Religion & Spirituality - 14 December 2006

Or all of them!?!? I gonna thank them by sacrificing baby kittens...

2006-12-14 07:06:39 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

Jesus either believed he was the son of God, or he didn't.

If he did, he was crazy, because there is no God.

If he didn't believe he was the son of God, but still audaciously remitted the law of God (Old Testament) then he was un-afraid of God.

If he was un-afraid of God, he didn't believe in God (unless, again, he was crazy).

So, if Jesus didn't believe in God, didn't believe he was the son of God, why did he put his neck out to change things from the violent old law to a new law of love? Answer: he just honestly believed in love and was corageous enough to defy the convention which defied love.

Atheists take issue with God's immorality today in the same way. But Jesus wouldn't have gotten anywhere by denying God's existence. Instead he changed the world by "allying" himself with God while completely negating the law of God and instilling his own new law...Brilliant!

I think Jesus was pretty darn cool!

2006-12-14 07:06:31 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

what is harder to believe?
1.after the big cosmic explosion, the molecules "miraculously" came together to form life and then life evolved with no intelligence
2. God created the universe

do we have concrete solid proof for either of the two, or should we all turn agnostic until we know for sure?

2006-12-14 07:05:23 · 21 answers · asked by esero26 3

or "thou" or "dost" or "casteth"?

2006-12-14 07:05:08 · 12 answers · asked by я℮ḋ αтℏ℮їṧṫ 5

I'm guessing their numbers would dwindle down fast..because nowadays "you don't have to be a disciple" all you have to do is go to church once a week...isn't that right Christians? = )

2006-12-14 07:04:44 · 11 answers · asked by *~SoL~ * Pashaa del Ñuñcaa. 4

2006-12-14 07:04:18 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I mean, don't you think humanity has already evolved (as for ways of being, thinking, etc.) enough to realize that catholicism is just a fairy-tale? How is it posible for a racional person to believe in that crap?

I'd like people in general to open their eyes and see that life doesn't always come in a package well wrapped to carry on the purse, things aren't that easy.

In my opinion all religions are just an easy way out to explain what we can't understand...

2006-12-14 07:04:16 · 25 answers · asked by ? 2

I fancy getting involved in a religion, but find Islam and Christianity a bit dull. Would anybody recommend Greek Gods, or maybe ancient Egyption ones (the cats and jackals were really cool). I enjoyed Xena, Warrier Princess, but for different reasons.

2006-12-14 07:04:11 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

How do you know he hasn't been and gone already?

Beards were all the rage in the 60s and 70s.

And the Middle-East has always been full of people waving their arms. (and firing them)

2006-12-14 07:03:21 · 13 answers · asked by Musicol 4

Tell me a little about that. I dont want to offend anyone I am trying to educate myself.

2006-12-14 07:02:28 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

can a person who believe in god and performs religious rituals etc. but is not able to attend church or temple often be considered religious in your opinion?

2006-12-14 06:59:06 · 25 answers · asked by pooja 1

IS IT? Can we love and worship God without going to church?

2006-12-14 06:59:03 · 22 answers · asked by sandra b 5

If you choose to answer the question and you are an atheist. Prove with Logic why you don't believe. Do not give a reason. Give Proof. Make sure your proof can be added with some other logical argument that parallels. I.E. I can't see him - you can't see gravity but you believe in it. I.E. The Bible is false and nowhere else in recorded History - Evolution is false then because there is not recorded History of any evoluted plant or animal recorded in History.

2006-12-14 06:58:19 · 28 answers · asked by hello T 7

Often, when you ask Christians why God allows bad things to happen, like the Holocaust, Hurricane Katrina, etc., they do not want to say that he was powerless to stop them or that he was powerless from stopping Satan from doing them. So they say "it's all part of God's plan and we can't understand it."

Then why not say that about everything? Murder is part of God's plan; abortion is part of God's plan, etc.

Is that ever a good excuse?


(Of course this may not apply if you believe God does not intervene in the world but it would still leave you with the question of why God designed a world full of volcanoes, earthquakes, storms, and tsunamis.)

2006-12-14 06:57:21 · 7 answers · asked by skeptic 6

2006-12-14 06:56:46 · 11 answers · asked by stonegray25 1

This book
http://www.amazon.com/Critiques-God-Making-Against-Belief/dp/1573921238
is one of the only collections of essays devoted solely to defending atheism. I have had it for several years. However, one of the contributors, perhaps the most famous, has switched to theism. In 2004 he even said "I am very much impressed with physicist Gerald Schroeder’s comments on Genesis 1."

Who is this philosopher?

2006-12-14 06:56:28 · 5 answers · asked by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6

Why or why not?

2006-12-14 06:55:00 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Look, I get it, you have your faith, its yours, I'm not forcing anyone to change, I'm simply offering challenges or questions that attempt to defy it. I'm not saying you'll burn forever like you do to me, or even threatening you at all. I'm simply supplying honest questions that people with blind faith should somewhat consider, in order to help them fruitfully get a better idea on what they've agreed on to believe over logic and common sense.

Yes, I could leave all these people alone and let them converse, but isn't the point of questions/answers not to suck up and agree with one another, but challenge, engage, and learn?

I am supposed to come in here and just agree with all these, ridiculous in my opinion, circular reasoned bible quotations? No, I'm here to help those on the fence see 'another way' that I feel, in my opinion, is not some out-dated dark age brainwashing. I'm here to help suggest an alternative healthier perspective on the spiritual perspective of life.

2006-12-14 06:54:48 · 43 answers · asked by rabbit_squidz 1

Okay I'm not athiest and I really have no religious belief for that matter-I'm agnostic and the reason I am is because I (in my life) have seen way too many things that proves(just to me) that there may be some type of energy or supreme conciousness out there and we have no idea of how it works becuase were human and I guess some would call it GOD-but my question is is there anybody who thinks the same way ? That there is a higher power but not one that we understand and not a Christian,Jewish,Hindu,Muslim, or Catholic God..

2006-12-14 06:54:14 · 6 answers · asked by Art 4

2006-12-14 06:52:16 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

A born-again Christian since 1979, I've heard plenty of blanket liberal-bashing on "Christian" radio and TV since the 1980s. "It's almost impossible for a liberal to be saved." "I don't know why any decent person would call themselves a liberal." Even last night I heard about "liberal mainline apostasy" over homosexuality. IMHO, libs are mainly wrong about abortion and gay sex, but mainly right about racism, helping the poor, economic justice, the environment, stopping war, sexism, immigration, and so forth. IMHO, we Christians have been duped into supporting many unbiblical "conservative" stands of the extreme right and the GOP, resulting in the current disastrous Bush administration. We've married our church to the GOP instead of Jesus Christ! Matthew 24:24 talks about false prophets deceiving the elect.

Equating "liberal" with "bad" breaks the commandment against "bearing false witness". "Liberal" in almost all Bible translations is a good word!

What do you think?

2006-12-14 06:51:17 · 16 answers · asked by MNL_1221 6

The 3 wise men brought gifts to the baby Jesus. We give gifts at CHRISTmas.

The 3 wise men followed the bright star (a special light) to find the baby Jesus. We put up CHRISTmas lights.

What's with the "Christians" that are so against CHRISTmas?

2006-12-14 06:50:44 · 13 answers · asked by Hank Hill 3

I was in a bad relationship for 7 years and after 4 years I started praying cause I really wanted my boyfriend and I to work things out.Needless to say my praying didnt help our relationship and I really meant it when I prayed.So what was I doing wrong?I just chalked it up to,'if it wasnt meant to be, it doesnt matter how much you pray for something,it was just meant for you to go thru pain.And you can tell me,'look He helped you get thru it tho.'Yea, I'm still alive.But what's the point putting me thru so much pain for?Sure you say,'God knew you were strong thats why He didnt change it cause He knew I would get thru it........'Whatever'. Someone help me understand why some people pray and get "miracles",while others pray and get nothing.

2006-12-14 06:48:27 · 38 answers · asked by Peaches 2

What if you picked up the newspaper tomorrow, or put on CNN or what ever you might watch, and the story of the day was that there was indisputable proof that god doesn't exist. I don't know how, but it was proven.

What would you do? Would it change the way you live your life? would you feel cheated, or that you wasted your life? would there be riots in the streets?

What if?

2006-12-14 06:48:09 · 22 answers · asked by pastor of muppets 6

The christians here often claim that proof of god can be found "everywhere" and sometimes cite the splendor of nature. Obviously this is not irrefutable proof of a supreme being, for instance when I see a sunset, I appreciate it's beauty without attributing it to a higher power. So is it just in the way one perceives the world? And in that case, is there any hope that people will reconcile their differences and stop daming everyone to hell and claiming that evolution is an evil plot? Just curious.

2006-12-14 06:47:17 · 6 answers · asked by mutterhalls 3

I had a reading by a very popular medium and I was blown away by some of the things she knew but with some things she was off. Should I believe in the things she said?

2006-12-14 06:46:45 · 14 answers · asked by regine16r 1

Rape, incest, murder are all condoned in the Bible. Scholars can you give the quote for them and more.

2006-12-14 06:45:56 · 11 answers · asked by Greanwitch 3

Of course you can consider major events to fit somewhere in the bible as a prophesized prediction, I could do the same thing with any lengthy book of tales that was written before the event took place.

Have you ever considered that the bible is not the ONLY book that was written before a major event that might also contain a passage or story that could be translated to a direct connection to the prediction?

Ministers, preachers, whoever you go to for your church events are of course going to interwine the bible to be directly coordinated to any major event, it's their job to look for these things. They have all the time in the world to sit down, take out some passages, take out some current events and weave them together as a 'prophecy foretold in the bible'.

Are they ever 'word for word' correct? Absolutely not, could the passages be interputated another way if you weren't biased to only believe a certain way? Absolutely, why are so many in denial of this? Fear?

2006-12-14 06:45:54 · 5 answers · asked by rabbit_squidz 1

Who was Bigus Dickus' wife? He was a friend of Pontuis Pilate, but who was his wife?

2006-12-14 06:44:34 · 11 answers · asked by Bill Gates 1

play into you Political one? For example, (prompted by another question) Would you see the economic and humane benifit of legalizing prostitution, even though your religion views it as sinful? Or your stand an abortion? Or do you choose who you vote for because of their religious background, or their political issues?

For me, my religious view, and my political one often dont go together, I keep them seperate. How does it work for you, and why?

2006-12-14 06:44:02 · 10 answers · asked by sweetie_baby 6