Society & Culture - 15 July 2007

2007-07-15 14:41:45 · 6 answers · asked by the pink baker 6 in Religion & Spirituality

It must be a real freak show.

2007-07-15 14:41:21 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Perverted priests make me sick! Cardinal Mahoney officiated at my grandson's confirmation. When I met him, I thought the Cardinal had a holy glow around him. Now, I think I mistook a glow for a smokescreen instead. I've stopped contributing to my church now that I know where the money goes! Any other disenchanted Catholics out there?

2007-07-15 14:40:03 · 3 answers · asked by ArRo 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I used a Gideon's Bible to wipe my rear end once at a Travel Lodge. I'll be up front, it is not Charmin.

2007-07-15 14:39:59 · 26 answers · asked by ? 2 in Religion & Spirituality

do i need to give him my seat?

2007-07-15 14:38:12 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

being open and transparent with Him?

2007-07-15 14:38:07 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-15 14:37:32 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Today we went to the Creation Museum
My wife, daughters and I
To learn the truth the Bible way
Without evolutionist lies

We were so excited and full of joy
To see the sacrifices,
The infants, women, lambs and goats
The dinosaurs and mices!

We goose-stepped through there one by one
Had lunch at Noah's Cafe
Saw Adam and Eve's Tree of Sin
And bought some Jesus taffy!

A door adorned with gaping skull
The scenes were copacetic!
A room of pictorial genocides
God's punishment for heretics

We saw the Holocaust videos
Projected on the walls
How we wish our fellow Jews
Had heeded the Good Lord's call

The sign read "Those rejecting the Word
Will suffer the Lord God's wrath"
And torment shall rain down upon
The wanderers from His path.

We saw the Planetarium,
The skies and moons and - dammit!
We missed the exhibition of
Our 4,000 year-old planet.

Today we went to the Creation Museum,
My wife, daughters and I
And for those that don't believe
It's a shame you're going to fry.

Love & light
.

2007-07-15 14:37:19 · 39 answers · asked by Gunning4Jesus 3 in Religion & Spirituality

What do you think judging from this quote and site? And for those who are going to quote Surah 4, that is one of many mistranslations in the english Quran and in arabic, the word used "daraba" means to separate, as in leave the house.

"Since there are some in the Muslim community that believe it is halal to smack their wives around because the woman is the property of the man, an unislamic idea in the first place, I thought it would be good to send out this important reminder. I know many people would like to see this issue not talked about as it is airing our dirty laundry in public, but it must be talked about and dealt with as Allah commands us to stand up for justice even if it is against our ownselves. We in the Muslim community should not tolerate our sisters being abused in anyway and should actively take measures to insure that this abuse ceases."

http://www.geocities.com/athens/academy/7368/w_abuse1.htm

2007-07-15 14:34:54 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-15 14:34:10 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

sorry, i just finished playing golf all day. i am doing good.

2007-07-15 14:32:42 · 5 answers · asked by Mos Def 1 in Languages

This amazes me. I actually saw a skateboard kid with a George Bush t-shirt, and George has devil horns. How many people actually think he is an evil man.

I personally don't. I think he is dealing with a major crisis the best way he can. He is a man of faith and tries to do the right thing.

I would like to hear both points of view.

2007-07-15 14:31:49 · 27 answers · asked by baron d 2 in Other - Society & Culture

I have had way too many seemingly coincidental experiences since I started meditating.

1)First of all, awareness

I have sometimes been somehow aware of a constant presence which is not my own, even when I am alone. Exploring the possibility of a Guardian Angel, but not too sure.

When I am in crowded, busy places, I sometimes experience bursts of emotion that I do not relate to. Actually in crowded places it happens many times, usually in a short time span. ie I might go through anger, happiness, sorrow, depression, love, joy and calm, all in the space of ten seconds or so, then just back to my normal self.

I have a friend online who lives over 4,000 miles away. I once managed to focus in on my friend's emotion, then told her exactly what pain she was feeling. She confirmed moments later that I was right.

2) Premonitions
It's becoming a common theme from time to time that I have been subconsciously knowing what comes next. About a week ago, I was discussing money with a friend

2007-07-15 14:31:07 · 26 answers · asked by ? 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Every religion believes they practices the will of god. As humans how do we know which one of the scriptures are the correct. I don't understand how people believe that reading the text of printed words as god has spoken to them.

2007-07-15 14:30:15 · 23 answers · asked by fishhookme 1 in Religion & Spirituality

The new Creation Museum says dinosaurs were taken on the Ark.

