Society & Culture - 15 October 2007

if you tried religion and decided it wasn't for you will you share your story?

2007-10-15 15:00:21 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-15 14:57:32 · 8 answers · asked by Pull My Finger 7 in Religion & Spirituality

What did you think?

2007-10-15 14:55:29 · 9 answers · asked by Life goes on... 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-15 14:54:53 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Is it because they killed Jesus?
Or is it because they are killing Palestinians?

2007-10-15 14:54:52 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-15 14:54:44 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I know that God created the universe I was just wondering what other people think...

2007-10-15 14:54:21 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

All religions. You have heard the Word and maybe seen accounts of the truth. I want to ask why do you not believe? Have you ever tried? Have you ever tried to get to know God? I understand it is hard to do something when you don't believe in it. But seriously have you ever tried to be a Christian? If you have, what happened? Why do you not believe? Please give me details. I'm not trying to put people down or even say they are wrong, I am just curious. So please tell me your story on why you believe in what you believe in.

2007-10-15 14:54:00 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

(Just trying to understand the concept)

Isn't it true that when you die you have...
No brain, so...
No eyes.
No ears.
No tounge.
No feeling.
Won't it be hard to have any of that... life, that is supposed to come... after.
Well maybe not, maybe there is a way to obtain perception spiritually, so the question is, how?

2007-10-15 14:53:36 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

In any school, it's requirement to have more then 1 resource, YET, the whole of people's religions only requires one:
The Bible

In response to someone is ignorantly asked why Atheists don't cite their references (despite the fact reality is right outside their door which contains LOGIC), where are the Christian proofs? The Bible? Quotes? All from one thing:

Not ONE piece of physical evidence. Not one! No Noah's arc, no fossils suggesting we came from a RIB. No "Returns" even though it is promised, he'll also come tomorrow.

Where is YOUR proof?

Hi, welcome to one side of the argument

2007-10-15 14:51:56 · 50 answers · asked by Corvus 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Here is part of a Pastor Greg Laurie devotional. I think this passage has a similar message to my other question about being judgmental. Enjoy!

Judge not, lest you be judged. . . . We have all heard it. It is in the Bible, in Matthew 7:1, where Jesus said, "Judge not, that you be not judged."

But let's understand these words contextually. A better translation of the statement would be, "Condemn not, that you be not condemned." In other words, God is the final judge. He decides who gets into heaven and who does not. Greg Laurie doesn't decide that. You don't decide that. No one else decides that. We are not to condemn, meaning to pass final judgment.

But we are to judge, in the sense of making evaluations—even corrections when necessary—regarding fellow believers. Paul addresses this very subject in 1 Corinthians 5:

I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. . . . For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? (verses 10, 12)

Paul was saying that it is our job to judge those inside the church. But a lot of believers ignore this. They say, "Oh, no. Just be loving." But I would say that they don't really know what love is. Love cares enough to confront.

We are so into loving everyone, not even understanding what the word means, that we have lost our sense of discernment in standing up for what is right. We should do it with compassion, concern, and humility. Yet we should make the stand.

2007-10-15 14:50:49 · 18 answers · asked by Kat 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-15 14:48:45 · 2 answers · asked by tyikeela 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

The band. I think they are awesome.

Anyone have other recomendations for similar bands.

I get peeved that I can never find anything close to a Holy song for Asatru ( i am in a choir....... dont ask what an Asatruar is doing in Choir)

So I need somwething to make me feel close to my faith that I can sing along with a little.

2007-10-15 14:48:09 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I think you should dress modestly at a place of worship, My sister thinks not. Which do you think is correct... ?

2007-10-15 14:47:53 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Today some guy called me and asked if I wanted to make a credit card because I was pre-approved. And I told him, no thanks. Then he kept saying..."why not?" and kept making a fuss out of it. I kept replying, "It's okay, I don't want a credit right now. I have no money to pay it off anyways." And he kept going on and on and how I should get one to build credit. And I can tell he was getting more rude and forceful. So I said, "who are you to tell me what I have to go?" and he said, "well, lets' see...i've worked here for about 4 years, I have a BA in literature, blah blah." And i asked him, "aren't I entitled to my own opinion whether I want one or not?" and he's like, "NO!" and i said, "that's so disrespectful because you don't care what I think, who would hire you to work?" and he's like.."you are pathetic for not wanting to build credit" then he told me to go to the medicine cabinet to drink up pills and get a shotgun while I'm at it. SO rude with harassment. what do you guys think?

2007-10-15 14:47:44 · 8 answers · asked by craz34jason 5 in Etiquette

Could that explain his delusion about being the son of God?
It is possibility.

2007-10-15 14:47:26 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Before you stop and ask, my IQ is 167 on the Cattel, 141 on the Stanford-Binet, and 138 on the Weschler scale, with my highest scores being in Logic. I am Catholic.
Yes I completely understand the Big Bang Theory, the Theory of Evolution.
Here is my argument with why I am not an atheist:
1. I was raised with Catholic values (I'm 14)
2. I find that the theory is full of TOO many chance occurrences. The atheist argument requires you to basically assume that matter appeared without explanation, and all the matter that appeared spontaneously was compacted into one big "super atom" despite the fact that such forces as the weak force contradict it. The weak force is saying that atoms above the atomic number 83 polonium are unstable, and it has been proven that atoms above the atomic number 118 (ununoctium?) can't be assembled. If elements above the atomic number of 118 can't be assembled. then how were they able to form the "superatom" singularity?
There is also the radioactive decay facts.

2007-10-15 14:47:18 · 30 answers · asked by Damasta AM inductee 5 in Religion & Spirituality

The Crusades were a series of defensive wars against Islamic aggression in the Middle Ages and attempts to recapture the Holy Land from Muslim conquerors in order to allow safe pilgrimage and to protect and maintain the Christian presence there. Jerusalem had been Christian for hundreds of years when Caliph Omar seized it, and following that victory, Muslims warred their way into Egypt, other parts of Africa, Spain, Sicily, and Greece, leaving Christians dead and churches in ruins. They stole lands in the area now known as Turkey, destroying Catholic communities founded by St. Paul himself. They siezed Constantinople -- the "second Rome" -- and threatened the Balkans. They warred their way as far north as Vienna, Austria and Tours, France.


When they [Muslims] had despoiled all the country near to Damascus, they advanced to Jerusalem, took it by storm, and put all the Christians to the sword. The women and girls, having suffered every insult from a brutal disorderly soldiery, were loaded with chains. They destroyed the church of the Holy Sepulchre; and when they found nothing among the living, to glut their rage, they opened the tombs of the Christians, took out the bodies, and burnt them.

Why are Catholics hated for defending Christendom? For the same reasons Christians of all kinds, Protestant or Catholic, are hated in our increasingly secularized world: "I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." (John 17:14) Christianity and its virtues have been under attack since the time of Christ, and even more so since the so-called "Enlightenment." After centuries of attacks on the Catholic Church in "Reformation" circles and the later, consequent rise of secular humanism, moral and cultural relativism, and Marxist political correctness, the Crusades came to be seen and taught as an example of "Western Imperialism" or "Colonialism." Because members of the Church were doing the fighting, Christianity itself (and Catholicism in particular) was slandered as a cause of war. Note how the same people who scream about the Crusades tend to be those who scream about "religion" in general as being at the root of wars, ignoring the fact that atheistic communism and pagan Nazism killed hundreds of millions in the 20th century alone.

All this understood, it must be said that the Popes' noble, reasonable purposes for the war, however, became entangled with the purposes of those with secular interests and more interested in dynastic feuds, economic concerns over Mediterranean trade, or destroying the Eastern Roman Empire. Many "bad guys" jumped onto the Crusade bandwagon and evil was done by some of the Crusaders: the sacking of Constantinople (including the destruction of churches) and the murder of Jews along Crusade routes most definitely took place and are deeply lamentable. There is no excuse for such behaviors except human evil, but this evil was not sanctioned in any way by the Church, in no way reflects on Church teachings or her purposes for the Crusades, and resulted in the excommunication of many Crusaders responsible.

2007-10-15 14:46:44 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

what do you think is the perfect religion OR the perfect religion for YOU

2007-10-15 14:46:33 · 17 answers · asked by impishivy94 1 in Religion & Spirituality

In the past we have spent Thanksgiving with my Sister In Law, her hubby, their 2 kids and my mother and father in law. My inlaws moved and my SIL and her family will be visiting them this year. My son said that the day will really be boring so I thought I'd try to come up with some different things to do.... All ideas are welcome. Thank you!

2007-10-15 14:45:22 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Thanksgiving

I understand that the disbelief in God originates from the lack of factual evidence, but when did the most translated, most read, and most circulated book(s) (plural if the undeniable similarities in religious writings are accepted) become discredited? There is no factual evidence to discredit the Bible in the first place. (please correct me if that statement was false -with factual evidence of course.) So, what provokes the doubt in truth of the words of our ancestors?

2007-10-15 14:43:52 · 12 answers · asked by Mike 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-15 14:43:49 · 22 answers · asked by The Raven † 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Sometimes Christians speak past each other because of a different understanding of terminology. If one is to have a discussion with any understanding, one must be of the same accord on the definitions. It appears when one speaks of traditions; one may be speaking of two different things. When a Catholic Christian speaks of Traditions, he speaks of Sacred Traditions that .......http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-S6YMuFYyaa9ESBoW5DFwEjL_HhqA?p=87

2007-10-15 14:42:50 · 5 answers · asked by cristoiglesia 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Sri Lanka is known as the "suicide bomb" capital of the world since they perfected this tactic since the 1960's.........


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2007-10-15 14:42:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-15 14:41:05 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-15 14:39:57 · 18 answers · asked by ? 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Are they Chosen by Grayskull?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternia

2007-10-15 14:39:43 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-15 14:38:43 · 16 answers · asked by kamei 2 in Other - Society & Culture

From everything I've read on Christian websites, books, and heard from preachers, I've gotten the vibe that the majority of Christians truly hate gays, atheists, etc. Basically anyone with differentiating religious/sexual beliefs.

However, I know that the media does not speak for everyone.
So, what's your opinion on these groups?

2007-10-15 14:38:40 · 32 answers · asked by Joe Nathan 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I guess I just need a boost in faith. Lift me up, friends.

I won't bog you down in details. Let's just be strong together, right?

2007-10-15 14:38:24 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality