Society & Culture - 23 December 2007

2007-12-23 04:19:13 · 12 answers · asked by hog b 6 in Religion & Spirituality

If you could wish for only one gift this year, what would it be and why? Personally, I would like to see far less commercialism surrounding the entire Christmas season ... this time of year is not about retailers stuffing their pockets. There are far too many potential pressures surrounding the holidays without regretting overspending ...

2007-12-23 04:18:47 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

"Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumscised, Christ shall profit you nothing"
Surah 5:73 "Surely they are disbelievers, those who said "Allah is one of the three in a Trinity.' But there is none who as the right to be worshipped but one God. If they cease not from what they say, verily a paoinful torment will befall the disbelievers among them."
Go on to read John 17:21 and 14:8 aso with Philip and John 4:24 and 5:37 and I Timothy 6:16
Maybe then you can turn to Mathew 1:18 and finally wake up. InshAllah amen.

2007-12-23 04:17:59 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-23 04:17:47 · 11 answers · asked by angelica fox 2 in Christmas

This idiot wanted all racists to burn in Hell. When I responded that we are supposed to love our enemies, even racist, I get an e-mail calling me a racist (I'm white, my kids are black---go figure) and a murderer because I'm a vet. This is Sunday morning, I'm on R&S with my Bible right here to support my statements. So, instead of getting more angry, I'm going to pray for this poor, misguided soul. But, isn't there something we can do to keep unsolicited insults out of our e-mail?

2007-12-23 04:17:44 · 15 answers · asked by RT 66 6 in Religion & Spirituality

i haven't gone to church in over 3 years, for personal reasons. Let's just say, my mate cheated on me for 6 months with a church girl. After that, I lost all respect for Christians, and haven't wanted to be around them. But I want to try again.. at a new church.

But I don't like that, as a member, you are expected to support the church with your "prayers, presence, gifts, and service". I am okay with all of those except the gifts. Do they like, bill you for church? Or ostracize you if you don't give? I can barley make ends meet as it is, I wouldn't be able to uphold that leg of the table of membership. Should I not join?

And also, is it OK to take communion before I am an official member? I was baptized and confrimed as the same religion as this church.

2007-12-23 04:16:59 · 26 answers · asked by Me 1 in Religion & Spirituality

The original Hebrew scriptures are written in a dead language. Even today, we keep getting more tidbits of info about the language, and keep updating the Bible with yet another translation. The "virgin" passage in Isaiah actually meant "young woman." Why would God write His word in a language and then let it die out, so we need experts to tell us what it means?

The churches can't even agree on which books are to be put in the Old Testament. The protestants took some out, claiming that they were "not part of the original Hebrew", but the Catholics still have them in their own section (apocrypha). Wouldn't God want to make His word less ambiguous?

The decision that Christ was literally God, and not just His son, was only accepted years after Christianity had been around, and was done in part out of fear that the religion would become a sort of semi-polytheism, like Hinduism. Wouldn't God want to make His existence more clear cut?

The God of the Old Testament is responsible

2007-12-23 04:15:23 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I have read that there are massive pile ups due to the storms and at least 5 deaths. One pile up was reported to involve at least 50 . What a horrible thing for these people

2007-12-23 04:15:22 · 11 answers · asked by slk29406 6 in Senior Citizens

i've seen black folks who were in there mid 80s and they looked to be in their late 50s or early 60s. i've seen white folks who were in their mid 80s and they looked their age. i've noticed it with several ppl, whats the reason?

2007-12-23 04:14:57 · 17 answers · asked by Captain America 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Describe what happend in your house!

2007-12-23 04:14:21 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

Hi,
I'm planning a road trip on Christmas Day..
wondering if fast food Joints near Exits on the Highways will be open !!!!
I'm in FL.
Thanks.

2007-12-23 04:14:10 · 6 answers · asked by KelviBadhil 1 in Christmas

The more we learn about the brain, the more it becomes clear that the notion of a soul is totally unnecessary to explain human psychology.

So why does anyone continue to believe in a soul now that we know so much about how the meatloaves in our skulls work?

2007-12-23 04:14:00 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I believe in neither, so I don't know why I bother with Christmas. ;-)
How about you?

2007-12-23 04:13:43 · 40 answers · asked by Perry 4 in Christmas

I realize this is going to come off snide and I don't intend it to but I am truly curious.And apologise ahead of time if it seem's like I'm being snide.But I am trying to understand this better..
Why do most Christian's think they have the right to claim Christmas when in fact its mainly a "Pagan" holiday?And why don't they give credit to the religion whose traditions they are following?
Is that not a hypocracy in and of itself?

Thanks

2007-12-23 04:12:30 · 14 answers · asked by Malia G 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-23 04:12:19 · 12 answers · asked by Chelsea 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-23 04:08:28 · 45 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

'boku wa kimino koto ga daisuki'

'Je vous aime'

'lei Len Lui!'

thanks a lot. I have an idea what they mean but I'm not yet quite sure T-T

2007-12-23 04:07:05 · 11 answers · asked by mariel 2 in Languages

When I asked this question, the answer said Christians believe Jesus is God… okay

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Au4SiVqV1u4q0ByJnwnhivPty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071220194554AAPaNvV

When I asked this question, MORE people said Christians believe Jesus is God in some kind of weird (sounds like a made up theory kind of way)… okay
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AuO.S2GH7XFv1FAHvh_ulrbsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071222064057AAEAHLv

When I asked this question, people said Jesus did worship God..
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20071220194649AATXzHI


So here is my question by what the Christians believe:

So if Jesus is God, and Jesus worshiped God, then how did Jesus worshiped himself?

That makes no sense…

I believe this is a HUGE flaw in Christianity . It is also one of the main things that separates Christianity from other religions such as Islam.


But then again, many of you will say at there are many different types of believes in the Christian religion. I believe this is another fault. it seems to me like there was an original Christian religion, but it was changed up by humans so many times that different types of Christians even have their own bible, which leads me to believe that their “bible” was changed by humans to satisfy that type of Christians random belief.

And the “son of God” thing… God doesn’t have any parents, brothers, sisters, daughters, or sons. God is not even human, so how will he have a son. God isn’t even a gender. It really seems like the idea that God has a gender was made up when the Christian religion was broken up into its many different types of Christians, and then people started making up their own theories of how Mary had a child.

As for me, I think of Mary having a child when she was a virgin as a miracle to show how powerful God is, but then when the Christians saw this, she was accused of having a child without being married, then the Christians didn’t belive in miracles (back then!) . The Christians thought there HAD to be an explanation for it. They obviously didn’t beliven miracles, and thought that there is some logical explanation. So they made up their own theory that .. Oh sure, “God got Mary pregnant, there for, Jesus is the son of God“? Its funny how they didn’t also make up that Mary is the wife of God, they might as well have…
But because Mary is the mother of Jesus, it surprises me that you also didn’t make up that Mary is the wife of God. So why didn’t you do that? I guess you didn’t’ think of it at the time…

2007-12-23 04:06:36 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

There's something sinister about the way they stop by my yard so often and act "friendly" when the kids are out playing. One of them looks just like Deepack Chopra with his devious look--gives me the willies!

2007-12-23 04:06:32 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-23 04:04:15 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Me? I live across the street from a Catholic church, there's a Mosque two streets over, a Lutheran church about 3 blocks away and a non-denominational about 5 blocks away from my place.

2007-12-23 04:02:19 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The religious leaders of Islam issue somany FATWAS ( RULES TO BE FOLLOWED BY MUSLIMS) . But they don't issue anu Fatwa against Terrorism> Does Islam support Terrorism?
UNO and it's member countries should stop all benifits to non-secular , non-democratic countries.

Islamic state is double standard> when MF Hussein paints nude pictures of Hindu goddesses , then it is art and secularism and freedom of expression> Painting nude pictures of family ladies is wrong but Hindu Goddesses painting is accepted> It is like killing is wrong , but killing Hindu saints is secularism and freedom.
when a normal picture of prophet Mohd is painted in Hyderabad exhibition , then it became a big issue and Muslims protested against the painting sayint it is against Islamic sentiments>The prophet Mohd picture is a normal picture, it not a nude painting of him or his family> Butwhy there is a double standard about MF Hussein> If we draw paintings of his daughters or grand daughters nudely against his s

2007-12-23 04:01:16 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

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2007-12-23 04:01:09 · 6 answers · asked by sego lily 7 in Religion & Spirituality

what is the link?? is it something to do with morals?

2007-12-23 04:00:37 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-23 03:59:40 · 1 answers · asked by American Spirit 7 in Christmas

this lady called me to babysit new years eve for her and 3 other families (7 kids), she called me on thanksgiving and left a message. Well i called her back and left a message and said "I can babysit but just call me back and let me know more about it" and she never called me back until just yesterday (dec 21) with the information so i figured she found someone else, so I made other plans to go to my friends new years party. I was thinking about calling her to say that since she didnt call back since just now i figured she found someone else and I made other plans...is that ok or should I not? because i really want to go to my friends party because all my friends will be there and more, but I dont know if that is a good excuse because she called me back a month later. what would you do?

2007-12-23 03:56:24 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

2007-12-23 03:55:37 · 5 answers · asked by meeyaw 2 in Languages

2007-12-23 03:53:52 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Thanks to the blizzard and 3 feet of snow, my family won't be able to get together--however, the blizzard left a few people stranded in our little hick town here, so now I have a schoolteacher who lives couple hours away crashing on my sofa tonight--I don't actually know the guy, but my brother kinda does, and there is no room at the inn--all the hotels and motels are booked solid--and there ain't no merry christmas at the gas station he was stuck at

2007-12-23 03:52:39 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I got her a dieting book (an expensive one). And the second she opened it she looked sort of mad. When she asked why she needed it I told her she was getting just a lil' chunky. Now she's pissed and in her room. What should I do?

2007-12-23 03:51:58 · 47 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas