Religion & Spirituality - 4 October 2006

I'm opening this question to fundamentalism in any religion, including Christianity and Islam, but not limited to them. Please, don't quote your holy book to defend your fundamentalism. That's a circular argument. If you say that you have faith in your holy book because your holy book tells you to, that's unhelpful, because it doesn't really explain anything, if you think about it.

2006-10-04 16:42:09 · 11 answers · asked by Ivan 2

Its true whether you believe it or not!!

John 8:34
Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.


Take this test: try not to sin

19The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like.

2006-10-04 16:41:28 · 28 answers · asked by Ken 2

What is it you wish for the most?
Do you think wishing helps or are you doing something to achieve it?

2006-10-04 16:38:20 · 27 answers · asked by Spookshow Baby 3

take a look and tell me if even during the first trimester u still believe in a womans right to choose and y u would agree to murder of a baby?

its not right even in the first trimester these are little human beings

http://www.priestsforlife.org/images/index.htm#galleries

2006-10-04 16:38:16 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-04 16:37:31 · 6 answers · asked by WhyNotAsk Holy Ghost 1

And they do give false testimony just to discredit our religion...I would never pretend to be something else to make people change their minds...

Dont u atheist have better arguments? why are u after christians and muslims all the time?

2006-10-04 16:35:40 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Pope Leo X-this is who you are and you(pope leo X) are being questioned
1.Just to clarify, what is your purpose of selling indulgences, and before you answer, allow me to remind you that you are under oath of the holy Bible.
2.[hold up bible] Can you tell me what this is? [flip to page] If you wouldn't mind, please read this. [have him read verse]. So, right here in the Bible, justification by faith is said to be a perfect means for salvation. So please explain to me why you feel the need for the sale of indulgences?

2006-10-04 16:35:32 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

...floating in from the sky to destroy the world, talking snakes, etc., and this is considered legitimate religion, but when you ask a question involving Jesus and Santa, you get reported for chatting?

Is this a new standard? Should we all report as "chatting" everything we find to be crazy that someone else says here? If so, I need to get busy reporting all the Christians here.

2006-10-04 16:34:36 · 7 answers · asked by lenny 7

In the USA does anyone know where any Opus Dei buildings are located. Also what sort of buildings do they have?

Do members only meet? Or do other Opus Dei only functions?

Thank You!

2006-10-04 16:34:03 · 4 answers · asked by Labatt113 4

They have significantly higher IQ's than Gentiles.

2006-10-04 16:33:38 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

we didnt evolve from apes or even monkeys. at some point a common ancestor of all apes, monkeys, and humans took a path of evolution that ended in all different kinds of monkeys, great apes, and humans. i wouldnt think this would have to be explained but sadly it does.

2006-10-04 16:33:24 · 10 answers · asked by god_of_the_accursed 6

I'm doing the "Four Face Buddha" for my art history research paper. And I need the history, origin, evolvement of the four face buddha. I heard that it originally came from India, but it is famous and widely worshiped in Thailand (Bangkok). How was the buddha different in India and Bangkok?

And I would appreciate very much if you could give me reliable sources. With website that has org, gov, edu... and so on.

Thank you very much!

2006-10-04 16:32:44 · 6 answers · asked by Minaki 1

Judaism came after Judas name.
christianity came after Christ name.
Buddhism came after Buddha.

how about Islam?

2006-10-04 16:32:26 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-04 16:31:55 · 9 answers · asked by WhatNever 2

Sin is like Chess.......DO YOU SEE?
Some sins result in immediate consequences (checkmate). Other sins have a delayed consequence (50 more moves before checkmate).

2006-10-04 16:28:30 · 10 answers · asked by Ken 2

2006-10-04 16:27:41 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you celebrate Halloween?

If not, why? Is it against your religion? In what way? What do you do instead? Do you (would you) let your kids trick-or-treat?

If you do celebrate Halloween, how? Do you dress up? What are you going as this year?

I'm hosting a Halloween party and going as a pirate. :D

2006-10-04 16:27:24 · 34 answers · asked by Girl Wonder 5

2006-10-04 16:26:36 · 23 answers · asked by deepak57 7

And Super glue our eyes wide open?

2006-10-04 16:26:25 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-04 16:24:38 · 3 answers · asked by The Apostle 2

Can I ? Come on...give it a shot babes....


Hugs,


Annie

2006-10-04 16:21:47 · 22 answers · asked by ? 2

A crazy magazine called TIME claims that we have 3 Billion base pairs in the HUMAN genome. And only 1.23% are DIFFERENT from the Chimp Genome!

How can that be if we are completely different from Apes?

Heres the article:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1541283,00.html

2006-10-04 16:20:01 · 21 answers · asked by GobleyGook 3

i was a muslim and i did a degree at uni, studied philosophy and evolution. there is more than enough proof to believe that we humans decended from apes. with that proof the entire structure of not only islam but every religion comes down.
do you blame me for leaving islam and learning reason?

2006-10-04 16:18:24 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think the angels in heaven do not know anything more than us here on earth in terms of what God decides to do in heaven and on earth. The reason I think this, is that every time an angel is mentioned or talked about in the Bible the angel is always in the role of a servant or messenger of sorts to do as God the Father has given instruction. If you think about it angels have free will to choose like we do. Remember is was Lucifer one of God’s most spectacular angels who rebelled and chose differently not to believe in God? Look where Satan (Lucifer) is (in Hell) and those that followed him.

2006-10-04 16:17:43 · 5 answers · asked by listeningspirit 1

I'm just curious, because if they DID exist, this is a problem for my beliefs. Could we be related to a primate that existed and no longer exists? Could they have died off as we became for evolved? Could the earth be older than 6000 years?

Do they have evidence that there were other creatures that walked upright besides us?

2006-10-04 16:17:11 · 12 answers · asked by GobleyGook 3

Some say bush, some say the u.s. government, and some say the muslims or terriosts.
I say anyone who is not using good choices to hurt someone, no matter their faith!
What about you?

2006-10-04 16:16:20 · 24 answers · asked by shaunee 3

...wouldn't that make him a zombie? Isn't that what happens to someone when they die and come back to life?

2006-10-04 16:15:22 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why must our beliefs do the following:

1. Go against over 70 major scientific societies :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_sci...

2. Go against every major biologist, geologist, molecular biologists, geneticists that lead their field in their study?
http://newton.nap.edu/html/creationism/e...

3. Show us something that these people haven't uncovered in their lifetimes of research, study, and expertise?

4. Believe that because of the OVERWHELMING evidence to support evolution and an Earth that is millions of years old, that GOD must have planted this evidence as a trick or test of our faith? That God is a prankster?

please clear this up for me.....

2006-10-04 16:15:04 · 15 answers · asked by GobleyGook 3

Thanks Amy C. (Feel free to distance yourself from me.)

2006-10-04 16:13:13 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Here we go again, another liberal mag. spouting that they have "evidence" that neanderthals lived 500,000 years before us and that we are common ancestors to them! That we are primates, and so are apes. I've never seen an ape dial a cell phone! Citing the top geologists in the country as experts. These men have only devoted their lives to one thing: science. How could they know what we know? That God created this earth 6000 years ago and all of this evidence is fake. The Grand Canyon is a lie told by the devil. Don't believe your eyes fellow believers...Sure, they do have skeletal bones from something that lived "a long time ago" but we know that their dating techniques aren't as good as the bibles right!? Yes, we have know physical evidence of Adam and Eve, Noah's ark or that humans could live to be 600 years old like Moses, or Abraham (he was only 175) but who needs evidence when we've got Faith!?

Remember, the Devil mixes his lies with the truth!

2006-10-04 16:12:35 · 11 answers · asked by GobleyGook 3