Society & Culture - 31 August 2007

if god created man where was he before the creation of man what was the neccessary to him ?

2007-08-31 01:39:14 · 8 answers · asked by Sundeep Babu 1 in Religion & Spirituality

If a Catholic, justify the Inquisition and other persecutions of "heretics" throughout the centuries, concentrating on why the Pelagianists, the Priscillianists, and the Manichaeans were persecuted; if a Protestant, justify the witch trials and the way that Protestants constantly hunted down native Americans until there were so few that the government could simply take their land; if a member of an Eastern Orthodox church, justify the persecutions of the Old Believers after the reforms of the seventeenth century.

2007-08-31 01:36:39 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Buddhist
christian
Hindu
Jehovah
Islamic

2007-08-31 01:32:48 · 19 answers · asked by John 4 in Religion & Spirituality

If you actually read the bible it should be NC-17 is this really worse than letting our kids read Harry Potter?

2007-08-31 01:30:35 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What do Christians think about this video of radomn killing ?

Is it equal to strapping a bomb to oneself and killing innocent people ?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17393.htm


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2007-08-31 01:27:44 · 8 answers · asked by wwhy 3 in Religion & Spirituality

So, christians tell me that i have a soul and that my cat doesn't, but my cat and i are both mammals.
How can they say that humans aren't animals?
What definition is given for an animal to clearly set it apart from a human?
And don't tell me my pets don't have deductive reasoning, among other things, my cat clearly knows that a car is dangerous without having to nearly get run over by each and every car that she comes near (she is not afraid of the noise).

2007-08-31 01:23:56 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-31 01:22:19 · 8 answers · asked by Ralouf 5 in Other - Cultures & Groups

My 3 year old son and I read a book about heaven, now he wants to go there. How do I explain without talking in depth about death and scaring him? No one he knows has died so I can't really use an example.

2007-08-31 01:19:48 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Why is it that republican and religious and secular conservatives continue make family values an election issue. The issue of family values and morality was ONE of the hallmark reasons for the Republican take-over of congress and it was also used as a theme during Bush’s first run for office.

Read the list of “hypocrites” below and respond whether or not you think that family values was/is a “SMOKE SCREEN” to win favor and votes


POPULAR SCANDALS


1.Senator Larry Craig, recently pleaded guilty to lued homosexual acts in an Airport. He still defiantly claims that he is not gay.

2.Mark Foley, had phone sex and indecent conversations with male pages.

3.George W. Bush, Republican president, accused in a criminal complaint and lawsuit of raping Margie Schoedinger, who later committed suicide. Accused by Tammy Phillips, a former stripper quoted in the National Enquirer in 2000 saying she had an affair with Bush that had ended in 1999

4.Senator David Vitter (R-La) who ran a hard-core platform on traditional family values, name was found on a Madams list. He told his constituents that it was a “private issue” and to leave him alone.

5.Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican governor, had sex with a 16 year old when he was 28.

6.Joe Scarborough, former Republican Congressman, currently a conservative talk show host. Resigned his congressional seat abruptly to spend more time with his family, amidst allegations of an affair. His intern, Lori Klausutis, was soon after found dead in his office. The medical examiner, who had his license revoked in Missouri for falsifying information in an autopsy report, and suspended in Florida for six years, ruled the case an accident, after giving conflicting information about her injuries. He said he lied about them because "The last thing we wanted was 40 questions about a head injury."

7.John E. Peterson, Congressman (R-Pa), accused of sexual harassment and creation of a hostile work environment by six women. Peterson has refused to admit a crime, saying only "I may have been an excessive hugger."

8.Henry Hyde, Judge who oversaw Clinton's impeachment proceedings, prominent opponent of reproductive rights, who had an extramarital affair with a woman who was married and had three children, during the course of which she and her husband were divorced.

9.Newt Gingrich, married three times. Gingrich campaign worker Anne Manning admitted that she gave Newt oral sex while he was still married to his first wife. Informed one wife he was filing for divorce while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer treatments

10.Richard A. Dasen Sr., Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, convicted of sexual abuse of children, promotion of prostitution and several counts of solicitation, enough to add up to a sentence of 126 years in prison


Conservative Personalities and Figure Scandals

1.Paul Crouch Televangelist, Former President of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). Paid $425,000 in hush money in an attempt to cover up a gay affair.
2.Ted Haggard, popular conservative pastor who advised Bush on Family Values issues was outed by a male prostitute who also alleged that he gave Haggard drugs.
3.Rush Limbaugh, triple-divorcee
4.Bill O'Reilly Right-wing conservative talk show host on Fox News, sued for sexual harassment by his producer.
5.Dr. Laura Schlessinger, right wing conservative radio host. Promotes family values, estranged from her mother, opposes birth control, has had her tubes tied, espouses saving oneself for marriage, admits to having had sex before she was married, opposes adultery, has committed adultery while she was married, and has slept with a married man, opposes divorce, is divorced and remarried, has posed for nude photos which are available online.


There are many, many, many more. I know that I am going to be accused of being repub-coserv-basher. I am not, I know the democrats have just as many scandals if not more. However, I think that the whole PLATFORM OF CONSERVATIVE FAMILY VALUES IS A DISINGENIOUS strategy to rally votes and to swing elections. THIS LIST DEMONSTRATES THE FACT THAT NO ONE PRACTICES WHAT THEY PREACH!!!
I also believe that we are all human and everyone makes mistakes, but it is VERY HYPOCRITICAL to impose ideas that these “cultural-icons” don’t keep!
(((What are your thoughts???)))))))

2007-08-31 01:19:43 · 7 answers · asked by Andre L 1 in Religion & Spirituality

if you were a snack what would you be.... be nice now.

2007-08-31 01:19:40 · 10 answers · asked by Market Magician 3 in Other - Society & Culture

2007-08-31 01:19:10 · 20 answers · asked by Perceptive 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I would like to know :

- Your own personal choice.
- However, you may NOT choose your own country.
- It really doesn't matter if you've been there, or not.

Polls such as this are carried out each year.
I don't want to tell you who the winner countries have been in the past.

It may influence your own personal judgement.

2007-08-31 01:18:47 · 19 answers · asked by HAPPY HEART 3 in Other - Society & Culture

What is the finniest commercial running today. describe it briefly.

2007-08-31 01:17:31 · 8 answers · asked by Market Magician 3 in Other - Society & Culture

in the bible there is alot about jesus as a boy and 25 onwards but what about the bit in between

2007-08-31 01:16:16 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i am interested in what visionaries have to say in such places as Guadalupe, Mexico; Lourdes, France; Medjugorje, Bosnia; Fatima, Portagual and others. One thing they keep stressing is the conversion of the people to God, otherwise they will feel the "fires of hell".

2007-08-31 01:14:16 · 4 answers · asked by The exclamation mark 6 in Religion & Spirituality

what would Scooby be like if he were human, what kind of job would he have? and what makes scooby snacks so good.

2007-08-31 01:12:00 · 5 answers · asked by Market Magician 3 in Halloween

worshipping a man seems kinda gay
but i could worship a woman all night long

2007-08-31 01:11:59 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I don't even know the staff members whose birthdays the party is for but my name has been added to the list -nobody seems to know who did it and no one has owned up to it-what can be going on??

2007-08-31 01:11:34 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

2007-08-31 01:11:32 · 1 answers · asked by mj_julian43 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Was John the Baptist a living example of family values or of the very Eastern practice of leaving the family behind to live a monastic life?

Was Jesus encouraging family values, or highlighting the value of a monastic life?

Source: http://gospelenigma.com

2007-08-31 01:09:30 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-31 01:06:17 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Holidays

Tomorrow you will meet God face to face, what would you have to say that God would let you into heaven? Oh and just behind you there are screams of horror and the flames of hell are nipping at your heels. This scene is a "reality" scene that you are faced with and you cannot change anything so what do you do?

2007-08-31 01:05:28 · 5 answers · asked by Free Thinker 6 in Other - Society & Culture

Carl Sagan (Scientist; Author)

"My long-time view about Christianity is that it represents an amalgam of two seemingly
immiscible parts--the religion of Jesus and the religion of Paul. Thomas Jefferson attempted to
excise the Pauline parts of the New Testament. There wasn't much left when he was done, but it
was an inspiring document." (Letter to Ken Schei [author of Christianity Betrayed])


Thomas Jefferson

"Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus." (All references not listed here, can be
found in Christianity Betrayed)


Albert Schweitzer

"Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had
to rely on Paul, we should not know that Jesus taught in parables, had delivered the sermon on
the mount, and had taught His disciples the 'Our Father.' Even where they are specially
relevant, Paul passes over the words of the Lord."


Wil Durant (Philosopher)

"Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of
Christ."
"Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ."


Walter Kaufmann (Professor of Philosophy, Princeton)

"Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life."


George Bernard Shaw

"No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its
legs again in the name of Jesus."


Thomas Hardy
"The new testament was less a Christiad than a Pauliad."

Hyam Maccoby (Talmudic Scholar)

"As we have seen, the purposes of the book of Acts is to minimize the conflict between Paul and
the leaders of the Jerusalem Church, James and Peter. Peter and Paul, in later Christian
tradition, became twin saints, brothers in faith, and the idea that they were historically bitter
opponents standing for irreconcilable religious standpoints would have been repudiated with
horror. The work of the author of Acts was well done; he rescued Christianity from the
imputation of being the individual creation of Paul, and instead gave it a respectable pedigree,
as a doctrine with the authority of the so-called Jerusalem Church, conceived as continuous in
spirit with the Pauline Gentile Church of Rome. Yet, for all his efforts, the truth of the matter is
not hard to recover, if we examine the New Testament evidence with an eye to tell-tale
inconsistencies and confusions, rather than with the determination to gloss over and harmonize all difficulties in the interests of an orthodox interpretation." (The Mythmaker, p. 139,Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1986)


Jeremy Bentham (English Philosopher)

"If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul." (Paraphrased. Looking for a copy of "Not Paul, but Jesus" in order to retrieve the exact quote.)

Carl Jung (Psychologist)

"Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in." (U.S. News and World
Report, April 22, 1991, p. 55)


Bishop John S. Spong (Episcopal Bishop of Newark)

"Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference."
(Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, p. 104, Harper San Francisco, 1991).

2007-08-31 01:04:39 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-31 01:03:22 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I know about Hebrew and Arabic.

2007-08-31 01:03:21 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

Here are the verses:

Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you." And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven."

We know that there is one Mediator between God & man....the Man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:5).
My question is this:
Were the apostles given unique authority by Jesus Christ at this point to forgive sins? Only God can forgive sin through Christ. What do we make of these verses?

2007-08-31 01:01:40 · 19 answers · asked by primoa1970 7 in Religion & Spirituality

this question because i fear Lord Saturn? Pls give me honest answers...

2007-08-31 01:01:27 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

And not through moving to the island of the Sark or anywhere else. Cars have done more damage to society than bombs, in my opinion.

2007-08-31 01:01:20 · 4 answers · asked by Wulfstan O Malley 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-08-31 01:00:48 · 4 answers · asked by revathi a 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-31 00:58:19 · 8 answers · asked by revathi a 2 in Religion & Spirituality