Society & Culture - 7 September 2007

2007-09-07 02:48:58 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

our beliefs and when we answer them all you gang up and give bad ratings. If you don't want to hear the truth...don't ask the question. It doesn't make any sence.
Are you that confused that you want to hear the truth, but when you read it it scares the crap out of you?
God Bless

2007-09-07 02:48:42 · 30 answers · asked by shannon 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-07 02:46:22 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in People with Disabilities

His dumb*** comment about women being lesser than men brought out a whole bunch of different posters: women, men, Christian, atheist, agnostic, and I'm not sure how many others ... and we all dumped on his sorry butt for being a sexist fundie "black pot!"

Have you any doubts now that, if it ever became necessary, we could all fight side by side, together, for a mutual, good cause?

(work with me ... I'm a hopeless optimist.)
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2007-09-07 02:46:04 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

:)

2007-09-07 02:45:29 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I respectfully submit this question. Is your belief in God based on an absolute knowledge that God exists or a feeling that God exists?

2007-09-07 02:44:40 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

First I have nothing against catholics ok? My very good friend is catholic, I just don't like the catholic system/leadership. I would like to share something with you. I am in Italy in the army and currently there is this priest that the vatican wants out of the church. Now get this they won't him out because he got some woman pregnant. I don't know if she is his girlfriend or finace or what. But he won't leave the church, which is the right thing to do. So what I am telling you is that I was told by a catholic that marriage is not forbidden but discouraged. But as you can see it is forbidden by the vatican which is your headquarters.

2007-09-07 02:44:11 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-07 02:43:25 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

There is this picture I have got
It really caught my eye when I
saw it. It is an Indian picture and
it says this on it.
Your religious calling was written on plates of stone by the flaming finger of an angry God.
Our religion was established by the traditions of our ancestors.
The dreams of our elders that are given to them
in the silent hours of the night by the great spirit,
and the premonitions of the learned beings.
It is written in the hearts of our people, thus,
we do not require churches - which would only lead us
to argue about God.
We do not wish this.
Earthly things may be argued about with men, but we never argue over God. And the thought that white men should rule over Nature and change its ways following his liking, was never understood by the Red Men.
Our belief is that the great spirit has created all things,
Not just mankind, but all animals, all plants, all rocks,,,
all on earth and amongst the stars, with true soul, for us all life is Holy.

2007-09-07 02:42:14 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-07 02:41:14 · 8 answers · asked by ..CassyyBugg*[♥] --lovesjosh 2 in Other - Society & Culture

We were just told that feminists can't be true Christians. We can't cherry pick the bible and ignore other passages! True Christians can also do this:
Mark 16:17-18: "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover"
Mark 16:19-20: "So then after the Lord has spoken unto them [Jesus' disciples], he was received up into heaven, and set on the right hand of God. And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following"
Luke 10:19: "Behold, I give unto you the power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over the power of the enemy: and nothing by any means shall hurt you"

True Christians handle snakes. Since "nothing by any means shall hurt you" this means any injury is a sign of a false Christian...

2007-09-07 02:37:28 · 36 answers · asked by Laptop Jesus 3.9 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Sometimes I can't tell by your avatars. I hope this is not as rude as asking the office hermaphrodite this same question....

2007-09-07 02:36:37 · 31 answers · asked by dreamer - VT-AM 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Is this just another case of Roman chauvinism?

2007-09-07 02:36:33 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

helping him while he is in hospital. Every single day I am at the hospital God has a script for me. Everyday he reveals the dream more and more and I know what to say and do before I even get there.
Unfortunalty I am sick myself and in most cases am on auto pilot. I can be feeling so tired and sick but God gives me the ability to do his work. Most days I don't even know what I am doing until I get home or maybe two weeks later. Any one feel like this when doing God's worK

2007-09-07 02:34:00 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

to an atheist there is no afterlife, so are you affraid of death?

2007-09-07 02:33:53 · 42 answers · asked by The Shadow 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Where does it teach in the Bible that Jesus is Michael the archangel? Why isn't Jesus called Michael right now since he is in heaven?

2007-09-07 02:32:58 · 15 answers · asked by Graham 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-07 02:31:26 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

we all see the muslim fatnatics but do you feel there are cristain anatics who are dangerous also?

2007-09-07 02:31:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

3 nights ago i had a strange dream that i had a beloved pet badger. a very long dream. the next night i dreampt about the badger again, only it wasn't my pet, but someone else's and i was somewhat upset over that. then last night i had a dream, and in it, i looked outside my bedroom window and saw the green man, only he was a scary demon faced green man - very scary and my hubby couldn't see him. my hubby woke me up screaming.

yesterday in my office, i lovely bat flew in and landed on the wall in front of me in the middle of the afternoon. i managed to safely take him back outside. this morning, a spider came down from my ceiling on his web and sat beside me in mid air, and at the same time, there was suddenly a giant black cricket on the floor chirping at me.

are these signs from the gods? what do they mean?

2007-09-07 02:30:24 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Is it a religious thing or was it just designed to make sure women saty virgins. Which don't get me wrong I'm not judging anyone, I'm just curious. I mean I think its horrible but I wasn't raised in Africa and I'm not aware of all their traditions and everything. I just was wondering if it was religious. Do women over there believe that it was meant for them. Do you they agree with the practice? I can't see how they would but then again I don't live their lives and i can't really say.

2007-09-07 02:30:07 · 16 answers · asked by Becky 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I found it in several novels and never understood it..

2007-09-07 02:29:58 · 6 answers · asked by simonetta 5 in Languages

I hear it everywhere lately, that jesus is coming soon and all us atheists will "soon know the truth!!!" so I'm just wondering if you can tell me when so I can be prepared? ps, this is not a joke, please no hatefulness.

2007-09-07 02:27:00 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

also do you feel that people who abuse them should receive more severe punishment than what they receive now

2007-09-07 02:26:07 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Can't we just talk about Shinto, Voodoo or Scientology for a day?
Can't we chit-chat about things we are NOT investing huge portions of our life in.... that we all (99% of us) believe are silly and can laugh at together?

I mean... cripes... we all know well enough by now that the christians want to convince the atheists how in need of salvation they are.... and the atheists want to convince the christians how retarded they are.... and the muslims want to convince everyone that they're not really suicide-bombers...

We know already.
kthxbye.
WTB New Content!

Maybe I should set up an R&S Sock-Puppet Theatre... I could account for the majority of people here easily with just... maybe 5 sock-puppets?



Anything to get away from the ridiculous monotony...
If I continue with the drinking game any longer I'm going to drink myself comatose through self-suggestion alone.

2007-09-07 02:24:45 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Can you be a Christian and a feminist? NO. The Bible is clear on this.

"But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God." (I Corinthians 11:3)

"For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man." (I Corinthians 11:8-9)

2007-09-07 02:24:41 · 36 answers · asked by Saved by Grace 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Whenever I was in the french quarter there were always a bunch of bible thumping bigots running around yelling that everyone was going to hell, I wonder what happened to them. I'm pretty sure god was indiscriminate with the homes that he smashed. I was recently told god takes vengeance on those that mock him or work against him. Why does it seem he also takes vengeance on those that support him? It's almost as if random acts of nature are simply that, random.

2007-09-07 02:24:17 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

It's really bloody annoying.

Improve your litteracy people!

2007-09-07 02:23:19 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Now bear with me.

Jesus Christ himself said that we would be persecuted for our faith. We are here to preach the truth. Those who are against the truth (atheists) would abhor it, and therefore hate the messanger also.

It's obvious that the atheists don't like hearing about God, but God is the truth. So a true Christian preaches the truth no matter what, even if it's unpopular.

2007-09-07 02:22:39 · 13 answers · asked by Saved by Grace 3 in Religion & Spirituality

i didn't turn the lights off
and
i haven't turned the lights off

2007-09-07 02:22:20 · 6 answers · asked by blitzkrieg 5 in Languages

Did they have any other "saviors" or "sons of God"? Did they have a place of eternal damnation in the underworld in their religions? Did they have any gods that impregnated humans to produce saviors of mankind? Did they have blood baptisms that washed away sin?

What about Jews? What did they believe before coming into contact with Greeks and Romans? Did they have any "savior sons of God"? Did they have a place of eternal damnation in the underworld? Did they have any gods that impregnated humans to produce saviors of mankind? Did they have blood baptisms that washed away sin?

For those that say "the devil imitated the prophecies," why didn't he do that with Jews? If he knew the prophecies, then he knew that the Messiah was supposed to be a Jew, not a Greek or Roman or Egyptian, but a Jew. Why waste his efforts with people that couldn't possibly fit the prophecies? Why wouldn't he fake the prophecies the way they were written?

2007-09-07 02:21:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality