Society & Culture - 25 November 2007

I go to our local Christmas tree lighting ceremony. There is a cute little concert put on by a local elementary school. We have cocoa, cider, all is good. Then they sing...

Jingle Bells
Rudolph
Up on the housetop
Frosty
Light the Menorah was the second song. I thought it was great and was very happy they were including another religion to be represented. However, there wasnt ONE Christmas song that spoke of Christ at all! However, we get to have a song about Lighting the Menorah which is highly religious to the Jews. It cannot be a serparation of Church/State issue otherwise they would not have included the Menorah song. What do you all think of this...as Christians and nonChristians?

Why are we systematically having any representation of Christ in Christmas stripped from everywhere public?
Even our secular establishments (the great god called American Consumerism) has shunned the word Christmas;

2007-11-25 04:09:46 · 19 answers · asked by Loosid 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Do you think so? Do you think that if we all put in the neccessary effort, it could be done?
Will there always be people going hungry, or will the definition of poverty change?
Thanks!

2007-11-25 04:08:56 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Rev.17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for He is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with Him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

(A) called
(B) chosen
(C) faithful
(D) they that are with Him…….(Did you miss this?)

2007-11-25 04:08:23 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Thinking of the finite genetic combinations there are do you think it is fairly reasonable to assume that out there everyone has someone who looks uncannily like them. I am not talking about that they will have the same blood group and everything but just general looks. the fact that celebrities generally all have lookalikes of them supports this idea a bit.

What do you think?

2007-11-25 04:08:22 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

It seems like men have life easiest. Men wrote the constitution, yet they said everyone had indivisual rights. Woman didn't have the right to vote until the 20's. Do you agree with me? I want some man oppinions too.

2007-11-25 04:08:14 · 12 answers · asked by gcolor7of12 3 in Other - Society & Culture

2007-11-25 04:07:26 · 7 answers · asked by stevie 4 in Other - Society & Culture

Done the (penance) to get yourself re-instated, and then regretted the decision to go back to the Witnesses...How many have become Christians after this?

2007-11-25 04:07:02 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I am surprised that not only non-muslims think that but also muslim men believe that they are promised by 72 vigins.
Here is the truth:

It has long been a staple of Islam that Muslim martyrs will go to paradise and marry 72 black-eyed virgins. But a growing body of rigorous scholarship on the Quran points to a less sensual paradise — and, more important, may offer a step away from fundamentalism and toward a reawakening of the Islamic world.

…The Quran is beautifully written, but often obscure. One reason is that the Arabic language was born as a written language with the Quran, and there’s growing evidence that many of the words were Syriac or Aramaic.

For example, the Quran says martyrs going to heaven will get “hur,” and the word was taken by early commentators to mean “virgins,” hence those 72 consorts. But in Aramaic, hur meant “white” and was commonly used to mean “white grapes.”

2007-11-25 04:03:00 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Ramadan

Is it just a sexual thing or what? Lately, half the chicks out there call themselves bi it seems, so is it for attention, or is it for real? No offense of course, i'm only asking for opinions.

2007-11-25 04:01:07 · 24 answers · asked by Mary 4 in Other - Society & Culture

Hi, When we get to heaven. When will be able to visite God himself? or Jesus? You know what I mean? Like while we are up there (Heaven). Is there a line to wait to talk to God/Jesus. To ask him Questions? Vis-a-v

2007-11-25 03:57:22 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-25 03:54:28 · 45 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-11-25 03:53:51 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Is there a way I can turn my skills into a business? After all, Christianity has been making money off evangelism for centuries.

2007-11-25 03:53:36 · 7 answers · asked by I'm an Atheist 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-25 03:50:40 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Why is being a christian making me depressed and suicidal? I look at others and feel lonely and also wish they were christians, and when i go home i feel no achievement was made, why do i feel lonely and depressed, shudnt i not feel this way?

2007-11-25 03:49:52 · 47 answers · asked by robertapdixon 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Pick your answer carefully, Christian, you can't have it both ways.

2007-11-25 03:49:44 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Several different studies have ALL found that the population of Christians in prison far outweighs the population of atheists.

IMPORTANT NOTE!!!! The studies accounted for the difference in overall population. "Note that atheists, being a moderate proportion of the USA population (about 8-16%) are disproportionately less in the prison populations (0.21%). "

http://www.holysmoke.org/icr-pri.htm

Also:

http://www.skepticfiles.org/american/pri...

Why are atheists able to embrace morality and be law-abiding while Christians can't stay out of jail and not commit crimes against their fellow man?

IMPORTANT NOTE: One study showed that this is NOT due to conversions in prison!!!!

2007-11-25 03:48:25 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

every year i watch this chirstmas movie, and its my favorite, except i cant remember the name of it. It was about a girl and her mom who are walking and see a house that looks just like the little girl's doll house, so she runs in. Inside the house is a single man whos getting ready for his boss to visit. He ends up paying the mom and girl to pretend to be his family.

If you how the title, that would really help,
Thanks and Merry Christmas

2007-11-25 03:47:53 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

2007-11-25 03:47:25 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

Revelation 14:9-11

Sorry, guys. You're done for. What do you think?

~Fauxian~

2007-11-25 03:46:50 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Is there any promises for them?

2007-11-25 03:45:11 · 9 answers · asked by sisterzeal 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-25 03:44:51 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

While there is one child starving in this world I will not posses anything except the food I need to keep me alive and to give anything that I earn to keep these children alive

Of course you can always pretend that you have'nt read this

2007-11-25 03:43:55 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

are some of you doing bad things right now -- even under the watchful eye of GOD?

2007-11-25 03:43:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

According to the Bible, the Book of Proverbs, godly wives are viewed as blessed.

So are godly men who obey God's law.

Using the word blessed is as old as the Old Testament.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_bible/index.html
http://etext.virginia.edu/kjv.browse.html

2007-11-25 03:43:34 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Sandy was drinking at a pub all night. When he got up to leave, he fell flat on his face. He tried to stand again, but to no avail, falling flat on his face. He decided to crawl outside and get some fresh air to see whether that would sober him up. Once outside, he stood up and, sure enough, fell flat on his face. So, being a practical Scot, he crawled all the way home.
When he got to the door, he stood up yet again, but fell flat on his face. He crawled through the door into his bedroom. When he reached his bed, he tried once more to stand upright. This time he managed to pull himself to his feet but fell into bed. He was sound asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.
He woke the next morning to his wife shaking him and shouting, "So, ye've been oot drinkin' as usual!" "Why would ye say that?" he complained innocently.
"Because the pub called an' ye left yer wheelchair there again!"

2007-11-25 03:41:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I don't get why Mormons interpret this verse as Peter's prophesy about the restoration of the real Church through the prophet Josef Smith. It doesn't say "restoration of the Church", but it says "restoration of all things". One can say that the Church is included in "all things", but then the question rises: why then we see the restored Church (LDS) today, but not all the other things in the universe? Again, one may say that "until the restoration of all things" may mean "until the beginning of restoration of all things" and that this restoration will begin with the Church, but then the question rises: what about the words right before that ("Jesus, whom heaven must indeed receive until the restoration of all things")? It says that Jesus will be in the heaven until the restoration of all things, which means that He will come back - or at least will not be in the heaven anymore - when the restoration of all things begins. If so, why then Mormons say that Christ is still in the heaven?

2007-11-25 03:41:32 · 8 answers · asked by dolempap 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Most muslims beleive the Hijab is cumpulsory. This was a practice before even religion and seemed to be part of modesty yet it was kept as the thing to do even by the Kufar.

Wouldnt the Hijab be considered culture? Culture and Islam do not mix it is Bidah to include cultural things as religious ones, wouldnt Hijabed women at that time simply be following the culture as the norm but not as a religious thing as the Kufar would have too?

The Quran says NOTHING about covering the hair only to dress modestly, not wear tight revealing clothes and to cover the bossom.

So my question to you is if a woman dresses modestly but doesnt nessescarly cover her hair is she sinning?

Please keep in mind I am being completly neutral so dont flame me or anything - I am Muslim and have a keen knowledge and insha'allah it will grow.

2007-11-25 03:40:45 · 7 answers · asked by Leila léBadi 2 in Religion & Spirituality

this is random.. but i was really wondering...

2007-11-25 03:40:35 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

You always forget about those who destroyed the legacy and never look at those who committed the crime. Where did you all forget about the murderers? Why do you ignore this?

2007-11-25 03:38:56 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality