Society & Culture - 25 October 2007

Who or what do they debate in the R&S section (if they're allowed one)?

2007-10-25 03:40:46 · 5 answers · asked by Prof Fruitcake 6 in Religion & Spirituality

just wondering, if you have a story you would like to share please tell.

2007-10-25 03:40:07 · 27 answers · asked by Tila Taqila Lover 1 in Mythology & Folklore

...What would I see you *do* that would indicate to me what your religious/spiritual path is?

2007-10-25 03:39:57 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

*I.e., no posts for 10 minutes.

This applies to all belief systems, in rememberance of the 1,000,000s who have perished throughout the ages under the iron grip of orginized religions. The 10 minute silence would apply to Theists, Atheists and Agnostics alike as a sign of respect to the fallen.

The alternative, I suppose, is a 10 minute hate ala 1984, although this forum is rife with that as it is and it is doubtful if anyone would note the difference.

So I ask this:

Would you observe it, flatly ignore it, rally against it - what?

2007-10-25 03:39:05 · 17 answers · asked by Golgi Apparatus 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Just because I don't believe in traditional hell doesn't mean I won't burn in it right?

http://www.tentmaker.org/
http://www.what-the-hell-is-hell.com/

2007-10-25 03:39:01 · 13 answers · asked by Emperor Insania Says Bye! 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Luk 10:18
And he said unto them,
I beheld
S atan as lightning fall from heaven.
B ehold,
I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
N otwithstanding in this rejoice not,

2007-10-25 03:38:37 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- A Vatican cardinal said Thursday the faithful should listen to what secular modern science has to offer, warning that religion risks turning into "fundamentalism'' if it ignores scientific reason.

Cardinal Paul Poupard, who heads the Pontifical Council for Culture, made the comments at a news conference on a Vatican project to help end the "mutual prejudice'' between religion and science that has long bedeviled the Catholic Church and is currently part of the evolution debate in the United States.

The Vatican project was inspired by Pope John Paul II's 1992 declaration that the church's 17th Century denunciation of Galileo was an error resulting from "tragic mutual incomprehension.'' Galileo was condemned for supporting Nicholas Copernicus' discovery that the Earth revolved around the sun; church teaching at the time placed Earth at the center of the universe.

"The permanent lesson that the Galileo case represents pushes us to keep alive the dialogue..."

2007-10-25 03:37:38 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-25 03:36:39 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-25 03:36:35 · 36 answers · asked by musclemansix 3 in Religion & Spirituality

R&S nearly everyone (believers of all shades) are so touchy!
They need a drop of scotch or something to steady themselves so to speak!
anyone agree
Where's the joy you people of all shades?

2007-10-25 03:35:22 · 21 answers · asked by Plato 5 in Religion & Spirituality

natural first, spiritual afterward-->
law first, grace afterward-->
them first, us-ward after-->
<--BC first, AD after-->
Pst: it's AD now, ww

2007-10-25 03:34:47 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-25 03:34:05 · 4 answers · asked by chupachup 1 in Languages

please give some details of your rituals to educate non pagans who fear what we do, thanks.

2007-10-25 03:31:15 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

questions asked here about our religion??
I need to earn some good rewards as is promised those that stand up for Jesus in this life.
I must have the whole thing wrong.
Could you please explain it to me??
Please keep it simple.

2007-10-25 03:30:58 · 24 answers · asked by Prof Fruitcake 6 in Religion & Spirituality

How do you tell someone he/she is not doing their job and they should find another job without hurting their feeling?

2007-10-25 03:30:30 · 13 answers · asked by Cainam 4 in Etiquette

Speaking about the Quran, Goethe says, "It soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence... Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand - ever and always, truly sublime -
So, this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence."

[Goethe - quoted in T. P. Huges "Dictionary of Islam", p. 526]



"The Koran (Quran) admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious books of the world. Though it is the youngest of the epoch making works belonging to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new phase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transformed a number of heterogeneous desert tribes of the Arabian Peninsula into a nation of heroes, and then proceeded to create the vast politico-religious organizations of Muslims world wide which are one of the great forces with which Europe and the East have to reckon with today."

[G. Maragliouth in his Introduction to J. M. Rodwells - 'The Koran", New York - 'Everyman's Library, 1977, p VI]



"A work, then, which calls forth so powerful and seemingly incompatible emotions even in the distant reader - distant as to time, and still more so as mental development - a work which not only conquers the repugnance which he may begin its perusal, but changes this adverse feeling into astonishment and admiration, such a work must be a wonderful production...
indeed and a problem of the highest interest to every thoughtful observer of the destinies of mankind."

[Dr Steingass quoted in T. P. Hughes - "Dictionary of Islam", pp 256-257]



"It is impossible that Muhammad, peace be upon him, authored the Qur'an. How could a man, from being illiterate, become the most important author, in terms of literary merits, in the whole of Arabic literature?

How could he then pronounce truths of a scientific nature that no other human-being could possibly have developed at that time, an all this without once making the slightest error in his pronouncement on the subject?"

[Dr. Maurice Bucaille - author of "The Bible, the Qur'an and Science" 1978, p. 125]



"Here, therefore, its merits as a literary production should perhaps not be measured by some preconceived maxims of subjective and aesthetic taste, but by the effects which it produced in Muhammad's contemporaries and fellow countrymen.

If it spoke so powerfully and convincingly to the hearts of his hearers as to weld hitherto centrifugal and antagonistic elements into one compact and well organized body, animated by ideas far beyond those which had until now ruled the Arabian mind, then its eloquence was perfect, simply because it created a civilized nation out of savage tribes, and shot a fresh woof into the old warp of history"

[Dr. Steingass, quoted in Hughes' Dictionary of Islam p. 528]



"In making the present attempt to improve on the performance of my predecessors, and to produce something which might be accepted as echoing however faintly the sublime rhetoric of the Arabic Koran, I have been at pain to study the intricate and richly varied rhythms which - apart from the message itself - constitute the Koran's undeniable claim to rank amongst the greatest literary masterpieces of mankind..
This very characteristic feature - 'that inimitable symphony', as the believing Pickthall described his Holy Book, 'the very sounds of which move men to tears and ecstasy' has been almost totally ignored by previous translators; it is therefore not surprising that what they have wrought sounds dull and flat indeed in comparison with the splendidly decorated original.."

[Arthur J. Arberry - "The Koran Interpreted", London: Oxford University Press . 1964, p. x.]



"A totally objective examination of it [the Qur'an] in the light of modern knowledge leads us to recognize the agreement between the two, as has been already noted on repeated occasions. It makes us deem it quite unthinkable for a man of Muhammad's time to have been the author of such statements, on account of the state of knowledge in his day.
Such considerations are part of what gives the Qur'anic Revelation its unique place, and forces the impartial scientist to admit his inability to provide and explanation which calls solely upon materialistic reasoning."

[Dr. Maurice Bucaille in his book: "The Bible, The Qur'an and Science" 1981, p. 18]

2007-10-25 03:29:38 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

According to John 1:1-3.......In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

2007-10-25 03:28:12 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The young companion fled, the soldiers grabbed his coat and he fled naked? Why is this included in Mark's Gospel's narrative? Maybe the coat symbolises the flesh? A counterpoint; the Christ forcibly rejects/casts off the lower nature/ego in obedience to the Father? Or do you have another idea?

2007-10-25 03:27:47 · 6 answers · asked by Jerusalem Delivered 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Give an example of when someone showed you charity.

2007-10-25 03:26:30 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I am NOT an atheist; however, I often wonder how do atheist live their lives everyday without believing God exists. Do you ever feel a void in your life? Do you ever question the meaning of life and why we are here? just curious......

2007-10-25 03:26:30 · 47 answers · asked by Ms. Sarcastic 2 in Religion & Spirituality

:Giska á hvaða tungumál

It 'looks' Icelanding yet I have done numerous translation searches which has brought back nothing. Only 2 words which would be 'what' and 'language'. However, still not confirming which language it actually is.
Many thanks for all your help! :0)

2007-10-25 03:24:28 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

in the hopes that when I have an alter call for the blues they will convert ?
And all the illusions that I preform in my show will turn them into believers of my faith resulting in them worshiping me as their new god?

2007-10-25 03:23:26 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-25 03:21:36 · 34 answers · asked by ronford9 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I have been called an apostate by just about all of the Jehovah's witnesses who troll YA.

I find this label interesting, in that I did years of research into the beginnings of the Jehovah's Witness faith, and actually found out for myself that it is not based in Scripture.

I am now a sincere Born again christian, who feels scripturally oblegated (kind of like you are scripturally bound to go door to door) to share the findings about the WBTS and expose false religion.

It is my understanding, that an Apostate knows what the truth is, and in order to deceive and mislead, preaches an alternate gospel.

How can you justify the Name Calling? Is it possable that someone can actulaay leave the Jehovah's Witness organization and adopt sincerely, another form of Christianity, without being Aopstate in your eyes?

Please: Only direct answers to the question posted, and if you can refrain from calling names, that would be much appreciated.

U.L.

2007-10-25 03:21:12 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-25 03:20:26 · 13 answers · asked by ronford9 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Bleh - it's not even Friday yet!

2007-10-25 03:20:00 · 7 answers · asked by Emperor Insania Says Bye! 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Do you feel it is a duty to report that person in order to defend your faith?

Do you need to get a real life and leave Yahoo to the free speech forum it was intended to be?

Will this question last longer than 5 minutes?

2007-10-25 03:19:57 · 8 answers · asked by Prof Fruitcake 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Here are a few I have space for that are TOTAL lies!

1. Einstein was a theist- Utterly wrong. He did not believe in a personal god who answers prayers, a soul, or an afterlife etc..

2. Thomas Jefferson was a Christian- He openly denied the heart of Christian doctrine. He did not believe that Jesus died for our sins and was the son of God, but he sometimes used the word "Christian" to describe the moral teachings of Jesus.

3. Christians will quote mine from Darwin where he says that it seems improbable that the eye evolved. But if you read on, Darwin explains that it's not improbable at all if it did so in gradual increments. Another outright Christian deception.

4. Jesus was the one to bring the doctrine of having compassion to the world. I heard this in a debate last night by Dinesh D'Souza. This is an outright lie. Buddhism predates Christ by 500 yrs. Compassion is a core teaching and it teaches it better than anything in the bible does.

Name some more of their lies

2007-10-25 03:19:22 · 11 answers · asked by Earl Grey 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Or will it mean stale beer for eternity?

2007-10-25 03:18:56 · 6 answers · asked by Sour Girl™ 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I was accused yesterday of not being able to think for myself because I believe in evolution. That assertion confused me a bit as to what thinking for oneself might actually mean. What do you guys think?

2007-10-25 03:16:27 · 13 answers · asked by Nea 5 in Religion & Spirituality