Society & Culture - 21 November 2007

I understand why this happens in society at large (in the US)...the majority of us are Christian. But with all the questions from so many points of view here, why is it that a sizable minority of questioners here continue to ask with the presumption we're all Christians when we clearly aren't?

2007-11-21 14:40:17 · 24 answers · asked by Nightwind 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-21 14:39:14 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

In other words, what rules are Christians expected to follow for church membership, but non-believers can ignore without getting pressured by Christians to comply?

2007-11-21 14:39:11 · 16 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-21 14:37:44 · 8 answers · asked by ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 2 in Thanksgiving

When you were at your lowest point in life, and you were the most depressed that you had ever been, how did you bring yourself out of it?

2007-11-21 14:37:19 · 6 answers · asked by Persephone 6 in Other - Society & Culture

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it speaks of wars and more wars, famine, drought, etc. Yet the world has suffered similar maladies over millineums hasn't it?
There have always been wars. There has always been famine. There has always been drought.
So.
When is the end coming?

2007-11-21 14:37:17 · 20 answers · asked by rare2findd 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-21 14:37:14 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Thanksgiving

what r u thankful for

2007-11-21 14:36:59 · 36 answers · asked by qdawg 2 in Thanksgiving

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071121190958AAmMale&cp=2

"It is rude to have an opinion about someone's beliefs"

Was one of the answers. I am curious as to why this would be rude. I can see the point of this person assuming I am entirely ignorant of someone's beliefs and had already made my mind up but if I am well educated in their belief system/structure from either previous experience from other similar believers or happened to have been one am I still being rude in making a judgement on this person by them making it known their religious affiliation?

The key word is rude. I know making large generalizations and saying someone is (insult) for being (religious affliation) is ignorant. But in the above, is it rude?

2007-11-21 14:36:13 · 11 answers · asked by meissen97 6 in Religion & Spirituality

why is it that the Christian god is so highly believed when there were soooo many other gods and goddesses in sooo many other cultures before Christianity. the egyptians and aztecs and mayans and many others were all before the time of Christianity yet somehow that view of god is held so highly. who are they to say their god is the one who created everything.

please dont start preaching your personal religion. I really dont mean any offence to anyone i just want some honest opinions.

2007-11-21 14:35:09 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Revelation 17:16-17…"They shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire." (Are they going to eat her first and then burn her?)

2007-11-21 14:34:50 · 9 answers · asked by Kas S 2 in Religion & Spirituality

If yes why if not why?

2007-11-21 14:34:32 · 8 answers · asked by thefinalresult 7 in Thanksgiving

What do you think the true meaning of christmas is?
I want to know

2007-11-21 14:31:03 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Valentine's Day

Is this really R&S, theres no arguments, no fighting, no hatefulness... I'm not complaining but it's weird, it doesn't feel like R&S... anyone else feel that way?
Or is it just because I'm usually on at another time?

2007-11-21 14:30:57 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

In the summer of 2006 I worked at one and they had an enrichment program for kids and teens and the summer program seemed more laid back than what some of the kids who went to the church's school during the year. But are Penecostals really strict, the ones are know are mostly black and seem nice. It was a black/minority (mostly) that I worked at.

2007-11-21 14:30:48 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Judges 9.5 : Abimelech kills 69 brothers "upon one stone."

How he managed that?

2007-11-21 14:30:31 · 9 answers · asked by Kas S 2 in Religion & Spirituality

DEISM: The belief, based solely on reason, in a God who created the universe and then abandoned it, assuming no control over life, exerting no influence on natural phenomena, and giving no supernatural revelation. (American Heritage Dictionary)

2007-11-21 14:30:18 · 27 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-21 14:29:58 · 27 answers · asked by Dave o 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

someone on yahoo user answered this question i think thequestion was love is best expressed?
"Pure love is expressed by silence! More you talk or act, more fake it is." I asume saying to love yourself because i think that your left with own thougts since i don't think talking or acting is consider either these, and to me, love has some form of care, knowing, and understanding. I asked my friend, i am pertty sure he/she said that the quote is wisedom, not logic, and that can't combime them together. That it not loving yourself, that expressing love is care, not how some teen show it. I don't know,but it poking up in my head and making question what did person meant by pure love. I think i need example and definition.

2007-11-21 14:29:40 · 2 answers · asked by Creek S 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-21 14:28:59 · 30 answers · asked by EGO 4 in Etiquette

Ephesians 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

Ephesians 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
-Also either God knows all things or he doesn't, he either knows what will happen first or he doesn't. He knew the choice Satan and allowed it to happen. God I hate to say it created Sin.

2007-11-21 14:28:44 · 9 answers · asked by TSIRHC 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-21 14:27:18 · 8 answers · asked by Watch it bub! 3 in Religion & Spirituality

1) Do you find it insulting or derogatory when a homosexual uses negative terms regarding their sexuality or someone else's sexuality? i.e. a homosexual referring to someone else as a f*g or q*eer?

2) Have you ever bought curly fries because you thought they were onion rings and were rudely awakened when you opened the bag?

Much love,
Cas

2007-11-21 14:26:42 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-11-21 14:25:33 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Thanksgiving

I believe that everything in life has purpose and there's a lesson to be learned from every experience. What are some of the lessons that life has taught you from your personal experiences:?

2007-11-21 14:24:09 · 14 answers · asked by Bethany 6 in Other - Society & Culture

does your family have anything different besides turkey mashpotatoes, stuffing etc....., like cheeseburgers and french frys, hotdogs and chips, pizza, fish , chili, tacos.... not a traditional thanksgiving dinner.

2007-11-21 14:24:08 · 9 answers · asked by adamc44 3 in Thanksgiving

Basically, I have to write a paper on WHY I think it's more socially accpetable for a man to engage in casual sex than a woman, even though it's the same act for either gender and the risk of STDs and everything else is as high for either. Frankly, I don't know WHY it's supposed to be okay for a man and not a woman.... I've actually wondered that for a while...
I need some direction for the paper here. What do you all think?
Why is it more socially accepted for a man to sleep around but socially frowned upon when it's a woman? Where's the difference coming from here?

2007-11-21 14:22:18 · 7 answers · asked by shellj_foxy 3 in Other - Society & Culture

Do you agree with God that everyone who does not accept the Lord Jesus should perish for eternity - even your unsaved family members? If you were God would you do exactly the same thing cause you, like Jesus, would want to do the good, right and just thing and throw a couple extra logs in the fire? Since Mom and Dad asked for it by not believing anyway.

2007-11-21 14:22:00 · 24 answers · asked by johnatplayct 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Asalaamu aleikum
Is it okay to take a translation of the Qur'an to school with me? I have free classes and I would like to read it, I know it would be unacceptable to take the Qur'an in Arabic with me, because of some haraam environments..
Also, I want to know if it's okay to put the Qur'an recitations in my i-pod.
thank you

2007-11-21 14:21:44 · 11 answers · asked by Jasmine B 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Do you ask God to give you clean hands, give you pure hearts, to let let you lift your soul to another?

2007-11-21 14:18:48 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality