Society & Culture - 22 September 2007

When people come to a public forum and announce their beliefs or ask questions about religion, I think they're fair game for all the arguments and challenges that other people come up with, but if they're just going about their lives with a warm fuzzy feeling about their religion, and they're not really harming anyone, is it morally preferable to just not bring up the subject at all - i.e. to let their beliefs go unchallenged?

2007-09-22 14:31:34 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

"Dominus Iesus," which riled Protestant and other Christian denominations because it said they were not true churches but merely ecclesial communities and therefore did not have the "means of salvation."

The commentary repeated church teaching that says the Catholic Church "has the fullness of the means of salvation."

"Christ 'established here on earth' only one church," said the document released as the pope vacations at a villa in Lorenzago di Cadore, in Italy's Dolomite mountains.

The other communities "cannot be called 'churches' in the proper sense" because they do not have apostolic succession — the ability to trace their bishops back to Christ's original apostles — and therefore their priest/pastorly ordinations are not valid, it said.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/pope_other_christians;_ylt=Ai91b0mA..o3P33gwQ0d0GLkeO0A


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2007-09-22 14:30:19 · 35 answers · asked by wwhy 3 in Religion & Spirituality

the following links are ALL the religious questions previously asked that were still open when posting this question.

love me, hate me, all i really care about, is getting a reaction (there's the childness i was talking about)

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ah7WKTs7GkXv2txNXNJQ5iLty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20070921154748AAgxgur
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AuFCmp9uCeC.j2ieKV7NUArty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20070921154908AAwujG8
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AoKwleuaDf.zttSKQRQtaJ7ty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20070922174410AA9ojiH
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApXJB5KF5IWyZYh1GtecXWrty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20070922175746AAN20jE

there are other questions of mine that aren't as religious that are still up too. & there will be more to come !

2007-09-22 14:29:12 · 4 answers · asked by biodegradable insane asylum 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-22 14:26:54 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Factor in disability, speaking only English and having a fixed income.

2007-09-22 14:26:49 · 24 answers · asked by Creole Baby 2 in People with Disabilities

i have to be on the affrimative side (i have to be for all immigrants and the United states being a totally English society)

2007-09-22 14:25:40 · 11 answers · asked by ashlea o 2 in Languages

religious leaders repeat the lie that myth is truth until the lie is believed by enough people that their fraud and extortion operations become profitable?

It is a lie to claim that myth is truth. The affirmation of an ability to know about the existence of a good one in Heaven at war with an evil one cast down to and ruling over Earth is a fraud that follows from the lie that myth is truth. Conservative ideological authorities perpetrate this fraud inorder to be able; to make threats against the life and or afterlife of anybody who does not submit to their authority; and to extort from communities of faithful believers tithes and offerings in exchange for a lifelong indoctrination in a standard of conduct that these same ideological authorities proclaim to be the discovery of the truth about the will of a good one in Heaven at war with and evil one cast down to and ruling over Earth.

2007-09-22 14:24:45 · 8 answers · asked by H.I. of the H.I. 4 in Religion & Spirituality

like i realllllly hate to hear someone popping and snapping their gum....and it's always a woman who looks like she'd knock you out if you said anything to her.....don't you agree?
but, really....what are your pet peeves?

2007-09-22 14:24:28 · 14 answers · asked by gone coastal 2 in Etiquette

start shooting first and ask questions later

2007-09-22 14:23:04 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

As we know, David, King of Israel had his eye on a chick he saw across the street taking a bath. Her name was Bathsheba, and her husband, Uriah was in David's(thus God's) army. David wanted this chick so he sent Uriah to the front of whatever war they were fighting at the time, hoping he would be killed in battle. He was. So now, David has free rein to go after Bathsheba. Funny that she didn't object, since her husband just got killed, but anyway, she and David get pregnant. To prove His power, and to show that David and Bathsheba sinned, God decided to kill their child as punishment.
Now, I have heard of people who stalk others and kill their pets, or family members because of some mental instability, usually because they are spurned or ignored by their quarry. What I want to know is this. this God of love, who kills children to punish their parents, is He okay? Or does he need psychiatric counselling followed by a lengthy stay in a penal environment?

2007-09-22 14:22:18 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

because of their LACK of faith? Perhaps they are not able to consider science because if they allow themselves to think it will all fall down like a house of cards.

