Religion & Spirituality - 5 October 2006

Assumeing the strategy of "covering bets" by worshipping/believing in a God, it begs the question which God there are so many to choose from.

Does your specific diety have any empirical evidence of its existence?

2006-10-05 16:43:10 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Proverbs 21
Better to live in a desert
than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife.

2006-10-05 16:41:44 · 24 answers · asked by Gardener for God(dmd) 7

2006-10-05 16:41:38 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-05 16:41:09 · 9 answers · asked by baam201 1

I saw an answer where a christian asked an athiest what the purpose of their life is.. and i though that was rediculous.. you do not have to believe in an outdated biblical god to have fullfillment in your life... i love my life and would change nothing. i used to be christian when i was a lot younger..(not to young to understand, but around 14, 15).. and then i stopped going to church, my mind opened, and instead of believing in a god out of fear... i started believing in myself out of love... life's been peachy since..

2006-10-05 16:40:10 · 23 answers · asked by hey 3

here listen to this. www.narniastory.com

2006-10-05 16:38:56 · 4 answers · asked by Demon slayer 3

I am not such a good person and I am not a true muslim *you can refer to my previous question. Thank you so much for dear sisters and brothers of Islam for accepting me*
I have abit of complication though. Some muslim don't call me muslim because of this and I have friends who're non muslim. I don't have more than 5 muslim friends to be honest. But I wanna embrace Islam thoroughly because this is the only religion that answer my questions and curiousity well but I need time, they seem to condemn me though. Are they muslim or are they just like the christian radicals?

2006-10-05 16:36:58 · 11 answers · asked by TheWillBe 3

They WILL be there...can you handle that?

2006-10-05 16:36:32 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous

it makes no sense at all

2006-10-05 16:36:01 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

every time
jesus loves you. Okay what ever.

2006-10-05 16:35:55 · 30 answers · asked by photonymphasis 1

I am doing an Angels and Demons like theme for a photography set I want to put together. Looking for some ideas.

Please post specific places/things or vaque ideas.

2006-10-05 16:35:49 · 5 answers · asked by Labatt113 4

Ok, there are really only a few mentions of 'the devil' in the canonical christian bible. Theres the serpent in the garden of eden (in genesis), theres 'lucifer' in the book of Isaiah, and then satan in the apostles' gospels. Where exactly are these three seperate guys linked together, and where does the popular christian theory that they are all the same, and they are 'the big bad guy' that gods in a metaphorical fist fight with over humanity come from?(hint, its not in the bible... ironically)

2006-10-05 16:32:42 · 18 answers · asked by shweck 1

Would you agree that living life as an Atheist you are able to see life for what it really is?

Life is hard and not easy. But that doesn't mean an Atheist has a life without purpose or joy.

Wondering if I'm "alone".

2006-10-05 16:32:26 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Looking for all the rumours you have heard. I am not looking for what they really stand for as I know.

One time I posted a question about joining and someone said I am getting in over my head but why?

2006-10-05 16:32:00 · 15 answers · asked by Labatt113 4

2006-10-05 16:30:50 · 7 answers · asked by pegralph0514 1

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14920354/

"The 20-foot-tall artifact was discovered in the smoking ruins two weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and became a symbol for recovery workers, family and later construction crews at the site."

uh-huh....

2006-10-05 16:27:39 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Abraham Lincoln was the last one here's the evidence Firebrand Larry Kramer says he has the evidence to prove it. Lincoln scholars are holding their fire until they see it. Get ready for the second Civil War.



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By Carol Lloyd


May 3, 1999 | The 28-year-old traveler was tall, with rough hands, a chiseled jaw and unforgettable, deep-set, melancholy eyes. He arrived in town, his worldly possessions in two battered suitcases, and inquired at a general store about buying some bedding. But the price was far beyond his budget. The strikingly handsome 23-year-old merchant took pity on the man and invited him into his own bed, free of charge, which happened to be just upstairs. The traveler inspected the bed and, looking into the merchant's sparkling blue eyes, agreed on the spot. For the next four years the two men shared that bed along with their most private fears and desires.

If this sounds like the opening of a homoerotic dime-store novel whose subsequent scenes feature fiery loins and ecstatic eruptions, hold your panting. The year is 1837, the place Springfield, Ill., and the leading men none other than our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, and his lifelong friend Joshua Speed.

It is a story that historians have told and retold, puzzled over and reinterpreted, dismissed and decorated. Some describe Lincoln's acceptance of Joshua Speed's generous offer as terse and matter-of-fact; others as beaming and emotional. What none of them questions is that Lincoln and Speed's years of living together cemented a friendship unparalleled in its intimacy and tenderness in Lincoln's life. So far, all major historians have stopped short of intimating that Lincoln was ever involved in a romantic affair with a man -- in fact, they explicitly discourage such interpretations.

But Larry Kramer, the 62-year-old gay rights hell-raiser, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter ("Women in Love") and Pulitzer-nominated playwright ("The Normal Heart"), wants to change all that. In February, at a gay and lesbian conference in Madison, Wis., he read a portion of his unfinished book, "The American People" -- which, in the course of describing the history of gays in early America, avers that Lincoln and Speed were not merely bedfellows but lovers.

"There's no question in my mind he was a gay man and a totally gay man," Kramer declares. "It wasn't just a period, but something that went on his whole life."

Like the rumors that Thomas Jefferson had sired the children of his young slave Sally Hemings, questions about Speed and Lincoln's relationship have circulated for years. In "Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years" (1926), Carl Sandburg wrote that their relationship had "a streak of lavender and spots soft as May violets," which some have taken as a veiled reference to homosexuality. In 1995, just after Bob Dole rejected campaign contributions from the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay GOP group, Log Cabin member W. Scott Thompson was quoted in the New York Times as saying that gays should feel welcome in the party, "given that the founder was gay." Novelist Paul Russell, author of "The Gay 100," a ranking of the world's most important gay figures, also investigated the rumors but chose not to include Lincoln, feeling that the case was not strong enough, though he did include questionable figures like Shakespeare and Madonna. In an interview that will appear in a forthcoming anthology called "Sexual Writings by Gore Vidal," Gore Vidal told Kramer some years ago that during the research for the historical novel "Lincoln," Vidal too began to suspect that Lincoln was gay.

Like most of Lincoln's early private life, the story of his friendship with Speed is a murky one -- although not nearly as murky as Lincoln's early liaisons with women. After four years of living in intimate quarters, Speed announced plans to sell the store and return to his home in Kentucky, where his family owned a large plantation. Lincoln, who was notoriously awkward and shy around women, was at the time engaged to a vivacious, if temperamental, society girl named Mary Todd, but as the date of Speed's departure and the marriage approached, Lincoln cracked. He wanted to break the engagement by letter, but at Speed's entreaty, he went to Mary Todd and told her face to face he did not love her. Some argue that Lincoln had fallen in love with another woman. Soon after, Speed departed, leaving Lincoln mired in depression and guilt.

Seven months later Lincoln traveled to Speed's home in Kentucky, where he spent a month being nursed back to health. After that the two men corresponded affectionately for decades, chronicling their most personal internal conflicts -- including their abject fear of marriage, which they ominously refer to in their correspondence (always emphasized) as forebodings. Speed was the first to approach the altar successfully, an ordeal that Lincoln coached him through with tender but not altogether convincing letters of encouragement. It seemed that Speed was on the verge of a premarital meltdown similar to Lincoln's. "If you went through the ceremony calmly, or even with sufficient composure not to excite alarm in anyone present, you are safe, beyond question," Lincoln wrote just after the date of Speed's betrothal, "and in two or three months, to say the most, will be the happiest of men." Subsequent clandestine letters inquired whether Speed really was "happier or, if you think the term preferable, less miserable." Both men eventually married and had children; they remained close until they had a falling-out in 1855 over the issue of slavery.

2006-10-05 16:26:28 · 11 answers · asked by IM THE GAY GOD ALL FEAR ME 5

I married my husband (now seperated) Sept 5/two years . He is a christian man, child of god. His mood changed once we married and the physical, mental abuse started. I was begining to think "I" was going crazy. I was being accused of having relaton's with other men and sometimes women. He would degrade me and call me names. I LOST MYSELF! My ribs were broken and blackened on two occasions. I would many times ask WHY? Why does God not tell him that all the accusations were false and make him stop the mental and physical abuse on me. I know that God would not put more on us that we could not handle.
Confused......
I would appreciate any feedback ......

dphn

2006-10-05 16:23:54 · 35 answers · asked by dphn_h 1

national association of evangelicals representing 60 denominations and dozens of ministries passed a resolution deploring the exodus of their young form the church.as the NYtimes put it "in droves". whats the cause?

2006-10-05 16:23:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-05 16:23:40 · 9 answers · asked by DiaBEEtus 3

2006-10-05 16:22:19 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

if i play to several people with the gift of interpretation, a video( or to make it harder, an audio clip) of someone considered genuinely speaking in tongues, do you think/believe/whatever that they will come up to the same interpretations?

i dont think so.

but everyone always says, "jesus is coming soon, repent now" and all that basic stuff that they have been saying for the past hundreds of years...

2006-10-05 16:22:03 · 15 answers · asked by lnfrared Loaf 6

I am Christian and could not imagine a Godless world with no meaning or point. I imagine that other faiths have similar views.
Do athiests believe that they will remain eternally in the grave as bones and dust in eternal death?

2006-10-05 16:18:03 · 24 answers · asked by iamwhoiam 5

http://www.nkusa.org/

Do you agree or disagree? Please give details.

2006-10-05 16:16:12 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

In turning my life over to Christ, I have lost a very good friend. It seems that when I recommitted myself to the Lord, he completely shut me out. I did not try to tell him that he had to accept Christ, I leave that up to God to move him in that direction. I just told him that I had made a decision to turn my life over to God and he has not spoken to me since. I am hurt and confused.

2006-10-05 16:16:02 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-05 16:14:54 · 9 answers · asked by Alert! -10 Points 2

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2006-10-05 16:13:48 · 6 answers · asked by lonely_spirit 1

2006-10-05 16:12:53 · 25 answers · asked by Mike M 1

Many religious sects believe that theirs is the only way. Some Christian churches even exclude each other. Paganism and Witchcraft are frowned upon by many governments. What makes a particular sect correct to the exclusion of all others? Is there a way to believe you're right without making heretics of other faiths?

2006-10-05 16:10:21 · 16 answers · asked by Deirdre H 7

but i still fear life.i am afraid i won't be able to make my life count.i want jesus to look at me when i get to heaven and saywell done but i am afraid to witness.not that i'm ashamed of God but i don't know if i'll be able to say the right words.HELP!!!

2006-10-05 16:07:47 · 37 answers · asked by Demon slayer 3