Society & Culture - 27 December 2007

2007-12-27 10:28:12 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

From the questions and answers the atheists provide it seems that they are barraged with Christians. They always say how we are always trying to convert them and that they always have us coming to to their door again trying to convert them. But in all my life the only people who have come to my door trying to convert me were mormons. And on answers I have seen only a couple people doing this. Honestly if this is all they use as leverage than thank you atheists for making my faith stronger :)

2007-12-27 10:26:45 · 36 answers · asked by Art 4 in Religion & Spirituality

If you do, then why do scientists always say the universe got created with the big bang, instead of: the universe created itself with the big bang?

2007-12-27 10:24:55 · 26 answers · asked by Antares 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I'd just like to hear your experiences. I guess life is all right. No different than as a xtian. Though I have faced some prejudice as an atheist/agnostic, other than that, people leave me alone. Sometimes I hate the pretentiousness of people but I guess they're the way they are. Anyway, I'd really like to hear your experiences.

2007-12-27 10:24:42 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

My husband has been terribly ill since 19th December, near death situation, he bled from the mouth profusely and it seemed that his liver had swollen and perferatedhis stomach and Oesophesus. (can't spelll it) He had to have all his insides bandaged to stop the bleeding of life blood.
Because it was Christmas he was allowed home. He has to go back in a few days.
While he has been at home, he is deteriating again. He can't tolerate food or liquid.
I was getting to the end of my tether, because he is quite stubborn and has been difficult at times. I know, I should be Nurse Nightingale and usually I am marvelous with the sick, but being so low myself we had a few words. I whipped down the tree and the trimmings, took all the cards down and said something like 'It has been a horrible Christmas and it Pagan anyway.'
Then someone knocked on the door. Standing there were two men from a religious sect. I think they came as a sign to calm me down. I half think it wasn't just a co-incidence?

2007-12-27 10:24:30 · 14 answers · asked by Sally Anne 7 in Religion & Spirituality

(NB: Yes, I know getting every atheist to agree on anything other than the one tenet of atheism is like herding cats while getting a family of seventeen to agree on pizza toppings. That said, is this a reasonable generalization?)

The problem that we have with religion is similar to the problem we have with astrology, homeopathy, Holocaust denial, magick, Head On (apply directly to the forehead), and psychics: It's magical thinking used by charlatans to fleece the credulous.

2007-12-27 10:23:51 · 12 answers · asked by Doc Occam 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I have had 5 dreams that have come true and I want to understand more about them. I think most people call it precognition. I can also see colors when I look at a person and I can sometimes feel what they are feeling. My mom is the only one who believes me. But I think my mom is afraid of me and most people at school beat me up because they call me a freak. What should I do?

2007-12-27 10:23:14 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

As this article demonstrates http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthScience/Building_blocks_of_life_found_on_Mars/articleshow/2616844.cms

by pointing out the chemical reaction of Magnetite with carbon and Oxygen in which the "building blocks of life form.

To me this is something from nothing and definately demonstrates the creation of life.
This does not discount God.
It merely suggests that evolution is the tool with which God creates life all within the contruct of the laws of nature.

2007-12-27 10:23:13 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-27 10:22:20 · 17 answers · asked by ? 6 in Etiquette

Liberty and Democracy to achieve his plans. Is this belief accepted by most Muslims?

2007-12-27 10:22:10 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-27 10:21:25 · 23 answers · asked by ⓑⓐⓨⓢⓐ ™ 6 in Senior Citizens

he is 10 and just starting to rebel against it... he does love his pvc catsuit tho (and even wears it with friends) but I want him to not fight it all... any ideas ???

2007-12-27 10:20:48 · 12 answers · asked by ? 2 in Other - Society & Culture

Yes I'm asking again. A few months ago I was working with a xtian and he said "oh to be an atheist requires more faith than to be a xtian." Um isn't atheism a lack of faith? When xtians say that, isn't that an oxymoron? I just don't understand why people would say that.

But I guess with atheism or xtianity or whatever faith, that one assumes that they know. Maybe the agnostics have it more down in that no one knows and I do think its impossible to know. K just rambling here, but I'd like some real answers and no insults, please.

2007-12-27 10:19:28 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I ask this question now, as I mentioned this in an answer.
At the time of Hurricane Katrina, what I heard in Christian circles, and read on theological websites pretty much across the board is that it was God's judgement against homosexuals in New Orleans.
I know it happened a time ago, but I would like an answer to this as it has been bugging me.

Is it the official position of any church or denomination, of pentecostals or evangelicals, that New Orleans was laid waste as God's wrath against homosexuals?
I was NOT AWARE that gay people were the only people living in New Orleans. How do you know that gay people brought the hurricane?
Maybe it was the Jews, who are there setting themselves up against the knowledge of Jesus!
Maybe it was the seventh day adventists!
Maybe it was the Catholics!
Maybe it was the blacks or the Hispanics!

No, I've got it. It was the baptists!

Or any group you feel like blaming.
Is it the general belief of evangelical churches that natural

2007-12-27 10:19:09 · 22 answers · asked by 1Up 7 in Religion & Spirituality

...that doesn't conflict with it?

2007-12-27 10:18:11 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-27 10:17:53 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-27 10:17:28 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

IYou may no longer own it, or maybe you have it and its too dilapidated to be valueable.
My mom and I moved to farm after her divorce from my dad, and this old house had one of those old baby carriages, and very old typewriter and a phonograph record player. Wish I had those today (even then, around 1982 they would have been valuebale).

2007-12-27 10:16:46 · 20 answers · asked by primalclaws1974 6 in Senior Citizens

2007-12-27 10:16:29 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

I routinely see people who claim to be something they obviously are not, i.e. "I am a scientist" or "I am an atheist". I am sure there are people claiming to be other things. Can we all agree that this is wrong, whether you want to use the word sin or not?

2007-12-27 10:16:19 · 22 answers · asked by in a handbasket 6 in Religion & Spirituality

and at the bottom of your bed you saw elves and fairies riding bicycles .

2007-12-27 10:16:06 · 22 answers · asked by louise d 6 in Mythology & Folklore

How did the world come to an existence?

2007-12-27 10:16:02 · 15 answers · asked by Dad 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-27 10:15:47 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

When do you turn a blind eye?

2007-12-27 10:12:31 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

in simplest terms

2007-12-27 10:12:23 · 8 answers · asked by christianbovier 3 in Languages

2007-12-27 10:09:58 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

And if you don't, do you feel the need to pretend to?

2007-12-27 10:09:16 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i know you cant make out in public, but can you do other things like hold hands, etc.....

2007-12-27 10:09:14 · 8 answers · asked by Miss Lady 5 in Ramadan

2007-12-27 10:04:48 · 4 answers · asked by heyhey1 1 in Halloween

so argument does not persist, either count chirstianity or dont, just dont get in a whole arument whether its polytheistic.

2007-12-27 10:04:39 · 8 answers · asked by pizzaboy 1 in Religion & Spirituality