Religion & Spirituality - 8 December 2006

Don't give me any garbage that it was "just there". Nothing is ever just there.

2006-12-08 16:45:53 · 18 answers · asked by sembacker 1

WOMEN: Forbidden to open their mouths in the Church—

(a). . for it is a SHAME for women to speak in the Church" 1 CORINTHIANS 14:34-35

(b) To chop off her hands for saving her husband's life. Deuteronomy 25: 11-12.

(c) Her husband to rule over her. Genesis 3:16. The head of the woman is the man. 1 Corinthians 11:3. Man can sell his daughter. Exodus 21:7.

2006-12-08 16:44:13 · 7 answers · asked by abcdefgh 2

http://members.aol.com/santalie/santa2.htm

What do you think?

2006-12-08 16:43:11 · 20 answers · asked by ? 4

Even though at the bottom of the page, they say that "A small minority include Hasan ibn Ali as a fifth righteously guided Caliph", then why do they list Hasan ibn Ali as the fifth Caliph at the top of the page? I think that's very misleading....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rightly_Guided_Caliphs

There are only 4 Khulafā’ur-Rāshidūn, not 5.

2006-12-08 16:42:56 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

a) "Now therefore KILL every male among the little ones, and KILL every woman (female) that hath known man by lying (having sex) with him. "But keep ALIVE for yourselves all the GIRLS and all the women who are VIRGINS." NUMBERS 31:17-18 "And the Jews salvaged for themselves 32,000 virgins, verse 35; see also verse 40. (b) But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou (o Jews) shall save alive NOTHING that BREATHES. DEUTERONOMY 20:16 (c) 'And they (the Jews) UTTERLY DESTROYED all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep, and ***, with the edge of the sword " JOSHUA 6:21 (Even donkeys were not spared) (d) "He (Joshua) let NONE remain alive." Joshua 10:28

2006-12-08 16:41:55 · 2 answers · asked by abcdefgh 2

What exactly is the "truth"??

2006-12-08 16:36:53 · 19 answers · asked by ? 5

Just some advice, someone should reach out to that guy. He is really giving your religion a bad name spreading all of the hate he has in his heart towards non-Christians.

2006-12-08 16:33:55 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-08 16:33:54 · 20 answers · asked by 23451 8 1

Do you answer the door, or do remain quite so that you can pretend no one is home? or do you lie to them and tell them that one of your family members preach to you. I never answer my door cuz i dont like people trying to convert me into something im not interest it in. Im sure some of you are guilty as well.

2006-12-08 16:32:58 · 26 answers · asked by elpaso_roman 2

Once we get married, then it won't be illegal anymore.

2006-12-08 16:32:52 · 8 answers · asked by Ask Donna 3

All young children believe in God

2006-12-08 16:32:43 · 21 answers · asked by hello 1

Not to insult believers or say that agnostics and atheists can't feel good about life.

But this is the general conclusion I've reached after much thought and debate on how people explain their existence. Faith usually boils down to people explaining life in a way that is appealing to them, thus making sense according to the pleasure principle. While atheists and agnostics usually seek to explain life scientifically, seeking explanations that can be proven or tested with solid methods and logic, thus making sense according the reality principle.

Simply put: For believers, feeling good makes sense. For, non-believers, making sense feels good. In my experience, that seems to be the main divide between these two ways of thought.

What do you think?

2006-12-08 16:31:05 · 7 answers · asked by Subconsciousless 7

So many damn good questions about this topic so I'll ask just one.

You pray for children,friends and family.
Some of the higher faith even pray for their enemies....so why not
pray for the devil?

Do you not believe that he can be saved too?

2006-12-08 16:29:20 · 21 answers · asked by chilling_1ce 4

From my limited knowledge of evolutionthe first single celled organism and everything was created by a big bang. Wouldn't that just be a rip off of creationism?

2006-12-08 16:28:10 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-08 16:27:48 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

please tell me.........

2006-12-08 16:27:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

5 year olds go to school where they interact with little kids who go to church so they most likely hear about God. do you tell your kids God is fake or make-believe or what do you tell them?

2006-12-08 16:26:32 · 14 answers · asked by Nikki 5

2006-12-08 16:24:59 · 8 answers · asked by god_of_the_accursed 6

2006-12-08 16:23:42 · 42 answers · asked by Beanz #9 1

7th issue of devaki was aborted ,,it is said the fotus of devaki and basudev was installed in ovary of rohini by yog maya.who was rohini and why she was selected specially for the purpose

2006-12-08 16:23:07 · 3 answers · asked by Dina Nath T 1

What the hell is going on? Most diamonds are mined in Africa. Most parts of Africa are full of poor Muslims.
How the hell are Jews the owners of all these diamonds? Why are they so rich!? How do they own the market?


No I haven't seen the movie "Blood Diamond" yet!

2006-12-08 16:21:48 · 4 answers · asked by tickle me RUDE 1

I keep hearing how Islam is peaceful and tolerant. Besides my question above, why is it then that a Muslim can practice their faith in Europe or America, but a Christian cannot do the same in many Muslim countries, Saudi Arabia in particular?

2006-12-08 16:19:29 · 22 answers · asked by irish_giant 4

Assuming the devil will not make you suffer.
You can be enlightened by the devil or be subjugated by God??

2006-12-08 16:19:05 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

You wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with an unconscious violinist. A famous unconscious violinist. He has been found to have a fatal kidney ailment, and the Society of Music Lovers has canvassed all the available medical records and found that you alone have the right blood type to help. They have therefore kidnapped you, and last night the violinist's circulatory system was plugged into yours, so that your kidneys can be used to extract poisons from his blood as well as your own. The director of the hospital now tells you, "Look, we're sorry the Society of Music Lovers did this to you--we would never have permitted it if we had known. But still, they did it, and the violinist is now plugged into you. To unplug you would be to kill him. But never mind, it's only for nine months. By then he will have recovered from his ailment, and can safely be unplugged from you." Is it morally incumbent on you to accede to this situation?

2006-12-08 16:18:54 · 12 answers · asked by skeptic 6

The dirty old pervert.

2006-12-08 16:18:44 · 6 answers · asked by Ask Donna 3

2006-12-08 16:17:41 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

christians say that the earth was made in 7 days but the earth came before the sun how can days go by without the sun?

2006-12-08 16:17:03 · 9 answers · asked by daidiiro 2

2006-12-08 16:16:42 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

After all, I can't really see you.

2006-12-08 16:14:04 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

An almighty God decided he was either bored or lonely so he creates a universe of immense size to house one small, third-rate planet where he can create beings whose purpose is to make him feel better by loving and adoring him.
Since God needed to be sure his created people would only love him because they chose to love him, he gave humans the free choice not to believe him. Unfortunately, the very first human chose to ignore this God, and this God got all pissed and put a curse on the little planet and all its future inhabitants. In fact, he even created a scenario where after the first human chose to disobey, all subsequent humans would be born automatically bound for hell unless they accepted God's bizarre get-out-of-hell-free option. Rather than simply give humans the option to die and no longer exist, this God decided he would forever burn the skin off of those who didn't choose to love and adore him.

Thus this God, in his infinite love, informed his created people that they need to either love and adore him or they'll go to the hell he created, which basically negates the idea of giving people free will. After all, most humans will make choices they would not otherwise make when someone is holding a gun to their head.

Of course, this God, knowing everything that will happen in the future, foresees that more than 95% of the people he creates (without asking us if we wanted to be created) will either not be well enough informed to get out of hell or will simply reject the idea of a need for Christian salvation. But the Christian God, knowing this in advance, still decided to create these humans even though he knew he'd end up torturing billions of them in an endless lake of fire, all so he could have a handful of the faithful to give him love and adoration.

Not yet satisfied, this God decides to create his get-out-of-hell-free card by killing his own creation or by killing his own son. First he has his followers kill and burn animals because he really got off smelling the burning blood. Then he turned his son into one of his creation so he could have him beaten and killed with his blood flowing everywhere. And to top it off, he also said that those who love and adore him should then either symbolically or literally eat the human flesh and drink the human blood of his son in order to fully love and adore this God.

This God really loves spilling blood and then making people drink it.

Finally, this God decided to tell his created people of this plan through a cryptic and hard to interpret set of books and then relied on his created people to join together to decide which of those books really came from this God and which ones did not. They couldn't do it based on evidence, however, so they just basically guessed. Because this God didn't decide to make it clear to all humans just how to get their get-out-of-hell-free card, this God allowed the obvious confusion to lead to thousands of different interpretations of this set of books, meaning many who think they have found God's get-out-of-hell-free card actually will still be tossed into the lake of fire by this loving God.

Oh, and to make it even worse, this God decides to be mute most of the time, and instead asks those who love and adore him to be his spokespeople, thus allowing all kinds of strange things to be said in his name.

Amen, and pass the plate.

2006-12-08 16:13:36 · 28 answers · asked by skeptic 6