Religion & Spirituality - 18 February 2007

The Catholic church believes that the priest actually turns the wine into the blood of christ. I'm not talking literally, but think of the psychological damage this does to children when they are told they are drinking the blood of another person! Symbolic or not, doesn't this sound a little pagan to you?

I KNOW that it's not really blood, but grapejuice or wine. I KNOW it's symbolic. But it's still a BLOOD drinking ceremony. Taken from the pagans and adapted by catholics and christians all over. The killing of a virgin was symbolic as well. Think about it! The slaughtering of a lamb was symbolic.

Do any of you also slaughter lambs or cows in sacrifice to your God?

How about virgins over Volcanoes?

2007-02-18 05:20:04 · 19 answers · asked by GobleyGook 3

I have only gotten one......is it readily apparent that I am beyond redemption?

Or do they only choose to send the stuff to the clearly younger crowd who might take it more to heart?

2007-02-18 05:19:11 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am going to be presiding over communion at my church for the first time since I was baptized, and am a little intimidated to be honest. I was wondering if anyone has any good ideas of what to talk about or any good scriptures.

2007-02-18 05:18:52 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-18 05:18:42 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Have you accepted the Spirit of God into you and do you ask of it, and listen for the answers and try to do Gods will for you in your life.

2007-02-18 05:16:14 · 12 answers · asked by early b 1

If you want to buy a pet, you go to a pet shop.

If you want to buy a pet shop, you go to a pet shop shop.

If you want to buy a pet shop shop, well, that's just silly.


Okay back to the point.....

If you want to learn about Biology, you go to a Biologist.

If you want to learn about History, you go to a Historian.

If you want to learn about Physics, you go to a Physician.

But, why is it that.....


If people want to learn about Islam, they go to a Christian, and people will believe that Christian?

If people want to learn about Christianity, they go to an Atheist, people will believe that Atheist?



How many people honestly believes the words coming out from these sort of people?

2007-02-18 05:15:17 · 18 answers · asked by Adia Azrael 4

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070218/ap_on_fe_st/four_legged_duck

how else do you explain this? or is mutation and evolution a reality?

2007-02-18 05:14:08 · 21 answers · asked by GobleyGook 3

2007-02-18 05:13:07 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I remember these on ward notice boards but never knew who had written them. The first one has a line it "who do you see when you look at me" and is an old woman remembering her life. The second one says "I did not die " and something about being in another room. These are for a very dear friend who's wife of 62yrs died recently, we would both be very grateful.

2007-02-18 05:12:52 · 5 answers · asked by 'er indoors 2

i have been told that i will be going totheir hell, and that my life will be made a hell. not that i believe that kind of thing, but it's annoying. anything yahoo will do about it? or is it just one of those things just have to ignore if you want to use email with YA? thanks!

2007-02-18 05:11:53 · 22 answers · asked by mommynow 3

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070218/ap_on_fe_st/four_legged_duck

I think this clearly shows that some mutations 1. happen. 2. can be beneficial.

Amazing!

2007-02-18 05:11:49 · 19 answers · asked by GobleyGook 3

Is he the only one in heaven with an earth body? Or were there others that travelled from earth to heaven without dying? If there are others does anyone know who they are?

2007-02-18 05:11:23 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-18 05:10:04 · 17 answers · asked by gemseeker 3

1. Asked me a question, told me what my answer is, and told me I was wrong about an answer that he put in my mouth

2. Asked me a question and told me she didn't want to hear my answer

3. Started a debate, became rude and disruptive and accused me of causing him to be rude and disruptive

4. started a debate, just when it was getting started, stopped it.

5. started a debate, couldn't answer my questions and said "this is getting nowhere, lets stop talking about it"

6. started a debate, agreed with me but said I was still wrong about the statement that she agreed with

7. She tried to convince me to believe that God exist, failed and accuse me of forcing me disbeliefs on her

8. She said God exist. I said he doesn't. She called my disagreement an attack

2007-02-18 05:09:33 · 7 answers · asked by Black Atheist 1

Is this ok for me to do with them? Or am I doing something against what I was taught

2007-02-18 05:09:02 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I remember when I was a little kid, my mummy and daddy always fought over who got to use the bathroom first in the morning.


Sometimes, she said "GOD! ARE YOU STILL IN THERE!?!?"

2007-02-18 05:08:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-18 05:07:54 · 9 answers · asked by xpected 2

2007-02-18 05:06:43 · 3 answers · asked by Brendan G 4

Even if it did, why not something less painful?

2007-02-18 05:06:40 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am a Christian, and therefore believe in Heaven and Hell.

2007-02-18 05:06:01 · 19 answers · asked by Viva La Alexander! 2

A) Convert to Christianity
B) Convert to Hinduism
C) Sit down and have a pork sandwich with a Jew

2007-02-18 05:05:52 · 3 answers · asked by Loathe thy neighbor. 3

Why do people reject the LORD. The only means of everlasting life. It seems pretty common sense to me why we should. People choose to die and to be separated from GOD forever? .....Just seems stupid to me. Seems like this one is a no brainer! I agree it's hard to walk in the light at times and foresake ourselves at times for the LORD and put up with persecution but JESUS made it pretty clear.... LOVE ME, LIVE FOR ME......or die forever.
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2007-02-18 05:05:48 · 20 answers · asked by Blueryno 3

Of thinking about becoming one of the girls in the Girls gone Wild videos or on the cover of playboy magazine or in Maxim?

2007-02-18 05:04:46 · 12 answers · asked by Melissa Svetlana Flavored Coffee 3

2007-02-18 05:01:41 · 10 answers · asked by Black Atheist 1

My wife's denomonation is seventh-day-adventist. She agrues that in eden Adam and Eve were Vegans, and I say they ate dairy, eggs, and meat, because it meantions there were beast of the fields there. So what do you think? What is your logic?

2007-02-18 04:57:55 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am a Christian, and I just was wondering.

2007-02-18 04:57:19 · 25 answers · asked by Viva La Alexander! 2

Yes, I understand that people really want to be spiritual and most of the wars on this planet are because of religous beliefs etc. But it seems that for more then a thousand years now we have been preaching the same thing and wanting a "GOD" to come save us. But in "reality" only "man" can save us from desaster. And the world "IS" on the brink of desaster... We are dying. And our Planet is dying too. And the only thing humanity seems to agree on for the most part is that some divine being is coming for us all so it is ok to do what ever and not give a damn what happens. Faith is wonderful and all but even your bible says that "man" is responcible for what happens on this planet. And no human seems to get that at all. We keep making our own ideas about what or who is out there and all of them end with the conclusion of divine being... Well right now ALL of you are wrong no matter what you say or try to convince the other of because "nothing" has been proven. And mankind is going to die

2007-02-18 04:56:19 · 8 answers · asked by Unveilded A 1

2007-02-18 04:55:40 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

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Since so much of religion is based on "faith," how can you tell the difference between your deeply held faith and another's fantasy that is based on "make-believe?"

Is your faith based on the testimony of another human being (either living or dead, in writing or spoken word)? (If so, refer to the question in the previous paragraph.)

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2007-02-18 04:53:23 · 10 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7

2007-02-18 04:53:14 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous