Religion & Spirituality - 25 February 2007

cause i dont think the bible takls about it..

2007-02-25 07:03:56 · 14 answers · asked by Josh 3

Then how do you know that it was the flood of Noah ie Christian God as opposed to any other ancient religion at the time?

2007-02-25 07:02:59 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you wan to join with me in the one true religion?
i didn't just make it up! ....honest
; - ))

2007-02-25 07:02:33 · 20 answers · asked by frogg135 5

Will you still enter, or will you asume the place is full of nazis and rather join the multi-cultured crowd in hell?

2007-02-25 07:02:29 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Men wrote the bible and claimed they were inspired, if you hold that BOOK WRITTEN BY PEOPLE as the word of a god, you are putting your faith in the MEN WHO WROTE IT.

If you believe a god created the universe, then you also must believe that same god set up the "laws" of physics. Understanding and learning about HIS creation would be the ULTIMATE way to know god, since science cannot be ADULTERATED like the bible was (You know, when they voted on what books would be in it)

2007-02-25 07:00:14 · 14 answers · asked by slipknotraver 4

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 — A group of influential Christian conservatives and their allies emerged from a private meeting at a Florida resort this month dissatisfied with the Republican presidential field and uncertain where to turn. The event was a meeting of the Council for National Policy, a secretive club whose few hundred members include Dr. James C. Dobson of Focus on the Family, the Rev. Jerry Falwell of Liberty University and Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform.

The council’s bylaws forbid members from publicly disclosing its membership or activities, and participants agreed to discuss the Amelia Island meeting only on the condition of anonymity.

Both Mr. McCain and Mr. Romney have worked hard to pitch themselves to Christian conservatives — John McCain by delivering speeches at venues like Mr. Falwell’s Liberty University or a recent abstinence-promotion event, Mitt Romney by leading the charge for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

2007-02-25 06:59:13 · 7 answers · asked by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7

2007-02-25 06:59:11 · 21 answers · asked by Westerner 1

yes im talking about religion and the bible did you notice ???some guy made it up doesnt it look like it

2007-02-25 06:58:52 · 7 answers · asked by whomp a doodle doodle do 3

I just dont understand why the Christians were persecuted,
And what religion were the persecuters ( The Romans) when this was happening?

Answers much appreicated. Thank you

2007-02-25 06:58:07 · 12 answers · asked by ScoTT 1

Regarding the Islamo-fascist riots in reaction to the publishing of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, please look at the Web site http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/islamic_mo_full

The claim by Muslims that any depiction of the Prophet is forbidden is not upheld by the facts. This site shows no fewer than 18 Islamic images of the Prophet. If any picture of the "Prophet" is forbidden, why did Muslims create these pictures? It seems to me that the Islamo-fascists simply don't want anyone to have the right to show a picture of the Prophet in anything other than a good light. Forget freedom of the press. That only applies when the press praises Islam and its Prophet, or when the press insults Christianity and Judaism.

Show a picture of the Mohammed with a bomb in his turban? Blasphemy!

Show a crucifix in a glass of urine? It's art!

2007-02-25 06:57:55 · 4 answers · asked by Weird Darryl 6

Produce your proof if ye are truthful.

2007-02-25 06:56:11 · 12 answers · asked by Kimo 4

I mean why bother if God knows what you have in your heart right? Do you think he thinks common law marriage is alright? Isn't that what you are doing without baptism? Trying to be the bride of Christ without any ceremony?

2007-02-25 06:54:59 · 15 answers · asked by Midge 7

I don't really mind ghosts but I'm not sure of it's intentions. My three year old son see's things a lot, I believe him due to his expressions and he will not talk willingly about it. It is in his bedroom and I have seen too many documentories on spirits and possesion. I'm sure a lot of people think that I am crazy but I don't care, there is something here with us and it's not natural. Ihave been told about sage and holy water. Anyone have anything other than these suggestions. I want to know if it's here or not?

2007-02-25 06:54:22 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Say you had a sibling you loved very much, but they refuse to join your religion. Let's make them for sake of argument, and atheist.
You both die in a car accident. You, being a good christian, go to heaven. Your sibling, an evil atheist, goes to hell.
Do you simply forget about them? Do you laugh at their fate, buring and being tortured for all eternity in the flames?
Or does the injustice of having someone who led a good life, but a non-christian one, take your breath away as it does mine?

2007-02-25 06:54:21 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

caution, only serious answers only. Remember all those insects who thought they could roam free until they got caught in the spiders' weblock?

2007-02-25 06:54:20 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Jesus? I mean he loves to sow doubt. Notice : "If you are the son of God," ... he says, not "since" but if ... I believe that is what he is doing on this site. Especially trying to sow doubt with the Catholics. WE KNOW WHO WE ARE!

2007-02-25 06:53:34 · 14 answers · asked by Midge 7

even though i know that not all Christians are bad, i still don't understand how people can love God so much, but then after sunday school its like they take off their "good people" costumes and turn into something terrible. what would happen if a Jesus comes back and sees a Christian partying w/ beer and crack and stuff?

2007-02-25 06:52:47 · 22 answers · asked by Silent Rumours 3

God created Cain and Abel, not Cain and Mabel.

2007-02-25 06:52:07 · 8 answers · asked by eldad9 6

-- is it Calvinism with its "I'm chosen" attitude, or is it Arminianism with its "glory to me, I chose" attitude?

2007-02-25 06:51:46 · 4 answers · asked by ccrider 7

2007-02-25 06:50:39 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

BRIGIT OF THE CELTS
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Brigit was one of the great Triple Goddesses of the Celtic people.
She appeared as Brigit to the Irish, Brigantia in Northern England,
Bride in Scotland, and Brigandu in Brittany. Many legends are told
about Brigit. Some say that there are three Brigits : one sister in
charge of poetry and inspiration who invented the Ogham alphabet,
one in charge of healing and midwifery, and the third in charge of the
hearth fire, smithies and other crafts. This catually indicates the
seperate aspects of her Threefold nature and is a neat division of
labor for a hard-working goddess.
Brigit was probably originally a Sun Goddess, and a charming story
of her birth is that she was born at sunrise and a tower of flame
burst from the forehead of the new born Goddess that reached from
Earth to Heaven. It was likely She who inspired the line in the famous
Song of Amergin: "I am a fire in the head." Her penchant for smithcraft
led to her association by the Romans with Minerva/Athena. As a warrior
Goddess, She favored the use of the spear or the arrow. Indeed, various
interpetations of her name exist including, "Bright Arrow," "The Bright
One," "the Powerful One" and "The High One," depending upon the region
and the dialect.
As a Goddess of herbalism, midwifery and healing She was in charge
of Water as well as Fire. I don't beleive that anyone has ever
counted all teh vast number of sacred wells and springs named after
or dedicated to this Goddess. A story is told of how two lepers came
to one of her sacred springs for healing and She instructed one Leper
to wash the other. The skin of the freshly bathed man was cleansed
of the disease and Brigit told the man who was healed to wash the man
who had bathed him so that both men would be whole. The man who was
healed was now too disgusted to touch the other Leper and would have
left him, but Brigit herself washed the leper and struck down the
other arrogant fellow with leperousy once more before he could leave.
Offerings to the watery Brigit were cast into the well in the form
of coins or, even more ancient, brass or gold rings. Other sacrifices
were offered where three streams came together. Her cauldron of
Inspiration connected her watery healing aspect with her fiery poetic
aspect.
Brigit is clearly the best example of the survival of a Goddess
into Christian times. She was cannonized by the Catholic church as
St. Brigit and various origins are given to this saint. The most
popular folktale is that She was midwife to the Virgin Mary, and thus
was always inviked by women in labor. The more official story was
that She was a Druid's daughter who predicted the coming of
Christianity and then was baptised by St. Patrick. She became a nun
and later an abbess who founded the Abbey at Kildare. The Christian
Brigit was said to have had the power to appoint the bishops of her
area, a strange role for an abbess, made stranger by her requirement
that her bishops also be practicing goldsmiths.
Actually, the Goddess Brigit had always kept a shrine at Kildare,
Ireland, with a perpetual flame tended by nineteen virgin priestesses
called Daughters of the Flame. No male was ever allowed to come near
it; nor did those women ever consort with men. Even their food and
other supplies were brought to them by women of the nearby village.
When Catholicism took over in Ireland, the shrine became a convent
and the priestesses became nuns but the same traditions were held
and the eternal flame was kept burning. Their tradition was that
each day a different priestess/nun was in charge of the sacred fire
and on the 20th day of each cycle, teh fire was miraculously tended
by Brigit Herself. There into the 18th century, the ancient song
was sung to her : "Brigit, excellant woman, sudden flame, may the
bright fiery sun take us to the lasting kingdom."
For over a thousand years, the sacred flame was tended by nuns,
and no one knows how long before that it had been tended by the
priestesses. In 1220 CE, a Bishop became angered by the no-males
policy of the Abbey of St. Brigit of Kildare. He insisted that nuns
were subordinate to priests and therefore must open their abbey
and submit themselves to inspection by a priest. When they refused
and asked for another Abbess or other female official to perform
any inspections, the Bishop was incensed. He admonished them to
obediance and then decreed that teh keeping of the eternal flame
was a Pagan custom and 6rdered the sacred flame to be extinguished.
Even then, She remained the most poular Irish saint along with
Patrick. In the 1960's, under Vatican II modernization, it was
declared that there was insufficient proof of Brigit's sanctity
or even of her historical existance, and so teh Church's gradual
pogrom against Brigit was successful at last and She was thus
decanonized. It is very difficult to obtain images or even holy
cards of ST. Brigit outside of Ireland anymore.
Her festival is held on Febuary 1st or 2nd. It corresponds to
the ancient Celtic fire festival of Imbolc or Oimelc which
celebrated the birthing and freshening of sheep and goats (it really
is a Feast of Milk). This festival was Christianized as Candlemas
or Lady Day and Her Feast day, La Feill Bhride, was attended by
tremendous local celebration and elaborate rituals. Her festival
is also called Brigit. Brigit (the Goddess and the Festival)
represents the stirring of life again after the dead months of the
winter, and her special blessings are called forth at this time.
Since She was booted out of teh Church for being Pagan, it is
incumbant upon us Pagans to restore Her worship to its former glory
especially those of us of Celtic ancestory. Here is an ancient rite
to invite Brigit into your home at the time of her Holiday:
Clean your hearth thoroughly in teh morning and lay a fire
without kindling it, then make yourself a "Bed for Brigid" and
place it near the hearth. The bed can be a small basket with covers
and tiny pillow added as plain or fancy as you like. If you have no
hearth, you can use the stove and put the bed behind it. Then at
sundown light a candle rubbed with rosemary oil and invite Brigit
into your home and into er bed; use the candle to kindle your
hearthfire if possible. Make your own poem to invite Her or use
the ancient song mentioned earlier. Let the candle burn at least
all night in a safe place. You might even want to begin the custom
of keeping the eternal flame; it is a popular custom in some
magickal and Wiccan traditions. AFter all, it's up to us now to
keep the spirit of Brigit alive and well for the next thousand
years at least!!!


By Morning Glory Zell from AMARGI Vol I. No.3 Feb. 1st 1989
Used By permission

2007-02-25 06:48:45 · 12 answers · asked by Terry 7

When you don't agree with the answers they've written? Why?

2007-02-25 06:46:55 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-25 06:44:21 · 11 answers · asked by beccaroo101 1

2007-02-25 06:42:32 · 7 answers · asked by sleek 1

Its not the Our Father, the Profession of Faith or any other prayer used in church. Its a prayer each Christian (those who know about it) says between themselves andGod! The Bible describes the words to use, but you have to put it together into a prayer. I don't know exactly where its at. I do know its in there!

2007-02-25 06:42:07 · 10 answers · asked by ZORRO 3

Is he just concerned they might get STD's?

2007-02-25 06:41:49 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-25 06:40:17 · 6 answers · asked by Rob 1

If not, how can you reject this obvious truth?

2007-02-25 06:37:41 · 29 answers · asked by jesusman1137 1

2007-02-25 06:37:20 · 37 answers · asked by Velouria 6

How do you determine what religion to have your child be if the parents are of two different religions and unwilling to convert to the others religion? Do you send the child to both places of worship and let them choose later? Or does the father have more say over the mother? This would apply to any combination of mixed relgion marriages. Let's just say for the purpose of this dicussion that the necessity of conversion in order to be allowed to marry wasn't there.

2007-02-25 06:34:54 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous