Religion & Spirituality - 29 April 2007

Capital punishment will always be open to abuse through political expediency, corruption, racism and poor judgements.

To take someone's life is a terrible thing.

In a civilised society, no one has the right to decide who should live or die.

In most western countries, this is a principle that crosses political divides.

Why is it still practised in the USA?

2007-04-29 03:56:57 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a friend that is Mormon and I am expecting those missionaries to show up at my door anytime, so I would like ammo ahead of time. I have looked up on the net, but not found 'alot' of issues. If you have any, please let me know. Thank you.

2007-04-29 03:54:12 · 23 answers · asked by Mulereiner 7

2007-04-29 03:53:04 · 1 answers · asked by Artistic Hand 2

If I KNEW that when I died, I was going to spend eternity in a better place, why would I bother trying hard to prolong my stay here?

2007-04-29 03:50:53 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

when he is omnipitent
devine
a master magician
is capable of anything and everything

what does all the
tests of faith
illusiveness
cryptic text
suffering, mean?

for what reason would a god have created such a flawed existance?

if he had the traits if a 'good' hunam being, then what sense does it make.

would you create something, in omnipitence,
so disasterous, sinnister, meaningless & self-serving?

its crazyness

2007-04-29 03:46:49 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-29 03:45:04 · 18 answers · asked by man of ape 6

Any web sites addressing this?

Also the different persons of God. The Father, The Word/Son & the Holy Spirit (These three are one LORD God); compare the Old Testament Trinity with the New Testament Trinity?

2007-04-29 03:27:18 · 13 answers · asked by t_a_m_i_l 6

I'm not going to bother cutting and pasting, or even trying to paraphrase.

In the Book of Revelation, one of the signs is a direct reference to known constellations; Virgo, the Virgin (about to give birth, no less) and Draco, the Dragon seeking to eat the child as soon as it is born.

I have read many bizarre interpretations, some from well over a thousand years ago up to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and even modern charlatan preachers seeking to sell books.

Also, which came first? The story of Herod/Satan and Jesus, and the escape to Egypt, or the Celestial story of Draco and the Pregnant Virgin who escapes to the mountain after giving birth?

Not the first time the stories in the Bible were modeled after the constellation/star stories. Remember Lucifer, and how he fell from the Heavens? It's the story of the cycles of the Planet Venus, the Bright and Morning Star.

2007-04-29 03:27:00 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

..and his family up to the heavens and send them down again when He had cleansed the earth

2007-04-29 03:25:40 · 20 answers · asked by Gezza D 2

I used limewire to download.(i dont know it is Audio?Documents? or what)thanks.

2007-04-29 03:25:20 · 3 answers · asked by Shadow 2

Many writers alleged that Jesus did not exist. But, history shows that his disciples and the 1st century Christians were fed to lions, and tortured horribly just for their belief in Christ.

Now, these writers alleged that they have proof that Christ never existed. It should also follow that his disciples and the 1st century Christians did not exist. If they did not exist, then their tormentors--the Roman emperors--did not also exist?

2007-04-29 03:24:47 · 18 answers · asked by MIND QUIZZER 2

Did women during Biblical times have a choice to be either wives or concubines? If not, why?

2007-04-29 03:24:30 · 11 answers · asked by Shafeeqah 5

I don't want to be. I don't see the point in the whole making your first communion and stuff. I see it as dumb, but I know my mom would KILL me if I told her this. I tried to bring up the subject with her, but she always says, "You're not thinking about not being Catholic are you?" And she goes through the whole conversation, but very angrily. I want to go to the church where my boyfriend does. No, he is not trying to get me to be his religion! We have only talked about religion once, and that was to ask what church I went to. He has not even asked me or told me to go to his church or switch or anything, so don't think that. What do I do?

2007-04-29 03:24:06 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

my bro wanted to know

2007-04-29 03:15:15 · 21 answers · asked by Gema 1

Namaste

Peace and Love

2007-04-29 03:14:53 · 18 answers · asked by digilook 2

Islam is a religion and Quran is holy book.people who follow Islam is called Muslims.

2007-04-29 03:11:05 · 8 answers · asked by sithi j 1

The vengeful God versus the loving God portrays such different and incompatible ideals.

Why didn't they at least rewrite the old testament so it's believable as being the same God, or just leave it out altogether?

2007-04-29 03:06:04 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is such a verse an invention of Protestant preachers? Did Paul say this? Peter, John, James? Is it in Hebrews?

2007-04-29 03:02:59 · 9 answers · asked by mouthbreather77 1

In the Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures) a Prophecy was written by a Prophet, usually in the form of an entire book.

Prophecy didn't necessarily mean foretelling the future, but was often a commentary on current, or even past, events by a 'messenger' of God.

When you reach the formation of Christianity, with their claims of fulfilled prophecy, they take a hatchet to the Hebrew Scriptures, hack it into little snippets and sentences, and then rearrange the entire thing to INVENT and, not surprisingly, DISCOVER a new, never before noticed, prophecy of their fallen political leader.

Give me a copy of War and Peace, let me use software to break it down into a database of individual sentences, and then I'll rearrange them and splice them together to predict everything from the WTC attack to Milk Duds and reality television.

Christianity reeks of desperation.

2007-04-29 03:00:33 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-29 02:58:55 · 14 answers · asked by CHEESUS GROYST 5

2007-04-29 02:56:55 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is the promise of the Quran never changing, established through its being memorized by hundreds of Millions of people from the time of the Prophet ?

Does that mean that even if people produced a new book it would become worthless because the actual "parchment" of the quran was the heart through memorization ?

Then is it right to say that nobody can change the quran because it was memorized by companions of the Prophet during his lifetime and was authenticated and checked by him before his passing ?

The best way to make a holy text unchangeable and truly UNIVERSAL is to have people be able to memorize the entire book from cover to cover.

Everybody on earth, no matter where they lived would recite the holy book in the original language and understand it as close to humanly possible from its original sources.


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2007-04-29 02:55:15 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-29 02:54:30 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

whom people worshipped before advent of judaism

2007-04-29 02:51:46 · 13 answers · asked by ramesh r 1

God loves me with or with out faith, right? So if I wait until old age before accepting Jesus, the saved have had no more love from God than I did, my whole life through. Special relationship, yes, but barring any sudden death, I can avoid God's wrath, and that's all that I need to have happen.

2007-04-29 02:51:11 · 18 answers · asked by ccrider 7

for example. Anything to do with judgment is always 40 days.
There were 12 tribes of israel, 12 apostles.

2007-04-29 02:49:58 · 6 answers · asked by peter d 1

I thought that everyone who didn't have God's name were cast into the lake of fire.

2007-04-29 02:47:48 · 5 answers · asked by Pamela V 7

Perhaps it's time for me to leave - I have never experienced so much bigotry, hatred, lack of compassion, homophobia, shallow rhetoric, misguided beliefs, lack of thought, and uncompromised, narrow minded intolerance. Religious and Spirituality is the first place I’d look to find the exact opposite of these. You people really have a long way to go before you can find contentment within yourselves and only then will you find happiness. I “pray” for you in hope that one day you see the error in your judgments and you find your place of peace.

2007-04-29 02:47:46 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

1st Century Christians ( the real Christians) died for their faith. They were burned, feed to wild animals, etc. But they held on to their beliefs?

What about you aetheists? Are you also willing to undergo torture to defend your unbelief?

Note: Please do not confuse the real 1st Century Christians w/ the Pseudo-Christians after them. The latter is guilty of too much blood shed--the tsunami in Sri Lanka and elsewhere would pale by comparison.

And, BTW, I have googled, and yahooed to search for martyred aetheist, but have found none. Some were said to be aetheists, but were really beleivers just opposed to the majority religion at that time.

So, are you willing to be the 1st real atheist to be martyred just for your belief ( non-belief really )?

2007-04-29 02:47:34 · 16 answers · asked by MIND QUIZZER 2

I have heard it was written 500 years before Christ.Serious answers only please.

2007-04-29 02:44:02 · 3 answers · asked by Pamela V 7