Religion & Spirituality - 1 November 2006

because yahoo have took my last four questions of the site ,because they say they were not questions or answers....so my question is ........is yahoo taking the p1ss out of all of us on yahoo answers...when ever i say anything patriotic about the uk i get a violation.......this is the uk and ireland site is it not....so surely i can comment on the uk and ireland...it seems not..are lord and master yahoo bin laden does not like any one on here being patriotic to the uk....am i right or wrong

2006-11-01 06:47:11 · 21 answers · asked by michael b 5

How can something so smart evolve out of something so dumb? Where did the intelligence come from if not from our " ancestors " ?


Now I know monkeys are not complete retards but compared to us they are.

2006-11-01 06:42:59 · 32 answers · asked by The Angry Stick Man 6

sodomy
Main Entry: sod·omy
Pronunciation: 'sä-d&-mE
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French sodomie, from Late Latin Sodoma Sodom; from the homosexual proclivities of the men of the city in Genesis 19:1-11
: anal or oral copulation with a member of the same or opposite sex; also : copulation with an animal

This is how Myriam-Webster defines the word sodomy. If this is true, aren't alot of the people who tell us we are going to hell for whatever they choose to condemn us for likely to be meeting a similar fate?

2006-11-01 06:42:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-01 06:42:49 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

there's a cross on the side of the road
where a mother lost her son
how could she know that the morning he left
would be the last she'd trade with for a little more time
(so she could say she loved him one last time)
and hold him tight
but with life we never know when we're coming up to the end of the road
so what do we do then
with tradegy around the bend

we live, we love, we forgive and never give up
cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
and today we remember to live and to love
we live, we love, we forgive and never give up
cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
and today we remember to live and to love

there's a man who waits for the tests to
see if the cancer had spread yet
and now he asks why did i wait to live til it was time to die
if i could have the time back, how i'd live
life is such a gift
so how does the story end?
well, this is your story and it all depends
so don't let it become true
get out and do what we were meant to do

we live, we love, we forgive and never give up
cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
and today we remember to live and to love
we live, we love, we forgive and never give up
cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
and today we remember to live and to love

waking up to another dark morning
people are mourning
the weather in life outside is stormin
but what would it take for the clouds to break
for us to realize each day
is a gift somehow, someway
and get our heads up out of this darkness
and spark this new mindset and start on with life cuz it ain't gone yet
and tragedy's a reminder to take off the blinders and wake up
(to live the life)
we're supposed to take up
(moving forward)
with all our heads up
cuz life is worth living

we live, we love, we forgive and never give up
cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
and today we remember to live and to love
we live, we love, we forgive and never give up
cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
and today we remember to live and to love

2006-11-01 06:42:21 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_in_Christian_beliefs#Adventist

2006-11-01 06:41:26 · 6 answers · asked by Cyber 6

I know I am. Usually everyone who I meet everyday is a Christian, but so many Atheists are on Yahoo! Answers.

2006-11-01 06:41:18 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

Piltdown: The Man that Never Was
Source: www.unmuseum.org
For forty years they were considered one of the archaeological finds of the century: A fragment of jaw and a part of a skull that could prove man evolved from the apes. They were the bones of Eoanthropus dawsoni found near Piltdown Common in Sussex. The bones of the "Missing Link."
Not.
Since 1953 the name "Piltdown" hasn't been associated with great scientific discovery, but great scientific fraud. It was in that year that a group of scientists, lead by Kenneth Page Oakley, attempted to use the new method of fluorine testing to get a more exact date on the bones. What the test showed surprised them: The jaw was modern and the skull only six hundred years old.
Additional analysis soon confirmed the fluorine tests. The jaw was really that of an orangutan. It had been filed down and parts that might have suggested it's simian origin were broken off. Both pieces had been treated to suggest great age. In short, a hoax!

2006-11-01 06:40:23 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hi all.I live in Iran.There's an Iranian pop music which I found quite meaningful.It's a sentimental song and very enjoyable.I tried to translate it.What do you think of this song?Do you like it?

"Imagine it.Even if it's hard to imagine.A world in which everyone is the most furtunate.A world in which money and race and power are not valueble.The answer to be united is not the anti-revolution police.There's no nuclear weapon, no bomber, no morter-shell.No child leaves his leg on mine any more.Everyone is free.Everyone is painless.You won't read in newspaper that the whales have commited suicide anymore.Imagine a world without hatred and gun-powder.Whitout self-centered cruelness.Whitout horror and coffin.Imagine a world full of smile and freedom.Full of flower and kiss.Full of repetition of happiness.Imagine it.Even if it's a crime to imagine.Even if your throat fills with sadness by naming it.Imagine a world in which prison is a myth.All world-wars have been included to cease fire.No one is the Mr of the world.Everyone is equal with one another.From now on every wheat is for every human.Without any borders and limitations,homland means the whole world.Imagine it.You can make this dream come true."

2006-11-01 06:39:30 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Convince me to change my faith. Give me something that will provoke questions in me, or tell me why yours works for you. Do not hesitate to use many words if you have to.
I wish you well.

2006-11-01 06:37:59 · 20 answers · asked by fryedaddy 3

2006-11-01 06:37:40 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-01 06:37:30 · 11 answers · asked by madeline 1

2006-11-01 06:36:01 · 2 answers · asked by Mikima 1

Religion: a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.

Science: a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.

So, religion is beliefs, guesses, unproven thought and science is a series of proofs based on strongly defined laws.

So in a world where people are bent on being "sure" or "secure" why do they choose an unsecure, untrustable and more importantly unproven path in life?

Science is our future, it will keep us safe and wont be shrouded by mere lies.

2006-11-01 06:34:48 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you think atheism is a cult of reasoning dedicated to communism. People try to label christians as capitalists and atheists as communists. I truly never knew that!Capitalism-good, Atheism-bad. Is this a way for the majority of people to supress atheism. Also, Why do religious people claim only Atheists look at the world in a negative view and attacks everyone who does not share the same view as them? Every religion does, yet religious people claim its only atheists!
How is it that children are naturally born as agnostics but as they grow they must convert to X religion or they are dogmatic delinquents bound for communism and hell?This sounds like conspiracies during the cold war!
Was napoleon a communist when he promoted his enlightenment ideals? No he was on the road to capitalism!Industrialization.

2006-11-01 06:33:23 · 22 answers · asked by Maikeru 4

King James Version (KJV) Revelation - Chapter 9

Rev 9:1 ¶ And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.


Rev 9:2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.


Rev 9:3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.


Rev 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.


Rev 9:5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment [was] as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.


Rev 9:6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.


Rev 9:7 And the shapes of the locusts [were] like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads [were] as it were crowns like gold, and their faces [were] as the faces of men.


Rev 9:8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as [the teeth] of lions.


Rev 9:9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings [was] as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.


Rev 9:10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power [was] to hurt men five months.


Rev 9:11 And they had a king over them, [which is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath [his] name Apollyon.

2006-11-01 06:33:00 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-01 06:32:54 · 12 answers · asked by Teaza19 2

it wouldnt be because they took drugs and therapies prescribed by thier doctors would it?why the confusion here?

2006-11-01 06:32:53 · 9 answers · asked by jen 5

This is what I wrote:
Header: Which Catholic saint do you relate to most? Why?
Subtext: My sister is making her conformation, she needs to choose a patron saint. Which saint would be a good choice? Why?
Thank you!

2006-11-01 06:32:32 · 9 answers · asked by pinacoladasundae 3

Before I became saved some time ago, I was a bodybuilder and it lead me to be an extremely vain person. I stopped working out because I realized my appearance had become one of my "idols" and I didn't want anything getting in the way of my relationship with God. I believe I'm past the "it's all about me" mindset and know how to put God first in my life; I've been considering returning to body building, although I wouldn't compete because it's too immodest.

Have any of you given up a pre-salvation idol, no matter what it was, and resumed it again after you became spiritually mature? What are your experiences?

If you don't want to comment publicly, please feel free to send me a message or go to my 360 page. Thanks for your input.

Peace.

2006-11-01 06:31:30 · 19 answers · asked by Suzanne: YPA 7

Deep down, everyone has a survival trait, whether you believe in creationism or evolution. Everyone wants to preserve the CONTINUITY OF THOUGHT and suffer the least possible. Now What is described as soul saving, whether through JHChrist or any other means relates to the least describable item. It doesn´t state exactly what´ll be the reward or how it´ll be delivered. Heaven is more nebulous that a bad real estate folder showing impressive construction on an empty lot. The soul cannot be described by two different people the same way. I repeat:
What if I want to survive death the way I am, just minus the body? What chaos will I unleash on heaven if my instincts are intact?
Don´t quote empty bible verse, don´t parrot: use your brain, thank you.

2006-11-01 06:31:03 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-01 06:31:01 · 11 answers · asked by i love Amanda kendall 2

By the way, I'm a Christian.

2006-11-01 06:30:28 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

father son holy ghost is not names has the english meaning lost its true meaning if they are not names but titles WHATS THE NAME is it not THE LORD JESUS CHRIST who god is if poeple are saying they don't believe peter who spoke by the holy spirit and baptised in that name they are calling the holy spirit a liar be careful of your answers to this question for the lord will not hold them guiltless .

2006-11-01 06:30:04 · 8 answers · asked by Charles C 1

Amongst my friends, family, colleagues and other acquaintances, hardly anyone is religious. Is this a reflection of a general worldwide decline in religious belief?

2006-11-01 06:29:58 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-01 06:27:12 · 7 answers · asked by LMBFAO! 1

I am having a hard time with the letters, and can't seem to nail down Paul's diffent ideas about immorality and the afterlife.

2006-11-01 06:25:58 · 7 answers · asked by Dana H 1

Would you accept that prayer be allowed in school on the condittion that all major religions had a place there, not just one, and that they all are to be taught to all children regardless of their religion? Would a Christian allow a Muslim or a Hindu prayer to be taught to their kids as a result of allowing prayer in school? Could a secular kid be allowed to refuse to pray?

2006-11-01 06:24:55 · 24 answers · asked by jedi1josh 5

Evolution operates on several assumptions, the first being that there is no other way to explain how life got here without a god, so it must be true by default. Many people just say that the fossil record proves evolution, but they don't realize that it doesn't actually represent intermediates between two species but dead branches that became extinct. Modern humans did not evolve from neanderthals since they sometimes lived at the same time and place as other early humans, like you might see depicted in some drawings. If changes can happen within species by chance, like different strains of bacteria, it also does not logically follow with absolute certainty that a single-celled organism can over millions of years evolve into more complex organisms and later evolve into a bird or a human. Not to say that it's wrong, but you can't prove something by inductive reasoning alone.

2006-11-01 06:24:22 · 16 answers · asked by Joe S 3

It has been of my observations that when a person is a "true" believer, he is only given that title for a time period. When a righteous person, for just one minute, questions the doctrine of God, he is judged by his fellow brethren as not really knowing God. Though a couple of seconds ago he was seen as knowing God. Is this a form of intolerance to dissent.

2006-11-01 06:23:17 · 8 answers · asked by Enterrador 4