Religion & Spirituality - 22 March 2007

Christianity is supposed to teach you not to judge others, not to be aggressive yet the most aggressive people tend to be Christians. They seem to get on a witch hunt, and it doesnt seem that very long ago that women were burned for things that the so called Christians didnt understand. When i read some of these answers it seems like it could happen again. Scary and the reason why I am afraid of religious fanatics.

2007-03-22 04:35:38 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

Also will religion tear them apart?

2007-03-22 04:35:32 · 5 answers · asked by Red0427 2

My experience has taught me that the good people in the world always finish last. ie don't get the promotion, don't win the election. Only in the movies does the good guy get the girl.

To get to the top you have to be vindictive, calculating and single minded in your climb up the corporate and policital ladder. Once at the top, your only interest is yourself.


Please tell me I'm mistaken.

2007-03-22 04:35:18 · 11 answers · asked by Bugeye 2

Is there anyone out there who was an Atheist but then decided to become a Christian? Tell me your experience and why you changed.

2007-03-22 04:35:17 · 12 answers · asked by gossamer 4

My experience has taught me that the good people in the world always finish last. ie don't get the promotion, don't win the election. Only in the movies does the good guy get the girl.

To get to the top you have to be vindictive, calculating and single minded in your climb up the corporate and policital ladder. Once at the top, your only interest is yourself.


Please tell me I'm mistaken.

2007-03-22 04:34:57 · 5 answers · asked by Bugeye 2

My experience has taught me that the good people in the world always finish last. ie don't get the promotion, don't win the election. Only in the movies does the good guy get the girl.

To get to the top you have to be vindictive, calculating and single minded in your climb up the corporate and policital ladder. Once at the top, your only interest is yourself.


Please tell me I'm mistaken.

2007-03-22 04:34:30 · 2 answers · asked by Bugeye 2

2007-03-22 04:34:07 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-22 04:33:50 · 5 answers · asked by ChuckBoutwell 2

All the wiccans I know are huge into Dungeons & Dragons.

2007-03-22 04:32:57 · 12 answers · asked by eyesavedhyrule 3

I haven't once flamed you or insulted you or made fun of you because you don't share my faith. I'm not even trying to shove it down your throat. I don't even think badly of you for disagreeing with me.

Would you kindly show me the same respect? I don't appreciate you bashing my beliefs or my faith or my God.

Seriously...look through all my answers and questions...even when I *know* you're asking a question just to rile up Christians, I answer the question respectfully, and in such a way not to try to force my beliefs on you. I simply explain what we Christians (or at least I as a Christian) believe, and let you make your own judgments.

Could we dispense with the things that insult my faith and values? If you want to know more about my religion and beliefs, I'll share it with you, but please don't just make fun of it.

2007-03-22 04:32:42 · 14 answers · asked by Scotty Doesnt Know 7

I think the hardcore, “burn in hell” shouting, condemning, religious have done more damage to the beliefs that they hold so sacred than the atheist ever has. We’ve all seen them from time to time and quite often here on Y!A. Christ himself never told us to go Judge, condemn and preach that non-believers are going to hell. He told us to “Go into all the world, and give the “good news” to everyone.” Mark 16:15. In other words, be a friend, not preach Hell Fire and Brimstone. Nobody ever won someone to their beliefs by being rude, condemning, and full of themselves. The people that Christ had the biggest problem with were the religious leaders that were so full of themselves and condemned everyone who wasn’t like them. This is not what Christians were called to be.

Matt 23:13 But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.

2007-03-22 04:31:56 · 5 answers · asked by Dr. Linder 4

If I thought I had a direct infallible revelation from a god I’d learn it backwards and forwards. I’d also study parallel texts. But I just asked a question about the Apostle Peter bringing a smoked fish back to life and no one had even heard of it.

By the way, the account in is the Acts of Peter. But you all have probably never heard of it.

2007-03-22 04:31:43 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

Some time ago, someone told me that the church or jesuschrist and the latter day saints used to collect personal information of people all over the world... birth, christening, marriage and death certificates, and kept this info in their records in Salt Lake City. Later I found out that some of this can be found in http://www.familisearch.org.

I got there and found the christening and marriage information of one of my great-great-grandfathers... and later found a death reference of my grandfather. I live in Mexico, and this great-great grandfather lived in a remote tiny town... but they got my grandpa's death notice from the US Social Security Death Index because he worked many years there... and had his insurance.

well now... the point is: WHY do they keep this personal information of people that is not related to them? How to they get it? I mean, it's nice to know that your great-great grandfather may have married when he was 19 yo... but what else is this for??

2007-03-22 04:30:25 · 4 answers · asked by Ces 6

"Some animals are surprisingly sensitive to the plight of others. Chimpanzees, who cannot swim, have drowned in zoo moats trying to save others. Given the chance to get food by pulling a chain that would also deliver an electric shock to a companion, rhesus monkeys will starve themselves for several days.

Biologists argue that these and other social behaviors are the precursors of human morality. They further believe that if morality grew out of behavioral rules shaped by evolution, it is for biologists, not philosophers or theologians, to say what these rules are."

from http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/science/20moral.html?r=3&ref=science&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

2007-03-22 04:27:46 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

I believe in understanding things, PROPERLY and the correct definition of “freewill” according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary is freewill [n] the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one’s own discretion or [adj.] voluntary. It is important to grasp the correct understanding of freewill and not the deliberate misuse of the word by some people.

In order to have freewill, we must be free to choose WITHOUT constraint or necessity. The choice must also be voluntary. There is no freewill when choice is made under threat or is coerced in anyway out of fear of punishment or hope of reward.

To illustrate: If a parent holds a child’s hand over a burning stove and says, ‘Love and obey me and I will let you enjoy your favourite dessert. If you do not love and obey me I will burn your hand off!” certainly, the child has a choice.

But my question is, did that child have the FREEWILL to make that choice?

2007-03-22 04:27:30 · 6 answers · asked by jessicabjoseph 3

Ok I am so confused right now. Lastnight I walked out my front door and there was this thing floating infront my door. It was made from a basket or a box it had lit candles in the box with string at the edges of the box with a clothe at the top. looked like a parachute contraption. well it was floating there for a second then floated to the sky. What does this mean? I am the only person on the street who it happened to and i dont know why someone would put that at my house. Is it some sort of christian thing?

2007-03-22 04:25:50 · 8 answers · asked by sportsfan 3

Just checking.

2007-03-22 04:25:19 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

the nice chubby Pope is usually followed by a thin nasty one and so on and on ad infinitum...I guess it's obvious what kind of Pope Mr Ratzinger (aka Benedict) is

2007-03-22 04:25:08 · 3 answers · asked by CHEESUS GROYST 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lailat_al_Miraj

Please provide any religious experiences that Mohammad experienced that is connected to his horse.

2007-03-22 04:24:54 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-22 04:24:25 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

And you can stop the torture at any time.

2007-03-22 04:23:45 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

What do you think? The question came from an essay prompt, so I think there must be some correlation that I can't see.

2007-03-22 04:23:05 · 7 answers · asked by Some girl 3

i talked to some atheists cause i was interested in joining the club and ive alwas been interested in science, but they didnt like it that i didnt know much bout atheism and i asked to many questions. they kept saying i dont know about evolution and that i am stupid. im positive one man called me a ****** under his breath. i was just trying to learn more about your beliefs and they kept calling me names and said i was dimwitted, an idiot, uneduated, and a lot more. do all atheists act like they are smarter than other people? these men were not that smart. i dont hvae my GED yet but these guys went to class at comunity college so they are geniouses or nothing. i think atheists need more brothers. they are to white and there is no diversity

2007-03-22 04:22:32 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

the days of man are few he is here but a short time, like a flower that come in the spring and vanishes in the fall, he is soon gone to his reward, wheather he believes or not believes God don,t force man to do nothing he let man deside his own fate heaven or hell..

2007-03-22 04:19:43 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

In some cultures, upon the death of a loved one, they cut their hair - what cultures are these, and is there religious purpose to them?

2007-03-22 04:19:41 · 6 answers · asked by The Pope 5

2007-03-22 04:19:08 · 14 answers · asked by PLENTY! 1

(yes, this is an allegory)

As a left-handed person, I always felt like an outcast in school because almost all of my classmates were different from me. They would all use their right hand when cutting and writing, yet I had to use my left hand because I'm a southpaw. Even my teacher uses her right hand!

I say we should take pens, pencils, markers, crayons, and scissors out of public schools, because seeing right handers use their right hands is discriminatory to the small minority of left handers who can't use them. It's my constitutional right not to feel like an outcast in school, don't you agree?

2007-03-22 04:17:52 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

do you believe in god? and did he give us freewill, as some people say? or are our lives pre-ordained, where everything we do has been carefully planned out ahead of time, by god?

2007-03-22 04:17:18 · 19 answers · asked by Berkly M 4

2007-03-22 04:16:28 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

this question is a hard one that most would not want to answer, for we all want to live and cherious our lives, our lives here are described as no more than a shadow , man that is born of woman is few days and full of troubles..

2007-03-22 04:15:47 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous