Society & Culture - 2 November 2007

....that God forgives sins? I think that 2,000 years of all of humanity paying for someone else's sin is damned convincing evidence to the contrary.

2007-11-02 07:34:10 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

It's a movie. A MOVIE. There's Chronicles of Narnia, Bruce Almighty, Passion of the Christ, Miracle on 34th Street, etc etc... all Christian themed films.

What's the problem with one explicitly anti-God themed movie? Anti-theists can't have their 15 minutes of fame?

2007-11-02 07:33:45 · 18 answers · asked by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-02 07:32:06 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

So, do you think that Jesus is truly our saviour, or possibly just the figurehead for the biggest cult around?

I mean no offence to anyone, just asking a question that's all.

2007-11-02 07:31:42 · 16 answers · asked by financebarbie78 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Just curious what percentage of this section believes the bible is to be taken literally, what percentage thinks it must be read between the lines, and what percentage thinks the bible is not to be taken serious at all

2007-11-02 07:31:35 · 17 answers · asked by larissa 6 in Religion & Spirituality

And while the Mormons were apologizing for taking part, why didn't they finish the matter by implicating Brigham Young as the instigator?

2007-11-02 07:29:39 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

How long is acceptable, what prayers are to be said, what purpose would this be for, what will it help? Thanks ahead of time, God bless.

2007-11-02 07:29:26 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

As well as Pentecostals? Serious replies only please.

2007-11-02 07:29:15 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Have you thought the same?

2007-11-02 07:29:07 · 8 answers · asked by Lex Fok B.M.F. 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-02 07:28:35 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

shouldn't believers get to take a drink when they are stumped with questions that point out the senselessness (it's a word, i checked) of their respective beliefs?

2007-11-02 07:27:39 · 25 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I have to write a two page paper on 1920's slang and i'm not having any luck. I've found websites listing the different words but i haven't found any background info. For example who used it, how did it get started, why/how does it catch on, just stuff like that. So anything would be much appreciated.

2007-11-02 07:26:18 · 3 answers · asked by Manders 1 in Other - Society & Culture

"Every care should be taken to hold fast to what has been believed everywhere, always, and by all. This general rule will be truly applied if we follow the principles of universality, antiquity, and consent. We do so in regard to universality if we confess that faith alone to be true which the entire Church confesses all over the world. In regard to antiquity if we in no way deviate from those interpretations which our ancestors and fathers have monifestly proclaimed as inviolable. In regard to consent if, in this very antiquity, we adopt the definitions of all, or almast all, the bishops and pious theologians." - St Vincent of Lerins
"Let us not knock casually, but with eagerness and presistence, and let us not lose heart while knocking, for so it will be opened to us. Should we read once and then a second time and still not understand what we are reading, let us not be discouraged..Ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee" St. John of Damacus

2007-11-02 07:24:24 · 14 answers · asked by Jacob Dahlen 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-02 07:24:13 · 16 answers · asked by Semp-listic! 7 in Religion & Spirituality

How would you do it?

2007-11-02 07:23:48 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

We always had fundies who report anyone who disagrees, but we did not have trolls who would report everything you do.

That practice was started by Chosen by Grace and those like him have picked it up.

I agree with Deke, this reporting system will be the ultimate downfall of YA.

Are you here to discuss or are you here to remove anyone who disagrees?

2007-11-02 07:23:42 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If not, then why do we live in a fallen world?

2007-11-02 07:23:33 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

You're talking to an ex-catholic altar boy, and I was told by a Christian Brother that even the church in Rome took the Old Testament with a pinch of salt. The earth being made in 6 days, Adam & Eve... No-one really believes that. Yet you get these new upstart American fundamentalists churches that take Genesis as,,,,well gospel!

I mean, just because it is in the bible shouldn't make it unchallengeable. Who wrote it, from what source did it come, is there any proof anywhere that says Genesis was divine? When did God share with us that he did make the world in 6 days? When did God denounce evolution? Yet there we have Kentucky trying to make schools only teach creationism.

So why does this age old story that someone made up concerning the creation of the earth hold such respect with some of these churches in the States? I mean Christians the rest of the world over are happy to dismiss the Genesis fable, why not the US bible belt? What part of this tale is credible?

2007-11-02 07:22:28 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-02 07:21:49 · 51 answers · asked by L 3 in Senior Citizens

I mean, we see its work all around us, every day. You just have to know where to look, is all.

2007-11-02 07:21:26 · 23 answers · asked by Brandon's been a dirty Hore 5 in Religion & Spirituality

The only 2 stories I can find about Jesus being a kid is his birth and when he spoke with the elders. It then just goes on into his years of ministry. So, did Christ do anything significant as a adolescent?

2007-11-02 07:21:26 · 12 answers · asked by Sir Nigel 6 in Religion & Spirituality

there the same thing, just a new name for it.

How did they act?

2007-11-02 07:20:34 · 2 answers · asked by cuteness 4 in Other - Society & Culture

2007-11-02 07:20:09 · 18 answers · asked by & This is the depth of Beauty; 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Before war erupts with such a question, let me clarify one thing...

Us Catholics DO NOT pray to the saints.

We ask them to pray for us, just as we may ask our friends and family to pray for us. Can't ask them for their prayers because they are dead? We believe that when you are in Heaven, you are more alive than ever.

God Bless

2007-11-02 07:19:27 · 10 answers · asked by WhiteTiger29 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I loathe PC, I wonder whether anyone out there shares my feelings about it, knows who invented it, when, why and any good ways one can subvert it, frustrate it, or turn it into a laughing-stock?

2007-11-02 07:19:00 · 14 answers · asked by Steven Ring 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-02 07:17:50 · 15 answers · asked by Lina 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-02 07:15:07 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

Repent meaning to turn away from doing "evil", in a Biblical sense.

2007-11-02 07:14:49 · 13 answers · asked by River 5 in Religion & Spirituality

(Psa_100:4)
"I do not have to thank anyone for anything I have," an old miser grumbled. "Everything I have I got the hard way-by the sweat of my own brow."
"But who gave you the sweat?" asked his neighbor.
The old miser hung his head in guilty silence. He could not ignore the fact that God had given the "sweat," the strength to work hard and gain material wealth.
Yes, everything that we are or that we possess is because of God's lovingkindness. Therefore, it is good for us all to pause at least once a year and say, "Thank You, God." Actually, everyday should be one of thanksgiving. Why? Because of spiritual and material blessings.
Mrs. Green thanked Tom, the grocery boy, for delivering a loaf of bread.
"Do not thank me. Thank Grocer Jones," Tom smiled. "He gave me the loaf to deliver."
But when she thanked the grocer, he said, "I get the bread from Baker Brown. He makes it, so he deserves the thanks."
So Mrs. Green thanked the baker. But he told her that Miller Milligan should be given the gratitude. "Without Miller Milligan's flour, I could not make bread," Brown replied.
The miller told her to thank Farmer Foster because he made the flour from Foster's wheat. But the farmer also protested, "Don't thank me; thank God," Foster said. "If He did not give my farm sunshine and rain, I could not grow wheat."
Yes, even a common loaf of bread can be traced back to God, the Giver of "every good and perfect gift" (Jos_1:17).

2007-11-02 07:14:37 · 4 answers · asked by Allen C 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-02 07:14:34 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality