Religion & Spirituality - 29 September 2006

Isn't it bad enough that poor people keep getting ripped off by corporations? Then to top it off, Christians want to rip poor people off too. It makes me sick how Christians travel to foreign countries with thier luxurius moble homes and preach how they are concerned for the poor. Poor people have enough misery to deal with and they don't need some prepackaged commercialized religion that will mold them and rip them off at the same time. I have always felt that the underlying force behind Christianity is capitalism. Troops are dying in Iraq to protect the wealth of the capitalist. Meanwhile they are being told that Jesus and thier country are proud of them. Christianity has seemed to be a great control tool for the weak minded. Christianity, in my opinion, is about greedy people trying to make more money off of the poor.

2006-09-29 08:50:20 · 14 answers · asked by Ramond 1

Looking for some info on the policies and whatnot.

2006-09-29 08:49:08 · 5 answers · asked by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7

you can only choose one..........explain your answer

2006-09-29 08:48:18 · 13 answers · asked by ? 5

What sort of routine do you think He has?

2006-09-29 08:47:18 · 10 answers · asked by Love Shepherd 6

2006-09-29 08:46:19 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-29 08:43:09 · 10 answers · asked by twomoonjunction1980 1

Do you think the faith would be more cohesive and less violent if there were a central leader, like a pope?

2006-09-29 08:42:58 · 7 answers · asked by RockC 2

Okay! Christians believe they go to heaven when they die. Catholics believe they go to purgatory. Muslims go to 72 virgins. Where do you think YOU go to in the hereafter? (Question is for those who beleve there is a hereafter.)

2006-09-29 08:40:18 · 18 answers · asked by ___ 3

American society is like a happy fish drenched in a bucket filled with God. The Christian God is all over the place. Christians form by far the minority of the country.

Minorities (like gay people, or atheists or muslims,etc, etc) seem to have to fight for their equal rights.

Yet, I see a lot of American Christians on this forum complaining about how oppressed they are. How hurtful it is to them if others claim their equal rights.

I live in Holland, I can't even begin to describe how silly the way this group of Christians is acting looks to me. But I truly wonder how this works. How can a majority, a large majority even, become such whiners in a society that is truly drenched with their God?

2006-09-29 08:40:04 · 21 answers · asked by Thinx 5

An "absolute" refers to some kind of standard by which we understand or judge something as being either true/false, right/wrong, black/white, hot/cold, helpful/harmful, etc.
The atheist's claim to be able to "absolutes" without God rests upon a very basic error in logic. He has switched the meaning of the word "absolutes" without mentioning this to the theist. The so-called "absolutes" of the atheist are finite, cultural, subjective, imperfect, mutable and temporal. This is, of course, a contradiction of terms because the atheist's "absolute" is a non-absolute!
Such relative "absolutes" would be useless so far as ethics is concerned because we can make up whatever so-called "absolutes" Thus the so-called "absolutes" of the atheist are only the subjective projections of his personal feelings, ideas, biases, etc.

2006-09-29 08:39:54 · 16 answers · asked by heresyhunter@sbcglobal.net 4

What do you think God is up to when He makes a guy unable to have any close relationship with a girl? I'm such a guy and God makes everything hard for me. To be honest, I do not even have a female friend. I'm not shy, not lack of confidence, not cocky but eveytime I speak to a girl, she'll give me a cold shoulder. Is it because I'm slightly overweight? Forget about losing weight, I've done everything I can, sports, diet etc but no results.
I need to know because I'm so boring nowadays since my guy frens all refuse to hang out with me bcuz they prefer to hang out with gals.
Also, no gal ever hook me up in conversation (in class or social places). I mean those who is stranger to me. Why? Why am I always have to make the first move only just to be frens and I always get a bad response?

I juz cant believe this can happen to me unless God plans it.
Do I still have to believe in this God?

PS: I'm not ugly.

Sincere answers only. Thanks.

2006-09-29 08:39:44 · 14 answers · asked by jlryan87 2

To which religion should I send my friend for her treatment?

2006-09-29 08:38:07 · 30 answers · asked by 自由思想家 3

2006-09-29 08:37:18 · 20 answers · asked by bc_munkee 5

And, it's remote controlled (by ME!!) and I make it go under his dress?

2006-09-29 08:36:49 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Christians, I am teaching a course about evangelism and just thought I'd throw this question out there. Be honest. Do you share your faith with others regularly, and if not, why not? What are your concerns/fears/excuses etc.

Also if you are willing to say, how do you share your faith, and what is the general reaction that you get with your method?

Thanks for your input!

2006-09-29 08:36:17 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

In the letter dated November 1st, 2001 from the WT,explaining their reason for registering (?) with the UN, it says that the letter replaces any replies they had given earlier.

Does anyone know what earlier replies were given and why they were replaced?

2006-09-29 08:35:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please? I am tired of seeing the sick and miserable and the hate and prejudice-the weak and desperate-ALL because God created an Angel that turned on him-NOT TOO BRIGHT was he? And then he condems men because of Adams transgression-and wants to judge me? Pretty bad judge of character if you ask me-I want a fair trial-not one manipulated by the circle of monsters I read about in the book of Revelation-7 headed dragons and creatures with wings-how come none of them had fins? OH and I would like to see how he is going to justify being a kind and loving God when HE BURNS HIS CREATIONS and sentences them to eternal Hell-fire because they did not accept his dictatorship-and what about impregnating a lil girl with a child-and placing a tree in the middle of paradise and saying DO NOT EAT-and allowing an evil creature into paradise-Oh poor simple Christian-your mind so easily swayed by the pompus exasperations of 1 Book-a cook book-4 those who do not follow the recipe correctly. God outta U.S.

2006-09-29 08:35:42 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

just corious what your answers are and please be honest

2006-09-29 08:34:39 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

what ya reckon?

this is a scientific thinking into the afterlife.. with the energy never dies theory..

no matter what you will always become earth and dirt .. the earth and dirt created by your rotton flesh is ideal for a tree to grow.. the herbivore eats the tree.. the carnivore eats the herbivore.. the carnivore may get eaten by another one or just die and repeat the process.. because this has happened so many billion times through out history and time as we know it.. and the amount of veg and fruit i have eaten in my lifetime which have been grown from the soil from all of our ancestors..Am i. me, my father, my grandfather, your grandfather,grandma etc.. i am made up of mostly everyone that has ever died as there energy and nutrients helped grow that tree or fruit and veg .. and one day your future generations could eat fruit grown from the nutrients from my corpse and my energy is transfered to them.we are all the same. just look slightly different..but all the same person

2006-09-29 08:32:22 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-29 08:31:56 · 15 answers · asked by bc_munkee 5

(Revelation 20:15) How many of them do you think will be in the book of life?

2006-09-29 08:30:48 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

terrorists, crusades, inquisition, Jerry Falwell, etc., etc....

2006-09-29 08:29:58 · 22 answers · asked by bc_munkee 5

2006-09-29 08:29:41 · 3 answers · asked by 自由思想家 3

2006-09-29 08:28:20 · 5 answers · asked by rfern2005 1

In a nice way, of course. It's a poor witness - if I were a visitor to his church I would be turned off horribly.

2006-09-29 08:26:59 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-29 08:26:46 · 39 answers · asked by bc_munkee 5

I often wonder why so many Christians don't monitor what they watch on T. V, movies or other things. If we are to feast ourselves on good, then why would many choose to view garbage and think NO harm will come from it? There also seems to be a large number of Christains that allow so much junk into their homes, and really don't monitor what their children veiw either. What's the thought process behind this?
Why don't more Christians view worldly sex, drugs and violence as a problem and something that should be avoided?
As a Christian myself, I can't understand that.
Junk in, junk out - That's my theory!

2006-09-29 08:24:22 · 24 answers · asked by Cjs 3

i cast my first spell and did everything by the book but i forgot to add when the spell should end, it was a luck spell for my mom and her friends they are playing bingo tonight, since i didnt set an end date will the spell ever end? if they have selfish intentions could it turn into bad luck? can you please tell me if i can reverse the spell or if it will end eventually, thanks, blessed be

2006-09-29 08:24:20 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is that what is so appealing about religion...a way to 'live' forever?

...a sort of death loophole?

2006-09-29 08:24:13 · 3 answers · asked by bc_munkee 5

• Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

• Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

• Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

• Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

• Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

• Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

• Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.

• Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

• Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

• Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

• Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was charged with molesting his 9-year old step-daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial.

• Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

• Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

• Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

• Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

• Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

• Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.

• Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.

• Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

• Republican governor Arnold "The Gropinator" Schwarzenegger allegedly had sex with a 16 year old girl when he was 28.

• Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

• Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

• Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.

2006-09-29 08:22:55 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous