Religion & Spirituality - 18 July 2006

Don't you think you should maybe pray for forgiveness? According to the bible, you should love thy neighbor, right? And before anyone says anything, I'm agnostic.

2006-07-18 03:48:18 · 20 answers · asked by PeacefulThunder 2

So i hear that god will forgive your sins, unless you purpously commit the same sin over and over. There is so much hypocrisy in religion, a man on a saturday night will be at a strip club lusting over a half naked woman just to wake up on sunday, go to church with his family and ask for forgiveness just to turn around and go back the next weekend and do the same thing. Religions are hypocrosy?

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2006-07-18 03:48:10 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

God believers must not truly believe in themselves

If you think the only way to believe in yourself is to believe in God, you're crazy

Dont say that God is in you so you have to believe in God. Thats just some bullshit

You dont trust yourself so you have to have an imaginary friend to watch your back

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There's absolutely no way you can believe in yourself if it has to be accompanied by your skydaddy

2006-07-18 03:45:48 · 30 answers · asked by Black Atheist 1

15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

Matthew 7 (New King James Version)

2006-07-18 03:44:45 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-18 03:42:11 · 14 answers · asked by aristocrat1.0@sbcglobal.net 1

Or is it that the FACT of their beliefs in the bible is not standing the test of times?

2006-07-18 03:41:38 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

I keep seeing this claim made on Y!A. Please explain to me why you think I don't exist. Is it that you think everyone actually believes in god? Is it that you are simply playing a game along the lines of "you say god doesn't exist when it's obvious to me he does, and so I say you don't exist when it's obvious to you you do"? Or is it something else?

2006-07-18 03:40:01 · 21 answers · asked by lenny 7

How will he know ahead of time what they look like since their faces are covered. further, does a female jihadist get the same award?

2006-07-18 03:38:24 · 25 answers · asked by Don S 5

I ask the question in all sincerity. I want to hear serious answers, not bashing. I pose the question myself, but also will answer it my own way. Feel free to answer with your own opinion. (Try not to spew hate, just express yourself without resorting to name-calling)

Some Christians think that in order for gay people to get equal rights under the law, it is infringing upon their religious beliefs. I don't think this is the case. I think that a person's faith and the law of the land don't have to go hand in hand.

I don't believe in the same God as Pat Robertson or Fred Phelps. I'm willing to suffer hearing their comments so they have the freedom to express their beliefs though, because I believe so strongly in our freedoms in America. I don't want to silence them. I want them to speak. I want them to have free speech rights. I just think Christians can have their beliefs without making them national laws. Minorities need laws to protect them agains the majority.

2006-07-18 03:37:26 · 25 answers · asked by iu_runner 2

If the Bride is not a woman and all believers, then who are the guests at the wedding?

2006-07-18 03:34:42 · 20 answers · asked by AgainstPrison P 2

I have not, in fact, hurt them and I am, in fact, wishing them well. So how can someone justifiable be offended?

2006-07-18 03:34:22 · 16 answers · asked by wiregrassfarmer 3

i just started to go to church but i dont know where to start

2006-07-18 03:24:53 · 87 answers · asked by Maria O 1

religon is a myth perpetrated by man to enslave other men ?

2006-07-18 03:24:45 · 38 answers · asked by ghost nation 3

2006-07-18 03:24:03 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've seen some questions here that has nothing to do with the bible or Jesus, yet they answer using same. What is with you people?

2006-07-18 03:23:09 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor[a] and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,[b]

Matthew 5:43-44 (New King James Version)

I have been reading this morning some mean nastyness from my Christian brothers and sisters, and wanted to warn or admonish them. Perhaps I am taking this out of context, and my Christian brothers and sisters are exempt from 43 and 44?

2006-07-18 03:20:00 · 46 answers · asked by Anonymous

Take the Muhammed cartoon controversy, for instance.

Or, for a less violent example, the near INSISTENCE of American Jews that "Hannukah" be mentioned too whenever "Christmas" comes up in public functions.

And once, when I tried to give Halloween candies to an American girl, her parents REBUFFED my gift with: "Sorry, but we're Protestant. We don't do this stuff. Halloween is a Catholic thing." (I found that a somewhat insulting reply to my gift.)

But WHY BE SO TOUCHY?

I'm Buddhist. I've always been Buddhist.

But I have played the piano for Christian services, several times (hymn accompaniments and such). My maternal family's Muslim, and I've participated in Islamic rites for my ancestors' commemoration too. It's okay, it's all good...

2006-07-18 03:17:58 · 24 answers · asked by mmhmmm 2

God is supposed to be perfect. God (supposedly) created Humans. Humans went against God's will, making them imperfect. God failed to create perfect subjects (yes we are supposedly his subjects if we follow him). A failure on God's part makes him Imperfect.

right or wrong?

2006-07-18 03:17:26 · 17 answers · asked by sexydp 3

Since prehistory mankind has sought to rationalise the world using a creator and tribes have installed a system where all whom belong to the tribe will follow their given religious system. Over time religions have died out, not because any are necessarily more true than others but mostly through the dominance in war of these tribes. Judaeism spread because they invaded such a large part of the middle east that it became the natural religion for centuries. Then one day, for example, the prophet Mohammed came along and said "believe this", and when he was laughed at he brought along an army of thousands. Is that a good way to decide faith? And yet it is the same with most major world religions and free thought is actively discouraged. If religious leaders and religions themselves are so worried about being questioned doesnt this pose the possibility that there is no rational reason to believe any of it? This is not to say that anyones beliefs are wrong but oughn't we to question them?

2006-07-18 03:15:47 · 22 answers · asked by mr_powers14 2

I know xians have camps and bible studies and such i was wondering if Pagans do some sort of retreat

2006-07-18 03:14:41 · 8 answers · asked by brianna_the_angel777 4

2006-07-18 03:13:56 · 36 answers · asked by lead2jesus 2

2006-07-18 03:13:41 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why are women who are pro choice quick to say it's my body and I do what i want with it, but then are even quicker to tell a man to get a visectomy? Hypocrites?

2006-07-18 03:11:52 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-18 03:10:46 · 31 answers · asked by corkey 1

I would like to get answers from differnt religions, to compare them all.
1.how do you speak to your God?
2.How did you get to where you are? what did you have to do to hear your God?

2006-07-18 03:07:44 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous

How do you know? It seems to me that in order to be a God you must be way above that. There is no good or bad, happy or sad only "is". Since you created what "is" in the first place. If god has emotions then he could be having a bad day, couldn't he?

2006-07-18 03:05:57 · 34 answers · asked by Real Friend 6

It's tradition to have a bachlor party before marriage, but in most bachlor/bachlorette parties people fall to sins of the flesh, wether is actual fornication or lust over someone's body. To me it seems very hypocritical to do this and then stand in church in front of god and promise that the person next to you will be the only one for you.

2006-07-18 03:05:47 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Put on thy strength, O Zion-- and what people had Isaiah reference to?

2006-07-18 03:01:19 · 11 answers · asked by Angel 4

2006-07-18 02:58:07 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Recently I had an opportunity to meet a Buddhist monk who was with me in a train journey. We were talking about several subjects and he touched the distruction of the Bhamian Carvings and the effects. In one of the Buddhist religious holy books with the help of quartlet it is conveyed that "the persons who took over the holy land of Buddha (may be Makha) from us will destroy the carvings + places of worship. Due to their infedal act earth will tremble and will make the mother sea loose control and swallow thousands of lives at once. It will continue till a great destruction takes place". Have any of you heard and read some where to support this statement?

2006-07-18 02:57:57 · 3 answers · asked by SESHADRI K 6