Religion & Spirituality - 27 July 2006

Thye seem to have some weird idea that only religious people are trying to exercise their beliefs, apply their principles, implement their perspective into socitey while they are preistine by being unimposing in their views. Give me a break! Thye are one the exact same level as religious people. They are imposing thier views just like everyone else. May the best man win!

2006-07-27 02:48:18 · 15 answers · asked by nobodiesinc 1

2006-07-27 02:46:57 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

what was god doing before "the beginning", and where did he reside?

Was he helping an alternate Universe?

2006-07-27 02:46:00 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

How does an athiest explain the admiville horror they say they want proof of thing now read this
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Facts surrounding the "Amityville Horror House"


The Amityville Horror has turned from a real suburban American tragedy into a horrific myth. It has become the source of bestselling novels and the subject of several movies.

These are some of the facts as they are known.

On November 13, 1974, in the house at 112 Ocean Ave., Amityville, 24-year-old Ronald DeFeo murdered his family. DeFeo used a high-powered rifle, shot to death his father, mother, two brothers and two sisters. All six members of Ronald DeFeo’s family were killed as they slept and all, said police, were found lying in the same position, on their stomachs with their heads resting on their arms.

At his murder trial, Ronald DeFeo testified that he had killed his family because he had heard voices. "Whenever I looked around, there was no one there, so it must have been God talking to me," he said.

On December 18, 1975, more than a year after the terrible murders, a family of five moved in. They were George and Kathy Lutz and their children Daniel, 9, Christopher, 7 and Missy 5. Twenty eight days later the family fled the house, claiming it was haunted.

According to the Lutzes and their priest, the following events took place during the 28 days the Lutzes lived at 112 Ocean Avenue:

•While the priest was blessing the house as the family move in, a strange masculine voice clearly said to him "Get out!" As he drove back to the rectory, the hood of the priest’s car flew open, smashing against his windshield. One of the welded hinges tore loose. The right door flew open. The car stalled. The priest summoned a friend for help and later the friend called the priest and said, "Do you know what happened to me after I dropped you off? The windshield wipers, they began to fly back and forth like crazy! I couldn’t stop! I never turn them on! What the hell is going on?"

•In the house windows flew up and down and doors were repeatedly ripped off their hinges in the house even though they were securely locked.

•Mrs. Lutz levitated a foot above her bed on several occasions and floated toward an open window. On one of the occasions, when her husband pulled her back, her 30-year-old face had been transformed into the face of a 90-year-old woman - "the hair wild, a shocking white, the face a mass of wrinkles and ugly lines and saliva dripping from the toothless mouth."

•In the dead of winter, hundreds of buzzing flies materialized in one of the upstairs rooms of the house.

•A 12-inch crucifix hung in a closet by Mrs. Lutz revolved until it was upside down and gave off a sour smell.

•The insides of the toilet bowls in two upstairs bathrooms turned absolutely black, "as though someone has painted (them) from the bottom to the edge just below the rim" even though Mrs. Lutz had recently scrubbed both bowls with Clorox.

•Lutz discovered a small secret room in the basement, a room that appeared in no blueprints of the house. It was painted solid red - and had the smell of blood. In one of the red walls, Lutz saw a vision of a face - a face that he would later find from newspaper photographs was that of Ronald DeFeo.

•Every time the family priest would attempt to help the Lutzes, bleeding blisters would erupt on his hands. Telephone calls between the Lutzes and the priest were continually interrupted or cut off by loud noises and eerie sounds, making it impossible for them to communicate.

•While standing outside the house one night, Lutz saw the face of a pig with glowing red eyes in the window of his daughter, Missy. Missy began to continually talk of "my friend Jodie, the biggest pig you ever saw." One night Missy pointed toward her window and there were the two red eyes again. "That’s Jodie," Missy said. "He wants to come in." Mrs. Lutz swung a chair at the window, breaking it and "there was an animal cry of pain, a loud squealing."

•The flowing red eyes again appeared at a downstairs window. When Lutz ran outside, there were tracks in the snow - "No man or woman had made those tracks. The prints had been left by cloven hooves, like those of an enormous pig."

•A bartender who had worked at a party in the house at 112 Ocean Avenue when the DeFeos had lived there told Lutz that he had found the secret red room in the basement and that after seeing it, "I used to have nightmares about it. Sometimes I’d dream that people - I don’t know who they were - were killing dogs and pigs in there and using their blood for some kind of ceremony."

•Mrs. Lutz continued to feel invisible hands gripping her and one day found flaming red welts covering her body, "as though she had been burned by a hot poker."

•Green gelatinous slime began to ooze from the ceiling and from door openings.

•A white-hooded figure, its face half-blasted away as if by a gun, appeared in the living room fireplace and was permanently burned into the fireplace wall.

Today, the home is occupied by a family that is living there in peace. The front of the home, as well as its number on Ocean Avenue, have been changed and despite the regular visits by the curious and believers in the supernatural, life along Ocean Avenue in Amityville is fairly routine. Sometimes a car will pull up in the middle of the night. A passenger will get out and cut away a piece of grass from the home. Sometimes another car will pass in the middle of a hot, summer afternoon, stop and the occupants will stare. Sometimes a deranged individual may even try to break into the home. But mostly, it is just another house in Amityville with nothing more than a horrific history.


how do you explain this because it some how proves god

2006-07-27 02:45:59 · 42 answers · asked by 5445 1

2006-07-27 02:45:08 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please explain why the god of the old testament (an angry, vengeful god, worthy of scorn not worship) - is so different from the god talked about in the new testament.

2006-07-27 02:43:36 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

That is the most nieve and rediclious perspective I have ever heard! Everything a person does, everything decision they make, everything they think comes from their core belief. This core faith goes with them everywhere they go and is involved in everything they are involved in. Politics, education, recreation, workforce, every area. I think they are trying to tell people they do not agree with to keep their core beliefs at home or church while they go their merry way with their tenacles of belief touching everything around them.

2006-07-27 02:42:44 · 28 answers · asked by nobodiesinc 1

Thomas Paine: "Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon that the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel."

Is it Good to be cruel?

2006-07-27 02:41:50 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-27 02:41:13 · 3 answers · asked by Jack A 1

Is he insecure - or an egomaniac?

2006-07-27 02:40:21 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

There are thousands of different religions in the world, and in the vast majority of cases people follow the dominant faith of the culture they were born into. Is it not arrogant and self-centred to think that your faith is the "true" one and all the others are false?

Maybe its a miracle you chose the right faith?

2006-07-27 02:39:21 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

If he exist why does he not stop it or maybe he does not exist.
Your thoughts.

2006-07-27 02:39:00 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

"Keep this mental attitude in you that was also in Christ Jesus, who, although he was existing in God’s form, gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God. No, but he emptied himself and took a slave’s form and came to be in the likeness of men. More than that, when he found himself in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient as far as death, yes, death on a torture stake. For this very reason also God exalted him to a superior position and kindly gave him the name that is above every [other] name, so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the ground, and every tongue should openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father."-Philippians 2:5-11. The word "other" is in brackets in order to clarify Jesus' position due to the context of surrounding scriptures such as "gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God".

2006-07-27 02:38:18 · 5 answers · asked by roc788 3

2006-07-27 02:34:13 · 13 answers · asked by arjun 1

2006-07-27 02:32:06 · 25 answers · asked by rachel 2

Ok, so people like to believe that God has a plan for us and that God knows what's going to happen in our lives. This plan has been laid down for eons. So my question is why do people try to convert me if God is going to take care of it? Why are they trying to rush their Creator? Wouldn't it make more sense to just let it happen instead of trying to make it happen? Unless of course you think you are an instrument of God. If God really intends for me to choose religion I will.

2006-07-27 02:30:37 · 9 answers · asked by Jake S 5

2006-07-27 02:28:02 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm not trying to be funny. If you don't believe in biblical things, please don't be rude to your answering. Thanks, I just want to know how you feel.

2006-07-27 02:27:06 · 9 answers · asked by rosepassions 3

Gays want us to be responsable for thier choice by affirming them. Gay is a choice. It is not my choice. It is their choice. It is their choice to believe they have no choice. To love someone does not mean to agree with their choice. What do you think.

2006-07-27 02:26:42 · 29 answers · asked by cathyhewed1946 4

Just curious.

2006-07-27 02:26:40 · 11 answers · asked by Corey 4

I read somewhere that it is scientificly proven that only people who believe in a God can be possesed by devil. It never happened that devil would posses atheis, muslim, buddist...What do you say about that.....

2006-07-27 02:23:35 · 24 answers · asked by nelli 4

I have read that the United States is Isreals only allie where are we do you think in biblical prophecy are we near the battle of Armageddon or are we in the phase of wars and rumors of wars?

2006-07-27 02:23:18 · 15 answers · asked by clfgnr 2

just wondering..if thre are many versions of the bible, then does each person use a different version from each other?

2006-07-27 02:21:51 · 16 answers · asked by Pandai gile 5

I really wanna know, because it would be hard, unless they know sign language?

2006-07-27 02:21:17 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm struggling today. I have been thinking about suicide alot as a way out. I'm a very very lonely recovering alcoholic.

I got AA meetings nearly everyday, but in 3 years I have yet to make a single friend. I used to have people I thought were my friends, but they were actually my ex-girlfriend's friends.

I have severe money problems, no one to talk about them (people in AA criticize you if you do) and feel like drinking all the time. I know where that will lead me.

I cannot understand why, if god really loves me, why does he want me to be alone all the time? Is this god's will for me, suicide? Never ending lonliness?

There is going to be a party this weekend, it's my ex-girlfriends anniversary. Of course I'm not invited.

I have asked god to put someone in my life this weekend. I'm willing to be patient and wait until then. If I leave my Saturday AA meeting alone again, I will have my answer and I plan to hang myself.

Does anyone have suggestions?

2006-07-27 02:20:34 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ok read these scriptures please and help me understand. 1 John 2:15-17. 1 John 2:6, 2Corinthians 6:17, 2 Corinthians 5:17. If we are to be like Christ and walk after his teachings, what if we fall away from his fellowship and walk back in the ways of our past. Does that mean Christ will disown us? Does that mean we are no longer his children?

2006-07-27 02:19:40 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

i am interested in learning feng shui, any articles and documents would be very helpfull?

2006-07-27 02:19:16 · 5 answers · asked by gauravs 1

2006-07-27 02:19:14 · 3 answers · asked by twinklestar1120 1

so says this poster:
"Lance had a miracle. A miracle caused by medical science, which was caused by great minds, which God gave to the scientists."

That explains a lot to me...

Some Christians believe that misfortune like sickness is a supernatural punishment inflicted by God. It must be demoralising for those who believe it because they might try to lead exemplary lives only to find they still got a cold and became bronchitic or went deaf or developed a cancer. They must wonder whether they had been committing some unknown grave sin or whether God sometimes just let his little critters lose anyway. Or was God subject to whim and fancy? If it were true that God punished people with sickness then it would be useless to study medicine, but habitual sinners should be given a comprehensive immunisation programme. Alternatively all sick people should be burnt at the stake as sinners.

2006-07-27 02:18:53 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-27 02:17:40 · 19 answers · asked by twinklestar1120 1