Religion & Spirituality - 20 April 2007

2007-04-20 14:07:10 · 5 answers · asked by House Speaker 3

2007-04-20 14:05:27 · 33 answers · asked by pete the pirate 5

2007-04-20 14:05:19 · 21 answers · asked by pdrfer 3

The answer is yes. Debate over.

No seriously he actually is. I am an atheist and if there were evidence proving his existance he would be a white male.

He is the father of Jesus. "Father thou art in heaven..."
This proves he is male beyond a resonable doubt.

Second he is the father of Jesus. Which proves he is white as well.

Unless religious people are willing to ignore even the most basic principles of science Christian god is a white male. If you disagree then you believe a father is not male and someone of a different race can give birth to a pure white child.


BEFORE YOU ANSWER!!!! PLEASE DON'T MENTION SOMETHING LIKE "GOD HAS NO FORM, OR DOES NOT CONFORM TO OUR EARTHLY STANDARDS"

This question is a response to everyone who either says god is black or god is a woman. Not a question on whether god is in human form.

2007-04-20 14:01:22 · 14 answers · asked by gordongecko 2

2007-04-20 13:58:35 · 2 answers · asked by shabbetai 1

I have come to the conclusion that I am going to stay in this section indefinitely!! are you happy or what? WOO HOOOOO!!
I also wanted to ask.... What are your plans for this weekend?

2007-04-20 13:56:08 · 21 answers · asked by Kadija S 4

2007-04-20 13:55:40 · 5 answers · asked by shabbetai 1

by Jerry Bowyer

First it was Johnny Muhammad, now it was Cho Sueng Hui aka Ismail Ax. Precisely how many mass shooters have to turn out to have adopted Muslim names before we get it? Islam has become the tribe of choice of those who hate American society. I'm not talking about people who grew up as Muslims, confident and secure in their faith, good fathers, sons and neighbors. I'm talking about the angry, malignant, narcissist loners who want to reject their community utterly, to throw off their 'slave name' and represent the downtrodden of the earth by shooting their friends and neighbors.

This morning I read that the Virginia Tech shooter died with the name Ismail Ax written in red ink on his arm. The mainstream press doesn't seem to have a clue as to what this might mean. To quote Indiana Jones, "Didn't any of you guys go to Sunday School?"

The story starts with a man named Abraham. He is the father of the Jews, the Muslims and the Christians. He was born in Iraq, the son of a wealthy idol manufacturer. He came to believe that there was only one true God and, according to tradition, took up his ax and destroyed his father's idols.

Eventually he left Iraq and moved to what is now known as Israel. He had a son with his concubine whom she named Ishmael. The Muslim world prefers the Arabic spelling of the name: Ismail. Eventually Abraham had a son by his rightful wife and named the son Isaac. Ishmael and his mother were disinherited and sent out into what is now Saudi Arabia. Isaac became the heir.

Eventually, God decided to test Abraham by telling him to kill his son, Isaac. Abraham took up the knife, but God stopped him at the last moment. Isaac lived and eventually became a man of great wealth. Ishmael became a desert warrior chieftain.

The Jews are the descendants of Isaac, the Arabs are the descendants of Ishmael.

In the 7th Century, Muhammad, the founder of Islam, re-wrote the story, claiming that Ismail was the true faithful descendant of Abraham and that it was he, not Isaac, who God told Abraham to sacrifice. Ismail was the one saved. For Muslims, Ismail (not Isaac) was the true 'Son of Sacrifice.' In the original version of the story, Abraham used a knife, in some of the later Muslim versions, he used an Ax.

Flash forward 1,400 years: a sullen, angry young man who rages against rich people and apparently against Christians, writes a play in which a mother and son try to kill his step-father, but in the end the boy (age about 13, the age many think Ismail was when he was exiled) is murdered by the step-father with 'a deadly blow'. Father issues? Yeah, I think so.

Cho Sueng-hui *** Ismail Ax hated the American society to which he had been brought 15 years earlier. His play McBeef (a poor pun from an English Lit major on Macbeth) is one endless screed against the corruption of American culture. A cheesy re-telling of Shakespeare's Hamlet, it involves a young man abused by his step-father, a former NFL football player. The son, throws epithets at his father calling him a 'Catholic priest'. And makes derisive comments about McDonalds. It seems that none of the foundational structures of Western Civilization, Christianity, capitalism, family, are spared his rage. In other words, he really meant what he said in his last words: "you (that is us, America) made me do this."

2007-04-20 13:47:55 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

please no loosers who are pagan.

2007-04-20 13:47:31 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

And I wonder how Catholics feel.
For years they were taught
It was real. Now it's not.
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And who wants a tenner badly enough to come up with the last line?

http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-04-20T161421Z_01_L20287216_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-POPE-LIMBO-COL.XML

2007-04-20 13:47:14 · 14 answers · asked by ? 7

For example, most Christians will blame the devil for their own hypocrisies, or for the corruption in their churches. Of course it's not THEIR fault when people bash their religion, it's the devil influencing non-believers to criticise. When Jerry Falwell blamed "pagans, homosexuals, witches, atheists, abortionists", etc for the September 11th attacks he was reviled and mocked. But, of course, in most Christians' minds he wasn't reviled because of the filth he was spewing, it was because the people who criticised him were "demon-possessed", "godless", ad-infinitum. Why is it that Christians don't seem to be able to accept responsibilty for their own faults and actions, and almost always blame others?
Will they ever see that maybe the reason they are so disliked and mocked in our society today might be their fault? Will they ever see that maybe the reason most non-believers see them as self-righteous hypocrites is because they ACTUALLY ARE? Pastor Ted Haggard is a great example!

2007-04-20 13:45:39 · 47 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-20 13:36:41 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Assuming Christianity would still be around, don't you think it would be a lot different?
The Bible wouldn't be formed of the same compelation. It would most likely be the Ethiopean Orthodox Bible, or other coptic/gnostic versions.

2007-04-20 13:36:30 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

If 90% of Earth was annhiliated and the only survivors were somewhere in Micronesia, and they were all small youths (under the age of 16), and the only manmade thing still standing after whatever catastrophe befell mankind was a giant ash cloud of the Lucky Charms Leprechaun which persisted in the atmosphere for months...

Would this band of survivors start worshipping Lucky?

Would there be a Gospel of the Green Clover, Blue Diamond, and Purple Horseshoes?

Would Lucky be the Prophet or Messiah?

Do humans need to worship something?

Why did I miss out on that handout when my DNA was being activated?

2007-04-20 13:35:41 · 3 answers · asked by crusadawannabe 2

Like the book of Adam and Eve, Jubilees, ect..

2007-04-20 13:35:28 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-20 13:34:02 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

like the time Jesus assended into heaven

2007-04-20 13:33:46 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

A girl on my bus was reading the bible, and I asked her what she was reading. So she told me, and I said that I believe in evolution not god. She literaly erupted with questions like "THEN WHEN DO MONKEYS COME FROM?" and "THEN WHERE DOES WATER COME FROM?!" and all I could say was like "Uhh, well, I-" and she interrupts me with more questions! I wasn't even trying to start and arguement, and now she's all mad at me. What's her problem?

2007-04-20 13:29:56 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-20 13:29:40 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

A. Reality is a canvas and each of us is a painter. The Divine conforms to the ideas we put out into the universe. As a result, all religious and spiritual ideas are true and valid.
B. Reality does not meet our expectations and we must discover what is true or false about our spiritual ideas.

2007-04-20 13:27:41 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-20 13:26:46 · 6 answers · asked by Liz 2

You say dinosaur fossils are so old that dinosaurs lived long before human beings, or something like that.

But what say you of this ultimate proof of how wrong y'all are at that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN0glZOvoe4

2007-04-20 13:26:26 · 13 answers · asked by ? 6

2007-04-20 13:24:33 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

and is it really better than christianity

2007-04-20 13:22:52 · 10 answers · asked by yes brasil 2

2007-04-20 13:22:23 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Budda, Jesus and Mohammed had all lived in the same period of time.
Would they have fought and killed each other and many others because of their religious concepts.

2007-04-20 13:19:50 · 14 answers · asked by asmikeocsit 7

ive caught her doing things to me before, what can this be used for? or could it be something else? i asked her and she said that
she overcooked the chicken and thats why it smells like that,is that possible? now todays beef also smells like that, maybe she used the same pan?

2007-04-20 13:19:44 · 5 answers · asked by hunda b 1

The Phelps family are devout homophobes. I understand the religious basis for their beliefs, but how can they consider themselves true Christians while deliberately spouting vitriol? they constantly used the word "f**" in a way that made it obvious that it was an insult. It was so upsetting that i cried. How can Christians preach hate to the world? Does God really believe that "f**s" are worthy of death? That totally doesnt fit into my idea of a loving, caring God. I'm not even gay and i was horribly insulted by their narrow beliefs. I just dont understand how anyone could be so truly hateful in their hearts and still call themselves Christian.

2007-04-20 13:17:03 · 17 answers · asked by dragn 3

2007-04-20 13:15:05 · 20 answers · asked by Not Of This World 3

I'm taking a survey and if you could tell me your religeon taht would be great. THNX!!!

2007-04-20 13:11:56 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous