holding you back from murdering and raping is a old book, and a God? Please tell me I'm reading in to this all wrong and that, like me, your morals come from a combination of instinct and education.

2007-06-27 04:20:04 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i fell as if even if i got to confession i still have guilt and i dont deserve to go to heaven
will God send me there

2007-06-27 04:19:34 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-27 04:18:38 · 29 answers · asked by Uncle Wayne 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-27 04:18:15 · 14 answers · asked by kit p 1 in Religion & Spirituality

everyone at school thinks I am gay because i am not attracted to either sex yet. Please help cause its not just afew people, its a school of about 1200 people doing it (though only about 1000 are doing it). If i go anywhere near a kid in Y9+ i get hurt. Don't say tell a teacher because i have tried that. the kids i tell on stop for a few days while all the rest don't just do it when they see me.... They turn it into a man hunt for me. I used to have a few friends the helped but they all got hurt and i kept ditching them to protect them.
personally i think a need a bodyguard.

2007-06-27 04:17:54 · 8 answers · asked by adam r 2 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-06-27 04:17:18 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-27 04:15:53 · 21 answers · asked by anil m 6 in Other - Society & Culture

I'm just wondering.. if God doesn't exist and all religions are bogus, why have all these different types of religion endured over several hundred or thousands of years, and why are many of them thematically similar?

2007-06-27 04:15:12 · 24 answers · asked by Linz ♥ VT 4 in Religion & Spirituality

its allways baffled me

2007-06-27 04:14:55 · 6 answers · asked by i have no identity 3 in Languages

Everytime someone points out something that is a contradiction or funny about Christianity, you always say that "JESUS WILL JUDGE YOU IN THE END AND YOU WILL BE SHAKING ON YOUR KNEES IN FRONT OF HIM!!!!!!!!!!" Why does Jesus have no sense of humor? You would think watching Christians falling over themselves to kiss his butt would make him roll on the floor laughing, let alone the invention of holy water (it is still water guys, just some person said something and waved his hand/wand over it). Or other things like that. Come on, Jesus has got to have a sense of humor, he invented Christians.

2007-06-27 04:14:15 · 14 answers · asked by freezedried001500 2 in Religion & Spirituality

It seems that there are a lot of negative assumptions being made, and I would like to know where they are coming from...

Thanks!

2007-06-27 04:13:50 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

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2007-06-27 04:11:49 · 49 answers · asked by Jeanmarie 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Art as a vehicle for spiritual expression is nothing new. Usually, however, art has been tethered to a religious dogma & has ended up churning out religious propaganda rather than being a personal statement of spiritual feeling. Being an Atheist, I do not subscribe to the theory of "spirit" being a distinct component of our existence that continues after death. Instead, I view the "spritual" as the apex of human emotion; thus spirit is often best expressed in the most trying of times.

Witness Anna Akhmatova: the Russian Acmeist poet had always written poetry infused with spiritual themes("Chiotki"--The Prayer Beads--"Belaya Straya"--The White Flock), but it was the incarceration of her son which produced the impulse in her for her most moving, "spiritual" poetry. I also Think of Kathe Kollwitz, famous for her depictions of mothers---and death("Death As An Old Friend"). Kollwitz lost her son in the first World War.

What works do you find spiritual? No Thomas Kinkade answers!

2007-06-27 04:11:29 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

there are more answers than other questions that have nothing to do with race? Does this say something about our society?

2007-06-27 04:10:14 · 12 answers · asked by Toolegit 5 in Other - Cultures & Groups

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2007-06-27 04:09:06 · 38 answers · asked by Jeanmarie 7 in Religion & Spirituality