Society & Culture - 1 November 2007

If you meet someone who doesn't believe in gay marriage, do you automatically think of them as your personal enemy? I'm asking because honestly that's the impression I get. I don't believe in gay marriage but I do believe everyone is equally important. I don't hate gay people, nor do I see them as "inferior". I just don't feel the same way about the idea of gay marriage. Know what else? I'm what you would call a "fundie", and I think it's horrible the way that word has been demonized. As if "fundies" don't feel anything, don't love, don't live, don't deserve any basic human treatment or kindness, even though we have never withheld any of those things from anyone else despite the cruel stereotype our self-proclaimed "enemies" have created against us. So, do you really see me as your enemy? I'd like to know. And if you do, would you be open to consider the idea that maybe I'm not? Maybe fundies are nice people too, just with different beliefs?
Or would that be a little too tolerant?

2007-11-01 09:05:07 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

1. Peter, the devil has a desire to have you, to sift you like wheat. Know why I wash your feet. It is enough to be as the master, not greater.
2. Peter you seek glory from men.
3. Call no man father upon the earth. (father, holy father)
4. Pray from your closet in secret. (confession booths)
5. Pray to the heavenly Father (pray to mary, and saints)
7. Son of man has authority to forgive sins (Preist forgive sins)
8. Authority to ordained the 12 ( ordains anyone)
9. Preach the Word of God, gospel (preach your own words)
10 Teach the Word of God, gospel (teach the eucahrist)
11. This is my blood of the NT (circumcise ritual of OT)
12. Incense is an abomination (uses of incense)
13. Doctrine of God the Father (doctrine of men)
14. Jesus gave us a spiritual church (physical church)
15. Use not repetition as the heathens (rosary)
16. give to the poor (the church is rich, tithe ritual of OT)
17. Baptism with sprinkling of water, Jesus commanded we be baptized in a river.

2007-11-01 09:03:52 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

In order for mankind to supposively know the difference between Good and Evil they had to eat from the tree of Good and Evil. So when Adam and Eve ate from the tree of Good and Evil from Eve having a little chat with a snake they did. God told them before hand surely you will die if you eat of the tree of Good and Evil. Hmmm that makes me think though, if you don't know what good or bad is how could you understand that death is a bad thing??? How could they have known God was good without eating that fruit? So of course since they did eat the fruit and everyone now has a death sentence why would God create that tree? Did he want to set up the situation so mankind would commit suicide over temptations?

2007-11-01 09:02:44 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

following god (such as overcoming the deadly sins ) and relate to the theme of hope?


thank you

2007-11-01 09:02:40 · 5 answers · asked by Me 2 in Religion & Spirituality

If you had to summarize why you do(n't) beleive in God into one sentence, what would that sentence be?

Mine: I don't believe in god because "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" (Carl Sagan), and there is NO evidence for God.

2007-11-01 09:02:06 · 29 answers · asked by Byron A 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-01 09:01:49 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-01 09:01:19 · 9 answers · asked by Ťango 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Wouldn't he have known that his angel who fell was soon to be Satan?

2007-11-01 09:00:48 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

$11 million is a very large amount of money. Do you think that god may help them raise it? They were acting in his name after all.

2007-11-01 09:00:16 · 15 answers · asked by Celestial Teapot 3 in Religion & Spirituality

If a believer reports a non-believer and the question or answer is removed, that must mean God is real!

2007-11-01 08:59:22 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I've studied Christianity so hard because I want to believe. But I just can't. Nowadays, religion isn't about self-discovery and spirituality. It's about politics and fear.

Can anyone give me a good reason to believe?
If God is all loving and understanding, won't he understand how I can't believe in him?

2007-11-01 08:58:58 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-01 08:58:16 · 36 answers · asked by Ťango 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-01 08:57:42 · 22 answers · asked by Bride of Christ 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-01 08:56:24 · 25 answers · asked by A friendly Jihad 4 in Religion & Spirituality

yeah u dont know me but ill tell u about me
personality : i am quiet and dont get involved easily i have 1 true friend a couple friends i hangout with sometimes..I can be weird and say dumb things im not good at anything..school..work.. u know..like most losers are
i dont go to parties cuz im quiet and no one invites me cuz no one knows me i havent taken the tme to get to know other

looks: i am tall carmel colored hair and skinny as hell probably from not eating.. its what i do when i dont feel good enough. i have nice skin and i think im sort of attractive i hope? i dont know i dont think it changes anything

guys are mean to me and so are some girls the difference is guys are mean to my face and girls talk **** but not to my face.



am i a loser? i do not think so. but apparently others do? and i know its a loser thing to ask on here if i am but i dont want to like ask my like 3 friends i dont know what theyd think
everyone has self doubts..

2007-11-01 08:56:05 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

2007-11-01 08:55:02 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I was saved by Jesus when I was 18. The experience was genuine and I really believed at the time. And I was assured by the Church that just as there was nothing I could do to save myself, there was nothing I could do to undo my salvation once I accepted it.

Fast forward 18 years. I don't believe in gods anymore. Am I still safe from the hellfire that I also don't believe in?

2007-11-01 08:51:39 · 16 answers · asked by coralsnayk 3 in Religion & Spirituality

What are your thoughts on animal sacrifice? Is it something you are against? Why? As long as it is carried out humanely, do you think it is okay for people to worship their diety(s) how they choose? Isn't animal sacrifice included in freedom of worship?

Just a note before anyone mentions Satanism, vast majority of Satanists DO NOT practice animal sacrifice. Neither do Wiccans. Some religions such as Santeria and Vodoun, however, do. Even some Hebrews practiced animal sacrifice back in the day. Usually, the animal is killed humanely, the blood offered to their diety(s), and the meat is cooked and eaten (this may vary with tradition, but the animal is almost always killed humanely). How different is that from say, killing your own chicken and cleaning and cooking it yourself? They just add the aspect of religious worship to it.

No, this is not something I would choose to incorperate in my own religious beliefs, I was just curious to what others thoughts were.

2007-11-01 08:51:32 · 10 answers · asked by Citrine Dream 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-01 08:51:03 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

and those who don't circumcise their kids

2007-11-01 08:50:32 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

...then how does it make any sense to say that it was created by a God who must be several orders of magnitude more complex than the universe and did not need a creator himself? In fact, an all-powerful God is the most complex thing imaginable.

2007-11-01 08:50:01 · 5 answers · asked by Defunct 5 in Religion & Spirituality

http://www.godhatesfags.com/

2007-11-01 08:49:22 · 13 answers · asked by socmum16 ♪ 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-01 08:49:00 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Nov 01, 2007
All Saints Day!


Ephesians 2:19

So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow
citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.

Question: What do you call a "fellow citizen with an American"?

Answer: An American

Question: What do you call a "fellow citizen with a saint"?

Answer: A saint.

In short, if you believe in Jesus, you are a saint. Enjoy your Feast
Day! And if you haven't been acting too saintly, God is quite willing to
accept a change of heart and help you become what you are!

2007-11-01 08:48:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

how has the celebration of halloween change

2007-11-01 08:47:53 · 2 answers · asked by blue eye 3 in Halloween

iam putting a stand with a wreath in the middle from qvc david shindler did u see that one

2007-11-01 08:46:31 · 4 answers · asked by dvcgurl 7 in Christmas

2007-11-01 08:45:29 · 27 answers · asked by Ťango 3 in Religion & Spirituality

"Ask and you shall receive" Or do you think you have to give a little somthing in order to receive?

2007-11-01 08:45:05 · 16 answers · asked by Old School 5 in Religion & Spirituality

DO WOLVES DESERVE THE NEGATIVE PORTRAYAL THEY HAVE RECEIVED IN LITERATURE?

2007-11-01 08:44:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

http://www.kellystarsigns.com/starsigns/chinese/index.php

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2007-11-01 08:44:30 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality