Religion & Spirituality - 23 December 2006

Disagreements between all those religons out there ,if we all didn't believe in any religon, would the world be more peacefull? Example : The Israelis and Palestinians, among a whole set of other issues, are fighting for the control of Jerusalem as both claim it " Holy City"

2006-12-23 16:43:28 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

What made you reject what you were brought up to believe in?

2006-12-23 16:42:03 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-23 16:41:11 · 11 answers · asked by Atlas 6

Why didn't church leaders do the same?

2006-12-23 16:37:59 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

(From a non-Christian standpoint)
If you are a monotheist, then why are you worshipping the little gods and goddesses in your churches?

2006-12-23 16:37:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

......that just fail to dictate that the bible is any less false than any other religion, I was never so sure in my life that the christian god wasn't real until i explored this site and found out how incompetently christians justify the faith against real, sincere questions

If i have understood one thing from this site, it is that christians will try to argue you on an intellectual, reasonal level, and when you tell them that they have not adequately displayed the truthfullness of christianity, they will tell you that "man's reasoning" doesn't matter anyways cause god's reasoning is better than ours and you can only know him "in your heart". As if atheist haven't tried to know god with their heart. Puh-leeze

dont you think that one of the easiest, most clear proofs against the veracity of the bible is reading all these christian Y!A users here in the R/S section incompetently defend it against earnest, moral skepticism?

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2006-12-23 16:36:39 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

today god tried to strike me down because he caught me looking at him in his house window wearing my jabba the hut mask. then later he tried to banish me to hell because he caught me wearing my jabba the hut mask laying naked in my back yard minding my own business. then he got angry cause i was dancing up and down looking in his window again. whats wrong him?

2006-12-23 16:35:54 · 20 answers · asked by Kogi 1

just very curious!!!!

2006-12-23 16:34:44 · 12 answers · asked by jane 3

Seriously, imagine what will happen if god was taken out of the equation.
- no seventy virgins
- no paradise
- no hell

2006-12-23 16:32:12 · 12 answers · asked by Tawani 3

Please back with scripture.

2006-12-23 16:31:47 · 10 answers · asked by Maxeus the Least 1

I bought in tea (liquid) form and it works pretty good.

Is there any difference between the tea for and the capsules.

If there isn't, I'm considering getting the capsule form instead b/c it's more efficient.

2006-12-23 16:29:42 · 4 answers · asked by LaissezFaire 6

BE HONEST

2006-12-23 16:26:42 · 43 answers · asked by silverblack12345 5

Peace and Love

2006-12-23 16:26:10 · 12 answers · asked by digilook 2

Doesn't it irritate you how Christmas and Easter have become so commercialized and corrupted that kids today don't even know what the holiday is about. They really think it's about a big guy in a red suit. It makes me really sad. Who else feels the same?

2006-12-23 16:25:01 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-23 16:24:59 · 9 answers · asked by Robert T 1

2006-12-23 16:23:30 · 10 answers · asked by Justanian 1

If we found life on other planets would you see that (as a religious person whether you are christian or not) as a beacon of hope or the downfall of the foundations of religion since they dont coincide together?

2006-12-23 16:19:31 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Origins of the name "Easter":
The name "Easter" originated with the names of an ancient Goddess and God. The Venerable Bede, (672-735 CE.) a Christian scholar, first asserted in his book De Ratione Temporum that Easter was named after Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). She was the Great Mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe. Similarly, the "Teutonic dawn goddess of fertility [was] known variously as Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos." 1 Her name was derived from the ancient word for spring: "eastre." Similar Goddesses were known by other names in ancient cultures around the Mediterranean, and were celebrated in the springtime. Some were:

Aphrodite from ancient Cyprus
Ashtoreth from ancient Israel
Astarté from ancient Greece
Demeter from Mycenae
Hathor from ancient Egypt
Ishtar from Assyria
Kali, from India
Ostara a Norse Goddess of fertility.

An alternative explanation has been suggested. The name given by the Frankish church to Jesus' resurrection festival included the Latin word "alba" which means "white." (This was a reference to the white robes that were worn during the festival.) "Alba" also has a second meaning: "sunrise." When the name of the festival was translated into German, the "sunrise" meaning was selected in error. This became "ostern" in German. Ostern has been proposed as the origin of the word "Easter". 2

There are two popular beliefs about the origin of the English word "Sunday." It is derived from the name of the Scandinavian sun Goddess Sunna (a.k.a. Sunne, Frau Sonne). 5,6
It is derived from "Sol," the Roman God of the Sun." Their phrase "Dies Solis" means "day of the Sun." The Christian saint Jerome (d. 420) commented "If it is called the day of the sun by the pagans, we willingly accept this name, for on this day the Light of the world arose, on this day the Sun of Justice shone forth." 7

2006-12-23 16:19:27 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is saying Jesus' name in vain like saying God's name in vain?

2006-12-23 16:18:29 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

Sow how is it still right??

Darwin said this…

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.

OK, using Darwin's own words, let's dig in further and look at one of these complex organs - the human eye…

The human eye is enormously complicated - a perfect and interrelated system of about 40 individual subsystems, including the retina, pupil, iris, cornea, lens and optic nerve. For instance, the retina has approximately 137 million special cells that respond to light and send messages to the brain.

together, they capture, deliver and interpret up to 1.5 million pulse messages a milli-second! It would take dozens of Cray supercomputers programmed perfectly and operating together flawlessly to even get close to performing this task.

Darwin specifically discussing the incredible complexity of the eye in Origin of Species:

To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree possible.

2006-12-23 16:18:27 · 21 answers · asked by ? 4

I simply asked what the names of Catholic Churches in your area were, and it got deleted. Which of the guidlines did I violate?? It didn't say.

2006-12-23 16:16:09 · 27 answers · asked by musicgirl31♫ 4

(Ahem) Sound similar to a question that atheists are asked every 5 minutes?

2006-12-23 16:12:23 · 21 answers · asked by Haiku Hanna 3

after surfing this site's questions section i notice alot of people bickering. Your either Christian or atheist and some of those people r being ***** to each other here with some of the things they've said. i notice it myself when i speak with my friends, who r Conservative christians. I being agnostic baffles them and when we get into dicussions on my beliefs one of them usallly(sp) gets anger and starts to insult me. so i ask this question: what Does it take for people to be more tolerant of others beliefs and what should we do to teach tolerance to others?

2006-12-23 16:10:40 · 12 answers · asked by MikeM2.5 1

Peace and Love

2006-12-23 16:09:42 · 13 answers · asked by digilook 2

Christians or not your welcome to answer

2006-12-23 16:04:52 · 30 answers · asked by aram_buck 1

I'm asking purely out of curiosity so please don't go on a rampage.

2006-12-23 16:04:26 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous

I finally got to see the movie tonight. These are issues that have been on my mind for some time now and I am implenting changes in my life where I can. I hope it is on everyone's mind too. Doesn't matter if you're Christian, Jew, Athiest, Agnostic. We all have a responsibility.

If you haven't seen it....watch it!

Everyones thoughts?

2006-12-23 16:04:11 · 10 answers · asked by motherbear 3

I don't want anything organized, and nothing Christan.

2006-12-23 16:03:38 · 28 answers · asked by danizduhman 1

either before or after he became pope.
one of the priests at my brother's college was once a student of Josef Ratzinger's and now gets special audiences w/ the pope. He[the pope] always asks how Ave Maria University is doing, even though it's an extemely small college (400-500) students.

2006-12-23 15:57:09 · 9 answers · asked by musicgirl31♫ 4

2006-12-23 15:56:25 · 18 answers · asked by knucklesandwich 1