2007-09-22 14:22:16 · 25 answers · asked by in a handbasket 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-22 14:21:33 · 12 answers · asked by wwhy 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I'm looking for a bible verse that reads similar to "I will always be with you," or "I will never leave you..." I can't remember the exact quote. But can someone find me the book, chapter, and verse number from the bible? I want to get it to put into a tatoo to commemmorate my disease. Thanks!

2007-09-22 14:20:07 · 4 answers · asked by Verselus 1 in Religion & Spirituality

i dont mean like when a guy has a crush on you and he's all hot and bothered around you, i mean like a person who you've known for a while and you can sorta tell that they want more sometimes, bec they are truely in love with you.

2007-09-22 14:19:58 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

I never thought about it, but she said why can't creationists and evolutionists both be right? maybe He is actually a giant organism something like an amoeba. Doesn't that sound as valid as any other belief structure being proposed these days? I thought it was kinda cool.....any comments?

2007-09-22 14:19:47 · 30 answers · asked by robin s 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-22 14:18:53 · 7 answers · asked by crimson_heart18 1 in Etiquette

2007-09-22 14:17:58 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Ive been told that christians are supposed to shine out in the mist of all the darkness in the world, but im gettin dragged into it. More so when school started. THERE IS NOONE THERE WHO IS NOT IN THE WORLD. They are all just,..........TERRIBLE. they curse, fight, they are ignorant, rude, and im starting to be this way. HELP!! i dont know what to do......i pray ALL the time. But it just seems like, i have no other way to turn, the reason im doing this stuff is becuz i just wanna fit in. I mean who doesnt you know?? Im having a hard time being the person that i have to change into when i get to school in order to be accepted. HELP ME PLEAZE??

2007-09-22 14:17:57 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Whats is these things calls Ho-Bo.. Many americaning talk about
these Ho-Bo people. Some one say There a Hobo and point to me..?

2007-09-22 14:15:23 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

Based on my experience with american girls, they always seem to ask retarded questions.

For instance, where are u from?what are u?why u speak with an accent?are u american?

Why all these non-sense questions when talking to american women..

2007-09-22 14:15:23 · 1 answers · asked by Marius O 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Are you controlling of your children? Do you tell them what to belief? Do you want them to have the same ideas that you have? If you say yes to any of these questions, do you think that your actions are ethical. Isnt it very controlling, especially at that vulnearable age?

2007-09-22 14:15:05 · 9 answers · asked by learydisciple 2 in Religion & Spirituality

If when your life ends you go to neither heaven or hell but a place where you must review in detail the last life you lived including all of the hurt you caused others... and then go on to a new incarnation in which you will be the one who is hurt by others?

2007-09-22 14:12:31 · 28 answers · asked by NONAME 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-22 14:11:43 · 8 answers · asked by ? 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-22 14:11:05 · 6 answers · asked by cynthia c 2 in Etiquette

1. Future Famers of America
2.Blue eyes brown hair
3.PCD
4.chickens
5. vegitarian
6. PETA
7. california
8.blush
9. New York Color
10. guitar
11. piona
12. white
13. blue
14. Arizona
15. black
(here's what I think:
1. also rocks my life
2.hot
3. good music, trashy girls
4.yellow
5. what I am
6. an awesome group, that sometimes goes to far
7. beautiful, but crowed
8. disguisting beauty product
9. my makeup company
10. awesome, can't understand how to play though
11. ten years of dedications
12.boring and, get this, impure
13. my fav.
14. jeans and sunsets
15. clean and unscarable)
what about you?

2007-09-22 14:10:14 · 8 answers · asked by Lena 3 in Other - Cultures & Groups

I have an devout LDS co-worker and would like to give him a thank you gift, something related to his faith and which an LDS would appreciate, but which would also be professional given that we are co-workers. I've seen LDS charms and pins (with themes such as red star, Moroni etc) but I don't know if it woud be appropriate for me, a non-LDS to give those gifts? Any guidance would be great. Thanks so much.

2007-09-22 14:09:13 · 23 answers · asked by Jaime M 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Maybe the lake of fire is actually an ocean of fire. I think that Hell is located in the Pacific Ring of Fire. Does anyone else agree? Who wants to go with me to see if we can find Hell?

2007-09-22 14:07:12 · 19 answers · asked by ML 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-22 14:06:59 · 15 answers · asked by biodegradable insane asylum 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I not offending any men out there... but.. why is it "BatMAN" "SpiderMAN"?? I Know there are girl ones.. but most are guys. So, why?

2007-09-22 14:05:34 · 6 answers · asked by Rebecka 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-09-22 14:05:21 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality