Society & Culture - 4 July 2007

What made you turn to Islam? What makes you proud to be a Muslim?

2007-07-04 00:39:00 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-04 00:30:20 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

It was devastating to hear about beheadings on the news from those radical groups in Iraq. But even David cut off the head of Goliath.

2007-07-04 00:30:06 · 3 answers · asked by ? 6 in Other - Cultures & Groups

A recent Harvard medical research project has reported that it's findings on the effectivness of prayer for recovering post surgical patients contributed negatively to the patients ability to show improvement, i.e., that prayer not only failed to help patients improve but that it may have contributed to an increase in post-op complications - patients who were prayed for did worse than those who were not prayed for.

The report of the study can be found here:
http://focus.hms.harvard.edu/2006/040706/research_briefs.shtml#benson

A video opinion of the study results can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-egPod0meE

Should hospitals warn people about the dangers of prayer?
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2007-07-04 00:18:26 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-04 00:16:53 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-04 00:13:17 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

"Ohne Spätschriften der AT"

I know AT is alten Testament but what are the late writings it's reffering to?

2007-07-04 00:12:41 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

From the quote, what do you think?

"Asserting Women's Rights
Ibn Al-Jauzi narrated the virtues and merits of Umar bin Al-Khattab (Allah bless him) in the following words: Umar forbade the people from paying excessive dowries and addressed them saying: "Don't fix the dowries for women over forty ounces. If ever that is exceeded I shall deposit the excess amount in the public treasury". As he descended from the pulpit, a flat-nosed lady stood up from among the women audience, and said: "It is not within your right". Umar asked: "Why should this not be of my right?" she replied: "Because Allah has proclaimed: 'even if you had given one of them (wives) a whole treasure for dowry take not the least bit back. Would you take it by false claim and a manifest sin'". (Al Nisa, 20). When he heard this, Umar said: "The woman is right and the man (Umar) is wrong. It seems that all people have deeper insight and wisdom than Umar".

2007-07-04 00:10:54 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-04 00:10:19 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What is the difference between the Vedas and the Rig Veda? Same thing, two names?

2007-07-04 00:05:26 · 2 answers · asked by Epitome O 3 in Religion & Spirituality

And how have the nazis misinterpreted them? Were the nazis protestants?

2007-07-04 00:04:05 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-04 00:00:59 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender