Religion & Spirituality - 9 March 2007

If you are a christian and you believe that homosexuality is a sin and they will burn in Hell forever when they die, then why not arrest homosexuals and put them in prison?

If God is perfect and FAIR, then wouldn't that be a fair punishment too?

If you have a homosexual that refuses to be straight and believes that he is doing nothing wrong, then why not arrest him?

Why would that be a bad thing if it's obvious that it's a bad thing and that the person does not want to ever change? If you have someone who's been in a gay relationship for twenty years, the odds are that he will change are almost non existant.

And according to the Bible, you are judged by your thoughts, not just actions.

I don't think being gay is bad at all. I think the Christian rule makes no sense.

So, if you believe gays who do not change deserve to burn forever, then justify it.

2007-03-09 13:30:16 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

regardless if verbal of physical

2007-03-09 13:29:38 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or do you use both sides equally? Unlike his questions, mine probably doesn't have too much research backing it up....but I think there may be a correlation between how religious a person is and the side of their brain that is dominant.

2007-03-09 13:29:18 · 12 answers · asked by KS 7

Many of the deeply religious people I know own guns for self defense. They fear a criminal might break into their house and try to kill them. If they really believe in heaven, why would they care about defending their lives? From what I have been told, your worst day in heaven is a thousand times better than your best day on earth, so why prolong your torture down here any longer than necessary?

Similarly, wouldn't you just be doing your attacker a favor by shooting them? Wouldn't that just send them to heaven early (assuming they are a believer)? I don't get it.

2007-03-09 13:28:46 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

If two Jewish men are speaking. And one of the Jewish men realizes that he had made a mistake and not given as many discounts as he should of, and refers to himself as having accidentally "jewed" someone, is that offensive. If so, to what extent?

2007-03-09 13:28:45 · 5 answers · asked by cant7414 1

do they judge (and condemn) others based on sexual differences? Is that because sex is not that important in their lives but crutial when referring to other´s?

2007-03-09 13:28:42 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I would like to send someone an email with encouraging stories about God working. Will you share?

2007-03-09 13:27:06 · 10 answers · asked by Revelation S 4

Does that mean the end is near?

-drink-

2007-03-09 13:26:29 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Would you help a person who did not give you any pleasure? Like an angry homeless man who wished to gnaw your eyes out? Supposing that you knew he would never be able to repay you for helping him?

So what does this have to do with whether or not you believe in God? I'm not talking about playtoy religion and the afterlife reward-punishment system. I'm asking for your essential view of material reality. What good is "good" and what does justice mean to you? Our spiritual view of the universe DOES ,in fact, determine how we view each other. I'm just wondering how specifically.

2007-03-09 13:26:06 · 11 answers · asked by Zeek 3

The bible says without Holiness nobody will see the Lord. I am not Holy. Because this morning at my mothers house I was telling her the bible says different things about the same things in different chapters. Even though deep down I love the Father and his Son Jesus very much I still worry about going to hell. A lot of Christians would say but if you trust Jesus you are saved. I have just been healed from bowel cancer by God supernaturally and needed not treatment, as the cancer God had taken away himself supernaturally. I feel Satan is now trying to take me away from God so I can lose my soul. My mothers said all the things God has done for you, you should be ashamed of yourself. Christians I want to repent, but I will not do it if it does not come from my heart.Please pray for me to ask God for forgivness and mean it. I need him to put if on my heart to do this, because without God doing this, if will be impossible. The questions I asked my mother this morning is when Jesus rules

2007-03-09 13:25:58 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

just by beleiving so strongly that it would become real for you? But I mean something really hard to get.

2007-03-09 13:20:43 · 13 answers · asked by fantastica 2

2007-03-09 13:19:28 · 13 answers · asked by MoPleasure4U 4

I've started going to a church recently, and I knew that they taught about the Bible and Jesus and morals. I thought it would be nice to hang around people who don't use profanity and who strive to be more moral.

But these people actually believe the stories of the Bible, and they believed all kinds of things about God, as if they could really know! It scared the bejezus out of me!!!

I left that church and went to a more traditional one, and they ALSO BELIEVED those stories were literal!!! I did some research on the web and found out that MOST CHRISTIANS ACTUALLY BELIEVE THIS STUFF!!!

How is this conceivable? I've read the Bible a couple of times and never ONCE did it occur to me to actually believe that stuff! No more than any other book of moral tales!

Is the World really this insane? Somebody please explain all this to me! I feel like I'm in a world of insane people - the Twilight Zone!!!

2007-03-09 13:19:23 · 23 answers · asked by The Burninator 1

A correspondent says:

"Regarding your question to call the "First Cause" a "Natural Event". A Creator can not lack a quality that his creation has. If we are intelligent human beings then me must assume necessarily that our creator is at least as intelligent as we are. Therefore this "Natural Event" is an intelligent entity and not a mindless entity as the words "natural event" may suggest."

My reply is:

"A creator *can* lack a quality that his creation has. Can we compute long division a trillion times a second? Computers can. Do our eyes see infra-red? Cameras do. Can we detect the EM radiation from Jupiter passing through our bodies every second of the day? Radios can. And so on, and so forth. So, that's disposed of that premise.

The notion that intelligence requires intelligence to create it is clearly self-refuting, because if that were the case then intelligence could never exist. Your intelligent creator would require an even more intelligent creator, which in turn would require a more intelligent creator still, and so on ad infinitum.

Infinite regression is a common problem with religious arguments. You have to accept that your premise is false. Intelligence does not require intelligence as its origin. Complexity does not require greater complexity to create it. The ONLY answer which works is the incremental emergence of complexity from simplicity, of intelligence from non-intelligence, of organisation from chaos, and this is indeed exactly what we see in the universe. There are countless examples in nature of order arising spontaneously from chaos, of complexity arising spontaneously from simplicity. It's simply how the universe works. I will show you what I mean in detail, if you wish, but just think of how atoms come together in molecules, and molecules into larger molecules, and scraps of gas and dust into planets and stars, and so on."

Who is right?

2007-03-09 13:18:38 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

In my world, all the events of the 7 day cycle known as a 'week' have meaning. My mind is working, discerning, 'doing the math', all week. On Friday, I gather all the insights of the week and put them together.
I use them to come to newer conclusions
about myself, life, etc., as all the pieces/insights of the puzzle/mystery fall into place. If I do the math correctly and come to the correct conclusions, I will experience a new reality on Saturday.
My question is: what conclusions have you
arrived at today?

2007-03-09 13:14:20 · 15 answers · asked by ? 6

What is "believing" ? There is not PROOF in anything people are believing, or?

One day somewhere I heared: When there is something people can't explain they start believing. How is t possible to believe in something you don't have proof of?

2007-03-09 13:13:37 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-09 13:13:18 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I hear that birds from the crow family are smart enough to use tools and torment bereaved students. Do they pray to a bird God?

-drink-

2007-03-09 13:11:48 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-09 13:10:54 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

What should I do when I enter, to be polite, etc.? I know the general layout of the service, I just haven't been in over a year so I don't feel like I should be taking Communion. I just don't want to forget to do something and look weird. :)

2007-03-09 13:09:31 · 15 answers · asked by roxya153 4

I am not a big fan of religion in general. To be fair, Christianity does have a history of doing bad things.

CURRENTLY though, I think the worst religion in the world is Islam.

What other religion teaches that blowing yourself up and killling CIVILIANS (not soldiers, but untrained, unarmed civilians) will be REWARDED by God?

Name one other religion that CURRENTLY teaches that. Don't mention the crusades, because I've already mentioned that Christianity has bad sides too and I'm talking about stuff in the present day.

I know that most people in Islam aren't bad, but if you just look at that you're missing the point.

If everyone in the middle east were suddenly turn atheist, then you do honestly think that they would intentionally kill themselves in a suicide bombing?

Religion in general can be a bad thing and I believe most people in the middle east are good people, but religion corrupts them.

Do you agree?

2007-03-09 13:09:12 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

What it should mean to the non jewish?
Why are they the chosen ones? why not the others or why not all of us? Since my religion believes in God and the Bible, why not us? Does that mean that when the world ends the Jewish people will go to heaven and the punishments are lesser?

I believe in what the Bible says but why them?

I know I should read the Bible but i have been reading the Bible. why?

2007-03-09 13:09:02 · 11 answers · asked by keets 2

In Ex 20: the 4th commandment says that you shall work 6 days and keep the 7th day holy

2007-03-09 13:08:21 · 18 answers · asked by A.C 1

I'm a begining wiccan and I want to get started.

2007-03-09 13:07:18 · 11 answers · asked by Shy poet 2

Recently, clinical psychiatrists have found a corollary between trusting others and mental illness.

Please name at least 3 people who you trust.

2007-03-09 13:04:27 · 30 answers · asked by MrsOcultyThomas 6

Looking back
He sees it all
It was her first date the night he came to call
Her dad said son
Have her home on time
And promise me you’ll never leave her side
The way she laughed, the dress she wore
He’d never felt like this before
Chorus:
He was walking her home
And holding her hand
Oh the way she smiled it stole the breath right out of him
Down that old road
With the stars up above
He remembers where he was the night he fell in love
He was walking her home
Ten more years and a waiting room
At half past one
And the doctor said come in and meet your son
His knees went weak
When he saw his wife
She was smiling as she said he’s got your eyes
And as she slept he held her tight
His mind went back to that first night
Chorus:
Bridge:
He walked her through the best days of her life
Sixty years together and he never left her side
A nursing home
At eighty-five
And the doctor said it could be her last night

IT STILL CONTINUES...

2007-03-09 13:03:00 · 4 answers · asked by Mutual Help 4

want to do the forbidden things more?

What would be the result of this?
=0)

2007-03-09 13:01:57 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

A random act of kindness for a total stranger?
From the heart? No strings attached? I challenge you to stop the hatred and start the love! Who is with me?

2007-03-09 13:01:55 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Pls indicate your specific answer and explain it briefly..
tnx!

2007-03-09 12:58:05 · 17 answers · asked by Clarisse Anne S 1

I'm getting a little impatient here. I want to watch him throwing people into the fiery pit of doom. It's gonna be awesome!

2007-03-09 12:55:41 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous