Religion & Spirituality - 3 January 2007

Isn't it a bit insane to to believe that a loving, caring entity would slaughter millions and millions of innocent people to teach them about sin, and overcoming adversity?

We aren't talking about man-made chemical spills, or sins of the father visited upon the son. These are random, natural, events that the victims had nothing whatsoever to do with.

2004 - 250,000+ dead in a tsunami caused by PLATETECHTONICS, a natural event going on for billions of years.
2003 - Bam Iran - another 40,000+ killed in earthquake.
1931 - China - 1 to 4 MILLION killed in a flood.
1920-41 - China - drought - over 10 million to die of starvation

Totally innocent people, doctors, teachers, librarians, women, children, infants... they didn't know what killed them, or why. Almost all were BUDDHIST or HINDU, and you can bet their families never heard of Jesus Christ!

If an asteroid hits the earth & the world starves to death in 6 months, is that another of god's little lessons? Who'll survive to learn it?

2007-01-03 12:44:06 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-03 12:43:47 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

it doesn't make sence at all,no matter what i've heard and seen evil, and all the catholics i know say they hate evil and they shall never preaval over god. But the christians don't give two hoots about it really, and the catholics all ways haved no matter what.Do they not want to fight or is it their scared that they don't know how to against evil? Some christians say that evil and good are equal,and god and satan are together in heaven.But it's been proven that evil is evil and thats that period. good is good,until evil brainwashes good because they fall to easy like the christians(most of them for that matter) so why is this such a problem i mean i know that christians have a diffrent god then catholics do,but still it don't make sence at all.

2007-01-03 12:42:32 · 11 answers · asked by Tam Lin 2

How do we get the others to see it... the TRUTH

It is in the words one speaks. Each word has its power and you need to consider it.

By drawing pictures with the words from what happens in our lives.

Example... if any one of the religions where ALL "truth" it would "dominate" just like any other business built originally on a product of truth, there are a few...
e.g. All businesses involved with computers for the most part, their products cannot lie... consequently ALL are use them. They have become a part of most households that can afford them... funny ha to think that the Muslim, christen etc all communicate though the same tools. In fact there is now really only their idea of fear separating them... Each do not realise the life in them is there to share. For in ONE is the OTHERS answer.

I AM not a divider AM I? So I see them all.

Soon will it be dug out of them and there will be much gnashing of teeth. For it is like taking a dummy from the mouth of a suckling baby.

2007-01-03 12:41:44 · 9 answers · asked by James 5

2007-01-03 12:41:03 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I mean the x3 return or benefit thing. I mean if you're wiccan and you believe in that, that means you believe that happens to people who aren't wiccan to right? I mean if I slapped someone, I'd get the same consequences just like if I was in the wiccan religion?

That's probably stupid but I just wanted to learn more because I'm really interested.

2007-01-03 12:40:59 · 12 answers · asked by chrissynb10 3

PLZ read this first!...

Evolution is WAY more likely than God.

Evolution starts from very simple molecules, that slowly, gradually become complex creatures. This is not chance! It is the OPPOSITE! Super complex things like humans aren't suddenly, miraculously created, it takes billions of years, of natural selection. How is it easier to believe in some supernatural God that creates complex things so easily? "Oh, because look around at nature", says a Christian, "I can't see how everything could be so complex without a God".

It is sad that most Christians don't realize how much more easier it is to believe evolution and not a magical God. This next part should be enough to make ALL Christians aware of the obvious misunderstanding they have.

Wouldn't it be harder to believe that a god more complex than the universe just suddenly appeared, than to believe that the universe didn't start out complex, but gradually evolved? Adding a god is just making things even more complicated

2007-01-03 12:39:32 · 24 answers · asked by 42yxalag 3

I received a chain Email that says If I am not ashamed of Jesus then forward this Email to ten other people. Is there some proof that Christians ought not to be involved with such matters?

2007-01-03 12:39:28 · 8 answers · asked by ThinkaboutThis 6

what is the muslim messiah called... the madi?.. machti ?


what is a good website i can find out more about the muslim messiah ?

2007-01-03 12:38:54 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have been looking all around the internet and am looking for a free source where I can find the moon phases etc for use in wiccan/pagan practices for the southern hemisphere..
I received through email a very good one for the northern hemisphere, which contained a lot of information but of course it does not suit us down under in Australia.
This is to send to a yahoogroup that I am in where most of us are in the southern hemisphere.
Any links and help would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.

2007-01-03 12:37:45 · 1 answers · asked by kookaburradezigns 3

2007-01-03 12:36:02 · 13 answers · asked by whoknows 3

2007-01-03 12:35:51 · 20 answers · asked by Spoon 2

This is a PING off of a previous Q&A...

Studies show that Republicans have on average more than three kids while Democrats have less than two. They also show that Christians tend to have much more than secular folks.

So, please tell

1.) how many kids do you want/have
2.) Where you're from (state or country)
3.) How you vote typically (R) or (D)
4.) Are you religious or secular/spiritual/Wiccan/Pagan/whatever you call it?

Let me be the first to answer...
1.) 6
2.) Colorado
3.) R
4.) yes

2007-01-03 12:35:44 · 9 answers · asked by YourMom 4

If Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, will use a Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson during his ceremonial swearing-in Thursday then he is definitely making a mockery of the Quran and exposing his own lack of understanding of the Quran and Islam and his rebellion to the commands of Allah.

Some critics have argued that only a Bible should be used for the swearing-in and they are perfectly right since the God of USA in whom "We trust" is a 3nitty and has absolutely nothing to do with Allah.

The Bible is not Revelation and the Quran should no be placed alongside Bible to give Bible equality with the Quran.

A Muslim swears by Allah with the index finger of the right hand upright to signify the Oneness of Allah and not with the Quran.

The Quran was not sent down as a book and has no right in the Court of Disbelievers.

The Musim is not allowed to legislate other than what the Quran allows and this cannot be compared with eating pork to stay alive.

2007-01-03 12:34:54 · 12 answers · asked by mythkiller-zuba 6

2007-01-03 12:34:22 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

JOSEPH *WAS* THE FATHER OF JESUS :

Therefore being a prophet [David], and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne. -Acts 2:30

Concerning his son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh.-Romans 1:3

Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David.- 2 Timothy 2:8

For verily he [Jesus] took not on him the nature of angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham. -Hebrews 2:16

JOSEPH WAS *NOT* THE FATHER OF JESUS :

And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring for a son, and shalt call his name Jesus .... Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be seeing I know not a man. And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee-Luke 1:31-35

When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost-Matthew 1:18

2007-01-03 12:30:31 · 29 answers · asked by *~SoL~ * Pashaa del Ñuñcaa. 4

I've been doing a lot of study into space, time, and life as we know it. I've got lots of questions and fewer answers, for instance, the Bible.....What the ****?? If there is a God and the Bible is true, then why is it that God had to make all of his statements during the "Biblical Times"?? I mean, for instance, parting the seas, the 10 Commandments, turning water into wine, Noah's Ark, the Virgin Mary, Being resurrected, etc. Weren't the people who witnessed all of this technically cheating?? I mean, a story is told, some people witness this, and then what? We are to believe mortals that wrote stuff down in a book some thousands of years ago? Then this day and age comes around and all we get is that the Virgin Mary is trying to prove her existence on a half eaten piece of grilled cheese?? Where's the ******* parting of the seas, or the dead coming alive, or it raining for 40 days and 40 nights for us?? Tell me this, if I was to tell you that God had told me a whole new set of rules for this day and age, listed in a whole new text of commandments, how quickly would I be thrown into a straight jacket and tossed into a padded room?? Think about it, why can one person believe all of the almost inhuman stories of the Bible, but not believe in magick, or magicians, or even ghosts? After all, was there not a Spirit and Holy Ghost mentioned in the Bible as the creator of all? If God created us all equal, then why do some in the early years of life, already get cancer, or are mentally handicapped, or suffer from other diseases? If you ask me, just me being able to walk, already makes me less equal to someone stuck in a wheelchair! I'm not saying I'm a better person, BUT, I do have more capabilities than them, it's not fair, and for the children that die young, most would say, "Well they're going to Heaven" WHY?? Because they didn't have enough time to sever one of the commandments?? So if I live to be 100 years old, with many chances of possibly discouraging one of these "carved in stone" rules, and I end up, lets say, not honoring thy neighbor for instance, I go to Hell?? But a child gets to go to Heaven because he really hasn't had a chance to see the "Ugly" in the world? That's not quite fair to those who were blessed with this long life, witnessing Greed, Anger, Hate, Blasphemy, 10,000 different religions, and fights between who is wrong or right, War, Theft, Poverty, Bankruptcy, Bigotry, Disease, Murder, Illness, Loneliness, Evil, Rape, Incest, Pedophiles, Corruption, Mind Control, Government, Power Hunger, Arthritis, Anxiety, Stress, Unemployment and Exhaustion! If Heaven is the ultimate in happiness, and God is so perfect, why, when he says we are all equal, did he not make us all live to the same age and make us ALL equal? Therefore, the "Big Test" would fit all categories! What about all the other beliefs? What about Muslims, Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, Wiccan’s, Islam’s, Catholics, Christians, Protestants, etc. Who is right? Are all the wrong ones going to Hell?? I wouldn't exactly say that's right, and YES, I will be the one to stand forth in front of God, and ask him all of this, if, in fact, he really does exist. For a God who says, "Don't question me, for I am your Lord" made one GIGANTIC Boo-boo, he made us one of the most curious, and "Having to know" life forms known to man, for an entity so perfect as described in the Bible, how could he make such a mistake? Now lets go back to a human, which of course, are the ones who wrote the Bible by only hearing what was to be put into it. If I told you that I was a magician, but my only power was to turn an egg into a living bird, and I said, "Don't question me, for I am a magician" everyone would laugh and try their damnest to find the answer to how I did this!! WOW! I turned an egg into a living creature!! But then, you look into a giant book considered non-fiction, or true, and read about Moses parting the seas, Noah building an ark so ******* big is can hold two of every living thing, about how it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, about Jesus getting nailed to a cross and then died and then got resurrected, about Sodom and Gomorrah and the pillar of salt that was once a woman who got to curious and looked back at the burning city, you will read this and say, "Wow, this must have happened, because it's based on real places in the world!!" THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!!! According to all religions, what is written in their book of worship, really happened, but I'd hate to break it to you all, either one of those things happened, or NONE OF IT happened, because if they all happened, then we would have over 100 Gods and Goddesses, the Wiccan’s and Greeks alone have numerous Gods and Goddesses, and yet again, they have their stories, did it ever make you wonder if some people, just like today, just felt like sitting down and writing the "Ultimate Story" and just used things that they witnessed with a little added feature of their own imaginations to make the story better? For instance, Sodom and Gomorrah, we had a city, built of rock, the Bible describes this city as the burning city, "Fire falling from the skies" to rid the area of incest, rape, etc. Did you know that the cities were built on top of one of the many troubling tectonic plates beneath the surface of the Earth, did you know that when these plates hit just right, or get unstuck from one another an Earthquake is normally the result of this? It's also proven that pockets of gases are released when a strong enough Earthquake hits, and well an Earthquake hitting these cities, plus a release of gases coming in contact with a torch that may be lit in the city, would cause buildings to crash, explosions so enormous that burning objects would fly up into the sky and come crashing back down onto the city, and cause the death of many people. For others looking on, it would seem as if fire is falling from the Heavens, and therefore, it's written down and documented. it's things like these that people will be so quick to say, "There is a God, and Jesus Christ is my savior" all because a book says so! Well there were also other documentations made during these days, Serpents, Dragons, Monsters of the Seas, Aliens, etc. So why have we found skeletal remains of creatures that lived some millions and millions of years ago, but there are no remains of a Serpent or dragon that was documented during the Biblical times? Why do we only find the cities the Bible talks about, or bones of ancient Egyptians that were mentioned in there? It's easy to be mentioned in a book if you were known to a lot of people, and a city is even easier to document, if King Tut was so great and got a beautiful resting place with jewelry and gold laid upon him, then why didn't Jesus get something like this? Why can't we at least find his bones?? Since the Bible says it's the spirit that lives on, and we simply leave behind our shells, then Jesus also should have left behind his shell, where is it?? One of the greatest people EVER, and we don't even have a piece of clothing?? How do people claim theirs vials of Jesus' Blood? If his whole body disappeared spiritually, then his blood too, would have vanished right? Noah’s Ark, some claim they found wood way up in the mountains that could have very well been Noah's Ark.....Well that's awesome, but why did we only hear about it for a day, and then nothing?? I sit here, I watch the news endlessly, just waiting for these ground breaking stories to emerge, to help me believe, to prove that there is something beyond life, beyond the galaxy and even beyond the universe, but yet, nothing. Not a damn thing! Wouldn't something like Noah's Ark be a little more fascinating than a whole days worth of news?? Damn man, an 18 year old has sex with a 15 year old, and we hear about both people in depth, when their cases are, how they are convicted, the only thing missing is their shoe size! It goes on for days, sometimes weeks!! But Noah's Ark only gets a DAY??!!! Well, IF they did find this wood up there, high in the mountains, it could have also been from the lands crushing together in time, after all, most of the largest mountains are nothing more than two huge bodies of land crushing into each other with such immense force, that the only way the land has to go, is up! That would be the reasons they found fossils at the highest peaks of the mountains that belong to sea life, because that land that reaches to the heavens was once underwater, DEEP underwater! So if you think about it, a boat that has sunk a long long time ago, could very well end up at the tops of these mountains! On another note, if our galaxy is just a speck, among millions and millions of other galaxies, who's to say there is not life in some of them? If there is, then why did God decide to plant Jesus in one of our people? Are the rest of the worlds stuck in life of blindness? I wouldn't say it's quite fair to them that we got the only cheat sheet to existence after life, and do they Go to Hell because they don't know the possible truth? Could you even imagine, if there is life on other planets, the amount of OTHER religions there are on just one of those planets?? And once again, whose to say they don't have their own bible that's possibly ONLY dedicated to cannibalism because their God said that it's the right thing to do, and who witnessed all of those sayings from their God? The Mayan's on Earth believed that the Gods or God fed off of the blood of sacrifice, hardly something we would believe is true in this day and age, but surely they had some sort of reason to believe this, who witnessed that this was the right thing to do? Why was it the right thing to do if it was in fact true? Why did the blood not rise up to the Heaven's when the sacrifices took place and why did the Mayan's not question this and see that the only place it went was through the open pores of the planet representing that technically Hell was engulfing the dead remnants? Everywhere from the Mayan's to the Christians to the Indians, someone, somewhere supposedly witnessed something of great power, and every one of them wrote it down, and whoever came after was told these stories, all the way up to this day and age, now we are stuck, stuck with many different stories from many different regions, and all of them have a different tale to tell, some believe in one Almighty, while many others believe in many that share the same decisions of fate. So how does one person tell another that they are wrong? Are they that self minded that no one else can have an opinion of their own? If I believe in Pro-choice, and someone else believes in Pro-life, who are they to tell me I am wrong, and who am I to tell them I am right? If killing a baby is bad, then why is it ok to kill a human in war?? Because they are going to kill us if we don't kill them?? Well according to the Bible, Killing is killing whether it's done for duty, profit or fun! So who is anyone to say one person is right and one person is wrong, this planet has grown up on many things, one is killing, in the old years, it was done for power over all, at one time, it was the main source to keep certain nationalities strong, to live on as the King or Queen of whatever, for wealth and to become Gods of everyone else. Today, countries will say they are doing it for protection, but just like the Bible, we only believe what we are told, could it be that our Government is really just using our people to fight in these wars because they are simply nervous of another country becoming a little more powerful than us?? I would say it's very possible, but yet, we need to kill other innocent people to keep this rank? Well if we are the most powerful, and everyone under us is less powerful, I don't really see the less powerful people really bitching about it, the only ones having a tantrum is their governments, but the normal people, like the majority of us, seem to be living their lives just fine! Now obviously people like Osama Bin Laden gave our government a reason to attack, BUT, they say they attacked us first due to what their God told them to do! We laugh in his face and would feed him a bullet if we could, but think just for a second at what we are laughing at as we pull that trigger, we are laughing at a person who claims that his God told him to do this, isn't this kind of the same thing as laughing at the human voice reading off the Ten Commandments, or the story passed on to others that they better follow onto an ark because a great flood is about to happen? I mean in the Bible, God sacrificed His ONLY SON!!! So technically, what is so insane about a God telling someone else to kill multiple people that don't agree with his faith? If you can have your own son sacrificed, you can have anyone sacrificed. And don't say that it was done for the forgiveness of our sins, why be so difficult? If Jesus died for our sins, and it cost God his ONLY son to do this, and then we are born into sin anyway, why didn't God just make it simple?? HE IS GOD AFTER ALL! He didn't have to do all that, he could have had his son grow on and get old and live happy and simply snap his fingers and say, "And with this snap of my fingers I say, LET THERE BE FORGIVENESS FOR SIN" and POOF it happens! Why be so complex? Because he can?? Didn't he complete this already when he created the universe? Did he really have to get so specific and in depth that he pin pointed our little speck of dust we call Earth and add more to the pot of confusion? I don't think so, but I am just like anyone else, born with questions that burn so fierce that with every year that ages me also adds a little more fuel to my need for an answer. I'm not a scientist, and I surely would not jump right to evolution, after all, if evolution is real and we never stop evolving, then why are there not half monkey half men running around, why are there monkeys and then there are humans? Shouldn't every cycle be bumping into each other, or did the monkeys just decide some million years ago that they wanted to stop evolving, and then told the humans that were already evolved that they were on their own? Why is it that the oldest human being that has been found, is still pretty damn close to what we look like today? I may be wrong with that analogy, but damn it, at least I'm poking a stick at it, rather than walking around blind in my existence with two words and ONLY two words sitting in my head, "What if"!! I need to know, and I will either find out, or go insane trying. I can understand why Albert Einstein went nuts, I'm sure he overloaded his mind, for a mind so great as his, to somehow come up with the correct equation that Energy is in fact equal to mass times the speed of light and then multiplied again by the speed of light, is so outstandingly awesome, that it would be understandable that he was overloading, and then there's me, surely no Einstein, with all of this in my head, more confusion than anything, but yet knowledgeable to be able to question "why" it would be understandable that I too, someday, will break. All of us have one major thing in common, Hope. Hope that our faith IS right, that there is something beyond, why can't we all just look up in the skies, the stars, the Heavens and simply just say, I believe in A God, not a certain one, but simply, THE ONE? The sad thing is, there are more things unraveling faith and proving that the Big Bang was true, than there are proving the Bible correct, if God wants us to know he exists, as so badly as he did in Biblical times, I think he might want to maybe show his face more than in just a set of clouds that I can also see a bunny rabbit, or a dragon, or a flower in, maybe the Virgin Mary, would like to show herself on more than a half chewed piece of grilled cheese sandwich, or on a reflecting window that got a little dirty, maybe Jesus would like to show himself more on something else rather than a piece of wood cut from a tree, or in a sun spot in a persons poorly developed film, maybe it's about time someone, or something, just simply says, "I exist, look at me, hear me, love me, for I am your creator, and I will lead you to eternal bliss."

These are all my own words, through nature, happiness, sadness, loss of loved ones, wealth, poverty and confusion, life itself has inspired me to write these words, I do not think any ONE religion is wrong and I will never tell someone that my beliefs are right, maybe other people should start respecting everyone else in their faiths as well.

2007-01-03 12:28:59 · 43 answers · asked by Lo 4

and have you seen that miracle in that persons life? have you ever felt like you were fighting against the power of darkness for someone you loved so that can be free of whatever that was holding them captive to a certain sin?

2007-01-03 12:27:55 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I saw the movie Boondock Saints with my husband. I have actually seen it many times. I know that I have felt that way before. It is not fair that so many criminals walk free. The question this movie brought up though is this. Is there such thing as justifiable homicide. I feel that there is so does my husband but our friends thought they were just as bad as the people they were killing. I disagree. In times of knights and kings this would have been known as justice.

And Shepherds we shall be

For thee, my Lord, for thee.

Power hath descended forth from Thy hand

Our feet may swiftly carry out Thy commands.

So we shall flow a river forth to Thee

And teeming with souls shall it ever be.

In Nomeni Patri Et Fili Spiritus Sancti.

2007-01-03 12:27:50 · 8 answers · asked by rabidchipmunk 2

yeah i'm kinda trying to see what they mean by it. detail please. thanx

2007-01-03 12:25:05 · 23 answers · asked by Sam 2

I can read the whole New Testament and see a loving God, and even in most of the Old Testament, God seeks to differentiate Himself from false gods by His respect for life and rejection of human sacrifice.

So how do theologians justify the Book of Joshua, which makes it look like Yahweh is encouraging genocide against the people who were in Israel before the Jews arrived? Or is this book simply wrong?

2007-01-03 12:25:01 · 23 answers · asked by bourbon_on_my_cornflakes 3

I dont mean to affend any one but i am a christian so does that mean that any one of my friends or just random people who arnt christian will go to hell? But god is good.

2007-01-03 12:24:30 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

I received a reading but do not know how to interpret these cards.
Thanks for any advise.

Queen of Swords, 9 of Wands, the Hermit, Queen of Cups, Page of Swords, 9 of Pentacles, and the King of Wands.

2007-01-03 12:23:13 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

www.evilbible.com

gang rape, mass murder, theft, cannibalism...... just some of the immoral things the bible promotes.

2007-01-03 12:21:22 · 12 answers · asked by 42yxalag 3

and you never heard of it before. You are 20 years old and you have no knowledge of Christianity. You pick up the book for 50 cents go home a start reading, would you buy the story without it being pumped into your brain while you are young and impressionable?

2007-01-03 12:21:18 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-03 12:21:09 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

does he practice wicca him self?

2007-01-03 12:21:06 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't see how it could be. But some people have said that it is.

What do you think?

2007-01-03 12:20:30 · 31 answers · asked by I'm Still Here 5

2007-01-03 12:17:59 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-03 12:17:43 · 18 answers · asked by Jenifer 3