Religion & Spirituality - 15 August 2006

Just wondering after the most offensive question I've ever seen:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20060815065710AAtvjE7&r=w#NbUvWzK1UjlDEc0YrG1b

Which condemns people for homosexuality and _not_ for paedophilia.

It got me thinking. I've never actually heard people tossing out quotes from Leviticus or elsewhere on the topic of having sex with children.

Is it in there? Or did God overlook it?

2006-08-15 03:20:55 · 27 answers · asked by XYZ 7

I've done that poll in the spanish version of this site and usually get between 22-24% of people who think he is mythological.

Of course I get flamed a lot for asking this, if you intend to flame please don't, I just want to count how many believe one thing against the other.

Thanks!

Ignacio

2006-08-15 03:20:22 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-15 03:17:55 · 10 answers · asked by D. Dave 3

Do you have to have a church ceremony to be forgiven or could you just repent and confess your sins to God in your mind and never do them again if you really mean it...?

2006-08-15 03:16:29 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-15 03:16:29 · 12 answers · asked by A Baby Ate My Dingo 4

"One reason the trend to non-belief can be welcomed is that those countries with high rates of voluntary non-belief (that is, where atheism is not forced by the regime) are also the healthiest and wealthiest countries in the world, as judged by the annual UN Human Development Reports. Cause and effect should not be confused here: it may be that people who are comfortable and secure have less need for religion, rather than that an absence of religion leads to greater happiness; but it does show that an absence of religion doesn't cause societies to break down. I don't think the Swedes are notable for their criminality."
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20876,20126665-7583,00.html
Britain 44% no religion; France 48%; Canada 30%; Sweden 85%; United States 16%; compared to: Lebanon 3%; ordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iraq all less then 1%; Nigeria 0%.

2006-08-15 03:15:59 · 17 answers · asked by 自由思想家 3

I use the King James Version, there is an earlier English speaking version, but it is not popular and i cannot find it.
Language translations i can understand, but even i would not try to justify, the Lord works in mysterious ways, he always provides, he has certainly provided for me, I have read a couple of versions after KJV, people,we need to graduate, seek out a good KJVersion. Let us grow in Christ not remain babes in cnrist but become children in christ.

2006-08-15 03:14:43 · 22 answers · asked by HOPE 4 THE FUTURE: 5

This question is for people who want Intelligent Design taught in public schools.

What is your reasons for wanting this taught in public schools?

This question is not meant to mock anyone or anyone's beliefs, just to see the reasoning behind why people want that.

For those of you who don't want it taught in public schools, can we at least wait a few minutes to get a good database of answers from the people who do, before there is any "yahoo answers response".

Maybe someone will write something that will change our minds.

Thanks.

2006-08-15 03:13:19 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

With all peoples,animals, plants etc.
We have global communications now, how can we unite and preserve our planet?

2006-08-15 03:12:55 · 33 answers · asked by Rich B 1

they said in the peace treaty with Isreal they will.

2006-08-15 03:12:26 · 11 answers · asked by Casey M 4

2006-08-15 03:11:48 · 17 answers · asked by Ether 5

i think it's ok

2006-08-15 03:10:30 · 21 answers · asked by sweet_baby_thuggo 1

Yes, I know it's a loaded question.

2006-08-15 03:10:19 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

..there were so many events that would be so miraculous that they would prove the existence of God ie. men walking on water, parting seas, healing cripples, burning bushes, ascending men etc. Surely if these events were true and were repeated in todays world they would convert millions. If the bible is to be believed then all non believers will go to hell, yet will not have had the luxury of proof before their eyes. Would God really be so unfair?

2006-08-15 03:10:12 · 11 answers · asked by Jonny SA 2

2006-08-15 03:06:52 · 10 answers · asked by bccollins57 1

I'm confused about what I'm feeling... that's why I wanna know....

2006-08-15 03:04:56 · 21 answers · asked by shelsi 3

I mean, The US has said that about every country we've fought in the last 30 years...

it's the most convinent way to justify having carpet bombed a village and later finding nothing but women and children.

"Oh hey guys, look! Hezbollah hid all their women and children in this safe house during our invasion... wow, we just leveled the place... They must have been using them as human shields."

2006-08-15 03:04:20 · 22 answers · asked by Ether 5

Lucifer was able to do what he wanted and try and take more power than was given to him? If he had no free will then he shouldn't have been able to do this at all.

2006-08-15 03:02:18 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-15 03:00:18 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does the older something gets the more true it gets? Does this mean that when the bible was first written it was more false and a poor creditable resource for proving God whereas now it is not?

2006-08-15 02:59:47 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

It seems it is onscure if you are new & looking for such then you dont know where to go to. It it time that Yahoo Answer should listen to us so I suggest all followers in this section to send to this question & send a strong message to yahoo Answer.

2006-08-15 02:59:01 · 6 answers · asked by Dave B 5

A medical doctor by professional training, Dr. Zakir Naik is renowed as a dynamic international orator on Islam and Comparative Religion. Dr. Zakir Naik clarifies Islamic viewpoints and clears misconceptions about Islam, using the Qur'an, authentic Hadith and other religious Scriptures as a basis, in conjunction with reason, logic and scientific facts. He is 37 years old.



Sheikh Ahmed Deedat, the world famous orator on Islam and Comparative Religion, who had called Dr. Zakir, "Deedat plus" in 1994, presented a plaque in May 2000 awarded to Dr. Zakir Abdul-Karim Naik for his achievement in the field of Da’wah and the study of Comparative Religion with the engraving "Son what you have done in 4 years had taken me 40 years to accomplish, Alhamdullilah.”



Dr. Zakir Naik appears regularly on many international T.V. Channels in more than 100 countries of the world. He is regularly invited for T.V. and Radio interviews. More than a hundred of his talks, dialogues, debates and symposia are available on video cassettes, video CDs and audio cassettes. He has authored books on Islam and Comparative Religion.

That is link to some of his lectures :-

http://www.ahya.org/amm/modules.php?...ownload&cid=22

2006-08-15 02:57:43 · 6 answers · asked by atif s 2

at the end of the video, he appears to be hit by a bus and it looks real and there is an internet rumor he really died. anyone know?

2006-08-15 02:56:05 · 2 answers · asked by jeffcobb71 3

2006-08-15 02:55:50 · 25 answers · asked by Ether 5

Or are you having a laugh?

2006-08-15 02:51:46 · 35 answers · asked by thedene 3

I love the works of Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, C.H. Spurgeon etc., yet I have a really hard time coming to grips with the Calvinist teaching that all non-Christians will burn in hell. I find myself leaning to the approach of C.S. Lewis who posited that all in hell will be given a second chance. Am I still a Calvinist?

2006-08-15 02:50:46 · 12 answers · asked by shaolin samurai 2

I am talking about the Jews and Muslims, of course.

And before I get a bunch of angry christians shouting that the Jews only want to live in peace, maybe they should go to Lebanon and see what's left of the country's infrastructure and talk to the people there who just lost everything during an undeclared war on a political party by the IDF...

The Jews are no more peaceful than the Muslims... unless you think that the mass killing of innocent civilians in retribution for scattered rocket attacks is peaceful... than yes, they are more peaceful than the muslims.

2006-08-15 02:50:37 · 23 answers · asked by Ether 5

2006-08-15 02:50:28 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

O father god
Strict conservative corporal punisher that you are
Hear my pleadings from this poor miserable sinner
(Congregation: "Poor Miserable Sinner")
O father god
grant us great storehouses of money, stocks and bonds
and give us more than our neighbors
cuz this is the capitalist republican way.
O father god
Let us have the abortions we want
without interference from strict fundamentalist lunatics
We ask this in the name of the idiot holy ghost
Amen

2006-08-15 02:49:12 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

O jesus, maker of rules we do not live by
Hear our prayer (congregation: "Hear our Prayer")
O jesus, crazy maniac of the universe
Hear our prayer (congregation: "Hear our Prayer")
O let us forget all your teachings
And make up our own minds about right and wrong
So that we may fulfill our purpose here on earth
And look to a better tomorrow
Amen

2006-08-15 02:46:35 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous