Society & Culture - 26 November 2007

Yesterday I had 122 best answers...today I have 76...what the heck is going on? Anybody ever have this happen to them?

2007-11-26 02:57:07 · 7 answers · asked by sage seeker 7 in Senior Citizens

2007-11-26 02:57:01 · 6 answers · asked by Itachi U 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-26 02:55:56 · 2 answers · asked by STAR POWER=) 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-26 02:55:32 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-26 02:55:01 · 12 answers · asked by Holly Carmichael 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Do I need sacrifice my kid to cure somebody's sins (how did I manage to put those sins in there in the first place) or if I flood the toilet bowl with bleach, killing all the bacterial sinners is that better?

2007-11-26 02:53:20 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I see no commandments against such thing provided that you don't kill the person.

2007-11-26 02:51:38 · 14 answers · asked by TSIRHC 3 in Religion & Spirituality

how do people feel with themselves, knowing that they alive well most of the time anyway, but yet still they don't even try and give god one day of the week.they work from mon-fri, then party from friday sun. at the end what is really left for god?
doesn't he deserve better

2007-11-26 02:51:09 · 28 answers · asked by the bright side of life 3 in Other - Society & Culture

A British primary school teacher has been arrested in Sudan, accused of insulting Islam's Prophet by letting her class of 7-year-olds name a teddy bear Mohammed, her school said on Monday.

Police arrested Gillian Gibbons, 54 of Liverpool, on Sunday at her home inside the Unity High School premises after a number of parents complained to Sudan's Ministry of Education, said Unity director Robert Boulos.

Gibbons could be sentenced to 40 lashes, six months in prison or a fine, said Ghazi Suleiman, the head of the Sudan Human Rights Group.

Boulos said he had decided to close down the school until January for fear of reprisals in Sudan's predominantly Muslim capital.

Unity, an independent school founded in 1902, is governed by a board representing major Christian denominations in Sudan, but teaches both Christians and Muslims aged 4 to 18.

2007-11-26 02:50:58 · 32 answers · asked by Abdul 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Context is "We wandered along the river, enjoying a gentle ‘hair of the dog’ glass of red followed by a suitably chilled eating establishment."

2007-11-26 02:50:53 · 5 answers · asked by Some One 4 in Languages

What's good for the Prophet is good for the diciple is good for the skeptic is good for the Atheist.....

2007-11-26 02:50:30 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Do you believe in God, don't you think we were place here on earth for something bigger than our selves. If you are going through hell right now, dont you think God can take you out of that place, and place you in a place of peace, joy, and where his unfailing love is show to you. Remember the directio you choose to obey, determines the future you create.

2007-11-26 02:50:17 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-26 02:47:42 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Why not other things, like peace or love?

2007-11-26 02:47:23 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Would you all just like to pop over to my house, hang out and play Xbox? Ill make you a cup of tea, you can have my last biscuits?

2007-11-26 02:47:02 · 15 answers · asked by james h 4 in Religion & Spirituality

possible whipping for calling a teddy mohammed.By Andrew Heavens Reuters - 1 hour 53 minutes ago

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A British primary school teacher has been arrested in Sudan, accused of insulting Islam's Prophet by letting her class of 7-year-olds name a teddy bear Mohammed, her school said on Monday.
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Police arrested Gillian Gibbons, 54 of Liverpool, on Sunday at her home inside the Unity High School premises after a number of parents complained to Sudan's Ministry of Education, said Unity director Robert Boulos.

The country's state-controlled Sudanese Media Centre reported late Sunday that Gibbons had been accused of "insulting the Prophet Mohammad". It said charges were being prepared "under article 125 of the criminal law" which covers insults against faith and religion.

Teachers at the school in central Khartoum said Gibbons made an innocent mistake and simply let her pupils choose their favourite name for the toy as part of a school project.

"We are very worried about her safety," he added. "This was a completely innocent mistake. Miss Gibbons would have never wanted to insult Islam."

A spokesman from the British Embassy in Khartoum said she had not yet been charged with violating state law against insulting religion. An embassy official visited her on Monday and said she was in good health but shaken.

If convicted, Gibbons could be sentenced to 40 lashes, six months in prison or a fine, said Ghazi Suleiman, the head of the Sudan Human Rights Group.

No one was immediately available for comment from Sudan's ministries of Education or Justice.

Boulos said he had decided to close down the school until January for fear of reprisals in Sudan's predominantly Muslim capital. "This is a very sensitive issue."

Earlier Gibbons' colleagues said they feared for her safety after receiving reports that young men had started gathering outside the Khartoum police station where she was being held. But a Reuters witness at the police station said no one was gathering there.

CHILDREN VOTED

Boulos said Gibbons was following a British National Curriculum course designed to teach young pupils about animals and their habitats. This year's animal was the bear.

Gibbons, who joined Unity in August, asked a girl to bring in her teddy bear to help the Year 2 class focus, said Boulos.

The teacher then asked the class to name the toy. "They came up with eight names including Abdullah, Hassan and Mohammed. Then she explained what it meant to vote and asked them to choose the name." Twenty out of the 23 children chose Mohammed.

Each child was allowed to take the bear home at weekends and asked to write a diary about what they did with the toy. Each entry was collected in a book with a picture of the bear on the cover, next to the message "My name is Mohammed," said Boulos.

The bear itself was not marked or labelled with the name in any way, he added, saying Sudanese police had now seized the book and had asked to interview the 7-year-old girl.

Boulos said the first he knew about the course was last week when he got a phone call from the Ministry of Education, saying a number of Muslim parents had made formal complaints.

One Muslim teacher at Unity, who also has a child in Gibbons' class, said she had not found the project offensive.

"I had no problem with it at all," the teacher said. "I know Gillian and she would never have meant it as an insult. I was just impressed that she got them to vote."

Unity, an independent school founded in 1902, is governed by a board representing major Christian denominations in Sudan, but teaches both Christians and Muslims aged 4 to 18.

(editing by Mary Gabriel)

2007-11-26 02:45:01 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

"Mary was a virgin". When the Bible says "two' will become one flesh". "Your mothers eyes. Your fathers nose".

2007-11-26 02:43:47 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

In the Bible if you read the story of Noah it is easy to find the list of animals that were instructed to be put on the boat.
If you look at this list, God tells Noah to bring
"two of every unclean animal and seven pairs of every clean animal..."
Later in the Bible the food laws are laid out in much more detail.
This brings one to think that even Noah knew the food laws.

Now, the reason that would even be important, would be because IF the food laws STARTED in Leviticus and they started with the levitical preisthood, then they would be of no use anymore, BUT if they DID NOT start with the levitical preisthood, and were always around, they would still be in effect today.

I think this is an important thought, tell me what you think...

Thanks :)

2007-11-26 02:43:39 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The old houses were lucky if they had 1 outlet per room and we had that plug in by the light bulb in the ceiling with extension cords hanging all over?

2007-11-26 02:43:20 · 9 answers · asked by Aloha_Ann 7 in Senior Citizens

2007-11-26 02:42:58 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-26 02:42:33 · 23 answers · asked by lawerpradeep 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Instead of giving some story about St. John wanting it hung upside down? Trying to offend Christians so they'll sin? It's amazing all the things that are made up to try and affect Christian worship-things like not being able to clasp our hands during "prayer" because we need to be grounded!? Oh brother. It just gets old. Those who have ears, let them hear.

2007-11-26 02:41:21 · 46 answers · asked by cindyunion 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Recently, someone presented an excellent argument for the Trinity. I still don't believe it's true, but she convinced me it was possible.

Less recently, I was convinced that as an atheist, I couldn't justify my belief in victimless crimes.



Even if your core beliefs haven't changed, have you ever altered certain aspects of your beliefs?

2007-11-26 02:40:20 · 18 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Religion & Spirituality

believe that they are not going to go to hell if they are wrong?

Both of them believe in Jesus but not as the Father God of Abraham. They have their own Jesus

2007-11-26 02:38:18 · 31 answers · asked by BaC Helen 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-26 02:37:45 · 19 answers · asked by Suen 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Are they so racist and biased?

2007-11-26 02:37:37 · 10 answers · asked by tony m 2 in Other - Society & Culture

I do, because I was there in the making of the split.
It is a long story, but it started with the Church of Christ and its narrow doctrines that most people did not want to follow literally. Well, groovy, said some younger leaders, (like Kip McKean -who I think even left the International Church-, and Marty Fuqua, and Jeff Hill, etc.), we'll just convert college aged students, expecially focusing on International students who may then go home to their own countries and start their own ministries.
It is something of a cult, but that is not to say it is probably more huge, and even more alive than the older church now is.
Whew, but what a ride that was.

2007-11-26 02:37:33 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Is being forgiving, high on your priority list?
I have been reading about how important, forgiveness, is to even establish our own inner peace.
Praying for and forgiving others can transform lives?
I believe this. Easy? Not so much.
I am praying as I type to become more compassionate. loving and forgiving. Of myself and others.
I am so glad that I know I am a work in progress.
Would love to read your thoughts on forgiveness and how you practice it in your life.
Thankyou and Blessings to all.

2007-11-26 02:36:40 · 12 answers · asked by Peace! Lotus Flower 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I looked around
The sky was interesting
The moon was in the white sky and the sun was going down

I looked around
There were comforters and comfortees
I was suppose to be a comforter

I looked around like a tourist
as if the funeral-to-be was a spectacle
I was in my role of observer
and I saw my co-worker’s white face
without makeup was still quite pretty
Did her grief add to or subtract from her beauty?

I saw the mounds of dirt
some with flowers and some without
I tried not to think what it meant
what those mounds of dirt meant

The wife of the dead man fainted
I had been told that she didn’t love her husband
Then I remembered my friend telling me
the dead man took too long to die
the family prayed for his death

2007-11-26 02:36:12 · 10 answers · asked by happy inside 6 in Senior Citizens

Believers keep changing their definitions, so when non-believers begin to question one definition, the believer then shifts the attribution to something else entirely.*

If the Believers think they deserve the honor of describing what God is like, then when will the definition of God and his attributes be settled?

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*Example:
BELIEVER (B): "Jesus is God made flesh."
NON-BELIEVER (NB): "So he knew he would rise again?"
B: "Yes. He knew he would suffer like no one else."
NB: "But he knew it would last about a day, then he would get a 2-day nap, and rise again. Doesn't that mean it was simply a charade?"
B: "No! He suffered because he took on all our sins!"
NB: "So his suffering was supernatural, not natural?"
B: "Exactly! He's God!
NB: "So why exactly then did he have to become flesh?"
B: "So he could suffer."
NB: "So he had to become flesh to have supernatural pain. That makes no sense! Why not stay supernatural and have supernatural pain?"
B: "You need faith to understand it."

2007-11-26 02:35:13 · 13 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Religion & Spirituality