Religion & Spirituality - 15 May 2007

2007-05-15 05:35:51 · 11 answers · asked by kiwi 2 1

2007-05-15 05:34:03 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

The passage i am refering to is when the Lord came down from Heavan and saw what man did by working together, He decided that nothing would be restrained from us so He scattered man and gave us different languages. I don't understand why He would do this. Isn't it a good thing that man was working together and getting along? I know i am completely missing the point so if someone could please explain it to me i would appreciate it.
Thanks

2007-05-15 05:28:58 · 19 answers · asked by me2you 2

If you're a believer, why is there suffering, pain, natural disasters, innocent dying and being hurt ??

2007-05-15 05:26:36 · 19 answers · asked by chocolate_is_da_best 1

i mean it's just i don't know is there anyone out there besides me that wonders if there is a heaven or hell???I mean how do we know that jesus is real and how do you know that mary just got pregnant and blamed on god?? and how do we know that all of this ...jesus is a holy man i s true???



I am truly sorry if this offends anyone but im really confused right know and don't know what my religion is yet.....

2007-05-15 05:24:47 · 25 answers · asked by skool_gurl001 2

I know it's practically impossible to question a one day old baby what he remembers from his embryo life.
But do you think it's theoretically possible?

2007-05-15 05:24:28 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-15 05:23:40 · 2 answers · asked by James E 1

i mean it's just i don't know is there anyone out there besides me that wonders if there is a heaven or hell???I mean how do we know that jesus is real and how do you know that mary just got pregnant and blamed on jesus??? and how do we know that all of this ...jesus is a holy man i s true???



I am truly sorry if this offends anyone but im really confused right know and don't know what my religion is yet.....

2007-05-15 05:23:33 · 3 answers · asked by skool_gurl001 2

I just found out. I live in another state, and my family is taking good care of our friend. I feel like a card or a phone call isn't enough. I am familiar with suicide, that is how my mother died. The family friend was one of my mother's best friends. Now it's her brother.

What can I do?

2007-05-15 05:23:20 · 9 answers · asked by melissa13182 3

If so can you provide examples

2007-05-15 05:23:12 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-15 05:20:14 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hi, I'm taking a philosophy class and have an in class essay tonight (he released the questions early and I'm thinking of including a paragraph on public perspective) on the existence of an all good and all powerful God with the problem of evil. To explain the three main arguments we are to work with are (speaking for to against) the free will/agency argument - to allow free will you have to leave people the ability to do bad things. The debunks are first, we don't have complete free will (there are many limitations to our free will) and evil actions end the free will of others. Second, the rule of opposites. You cannot know good without evil, you cannot know pleasure without pain. Debunk is simply that the rule is not necessarily true. Finally, the "soul building" argument. "We cannot grow without dealing with hardships." Debunked with the "baby in a burning building" argument. Isn't there a degree of responsibility on God for allowing a helpless baby die in a burning building.

2007-05-15 05:19:48 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-15 05:19:02 · 14 answers · asked by Avinet A 1

i tried to post this question earlier but i guess the moderator didn't like it. also it seems like alot of religious people get found out to be involved in shady practices like drugs, fraud, solicitng prostitution. what do you think about this?

2007-05-15 05:19:01 · 25 answers · asked by NONAME 5

God creater Adam And Eve, now how could you take one nationality and creater other different nationality of people and put them in different part of the worlds

2007-05-15 05:14:52 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

More important, should they be allowed to set up in the UK as a religion and therefore get charity status?

Have seen lots of interesting answers to questions since Tuesday night's Panorama programme but I still don't understand how they can claim to be a religion.

2007-05-15 05:13:57 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or a lack of religion? Or really, isn't this people's attitude about almost everything?

2007-05-15 05:12:31 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-15 05:11:50 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

OK...so there are times in a woman's cycle where she is much less fertile..CHOOSING to have sex at this time is STILL a choice NOT to conceive..it is still contraception isn't it?
A choice has been made to have sex at THAT TIME because there is less chance of a pregnancy.
Hypocritical?
The ONLY true contraception is not doing it at all!
Thankfully I am an aethist

2007-05-15 05:10:57 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

St. Gregory: “ Jews are slayers of the Lord, murderers of the prophets, enemies of God, haters of God, adversaries of grace, enemies of their fathers’ faith, advocates of the devil, brood of vipers, slanderers, scoffers, men of darkened minds, leaven of the Pharisees, congregation of demons, sinners, wicked men, stoners and haters of goodness.”

St. Jerome: “....serpents, haters of all men, their image is Judas ... their psalms and prayers are the braying of donkeys..”

St. John Chrysostom: “I know that many people hold a high regard for the Jews and consider their way of life worthy of respect at the present time... This is why I am hurrying to pull up this fatal notion by the roots ... A place where a whore stands on display is a whorehouse. What is more, the synagogue is not only a whorehouse and a theater; it is also a den of thieves and a haunt of wild animals ... not the cave of a wild animal merely, but of an unclean wild animal ... When animals are unfit for work, they are marked for slaughter, and this is the very thing which the Jews have experienced. By making themselves unfit for work, they have become ready for slaughter. This is why Christ said: “as for my enemies, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them and slay them before me’ (Luke 19.27).”

St. Augustine: “Judaism is a corruption. Indeed Judas is the image of the Jewish people. Their understanding of the Scriptures is carnal. They bear the guilt for the death of the saviour, for through their fathers they have killed the Christ.”

St. Thomas Aquinas: “It would be licit to hold Jews, because of the crimes, in perpetual servitude, and therefore the princes may regard the possessions of Jews as belonging to the State.”

The teachings of Martin Luther suggested a genocide as a final solution :

http://www.awitness.org/books/luther/


Martin Luther :

“Know, 0 adored Christ, and make no mistake, that aside from the Devil, you have no enemy more venomous, more desperate, more bitter, than a true Jew who truly seeks to be a Jew... a Jew, a Jewish heart, are hard as wood, as stone, as iron, as the Devil himself. In short, they are children of the Devil, condemned to the flames of hell.”

“O Lord, I am too feeble to mock such devils. I would do so, but they are much stronger than I in raillery, and they have a God who is a past master in this art; He is called the devil and the wicked spirit.. They have transformed God into the devil, or rather into a servant of the Devil, accomplishing all the evil the Devil desires, corrupting unhappy souls , and raging against himself: in short, the Jews are worse than the devils.”

“What then shall we Christians do with this damned, rejected race of Jews? First, their synagogues should be set on fire, and whatever does not burn up should be covered or spread over with dirt so that no one may ever be able to see a cinder or stone of it. And this ought to be done for the honour of God and of Christianity, in order that God may see that we are true Christians. Secondly, their homes should be likewise broken down and destroyed. Thirdly, they should be deprived of their prayerbooks and talmuds in which such idolatry, lies, cursing and blasphemy are taught. Fourthly, their rabbis must be forbidden under threats of death to teach anymore.”

“Now whoever wishes to accept venomous serpents, desperate enemies of the lord, and to honor them, to let himself be robbed, pillaged, corrupted and cursed by them, need only turn to the Jews. If this is not enough for him, he can do more: crawl up into their...... and worship the sanctuary, so as to glorify himself afterwards for having been merciful, for having fortified the Devil and his children, in order to blaspheme our beloved lord and the precious blood that has redeemed us. He will then be a perfect Christian, filled with works of mercy, for which Christ will reward him on the-day of judgment with the eternal fire of hell (where he will roast together with the Jews).”

“In truth, the Jews, being foreigners, should possess nothing, and what they do possess should be ours.”

“...Cursed goy that I am, I cannot understand how they manage to be so skillful, unless I think that when Judas Iscariot hanged himself, his guts burst and emptied. Perhaps the Jews sent their servants with plates of silver and pots of gold to gather up Judas’ piss with the other treasures, and then they ate and drank his offal, and thereby acquired eyes so piercing that they discover in the scriptures commentaries that neither Matthew nor Isaiah himself found there, not to mention the rest of us cursed goyim..”

“If I find a Jew to baptize, I shall lead him to the Elbe bridge, hang a stone around his neck, and push him into the water, baptizing him with the name of Avraham!.. I cannot convert the Jews. Our lord Christ did not succeed in doing so; but I can close their mouths so that there will be nothing for them to do but to lie upon the ground.”

“I hope I shall never be so stupid as to be circumcised; I would rather cut off the left breast of my Catherine and of all women.”

“If we are to remain unsullied by the blasphemy of the Jews and not wish to take part in it, we must be separated from them and they must be driven out of the country.”


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2007-05-15 05:09:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Because frankly, they're freaking everywhere, it's like they're breeding somehow.

2007-05-15 05:08:22 · 27 answers · asked by Black Hole Gravity Unleashed 3

Can you not think for yourselves?
Why would you take anything seriously from a 2000 year old book of fairy-tales?

2007-05-15 05:05:29 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

Some time ago, someone asked why his friend who was JW would no longer hang out with him like he used to and watch football etc. just because he wasn't JW.

My answer was:

"Sad but true, they will be polite to you and preach to you but will not associate with you on any meaningful level unless you decide to join their sect because they think non-Witnesses are bad associations."

Now I know this is true because I read it in their own literature and I once had a JW girl in my daughter's high school who did not have any friends and her parents would not let her go out with the other girls or have sleep-overs etc, even though these were parental supervised and safe.

So why do JWs thumbs down you when a non-JW tells it like it is? Isn't it TRUE that non-witnesses are considered bad associations and no relationship must be encouraged with them beyond basic civil interaction and preaching?

Why is it bad when I say it? Is it because I am a non-Witness?

2007-05-15 05:04:20 · 22 answers · asked by pixie_pagan 4

what rights does Christianity give???? more than Islam??

2007-05-15 05:03:37 · 27 answers · asked by Donets'k 5

2007-05-15 05:00:44 · 11 answers · asked by Light 3

like for example in airports?

2007-05-15 04:59:48 · 7 answers · asked by Love Exists? 6

2007-05-15 04:58:49 · 18 answers · asked by Roza 2

Can you give me a strong, brief Biblical quote which answers this question, please? Thanks :)

2007-05-15 04:56:36 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-15 04:52:46 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-15 04:52:34 · 17 answers · asked by YWWE>BVW>mwwe 6