Society & Culture - 13 August 2007

Iran is run by religious Muslims that don't let their people have rights! If Fundamentalist Christians ran America then how would we be any different? They would force Homosexuals to stay closeted and make women dress conservative. Abortion would be illegal and there would probably be a law against blasphemy! In schools we would learn about God and be forced to pray!

If we didn't have a constitution and Fundamentalist Christians ran America, I don’t see how we would be much different from these Islamic countries and Medieval Europe! Everything Fundamentalist Christians want to do is being done by Iran and other Islamic countries (except they're Islamic instead of Christian)!

Why do they hate Iran so much if their goal is to make America a Christian version of Iran? How are these Crazy Christians any different than an Islamic terrorist?

The good thing about America is that we have the right to choose what we do and who we worship! Why do Christians want to control what I do so badly? Do they not realize that that’s how things are done in Middle Eastern nations? Have they never heard of Medieval Europe and what things were like when The Church ran everything? Why would our founding fathers leave a Christian nation that oppressed its people just to set up a new one? They didn’t!! And I think we should keep it that way!

2007-08-13 15:23:46 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Thank science, for fixing "God's" mistake.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/79540.php

2007-08-13 15:23:01 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Does any body believe that we have animal guardians who can talk to us through thoughts from other demensions? Kind of like an imanginary pet but more?

2007-08-13 15:22:56 · 14 answers · asked by BarnBratWGC 2 in Mythology & Folklore

can i find the words to baptize someone?

2007-08-13 15:21:13 · 18 answers · asked by mego 2 in Religion & Spirituality

you know how somebody gets in a car crash every like 30 seconds. how often does somebody have sex

2007-08-13 15:17:14 · 5 answers · asked by cubice52 2 in Other - Society & Culture

Sometimes my friends annoy me. (If you really wanna know what I mean I asked another question about it a few minutes ago.) Anyway, I want to write some verses on my folders and stuff so I'll see them and remember them. What are some good ones that really apply to this situation? thanks!

2007-08-13 15:17:02 · 13 answers · asked by 77684 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Hypothetically, picture a society that has never been exposed to religion but considers murder to be morally wrong. Why would a society like this consider murder to be morally wrong?

Please take this as a challenge and don't appeal to religion or God.

2007-08-13 15:16:16 · 16 answers · asked by Patty 2 in Religion & Spirituality

dress for the day. Hang around watching TV. Have you ever done this?

2007-08-13 15:13:41 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

2007-08-13 15:13:29 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I cant hang out with my freind anymore because her dad said i was trying to prove to him i was more responsible than him...
we went to a restuarant and we had a really nice waiter who refilled our drinks, offered us dessert very nicely, asked us how the food was, the typical nice waiter but even better
she was a really nice lady and the food was great....and when we were about to leave i noticed my freinds dad didnt leave a tip so i told him he forgot the tip and he said so they get paid enough they dont need any more of his money so i went back and left a tip with my own money...im only 14 and even i know how bad servers/waiters are paid....well when we got back to her house her dad called her into the room and told her he wants me to go home and that me and her cant hang out anymore because he said he didnt like that i was trying to prove i was more responsible than him...i wasnt though! i was just tipping a lady that deserved it because he didnt do it himself.......not fair is it?

2007-08-13 15:12:03 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

....interupt the service and openly challenge the minister on a particular point he/she is preaching on?

Please share what your challenge would be.

2007-08-13 15:12:01 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The Bible says that Adam and Eve, in their fallen state, were driven from Paradise (Eden) to prevent them from living forever by eating of the Tree of Life. Why is that better than continuing the present human race into living indefinitely? Isnt NYC an example of the slow but sure, up and down, degradation of following our own imaginations?

2007-08-13 15:11:25 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Who is he where did he come from and why does he exist. Why does anything exist at all. Who/What made God.

Please think beyond your faith because this is a bigger question than any religion deals with.

Why is there something rather than nothing!!!

If you think he's just been there forever, then what the heck. I'm trying to make sense of that. So there's this complicated intelligence that just merely exists, always has and always will. So he sits there for eternity (or outside of time) and then he decides to make something that is outside of himself just for fun? (the universe and everything in it)

I don't get it. It's unintelligble to me. I never understood it as a Christian and it makes no sense to me now as an agnostic.

2007-08-13 15:11:09 · 33 answers · asked by The Dog Abides 3 in Religion & Spirituality

do they actually know any atheist or do they simply assume that we are lacking in morals. do you believe all atheist are immoral and why?

2007-08-13 15:09:37 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Many people learned in elementary school that a theory falls in the middle of a hierarchy of certainty--above a mere hypothesis but below a law. Scientists DO NOT use the terms that way, however.

According to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a scientific theory is "a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses." No amount of validation changes a theory into a law, which is a descriptive generalization about nature. So when scientists talk about the theory of evolution--or the atomic theory or the theory of relativity, for that matter--THEY ARE NOT EXPRESSING RESERVATIONS ABOUT IT'S TRUTH.

In addition to the theory of evolution, meaning the idea of descent with modification, one may also speak of the FACT of evolution. The NAS defines a fact as "an observation that has been repeatedly confirmed and for all practical purposes is accepted as 'true.'"

2007-08-13 15:05:27 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Maybe if those who've experienced it compare notes and work together a strategy can be devised to stop it.

Here's a link to a new Yahoo group dedicated to the purpose:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YQARSnon-violationsdeletions/

2007-08-13 15:01:01 · 26 answers · asked by Jack P 7 in Religion & Spirituality

You may also wish to answer my earlier question that was delayed in posting.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvhOPO4m9hoQBhYSCjQ.Ag7sy6IX?qid=20070813183631AAeR1SE

2007-08-13 15:00:51 · 4 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Religion & Spirituality

and drinks are on the house, Cheers!

2007-08-13 15:00:03 · 6 answers · asked by voice_of_reason 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I have found a few Churches that do this if You came from a different Denomination.

2007-08-13 14:59:19 · 11 answers · asked by Jim W 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Isn't that just blatant necrophilia?

2007-08-13 14:57:42 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Why do people think that Christians are evil?

2007-08-13 14:53:18 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-13 14:53:14 · 17 answers · asked by shiningStar 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-13 14:49:56 · 10 answers · asked by smatts 1 in Religion & Spirituality

How many souls burned wondering why?

2007-08-13 14:49:17 · 6 answers · asked by biodegradable insane asylum 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-13 14:48:47 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-13 14:45:32 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What dose a christmas tree have to do with christmas!

2007-08-13 14:42:44 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I try to call myself a Christain, however I am also bi and I wonder what to do here. The bible says to love your neighbor, however it also says that any act of homosexuality is a sin. So, technically, I was sinning when a boy from school asked me to dance and I accepted.

I rented the movie Saved and just got done watching it a few minutes ago. In the movie, the main character's boyfriend confesses his orientation to her. However, after finding gay porn under his bed, his parents send him off to a Christain rehab center for "de-gayification". I wonder if that would resemble my parents reaction. I haven't come out to them yet, however since they are both conservative christians i don't think I should at all.

Am I really a walking sin by being bi? I am told my many that "there is no such thing as a gay Christian", so who do I stick up my middle finger to: my pastor, or my boyfriend?

2007-08-13 14:42:43 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

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2007-08-13 14:40:41 · 4 answers · asked by urwrostnightmare23 2 in Languages

i mean why do they say it? does it mean after that day or for the whole year? if thats true that means u can never wear white?
nd why should u wear white?

2007-08-13 14:38:13 · 7 answers · asked by P0lly* 2 in Etiquette