2007-07-15 14:30:10 · 20 answers · asked by bandycat5 5 in Religion & Spirituality

i have always wounder y some one would do this

2007-07-15 14:28:56 · 27 answers · asked by dani66 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I've heard there are people calling themselves Christians who do not believe in hell. They apparently pick which parts of the bible they believe and disregard anything they don't like. Do you believe everything you read in God's Word, or do you pick-and-choose to please yourself?

2007-07-15 14:27:09 · 12 answers · asked by doppler 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I haven't but that's because there is no one around to tell if I wanted to.

I've got to go find something to eat, Take Care :)

2007-07-15 14:22:11 · 19 answers · asked by Sean 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-15 14:20:40 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The Night Is Large: Collected Essays 1938-1995
By Martin Gardner pg 522
Saint Agustine has opposed the death penalty for heresy; he thought the church should limit its punishment to flogging,fines and exile." To put a heretic to death would be to introduce upon the earth an inexpiable crime". declared Saint John Chrysostom. But Saint Thomas Aquinas thought otherwise.
" If false coiners or other felons are justly committed to death without delay by worldly princes." he wrote in his Summa theologoica( II, xi), " much more may heretics from the moment that they are convicted, be not only excommunicated. but slain justly out of hand" By the end of the sixteenth century hundreds of thousands of poor souls had been savagely tortured and burned alive , or otherwise murdered, for holding opinions contrary to those of the church. Public executions of heretics and witches became festive occasions, like watching the deaths of gladiators.

Heretics don't exist, witches are mostly good

2007-07-15 14:20:21 · 7 answers · asked by zurioluchi 7 in Religion & Spirituality

have lousy directions or information on them. Could I sue for fuel, time, and pain and suffering for looking for their stupid sale? Mmm

2007-07-15 14:19:37 · 12 answers · asked by ? 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Bearing in mind historical facts like:

Christian anti-semitism led to the Holocaust,
Christians murdered all the muslim women and children found in Jerusalem when the Crusaders conquered it,
Christians tortured and burned heretics,
Christians tortured and burned witches,
Christians bought, sold, and owned slaves,
Christians divided slave families, separating husbands and wives, children and parents,

Would you insist that Christianity has -never- brought forward bad fruit?

2007-07-15 14:18:43 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

- Do you agree with it? Does it disturb you? What are your religious views on it?

(This is purely a curiousity question.)

2007-07-15 14:16:53 · 21 answers · asked by redglory 5 in Religion & Spirituality

"One way moods differ from the grosser feelings of
emotions, psychologists tell us, has to do with the
ineffability of their causes:

tho we usu know what has caused an outright emotion,
we often find ourselves in one or another mood without
knowing its source.

[Experiments] suggest that our world may be filled with
mood triggers that we fail to notice - -merely seeing a picture
of a happy face elicits fleeting activity in the muscles that pull
the mouth into a smile.

Edgar Allan Poe had an intuitive grasp of this
principle. He wrote: 'When I wish to find out how
good or how wicked anyone is, or what his thoughts
are at the moment, I fashion the expression of my face,
as accurately as possible, in accordance with the
expression of his, and then wait to see what thoughts
or sentiments arise in my own mind or heart, as if
to match or correspond with the expression.' "

this is biology ... how do people in non-face-to-face settings
do it?

2007-07-15 14:16:12 · 1 answers · asked by atheistforthebirthofjesus 6 in Other - Society & Culture

If I want to judge the way Christianity improves one's life, what better way to judge the matter than to judge the way the average christian behaves?

While I am sure there are exceptional situations, the -average- christian leaves much to be desired on the question of spiritual improvement.

Since so many people who claim to be christian fail to practice it, would it be fair to say that christianity does very little for the spiritual growth of the average christian?

2007-07-15 14:15:17 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I think they did over there in science and math. LOL :-)

2007-07-15 14:13:31 · 11 answers · asked by ♥ terry g ♥ 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Whether there is a God or not we appear to be going no where fast, actually we appear to be sliding backwards.

2007-07-15 14:12:57 · 9 answers · asked by Sean 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason
and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
This is fearlessness, and it is love

2007-07-15 14:12:39 · 23 answers · asked by ANyone but you 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Sometimes you are asked to pick an answer or pick a side. Well, sometimes I dont agree with the choices. I didnt say I didnt like the choices. Im not neutral about it. Its hard for me to describe but when that question is asked I believe the person asking just wont understand my answer.

2007-07-15 14:12:30 · 8 answers · asked by flyingwithachimp 1 in Etiquette

Whether or not you did, if you tell me it's wrong, explain your right to make a judgment on me.

2007-07-15 14:12:00 · 9 answers · asked by gm8888 2 in Religion & Spirituality