Why do christian leaders interpret bible scripture to suit their needs at the time? For example, before the whole global warming issue took off, christian leaders would say the world is at God's mercy and then back it up with some bible verse. Now that the global warming issue is front and center, christian leaders say that the earth is a gift from God and we should take better care of it, followed by some other bible verse. How do the faithful expect the heathen hordes to take them seriously with such discrepancies? Is organized religion about saving the lost sheep, or is it about pandering and money?
2007-07-22 23:58:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
I think so. Before this war mess started there were quite a few Christians living rather peacefully in Muslim countries.
Now of course there is a lot of anger because of the wars and oppression.
Comments?
2007-07-22 23:57:24 · 22 answers · asked by Emperor Insania Says Bye! 5 in Religion & Spirituality
I hate my life, I have no money and no friends and everyone screams and yells at me and all I want is to be left alone and for them all to get out my life and just let me be. My house is so small I can never be on my own and my mom just walks in and out my room when ever she likes and now her boyfriend has started to do the same. I cant be alone, I cant do anything on my own, I get treat like a little kid and when I don't do something that someone else wants exactly they way they want it I get screamed and yelled at, and even if I do get everything right I still get screamed and yelled yet and treat like I am 5.
My mom goes on about taking medicine and wont listen to a single thing I say, I feel like a freak and she don't even care, all she does is goes on and on and on about stuff I already know, and even why I do take it she still goes on about it and even when I got it she says I didn't get it and wont listen when I say I have so she forces me to take more of it.
I really like Connie and it isn't fair that we cant be together but I know why we cant and I am trying to stay away from her, see I want my mom to be happy and I don't want to wreck things but she don't even care a single tut about me and all she does is go on and on and on and on and doesn't stop.
My room is a mess and look like there has been a bomb in it and I am too depressed to clean it up, I don't see the point because anything I do is always compared to other people and I hate it, it makes me more depressed more sad, more angry, more hurt and no one seems to notice.
I don't go out, I don't have friends and I was forced to go to my uncles today and listen to a load of babbling dribble, all because my mom thought I should (help out), I hate it. All I want is to be left alone, on my own, in my room to listen to my music and play on my computer and I wish everyone would get off my case and let me live my life
Not that I have much of a life – I hate it but I don't know how I can change it, perhaps I would be better off if I could just die and save everyone the trouble.
Its so not fair
2007-07-22 23:52:19 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture
I have an idea for a new Christian animation (like Prince of Egypt). Disney should do it and call it "The Magic of Jesus". It starts with Mithraism, and goes through the ages showing the phony apostles like Paul being bigots and hypocrites, on to medieval priests raping pagan girls and mutilating pagan men to force them to accept Jesus and "Church Authority", and other foul practices like forcing sacraments down people’s throats against their will. Next show how as science progresses, “faith” becomes weakened, such as during the Age of Enlightenment. Then finally culminate to the 21st century to show how Christianity does not fare well in a free society with civil rights, where Christians cannot kill or rape people for rejecting their religion, and where the Scriptures are open to examination and scrutiny (and of course, this destroys the Bible), and found to be lacking. The end should have Jesus melting like the wicked witch from Oz: "I'm melting! I curse science! Ahhhh!" *poof*!
2007-07-22 23:50:18 · 16 answers · asked by ? 2 in Religion & Spirituality
Why do atheists make jokes about the bible or about God and about Jesus, when atheists are supposedly against religion. They don't believe that God, Jesus, satan, heaven or hell exists, but make fun and jokes about it?
2007-07-22 23:46:26 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
What do you think about Ghosts and exorcism cases? Well I sometimes don`t believe at all in ghosts or demons but when I was a kid (17 now) my family and I always heared noises in the walls almost every night and every day (with pauses for 2 - 3 sec like: bum.... bum.... bum.... etc) My mother gone to the neighbours and asked if they are doing something and they said they are not. My mother, grandmother, grandfather, aunt and I and some relatives heared this noises as well. My aunt always had nightmares (snakes - still now... but those are only dreams) as well we moved from the house - this was not the cause why we moved (something ugly has happend in my childhood but not this noises). I never thought they are ghosts but one night when my grandmother was sleeping she felt something was strangle her in the dream and woked coughing. As well my aunt screemed at nights still now... I have nightmares as well but more sophisticated... lol.
So do you believe in ghosts or exorcism cases?
2007-07-22 23:42:34 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
i would like some advice on how i can be a good leader to my fellow co-workers without getting sooooooo angry and frustrated with them. they like to follow each other which leads them to take more breaks and do less work. at times it gets really bad. and i sometimes have a tendency to get angry at them real easily and it just creates tension and very little positive change. but i really don't want to mention it to the boss just yet (there's no manager when we work). can someone help me with this??
2007-07-22 23:40:54 · 5 answers · asked by becki 3 in Other - Society & Culture
As i've been watching the media, protests, and all the general fuss about abortion it seems to me as though people who are pro-choice are the last of a dying breed. This frustrates me simply because I am one of the few left that still think abortion is unconditionally and perfectly fine. Of course, this is just my opinion....and to be honest, I'm rather indifferent to the whole issue (this is why I believe we should just let the mothers receive abortions and not meddle in their business).
I ask both those who are pro-choice and those who are pro-life to step forward and present their beliefs in an intelligent manner. I will award a "Best Answer" to the person that I feel has offered the best justification of the way they think, regardless of whether they agree with me or not.
2007-07-22 23:40:28 · 11 answers · asked by Nihil777 3 in Other - Society & Culture
2007-07-22 23:33:16 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore
2007-07-22 23:29:01 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
This is not a whine, or a moan, it's a genuine question.
Why is there such a large percentage of people in the R&S section that take great pleasure in A) pointing out any spelling mistakes and B) being completely and totally ignorant to the question and just leaving responses like "I can't be bothered to think about answering this question".
Is it boredom? Intolerance (the great hypocracy of religion!?) or is it the summer holidays and all the pubescent teenagers are on here because it's raining?
2007-07-22 23:27:05 · 31 answers · asked by Steven N 4 in Religion & Spirituality
2007-07-22 23:26:12 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
Because that's what it seems to me. Humanity doesn't have an answer to so many questions, and maybe will never have it. why do we have to make up the answers right now? why do all of the questions have to be answered right now, and always with the same answer: "God"?
2007-07-22 23:24:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
i.e. how many people have engaged in pre-marital sex, or committed adultary, stolen etc.
If you are a devout follower of your faith, how do you feel knowing you have done that?
2007-07-22 23:21:23 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
2007-07-22 23:19:20 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
That implies the rest of mankind iss inferior? A very nice piece of propagnada wouldnt you say.
2007-07-22 23:18:34 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
Ideas like the "big bang" etc they dismiss and give some drivle about the almightly. bare in mind that the people who wrote the bible were ignorant off most science, so wouldn't have been able to formulate theories about the big band, evolution etc.
So why now that we have a greater understanding can religion types not look to merge these ideas?
(sorry to the rational open people out there for any generalisations)
2007-07-22 23:18:23 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
I just recently started answering Y! questions and I was wondering if the mispelled words and wrong use of grammer is the way it is supposed to be done, or am I just too anal?
2007-07-22 23:14:17 · 8 answers · asked by E 1 in Languages
Do you know what verse in the Quran explains why there are differences in the Islamic community? What is the remedy for these differences?
2007-07-22 23:14:08 · 17 answers · asked by mikal08 1 in Religion & Spirituality
Words and mental impression really grasp the true Nature of existence. No mental representation or description or teaching can be the 'thing-in-itself'. So how can there be a 'last word' in anything.
How can being spiritual just be a matter of reaching for a book?
2007-07-22 23:11:19 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
1)Complexity does not imply design.
2)Tho even there was Intelligent Design, that does not prove the existence of God.
Voltaire said:
"From this one argument, I cannot conclude anything more, except that it is probable that an intelligent and superior being has prepared and shaped matter with dexterity; I cannot conclude from this argument alone that this being has made the matter out of nothing or that he is infinite in any sense (i.e. that he is God)".
3)If everything has to have a designer, who designed God?
4)Incoherence. George H.Smith states in his book, Atheism: The Case Against God:
"to claim that nature as a whole was designed is to destroy the basis by which we differentiate between artifacts and natural objects. Evidences of design are those characteristics not found in nature, so it is impossible to produce evidence of design within the context of nature itself".
full version here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_argument#Does_not_prove_the_existence_of_God
2007-07-22 23:10:40 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
2007-07-22 23:08:51 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
2007-07-22 23:06:04 · 8 answers · asked by ghelo_madrid91591 1 in Mythology & Folklore
i heard a loud boom and my neighbours gas bottle exploded and she was ok........... looking at the damage she was lucky she didn't die............ her time was not up......... anyone else would have died............ or was it luck?
2007-07-22 23:03:08 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
He is a god
he can save u from hell without killing his son
he can do anything he wants
why should he have a son
he is not a human being to need a son like us
he doesn't have human instincts like us
it's offendive for him when u say he had a son
please clarifay...
2007-07-22 23:03:03 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword." (Matthew, 10:34)
2007-07-22 22:53:31 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
Here's a list of about 70 Biblical contradictions. How many can you explain?
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jim_meritt/bible-contradictions.html
2007-07-22 22:53:28 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
in war related issues ? or any other matter ?
2007-07-22 22:53:27 · 8 answers · asked by B 4 in Religion & Spirituality
Do you feel compelled to stand up to look at your log?
Sometimes i stand up with my shirt under my chin and talk to it, like "how did you fit up there" or "now I am the master"
I know some people look to make sure theri diet is healthy but i wanted to find out if i was the only one the who checked ou the log?
Please don't send silly replies & try to be grown up as poo watching is a serious issue. Thanks
2007-07-22 22:49:12 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette
We see in Jesus compassion, unconditional love, HE did not say anything when HE was crucified... in Gautama Buddha...HIS aura was so loving that when ever enemies comes near HIM. they just forget about any enmity..HE also did not encourage war and fighting...
But whereas LORD KRISHNA and LORD RAM were both in favour of war and bloodshed...We can see in Mahabharat, ffull of bloodshed...Lord Krishna kept of murdering HIS enemies since HIS birth...and RAM also..
They could have apply compassion and unconditional love.
I am not able to understand why?
2007-07-22 22:47:15 · 14 answers · asked by Renuka Shrivastava 2 in Religion & Spirituality
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