Religion & Spirituality - 27 October 2006

The Day Shift gave me bunch of materialistic stuff about the
calendar. I'm talking metaphysical here!
I'm going to learn you something yet.

2006-10-27 12:53:41 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Dome of the Rock clearly says as much:

Do you think that Mohameds version of Jesus is subordinate to a hereticle view and the original figure of Christ as we all know him is the one who Mohamed will have to bow down to at the end of time.

2006-10-27 12:53:02 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

most religious people seem to justify preaching to us by spreading the good word. well, I think we have the right to spread our word too if we so choose. It's our right to give our opinion too.

what do you think

2006-10-27 12:49:11 · 18 answers · asked by WAKE UP 3

What ever your belief, how many believe that there are spiritual beings around that you can communicate with?

2006-10-27 12:48:58 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

If your parents or elders had not indoctrinated you into your current religion would you still believe in a God?
What if you parents told you there was no God?
What if your parents taught you that space aliens put us here?

2006-10-27 12:48:29 · 16 answers · asked by trouthunter 4

...that he also is not responsible for the good, right? How, then, can Christians claim 'miracles'???

2006-10-27 12:47:31 · 10 answers · asked by TinyPuppyWuppy 3

The modern Christian movement in America, for instance, has been very vocal in politics.Here is a brief list of any number of reasons why people become angry at Christians:

1.They want to force religion in the class room and dump science

2.They want to censor TV more so then it is rather then just shut if off or do the censoring themselves

3.Their churches are tax exempt but are allowed, in many cases, to influence politics, education, and employment.(Do search histories on this if you don't believe me)

4.They seek to change the constitution and have strived to do so on many occasions so that it better reads into their own beliefs on various topics and concerns

5.Because they are the majority, they seek to silence the minority

6.Pat Robertson, Fred Phelps, Jerry Falwell, and, well, do I need to say more?

So, how is it that Christians act like victims and don't understand why their is so much animosity torward them?Are they that blind to what their cause does?

2006-10-27 12:45:47 · 23 answers · asked by EasterBunny 5

I would like to start going to a Zen temple. How can I find the closest one to where I live? I live in Youngstown, Ohio.

2006-10-27 12:45:13 · 2 answers · asked by Zloar 4

"For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God."
I Cor. 1-18

2006-10-27 12:43:45 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

i no i do but do u and if not why

2006-10-27 12:41:59 · 16 answers · asked by Tyler 2

Why do we tell our children there is no Santa or Easter Bunny? Why not let them keep on believing?
And please don't tell me about false Idols, because thats the lazy answer.

2006-10-27 12:40:07 · 22 answers · asked by trouthunter 4

Does it endorse the creation of a 'dalit' group? Doesn't that invalidate it completely to a modern reader...

2006-10-27 12:38:45 · 4 answers · asked by tyrian&eustas(the puffin) 2

27. FOR THE SON OF MAN SHALL COME IN THE GLORY OF HIS FATHER WITH HIS ANGELS; AND THEN HE SHALL REWARD EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS WORKS. 28. VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, THERE BE SOME STANDING HERE, WHICH SHALL NOT TASTE OF DEATH, TILL THEY SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING IN HIS KINGDOM.

2006-10-27 12:38:39 · 12 answers · asked by tricky trucker 1

Ok, now stay with me here.

If you are a part of a religion, christianity, catholocism, Islamic, whatever, how do you know you aren't a member of a cult?

Really, how do you know christianity isn't just the worlds most successful cult? How do we know that some old guy wrote it in hopes of starting a following? Look at it this way: we are told how to act, asked to give money, have rituals (blood of the lord, etc), given an enemy (pagans), told we will go to hell if we don't follow the rules...See? And there are a lot of contradictory things in the bible. And we celebrate christmas on a Pagan Holiday and use pagan things (the tree, red and green, gifts)! There is no concrete, scientific, hold-in-my-hand evidence that God existed! And how is (whatever your religion is) suppose to be right and the others, wrong when those of all the OTHER religions are thinking the same way?

2006-10-27 12:38:09 · 14 answers · asked by Smo 4

Prayer: Divine Fire of love and power, ignite within us hope and encouragement as we invite all God's children to share in the passion of Christ's love. Amen.

2006-10-27 12:38:07 · 5 answers · asked by inteleyes 7

"You saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe. Every day was recorded in your book!" [Psalm 139:16]

If God is omniscient, he knows the future. The only way this can be possible is if the entirely of history and future is running along a set path. If the fate of the entire universe is already mapped out, then God knows what he is going to do. If he knows what he is going to do, does he have the power to do something else? If so he is omnipotent but not omniscient, if not he is omniscient but not omnipotent. These appear to be mutually exclusive.

If he is an 'all good' and 'perfect' God, then he is also bound to do nothing but the action deemed to be 'best'. If he's 'perfectly just' he has no option but to perform the most 'just' action.

It seems that a god cannot logically be omniscient, perfect, just and utterly benevolent at the same time as having free will.

How would you escape this paradox?

2006-10-27 12:35:08 · 17 answers · asked by DoctorScurvy 4

Posted: Oct 27, 2006 7:28 PM I do not remember the exact wording of these snippets of passages or verses but am hoping that someone who may more knowledgeable in Christianity can post their locations in the Bible so that I will be able to cite my references, as well as to confirm that these stories are indeed from the Bible and/or from various versions or books of the Bible that may have been thrown out for political reasons during the 2nd Century during the meeting of the church fathers in Constantinople:

1. Some worshippers or religious zealots came to Jesus and began to worship him (or kiss his feet?) as if he were God. Jesus responded to these worshippers, "Do not [worship?] me: DO AS I DO."

2. A prostitute came to Jesus and began to kiss his feet (or something of that nature) and Jesus permitted her to do so. In response to the indignant onlookers or disciples who expressed their scorn at this woman (?), Jesus responded, "Let he who has committed no sin cast the first stone." (or something to that affect).

3. Either Jesus was on the Crucufix or perhaps this was yet another story that I am confusing: Some people were throwing stones at Jesus and mocking him. Jesus asked, "Why do you stone me?" They replied, "Because you make yourself out to be God (or the son of God?)." Jesus replied, "But we are *all* the sons and daughters of God," but his voice was lost on the crowd who continued to stone him.

2006-10-27 12:34:19 · 7 answers · asked by barbi 2

2006-10-27 12:32:35 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-27 12:31:09 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

A Muslim says "There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet."

An atheist says "There is no God".

So they share 44% of their creed with Muslims.

2006-10-27 12:30:39 · 28 answers · asked by bowlingcap 2

Why should they have a problem with athiests quoting scientists?
And yes we do have a right and a reason for being on this area of Yahoo Questions.

2006-10-27 12:29:59 · 25 answers · asked by trouthunter 4

"The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned."
1 Corinthians 2:14

2006-10-27 12:28:59 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

what is it. belief in God....

2006-10-27 12:28:06 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

It seems like everytime there is a tornado or something catastrophic happens, the people that have been affected talk about how blessed they are that only 1 of their kids died, and they lost there house, but wow the lord is good, and they are so blessed.
Forgive me for being cynical, but I think that I would not feel blessed. I would probably question my faith, and wonder what kind of god would allow such horrible things to happen.

2006-10-27 12:27:24 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

It means a lot to me

When the world hates you, remember it hated me before it hated you. The world would love you if you belonged to it, but you don't. I chose you to come out of the world, and so it hates you.

Does anyone know its reference?

2006-10-27 12:26:50 · 20 answers · asked by Lisa X 1

2006-10-27 12:26:22 · 13 answers · asked by The King of Games 3

I Posted this a little while ago, but neglected to state that it was a statement by Richard Dawkins, and not my own words. I was simple interested in you comments
America, founded in secularism as a beacon of eighteenth century enlightenment, is becoming the victim of religious politics, a circumstance that would have horrified the Founding Fathers. The political ascendancy today values embryonic cells over adult people. It obsesses about gay marriage, ahead of genuinely important issues that actually make a difference to the world. It gains crucial electoral support from a religious constituency whose grip on reality is so tenuous that they expect to be 'raptured' up to heaven, leaving their clothes as empty as their minds. More extreme specimens actually long for a world war, which they identify as the 'Armageddon' that is to presage the Second Coming. Sam Harris, in his new short book, Letter to a Christian Nation, hits the bull's-eye as usual:
"It is, therefore, not an exaggeration to say that if the city of New York were suddenly replaced by a ball of fire, some significant percentage of the American population would see a silver-lining in the subsequent mushroom cloud, as it would suggest to them that the best thing that is ever going to happen was about to happen: the return of Christ... Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government actually believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this, purely on the basis of religious dogma, should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency."
Does Bush check the Rapture Index daily, as Reagan did his stars? We don't know, but would anyone be surprised? My scientific colleagues have additional reasons to declare emergency. Ignorant and absolutist attacks on stem cell research are just the tip of an iceberg. What we have here is nothing less than a global assault on rationality, and the Enlightenment values that inspired the founding of this first and greatest of secular republics. Science education - and hence the whole future of science in this country - is under threat. Temporarily beaten back in a Pennsylvania court, the 'breathtaking inanity' (Judge John Jones's immortal phrase) of 'intelligent design' continually flares up in local bush-fires. Dowsing them is a time-consuming but important responsibility, and scientists are finally being jolted out of their complacency. For years they quietly got on with their science, lamentably underestimating the creationists who, being neither competent nor interested in science, attended to the serious political business of subverting local school boards. Scientists, and intellectuals generally, are now waking up to the threat from the American Taliban.

2006-10-27 12:23:43 · 9 answers · asked by trouthunter 4

If they are atheist, why do they care?

2006-10-27 12:21:45 · 27 answers · asked by rozzell j 3

all he wanted to do is tell the world ...the Earth doesn't rotate around the Sun !!!

2006-10-27 12:21:19 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am not atheist but I am not religious either, I believe everyone should choose to live their life doing the best they can to promote love and peace , but here I see all the oppostite those that belong to a FEW SPECIFIC RELIGIONS are the most aggressive,intollerant ,ignorant . Now my question to you is DOES IT INFLAME YOU when they use TREATS of hell to try to convert you or you just feel sorry about the ignorance?

2006-10-27 12:20:24 · 18 answers · asked by . 2