Religion & Spirituality - 5 September 2006

It's kind of sad. As long as no one is hurting you/your friends/whoever... What harm does it cause? Maybe they won't get into your Heaven/Nirvana/Great Mountain in the Sky. Big deal. Why would you want to be around people forever and ever in the afterlife who you had to yell at to obey you anyway?

I don't understand it... :/ Sure, everyone wants everyone else to be happy. But just because someone is happy doing something you're not, doesn't make it wrong.

As long as no one is being harmed or killed, I think all factions, religions, tribes, et cetera, need to just chill and be happy with each other. :)

The world is always changing, things need to be accepted and carried on. I suppose I just want to know why some people need to STAY in one idealism, and not move on. Is it just easier to follow what you know/have been taught? Actually... Yeah, I guess it is. Thinking for one's self is hard, and causes people to turn against you.

Like the majority of people do to me here. ):

2006-09-05 07:50:03 · 17 answers · asked by teabunny 2

2006-09-05 07:49:15 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Some early Christians, most notably the Gnostics believed the crucifixion of Christ was actually a gigantic fraud, an illusion perpetrated by Jesus who actually stood off to the side laughing while Simon of Cyrene died in his place.

How did Simon die? Where did he go?

2006-09-05 07:41:52 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

There are real psychics in the world and no, they are not evil, demon possessed or deluding themselves and others. Seems that the extremists on either end of the religious spectrum react violently to psychics. Why is that?

2006-09-05 07:41:18 · 30 answers · asked by a_delphic_oracle 6

Cant you see that God can only cure illness. Man can only treat. Mankind is busy inventing names for trivial behavioral traits and finding drugs for them!!!!! LOL. This is a true sign that we have definitely lost the vision.

2006-09-05 07:41:17 · 12 answers · asked by icyhott4urmind 1

2006-09-05 07:41:07 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I believe in God, and believe in Jesus Christ as not just a great teacher but an incarnation of God. However, I think that the Bible is full of many things, including truth, but also fables, personal accounts, writers' opinions, mythology, etc. I am an intellectual and analytical and cannot, no matter how hard I try, take the Bible as literal truth and instruction, and I don't believe that God intended it as such (a fable or myth can be God-breathed and useful for teaching, correction, etc.).

I feel a call to be Christian and would like your opinion as to whether you think this is possible. I take the Bible seriously, but not literally, reading it in the context of history, other texts, and my own interpretations. I don't think God would want me to sacrifice my brain to believe in Him. (I'm not implying Christians are stupid - I am remembering years in Bible studies when my questions were discouraged, I was told to stop reading non-Christian books, punished for my "doubt," etc.)

2006-09-05 07:40:31 · 49 answers · asked by LisaT 5

2006-09-05 07:40:25 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Like don't just say Christian, say Catholic or Lutheran or Baptist or whatever specifics you can get...?

2006-09-05 07:39:31 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I do.

2006-09-05 07:39:05 · 9 answers · asked by starfisher 1

....want to hang around for all eternity with someone worse than Jeffrey Dahmer or Adolf Hitler -- a deity who tortures untold billions of people, not just to death, but forever and ever? Would you really be happy or comfortable in heaven, knowing that those uncountable multitudes -- perhaps even some of your friends and loved ones -- will suffer torment without end, for no other reason than His whim?

And if you WOULD be able to enjoy yourself -- if you're really THAT lacking in compassion or empathy for your fellow human beings -- do you really think you're going to make it into heaven?

2006-09-05 07:38:08 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

"For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.
There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not
thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to
adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas how rarely.
Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the bodily and mental
health are in perfection. And at those weird points of time, where the
confines of the waking world blend with the world of dreams. And so I
captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem, is but a dream within
a dream."

2006-09-05 07:36:31 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

people always seem to want some credit for their good deeds beyond a simple thank you.i was always taught that true charity should be anonymous.

2006-09-05 07:36:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I see a lot of questions refering to Fundamentalism or fundamentalists. What is your definition of fundamentalism? Are fundamentalists by your definition people who think it's their way or the highway and the only people who are good, "God-fearing" people believe as they do? If so, what's the difference between this belief and some religion who says "give me your right to choose and I will guarantee you will get to heaven."?

2006-09-05 07:35:54 · 5 answers · asked by Tonya in TX - Duck 6

2006-09-05 07:34:53 · 33 answers · asked by Thundercat 7

When my grandmother was 27 years old, she decided to devote all of her time to helping other people. she worked at a pre-school in the poorer areas of North Long Beach without pay to help single parents and low income families. Any small amount of money she did get she ending up giving to the preschool to help the children or to the Church. She believed it was God's calling, and she was always happy with her life and never passed up the opportunity to help another person. i believe she is a model christian and i have the utmost respect for what she has accomplished.

nowadays, i see many christians on yahoo answers, such as whynotaskdon, preaching hate and damning others who do not believe in God. yet, i see no kindness to other people. i ask all of you, what makes you think you deserve salvation? what do you do each day to spread God's love?

2006-09-05 07:34:41 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

that you could have walked and talked with are LORD JESUS when he walked the earth?

2006-09-05 07:34:13 · 8 answers · asked by bassetluv 4

I would like to know if their is a good chance that the girl could have a miscarriage?

2006-09-05 07:32:04 · 5 answers · asked by Edeline A 1

2006-09-05 07:30:41 · 18 answers · asked by . 6

Will some newer religion take over when society feels our current beliefs are untrue?

2006-09-05 07:30:29 · 12 answers · asked by bc_munkee 5

pls no funny answers ..

2006-09-05 07:30:04 · 41 answers · asked by myxz_heart_broken 2

A previous question got me thinking about this, why is there no mention of Micro-biology in the Bible? If Bible is the word of God, God should know what atoms are, but he neglected to mention this in the Bible. Why is that?

2006-09-05 07:28:57 · 38 answers · asked by Southpaw 7

Or is this just superstition and propoganda?

2006-09-05 07:28:30 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

My religous friend thinks that the Bible says we're going to have a nuclear war with China.

2006-09-05 07:28:11 · 11 answers · asked by l2wh 4

It doesn't make any sense. If I'm not good enough to get into Heaven, then why not just leave me here? Or compassionately extinguish my existence? What is the purpose of keeping people around so they can be tortured for all eternity? Is this God's idea of fun?

That's not a flippant question. Thomas Aquinas wrote that one of the joys of Heaven is looking down on the sufferings of those in Hell. Is your "God" really that much of a sicko? Will YOU be enjoying my suffering? (Don't tell me there's a way I can get into Heaven-- I DON'T WANT TO GO!)

2006-09-05 07:27:44 · 18 answers · asked by kreevich 5

I think that atheists want to invent some kind of telescope with a powerful magnification that lets them see beyond space.

And if they see God winking at them and saying: Peace, Son of mine.

They wouldn't believe in Him anyway.

Yes, this is my last question for now. Soon I will come up with more questions for my personal amusement.

2006-09-05 07:27:41 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

While browsing the wonderfulness that is Google, I happened upon a so-called Church of Jedi! The site is down, but through cached sites, I found a list of their ideals and such. It seems pretty interesting, and very calming!

If ever when I am an old woman, I decide that learning everything about everything is too much for me, and I need to stick to one religion to keep myself happy, I might just choose the way of the Jedi! (Which, oddly enough, seems very similar to the ideals and ways of Buddism. ;) Hah!)

2006-09-05 07:27:05 · 13 answers · asked by teabunny 2

Okay, this week's feel-good question: pick a person who you have seen post in the YA Religion/Spirituality section who had an answer that you admire. What nice thing would you like to say to them?

2006-09-05 07:25:37 · 4 answers · asked by Guvo 4

In my good new bible I can't understand the third word in Isaiah 52.11. Can someone explain to me what that word means?

2006-09-05 07:24:34 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

My next door neighbor is so hot, I think she wants some of my love juice. She sunbaths in the nude and asks me to come over all the time. Is this okay?

2006-09-05 07:23:12 · 7 answers · asked by Shave _that_gash 1