Religion & Spirituality - 4 May 2007

2007-05-04 03:19:15 · 18 answers · asked by G's Random Thoughts 5

2007-05-04 03:19:12 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why are southern babtists totally nutty and uninformed?

2007-05-04 03:17:47 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I see this kind of question a lot - "would you rather believe in nothing or a loving god?" "Would you rather believe in nothing after death or seeing your loved ones again?"

Well, I think for most people the answer is simple - yes, it would be great if there were a paradise where I would see those I love again. It would be wonderful if there were a loving, kind supreme being out there taking care of us (not necessarily the Christian God for obvious reasons). It would be fabulous to believe in whatever is the most comforting to you. However, that isn't reality. We don't get to choose what is real and what isn't. I'd like to believe in a lot of things, but I can't ignore the real world.

Atheists (and also those whose spirituality doesn't make these promises), would you rather believe in what is comforting to you, but simply can't deceive yourself?

Thoughts? Comments?

2007-05-04 03:17:19 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

Given that nearly 80% of the United States is Christian who is actually persecuting them? I hear how they constantly feel persecuted, is this a form a self abuse?

2007-05-04 03:17:16 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

To tell the truth, I find most of them annoying. Sorry.

2007-05-04 03:15:22 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

ok, i dont want to freak you out but i seriously do and i think it hates me. It only messes with me in the house. I come home from work at 6:00pm, noone is home until 8:30. So every day until 8:30 it charges up and down the stairs, when it gets to the top it thumps really lous like a bowling ball is being dropped! Plus my roommate saw a large black figure looming outside my bedroom door late at night. I am soo freaked out bc lately it has been taunting me so much, opening and closing doors and making loud noises. my roomates have noticed it too but i feel so uncomfortable with all this going on. How do i get rid of them?? I am def not moving bc i love my house, i just want them to be friendly and stop taunting me, and i am not making this up, i swear on my life this is real.

2007-05-04 03:14:38 · 7 answers · asked by spadezgurl22 6

2007-05-04 03:10:31 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-04 03:10:24 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-04 03:09:38 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or respect them?

2007-05-04 03:09:35 · 5 answers · asked by crusadawannabe 2

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. - 2 Chronicles 7:14

I'm trying to use this verse for a friend who's life is out of control. It's possible I'm using the wrong verse but none the less it's a very powerful message, and I need help breaking it down for her to understand how God can change her life.

2007-05-04 03:03:50 · 20 answers · asked by sweetsomething2003 2

2007-05-04 02:59:26 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

>>>>>Personally, I wonder, if you don't want to have anything to do with God or religion then why are you here?
My deduction is, you want to turn the gentle, immature Christians away from God. They come here to learn and be up built and for comraddery. You dash their hopes to the ground. You make them doubt God's existence. You ruin lives. And for that I am upset with you. I personally feel if most people don't have God in their lives there would be no form of peace and those trying to obey laws. Christians obey and follow rules to please God. What is there to stop an atheist?
If you deny God now, who will you turn to at the end of your life? You will have to answer to Him for every one you misled. <<<<<

I DID NOT write this. It's an answer I received to a previous question.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AlrpQ3GXNrqhWO2.Z8EUZ.Psy6IX?qid=20070504041108AA6cL4X

I am an atheist.

Now let's just see how many people actually read the details.

2007-05-04 02:58:27 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

This word appears in the Book of Song of Songs from the Holy Bibe.

2007-05-04 02:57:46 · 5 answers · asked by Topnut 2

2007-05-04 02:57:25 · 20 answers · asked by treeman 4

2007-05-04 02:56:55 · 12 answers · asked by Interested 2

2007-05-04 02:54:08 · 16 answers · asked by shereghon 1

In your opinion what is the 1 question that could be asked that everyone would agree on regardless of faith, politics, background, colour etc

2007-05-04 02:53:38 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

100% Proof:
Our Creator;
Life - Humanity is part of Life;

0% Proof:
religious beliefs
Blind faith DOES NOT prove anything - and that's what believers of religion have.
Please extend pity to the blind faith believers...
they go through life blind, stupid, ignorant and unable to understand and believe in the Truth, not being able to Create Their own Relationship with Our Creator...
Pity, Pity, Pity, Please Pity all the people in religion... and the stupid atheists too !

remember:

"religion is Spiritual fraud"; "religion is the Worse invention of humanity" - Jesus Christ, Buddha and any one else with Spiritual intelligence.

atheists = all the people in religion = all the ignorant fundamentalists = all the cults/superstitions

2007-05-04 02:52:29 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

An atheist states since God can not be proved therefore God does not exist.

Then an atheist relies upon the fallibility of "science," to champion the non-existence of God. Yet, science rests upon an accumulated knowledge base of over 20,000 years, and in all of that time "science," can not state how the Universe was created, or came into existence, except to state, "We don't know."
Nor can science state what the Universe actually is, and in fact can't even define gravity.

Science does know that the Theory of Relativity is incorrect.

So it is from the pitiful underpinnings of science that an atheist relies upon to absurdly discount the existence of God?

Now that is laughble. Therefore, Atheist= absurdium ad infintum.

2007-05-04 02:50:07 · 18 answers · asked by Shiva, Space Lord Mthr .... 1

...that people hold onto religion and refuse to accept facts of science that contradict that religion because they are afraid of the uncertainty it will bring to their lives? I mean, many people have devoted their entire lives to religion. It informs every thing they do. It's a culture in which they understand how to act and what responses they can expect. Do you think some are just afraid of living outside that comfort zone? They don't want to rock the boat? They've spent years trying to figure life out and don't want to have to start all over with a new way of thinking and framework for viewing the world, not to mention how scary it could be to realize that life might just end at death?

I think it would be very frightening to change the most basic beliefs you have about the world. Is that why people are so resistant to letting go of ridiculous religious ideas?

Religions were created to explain the unknown. Are some people just not able to live w/o that safety net?

2007-05-04 02:48:39 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Yes folks, it was going to 1914, then 1918, revised to 1925. Every time the Earth survived through the estimated day for the end, some very clever christians, that can't wait to see us atheists get what's coming to us on judgement day, revise their data, realise they made an error in interpreting God's word, and they come up with a new date, always certain that this time they got it right.

Now the fashionable date is in 2012. It has to happen then, cause that's when the Mayan calender finishes! (Don't you just love the use of logic?) And there's those infallible bible codes to back it up! http://www.exodus2006.com/2012.htm

So, when the dust settles on new year celebrations for 2013, what will be the new date for that joyous end?

2007-05-04 02:47:30 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

It may be way too early for most of us, but with the first Republican debate having just happened, I wanted to know who you all thought would be the person most representative of your ideas? McCain? Romney? Or a Democratic candidate (Clinton? Obama?).

I did not see the debate last night, but I've read up on most of the candidates. I find myself liking a dark horse, Sam Brownback, the more I read about him.

2007-05-04 02:46:32 · 12 answers · asked by TWWK 5

I'm studying Sikhism at the moment, does anyone have any Pagan historical links to goddess based religions?

2007-05-04 02:44:54 · 14 answers · asked by crusadawannabe 2

now this was a christian's statement of homosexuality

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ai5ow3uWQpHYjoIA64Iwwwvty6IX?qid=20070503141055AAKcDU2&show=7#profile-info-bmCInR5qaa

"Pray away? That's pretty stupid. But really, there is no such thing as a true gay Christian. Homosexuality IS a sin, it's mentioned more than 25 times in the bible, and it's said how it's a sin. Any Christian who continues to say it's not when the Bible, the Word, says it is, is not following God's words and are drowning in hypocracy. I don't think that praying away gay Christians is really good either.... We'd have more luck trying to suck them up with a vacume cleaner... "

but in another Q,this is what they said:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AteBq_ks.NKEwPjasfVJcbDty6IX?qid=20070503113359AA8Sq1G&show=7#profile-info-qEYeaWMdaa
about how God created him like that and loves him just the way he is etc...

can you please explain this double standard?

2007-05-04 02:42:45 · 13 answers · asked by nicky 3

2007-05-04 02:39:29 · 67 answers · asked by A True Gentleman 5

Ok....onwards from a previous question.

God sent Jesus to Earth as a sacrifice, so he would experience the pain, humiliation, fear etc. associated with his death. God did this because it was to forgive our sins, to show that he was willing to sacrifice his son, and he KNEW that Jesus was going to murdered when God sent him to Earth. correct?

So does that make God a murderer? or at least an accessory to murder? Surely it doesn't matter how much benefit became of it, he sent his (completely innocent, I add) son to be tortured and murdered.

I could be wrong but I don't think the comandments say that murder is ok if you are doing it for other peoples benefit. So does this mean God has sinned? I think based on the facts I have mentioned, that it does make God a sinner. How does that fare with the basis of Christianity?

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone - looks like God himself cant throw one

2007-05-04 02:38:28 · 18 answers · asked by zeppelin_roses 4

2007-05-04 02:38:05 · 35 answers · asked by MrsOcultyThomas 6

so why am i still here,
and why do i have a great life.

does god reward those who spite him

2007-05-04 02:33:52 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous