Society & Culture - 11 July 2007

in this document they said he wrote where it states that Catholicism provides the only true path to salvation?

2007-07-11 08:43:19 · 10 answers · asked by Another Fake ID 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Charles Colson wrote an essay saying no on Newsweek's religion site. He is the founder of the Prison Fellowship Ministries (conservative Evangelical Christian), which he founded after going to jail for his involvement in the Watergate scandal.

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/charles_w_chuck_colson/2007/07/paganism_may_not_pass_religiou.html

What do you think?

2007-07-11 08:43:04 · 20 answers · asked by GreenEyedLilo 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Your faith requires you to believe in "sin" and "evil", so that any new paradigm of looking at inter-personal problems must be rejected if it fails to contain those two characteristics.

It is well that medicine was able to lift itself out of demonology so as to treat mental illness with something better than holy water.

But your need to interpret events as "the work of the devil" and to look for the worse in others only furthers a need to insulate yourself from the rest of humanity and see them as "evil corrupters of faith".

And yet, without the concept of "Satan" and "evil" and "sin" your faith has no real basis for existence, beyond learning to love one another which most other faiths and philosophies advise anyway.

So isn't it true you must believe in sin, Satan and evil to justify your faith in a God who saves you from all of that? Doesn't my refusal to be converted represent an evil, sinful nature in your eyes, and thus colour all else you interpret of me?

2007-07-11 08:41:24 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

about the state of youth today. (yes, I know, for eternity, elders have thought the same thing)...I see HS grads who cannot add, subtract, mulitply or divide WITH a calculator ! So many of these same graduates cannot read, certainly cannot write, spelling is beyond them. NOW...here is the question....when the future of the US is left in the hands of about 1-5% of those same HS graduates (the ones who actually learned something instead of being cool and chasing boys), obviously, our pool of "leaders" will be greatly reduced...(do we really want another GW BUSH as President...sorry about the politics). I would love to hear your thoughts on this scourge of ignorance our schools and .... parents... are churning out. I could go on and on, but I will let you fill in the blanks..I do not think I am painting an abnormally dire forecast...I see this everyday, cannot hire 95% of job applicants because they can't even divide by 10!

2007-07-11 08:41:00 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

2007-07-11 08:40:18 · 14 answers · asked by ~LARIAH~5/1/09 7lbs 12 oz 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Pope Benedict XVI reasserted the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says other Christian communities are either defective or not true churches and Catholicism provides the only true path to salvation.

2007-07-11 08:37:22 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Why is god referred to as a "he"? Why can't god be a female? I have always wondered this. Maybe since men wrote the bible they made god a male? I just want to know other people's thoughts about god's gender.

2007-07-11 08:35:40 · 39 answers · asked by Meggi 2 in Religion & Spirituality

He was in tijuana with his parents and got some water out of the gutter. It was brown and really gross looking. He hates this kid Randell and poured some of the water on his salad when he wasnt looking. Randell has not been to school in 3 weeks since then. Do you think it was because of the water. I cant tell because i promised my dad i wouldnt tell on people in life. What should I do?

2007-07-11 08:34:47 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

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The Bible describes a God who will inflict worse torture than any human has ever done, a God whose acts would garner condemnation from every quarter of the earth were they performed by a ruler or revolutionary.

Yet Christians worship this God and look forward to those moment when they believe such atrocities will occur.

Or do they not?

Am I ill-informed, or somehow misinterpreting the scriptures?

Explain to me why Christians do not long for the anguish of those who disagree with their beliefs.

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2007-07-11 08:34:26 · 25 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Religion & Spirituality

all the answers just said "It doesn't matter". How many of you would have broke out in a sweat racing to post something if it was a Catholic Church? Then I am sure you wouldn't have said "It doesn't matter"

2007-07-11 08:34:10 · 5 answers · asked by Midge 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Do you really think that God spends ALL his time creating souls and stuffing them into babies? Why not just have all the souls already made and ready to go. It says in the Bible that God knew King David before he formed him in his mothers womb. It DOESN"T say he knew ABOUT David or OF David. It says he KNEW David. Alot of Christians add little words to the Bible to change the meaning. Also, Muhomad saved the Origional Genisis acount and when you compair it to what Joseph Smith wrote it's very simular. In the Koran Genisis acount Adam and eve lived in heaven before they came to earth. This was the acount before some men got their gruby hands on it. But really, do you believe that God spends all his time creating souls at the SPUR OF THE MOMENT when someone has sex.

2007-07-11 08:32:51 · 4 answers · asked by Melissa Y 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Catholics & Christians, do you think sex before marriage is wrong?? I'm confused, and need some guidance, perferably bibical or religious. But good advice from experience or from another religion is also much apperciated. Thanks!! :)

2007-07-11 08:32:21 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

a nice ride, a nice house and do not help anyone with their money?....was wondering if i was the only one who noticed this ..maybe its just my town i dont know

and i believe in god

2007-07-11 08:31:02 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I think they are miserable, lonely, angry, abused as children(whether, mentally, physically, etc). I say so because the amount of hate it takes is not normal. I think a lot of these people had little or no contact with other humans(their mothers and fathers) growing up. They are just bitter souls and it is unfortunate.

2007-07-11 08:30:51 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

I tried Babel Fish and the literal translation comes up as 'Not what'. This does not help me. Does anyone know???

2007-07-11 08:30:38 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

Doesn't feel very nice to be told you're going to Hell, does it?

Maybe you'll think twice next time you say it to an atheist.

2007-07-11 08:30:21 · 14 answers · asked by Drake the Deist 2 in Religion & Spirituality

not your interpetation, just where it mentions the word gay or homosexual,because other words could be used to however you want, where does it say gay or homosexual

2007-07-11 08:28:53 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-11 08:27:59 · 22 answers · asked by Tom S 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-11 08:27:46 · 23 answers · asked by Phillip S 2 in Religion & Spirituality

My friend always asks me what language eskimos speak i say eskimonain which is obviously not right, but i dont know the real answer, i hope someone can help me with it =)

2007-07-11 08:27:35 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

that the majority of these ignorant anti "black" posters are uneducated sloths, looking for a scapegoat to soothe their turbulent and tumultuous lives?

2007-07-11 08:27:17 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

So the events of 9-11- 01 Was actually caused by the dominant thoughts of those who were sent here to attack us, Their dominant thoughts were engrained by the teachings of their family, religion, and community. Not the dominant thoughts and teachings of those who were victims of that attack. Do you agree or Disagree?

2007-07-11 08:27:11 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Most Christians who were polled by Campaign to Defend the Constitution and Lake Research Partners, that's who.

http://news.nky.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070629/NEWS0103/706290399

Would love to know what all y'all (Christian or not) think of these results!

2007-07-11 08:26:57 · 12 answers · asked by GreenEyedLilo 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Have you ever left yahoo for an extended period of time? If so, why? And why did you come back?

2007-07-11 08:26:38 · 19 answers · asked by Darth Cheney 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I want to have a really cool 17th birthday party but my parents won't really spend that much money on it.....so it has to be something cheap and FUN!!! It needs a theme!!! But i dont know what to do!?!?!?! Help!!

2007-07-11 08:26:33 · 4 answers · asked by peaceemily 1 in Other - Holidays

Her 6 year-old daughter was born with a clump of blood vessels under her upper lip that swells and makes her mouth look distorted.

I was using Photoshop to remove the lump to see what she would look like . . .my friend saw the file when she was using my computer and started crying . . .now she won't talk to me. What should I do?

2007-07-11 08:26:30 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

Why are Americans such prudes about topless beaches and nude beaches? It doesn't bother me, but in Europe noone cares. In this country we seem to raise our children to be impaired by these images when there is nothing wrong with them. Where does this mentality come from? In the South Seas women go topless as well as Africa.

2007-07-11 08:25:55 · 26 answers · asked by SweetKisses 2 in Etiquette

O.K. Fundies, do you really believe that people can turn from their supposed sin of homosexuality? Do you really believe in these ex-gay groups?

If so, if single, would you be willing to date/marry/have children with someone who was a "former" homosexual, who supposedly turned from the "sinful" lifestyle and found your idea of God ?

Would you mind if your adult child dated/married/had children with a former homosexual who found your idea of God?

Would you be willing to go to a Church retreat with a former homosexual and share sleeping/bathroom/shower quarters knowing you may be nude in front of them?

If you truly believe that one can turn from this "supposed" sin...shouldn't you be able to answer yes to all of the above?

Your thoughts?

2007-07-11 08:25:02 · 13 answers · asked by G.C. 5 in Religion & Spirituality

My point is that Christians have had a persecution complex going on for so long that they occasionally experience mass paranoid delusions.
I’m not trying to imply that every Christian is in need of therapy.
I am saying that just because large majorities of people believe something doesn’t in any way help prove its true.
I don’t even believe it’s a Christian thing particularly; it’s a majority thing.
Christianity gives the majority the moral authority to come to wrong conclusions, just as Paganism gave the Roman Emperors and Senate the moral authority to mismanage the peoples of their time.
Christianity was the New Age philosophy at one time.

2007-07-11 08:24:30 · 4 answers · asked by ♥Gnostic♥ 4 in Religion & Spirituality

i`m planing to open a coffee house n i want to name it aok cafe` i just wanted to know the other words for oak in all the languages!

2007-07-11 08:23:39 · 22 answers · asked by ♥ Xeina ♥ 2 in Languages