Religion & Spirituality - 18 February 2007

I understand the Mohammed said that there should be no monk-hood within Islam. Did he say this because some people had started to err in this way? Or was this statement unsolicited. What are current teachings regarding a life of meditation removed form the world vs. a life as a house-holder involved with the world in Islam.

2007-02-18 06:43:03 · 4 answers · asked by Al 3

We Live In A Society Dominated By Male Privileges (Superior Type), So What Would Happen If Women Were The Dominant Gender?

2007-02-18 06:39:36 · 22 answers · asked by Trishcia 1

Acts 15:20-21 write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day. KJV

Luke considered it a "given" that gentiles that received Christ would attend synagogue in order to gain a greater understanding of Moses and walk in obedience to Torah.

So gentile Christians met on Sabbath to hear Moses taught, then met on Sunday to fellowship with other believing Christians.

What do you think?

2007-02-18 06:39:12 · 15 answers · asked by s2scrm 5

"The foxes have holes, the birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no where to lay his head."

Whereas church people have plenty:
They have greed, assets, gorgeous properties, comfort, glory, honor from each other, prayers in high places, smug attitudes, smirks in their sleeves, money in many accounts, snazzy vehicles, sexy trophy wives, time-share crap, boats, far-away possessions to ellicit the envy of of anybody lower than they, holy words rolling of their pious tongues, power and prerogatives uncounted...should I go on?

The whole bunch of you make Jesus look like an idiot.

He will smack you and exile you to Hell forever.

Where will all your praise and spontaneous salvation and "Hallelujah Jesus!" get you then?

An atheist, if he be humble, has a better chance than you.

2007-02-18 06:37:55 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

-some people say life is short, so let me do whatever i want to do, let me sleep with women, have fun, keep sinning.

-others says life is short, and because it's short i have to prepare for death, i have to do as much good deeds as i could. i have to keep away from sinning.

which side are you taking?

2007-02-18 06:35:41 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-18 06:35:14 · 10 answers · asked by CHEESUS GROYST 5

they use this symbol in their religious duties and do not get arrested, but as soon as any other race gets hold of the swastika they are arrested and imprisoned

2007-02-18 06:33:59 · 20 answers · asked by nutterandbolter 1

Creationists are always asking me for evidence of one animal turning into another and then they'll believe in evolution.

Well here is a link to a duck that was born with four legs! So this is the first step towards a duck turning into a dog, or cat!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2007-02-17-duckling-four-legs_x.htm?csp=34

2007-02-18 06:32:27 · 22 answers · asked by GobleyGook 3

I see several christians here who keep repeating they believe sexual orientation is a choice.

Please share with us the circumstances of your decision. What were the pros and cons of each choice?

Before deciding, were you attracted to both sexes, or to none?

2007-02-18 06:32:13 · 8 answers · asked by eldad9 6

2007-02-18 06:31:50 · 11 answers · asked by ann a 1

2007-02-18 06:30:49 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

found lesser population here...

2007-02-18 06:29:43 · 12 answers · asked by sam 1

1 - Jesus Christ
2 - Your Whole Family

Of these two, who would you put first?

2007-02-18 06:29:41 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

has anyone seen a ghost or heard strange noises? We all hear or read about something that happened to other people but first hand? Have you ever seen something you cant explain? i would especially be interested in someone who doesnt beleive in ghosts but is puzzled by something that happened to them?

I'm not reallly a believer in ghosts but i am just curious.

Please no Religious Fundamentalist Answers.

2007-02-18 06:28:40 · 9 answers · asked by zed10096 1

i have realized there is negative energy in my house because in my housemy family gets in low spirits, my mother gets violent, my father left us, i get uncomfortable night sleeps. My sister says on kitchen door and bedroom door she has somtimes seen white orgy (spherical light) drooping even my father said so.I try to keep everything clean but our electricity connection is faulty.
Although i havent heard any unusual voices or images, IS the place has ghost or negative energy?

2007-02-18 06:28:18 · 8 answers · asked by anil 2

This may get deleted so email me quick. I have 4 contemporary christian music cds, 3 of which have never been opened. I got them a few years ago from Time Life...back when I was on my spiritual quest. They are gathering dust and I want someone to have them who would appreciate them. ALL music should be appreciated. Anyhoo...here is the the legitimate question.

Would anyone like to have these cds?

No charge and no shipping. All on me. It would be Friday before I could mail them but if you want them just email me with your address.

2007-02-18 06:21:54 · 8 answers · asked by Stormilutionist Chasealogist 6

Assuming they were both well qualified to lead the country and you agreed with their political views.

2007-02-18 06:20:57 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

We all know that the Ka'aba is the most holy place for Muslims. It is located in Mecca, Saudi Arabiya and millions of people go to it every year for pilgrimage.

Muslims say that Abraham built the Ka'aba. If this is the case, why Jews and Chritians had never heard of it before Prophet Muhammad?

2007-02-18 06:19:37 · 10 answers · asked by Bionimetiket 2

It might explain why christians are bellowing about a christian nation.

2007-02-18 06:18:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

The reason to why I am asking this question is b/c I was working the other day with my friend helping him with his roof work. When another Jew approached us, I know him well. He came up to me and ask me if he could talk to me. I said sure. He then told me that I need to take of my kippa. He said that I was showing of and in today’s society I don’t have to wear a kippa. Furthermore, he mentioned that by wearing a kippa I was making the rest of the Jews in the area fill uncomfortable. He said that Orthodox traditions are of the past and that I need to return to my secular roots or my parents. In addition, he told me that I was wrong for wear my kippa in public, because I was calling attention to all Jews in the area, and was making our Christian neighbors feel uncomfortable.
Having taught his child during Sunday school, he also told me that because of my lesson his child now demands of his mother to light the Shabbas candles and to go to temple on Saturday. He said, that I should not teach his child traditional Orthodox doctrine.
Experiencing this are we our own worse enemies now?

2007-02-18 06:17:12 · 12 answers · asked by MaxNHL 3

or his so called church, Growing in Grace?

2007-02-18 06:16:54 · 6 answers · asked by ? 5

What would happen to your soul? Would it burn for eternity or be in serenity with him? Or do u believe in coming back in a second life. What would happen to ur soul?

2007-02-18 06:14:39 · 28 answers · asked by gurllucky7 4

It's called the "prosperity message". It is a spiritual poison in our churches today. It comes in different forms. One is "name it and claim it" kind of prayer. You tell God how much money you want and claim in faith. Another is when pastor says, "You give 10% and God will give you back 100 fold!"
We should not be focused on worldly riches and pastors and evangelists should not lure people to give by telling them that God will give them more in return.

Jesus said, "Woe to you who are rich, for you are receiving your comfort in full." Luke 6:24

Isaiah tells us that the Christ will be "a man of sorrows", "aquainted with grief", "despised and afflicted" Isaiah 53:4

In the wilderness temptation, Satan offered Jesus "all the kingdoms of the world" and Jesus turned it down. Matt 4:8-9

"But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare..." 1Tim 6:9

They quote the old testament where worldly riches were their reward. That's not what Jesus taught.

2007-02-18 06:09:49 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-18 06:09:32 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

servent or children:

-there is paradise for a reward, and there is a Hell-fire for a punishment. why would God bunish his children as such a painful bunishment for their sins, such as burning them a live while they are His children?

-Tusnami, Katrina, earthquacke, natural disaster..do u think anything can happen without a permission from God?

that indicate that we Are God servents Not children, and God gives his mercy to any of his servents if he wish.

2007-02-18 06:09:31 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is kind of a loaded question I know, but I'm just curious about the opinions you guys have and how it relates to your faith/beliefs/religion. Last semester I took a philosophy class and the main question we looked at was, how do you live the 'good life.' I found an answer that works for me but I'm just curious to see how you all would answer.

Please also state you religion, denomination, or faith.

Thanks!! God Bless!

2007-02-18 06:08:58 · 18 answers · asked by All 4 His Glory 3

What will he do with all that money?

2007-02-18 06:08:55 · 18 answers · asked by Loathe thy neighbor. 3

Women and Children are supposed to be protected by the Governments of the world. The Governments should not be legalizing Prostitution. The World Governments should be working to eliminate prostitution.

*Perilous Times and Decaying Morality
Europe's brothel - in a corner of Spain*
Madam's is just one of a series of macro-brothels making prostitution a
growth industry
Giles Tremlett in Capmany
Saturday June 24, 2006
The Guardian

The small stone chapel that local people once used for baptisms, first
communions and weddings is now a storeroom and the sign that read Hotel
Mercéi has been replaced by a glowing piece of neon announcing that this
is now a busy brothel called Madam's.

Selling sex is, as this thriving, 50-room "macro-brothel" shows, a far
more lucrative business than catering for the family celebrations of a
scattered population of farmers and wine-growers in this north-eastern
corner of Spain.

Located on a main road just inside the Spanish border with France,
Madam's has a large sign reading Entrée.The yellow number-plates on the
Peugeots and Renaults in the car park are also mainly French. "Most of
the clients are from over the border," says Patricio, the muscle-bound,
tattooed manager of what is now one of the biggest businesses in the
small municipality of Capmany. "Things are a lot stricter over there."

Inside, several dozen scantily clad women in thongs and micro-skirts sit
at the neon-lit chrome bar. Others totter around on glittery platform
shoes or in thigh-length boots. Despite the ample display of flesh, they
are having trouble competing for the attention of a handful of early
evening punters with the World Cup football showing on a giant screen.
Occasionally, one walks off, a client in tow, to the lifts that take
them up to the four floors of bedrooms above.

Exploitation

Madam's is just one of more than a dozen macro-brothels to be found on
the outskirts of the small inland villages of a region known as the Alt
Empordà. "They are turning us into Europe's brothel," complains Ferran
Jarabo, the priest for four small village parishes. "We shouldn't
tolerate this sort of exploitation. Women are being reduced to mere
objects."

Dallas, Desiree and Baby Doll are a few of the names that shout out from
huge neon signs. On back roads, bikini-wearing prostitutes from Romania,
Nigeria or Colombia watch the cars going past, pimps discreetly in the
distance.

The brothels here, just a few miles from the tourist beaches of the
Costa Brava, are part of a nationwide growth industry that Spanish
politicians - immersed in a debate over whether to fully legalise and
regulate prostitution - are finally waking up to.

Although no proposals have yet emerged, Roman Catholic Spain already
rivals liberal Holland and Germany in its laissez-faire attitude.

Brothel-owners themselves claim that prostitution, and its spin-offs,
are now an €18bn (£12.4bn) business sector - equivalent to half of
Spain's education budget. The country's confusing prostitution laws mean
that running a brothel is neither fully legal, nor fully illegal. At the
moment, it is illegal only to live directly off prostituting other
people. That allows many brothel owners, like those who run Madam's, to
argue that they are hoteliers who only rent out rooms towomen who work
for themselves.

"I only make money on the rooms. The girls are free. We don't force them
to work a timetable, or fine them if they don't turn up - which is what
happens in other places," says Patricio. A doctor and a psychologist
are, he says, also on the payroll.

Regulation

Madam's has a licence from the regional government of Catalonia "to
gather people to practise prostitution". The government has decided the
only way to control prostitution is by regulating it.

Police say the number of prostitutes in Spain has doubled since 1999,
with one civil guard report from 2004 counting 20,000 in a region
containing a third of the country's population.

In reality, say campaigners, only a minority of brothels obey both the
spirit and letter of the law. Many are run by mafia outfits using women
trafficked from around the world or who are forced to pay off massive,
interest-bearing "debts" to those who brought them here. Apart from a
group of six priests who have lobbied for the brothels to close down,
local people have been quiet. One of the visitors to Madam's on the day
the Guardian called was Jesús Figa, the mayor of Capmany. "The town hall
is not allowed to ban a business for ethical or social reasons," said Mr
Figa, who was there to see Patricio. "That is up to the government of
Catalonia"

Claudia, 25, arrived from her home in the Transylvania region of Romania
two years ago. She escaped from the pimp who brought her to Spain but
continues to sell her body at Madam's.

"He has threatened to kill me and has even come here to the club," she
says. Three black-uniformed security guards, kitted with combat boots,
batons and walkie-talkies, man the doors.

She sends money home to her mother and the five-year-old son she has not
seen for two years. "It means they have three or four times as much
money as they would normally earn," she says.

Madam's even operates as a Western Union branch - and has posters in
Russian advertising its services - so the prostitutes can wire money home.

Just over a mile up the road, police this week raided a notorious club
called Lady's Dallas. A total of 143 prostitutes were working there,
including 38 illegal immigrants and one under-age Romanian girl. The
prostitutes came from 15 developing world and eastern European
countries. None was Spanish.

Spain's National Statistics Institute reported in 2003 that more than
27% of Spanish men under 49 had had sex with a prostitute during their
lives, and one in 15 over the previous year - "noticeably higher than
those in other surveys in Europe".

Arguments presented to a parliamentary committee investigating
prostitution vary from calls for abolition and the prosecution of male
customers to German or Dutch-style legalisation. All sides agree on one
thing. Whatever happens, Spanish men are going to keep paying for sex.
"What needs to be done is to educate men so they relate to women as
equals and respect them in all walks of life," argues Irene Boada, a
columnist in El País newspaper.

2007-02-18 06:07:05 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

And that you will love him and even believe him at first, when he says"I am God" and for some of you continue to all the way to the grave and to eternal damnation?
Oh i know I am harsh!
But I am probably just typing or asking what my brainwashed mind has been programmed to believe.
:)
DJH

2007-02-18 06:06:26 · 4 answers · asked by gemseeker 3

Which would you like better? If you hooked up with someone who appeared to be shy in person but naughty when you were alone with them or someone who was openly outgoing but not as wild in bed?

2007-02-18 06:06:09 · 7 answers · asked by Melissa Svetlana Flavored Coffee 3