Religion & Spirituality - 7 June 2007

2007-06-07 10:04:27 · 25 answers · asked by Charnele B 3

until he finally got bored with them, booted them out and moved to Rome, how can Christians trust this guy at all?

I mean, being an immortal, he'll get bored with you eventually.

And he does seem kind of fickle.

2007-06-07 10:04:25 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

What was so unique about the old days of Jewish, Christian, Hindus or any other religion that people (prophets?) were reporting having witnessed God and wrote according to his dictates - why not today ? We have Cameras, cellphones, internet, satellite communications world-wide and action - and royalties to be made !!!

Why nobody has witnessed God in the past 2 millenium + years? Perhaps some will claim they have, but where is the proof ?

2007-06-07 10:01:50 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've been around for 47 years and was raised as a Presbyterian, but truthfully don't know what religion my real beliefs fall in line with.

What I believe:

~There is a supreme force-energy-unsure if it is the image of man in all forms.
~I believe Jesus was a messenger, an earthly representation of this all powerful, supreme force.
~ I believe our goodness-our soul or light within, becomes part of a whole when we die.
~I believe miracles happen everyday-not because we ask for them, but because they are needed.
~I believe goodness and truth on this earth is a gateway to a powerful, enlightened after life.

What I don't believe in:

~The Bible verbatim, or stories passed decades or centuries later.
~The "government" of religion. The Catholic faith is the best example.
~Rules, dogma, rituals that glorify an organized religion or man.

I know this is vague and only a partial explanation--but what am I ? What church could I attend?

2007-06-07 10:00:10 · 33 answers · asked by brodiemojo 2

surely they are pretty insignificant

2007-06-07 09:58:55 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Have you reached a level of faith&prayer yet where you will sometimes laugh&/or cry for unknown reasons or to someone looking at you the reason for your laughter or tears is not readily apparent?

In the last...3/4 months I guess:
1.There was a time where my dad was playing the piano&he,me&my mom were singing some songs&worshiping God(Jesus);and during one of the songs,I started to laugh.No other reason than just the presence of God was there&I was enjoying it.
2.A few weeks ago while at Church,while praise&worship was going on,a storm outside knocked out the power,lights&everything.Well everybody stayed&we continued the worship in the dark,with only a few candles&flashlights.About the middle of the song,there's no doubt in the mind the spirit of God was there;cuase tears started to roll down my eyes.I wasnt sad or anything,I just started to cry;there just little to no way to really describe when you know in your spirt&in your heart that God is there.
3.A lady from Y!Answers that

2007-06-07 09:58:46 · 15 answers · asked by Maurice H 6

because you might miss something?

=0)

2007-06-07 09:58:11 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

i am in the process of converting to islam, my best friend is muslim...and i want to tell her but dont know how.... im worried

2007-06-07 09:58:03 · 15 answers · asked by tania 1

I know I said I'd stay off the religious topics because I was sick of fundamental -yes- fundamental atheists and religious fundalmentalists alike; but I just had to ask this one. I mean come on!!

I'm a Computer Scientist. I HAVE TO think logically! I'm not a fundamentalist but I have morals and I believe in God.
But, every theory has a flaw.

Everytime I hear someone ask about the Big Bang, an Atheist, who is probably some adolescent who thinks being an Atheist is they new cool thing now, says"Oh yeah, the atoms clashed together [...] then the galaxies formed [...]" Explain this, where did the atoms come from? What about the sub-atomic partices, and so on down the chain of particles all the physicists "discovered". Where did those come from? And how do such complicated things like fertilization and birth, where millions of things can go wrong, go right most of the time? I accept evolution to a point--But, there has to be an intelligent designer there. Explain that.

2007-06-07 09:58:01 · 20 answers · asked by chrisamethyst 4

a job. i consider myself a good person yet nothing good ever happens to me, i know people who are not so good yet they get all the luck. I feel like giving up because i honestly feel that something else is controlling my life. Has anyone any advice?

2007-06-07 09:55:25 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Did you know that in Islam, the actual religion and not the wannabe cultures, it is not the wife's duty to cook, clean, or even do anything she doesn't want to do? Did you know that the main purpose for marriage was to make intercourse lawful, and that even when children result she doesn't have to nurse them if she does not want to? Did you know that if she does do the housework, it is a charity to her husband and he may not utter a single complaint? Did you know she also has the right to demand payment for her work,including in the rearing of the children? Why do so many people like to blame the religion for it, when it's culture that is the culprit? I've studied the religion since I was 14 (I'm 23 now), and have come across what those who hate Islam have come across. The difference is that I bothered to look further and find out what the things in appearance were actually about, while those who still remained in ignorance chose to believe what they were told. Did you know this

2007-06-07 09:54:49 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I knew that the religion (catholic) in was brought up in, was full of CRAP when I was @ 7 years old.

If you haven't Created Your Relationship with Our Creator by the time your 21 years old, chances are that you'll always be a brain-washed/brain-dead believer in your religious false promises, lies and deceptions...

or by chance, you realize that by Creating Your Relationship you can eliminate religion from Your Life - at any age !

2007-06-07 09:52:59 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I keep seeing this remark across R&S and frankly I don't see how it makes any sense. Religious people believe that if they follow the rules, they will get the reward. I follow plenty of rules, too. Religion isn't the only thing that gives a person a moral compass (I know plenty of very good secular people, so please don't start complaining about hedonism), but I have no assurance of reward beyond this life. I do it because I choose it, because being moral feels right to me. The "easy way out?" I would be so relieved to see some evidence of a caring, benevolent being at work in the world--I see none. I imagine that religious people get a lot of comfort from their faith. So...why exactly am I lazy to live in this uncertainty, when no other way of living seems reasonable or even possible?

2007-06-07 09:51:16 · 32 answers · asked by Anise 3

Has anyone here been a Christian, then became an atheist after reading stuff on R&S? Has an atheist ever became a Christian after reading stuff on R&S? what about another religion, has anyone converted...or reverted? If not, has anything on R&S at least made you question your originally held beliefs?

As for me, I'm a protestant and R&S has probably increased the strength of my belief. When I see how some atheists can be and the extreme anger they show towards Christians that don't believe in their pseudo-science, it frightens me. I don't care much for people that try to intimidate or bully me into their belief system....although i respect atheists and their non-beliefs. Now lets hear from you!

2007-06-07 09:51:06 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Pretend I have a child who shows signs of violence. He always hits his sister. He gets into fights with the neighbors' kids. He tortures animals. He does it all.
One day my child wanders far from home & kills somebody in the next town. The people of this town question if I knew my child was like this. I say, "Yes, but the rest of my family are all nonviolent. It's just him; he is the bad one." My neighbors also explain they knew my child was like this, but they never asked me to do anything about it. They didn't like it, but for some reason they didn't try to stop it. My child's school teacher had even known about it but not tried to contact me about this problem.
The people in the next town then start accusing people from my town of promoting violence. Some even call us a violent group of people. But wait a minute; we're innocent. All the violence was caused by this one child --not by us!
Doesn't it seem like everyone who witnessed but said nothing shares responsibility?

Islam

2007-06-07 09:48:06 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

so there's this guy who hangs out at the mcdonald's and the wal-mart where i live. he drives a camper that's got stuff written on it, like horribly misspelled bible verses and stuff. and he parks his camper on the side of the road and walks up and down the street carrying a ventriliquost dummy and he wears a sandwhich board that says (very very badly misspelled) that god came to him in a dream and told him to preach the words of christ through his dummy.

i haven't seen him in a while. i think he may have been arrested.

so, anyone think he was telling the truth?

2007-06-07 09:48:00 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

....and reinspire the Bible, you know make a few clarifying edits?

Or has He? Dum dum dum!

2007-06-07 09:46:46 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

It's been postulated by some respected Moslem Elders that if the billions of moderate Muslims guided the extremists back to the true faith and turned in the hard-core cases to the appropriate authorities, our great religion would once again be respected as the pre-eminant religion it once was during the Golden Age of Islam (fl. 750 - 1258)...WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ???

2007-06-07 09:45:41 · 16 answers · asked by Scarlett 3

I cannot join but I am curious.

2007-06-07 09:44:08 · 19 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7

have a laugh on me: http://www.truechristian.com/kidzatheists.html

oh yeah, and to make it a question: erm, any thoughts on the accuracy of it (lol)

2007-06-07 09:43:17 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-07 09:43:03 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

You are on a piece of rock spinning at about 1660 k/ph (faster that the speed of sound), which is travelling around the sun at about 107,000 k/ph, and all of which is travelling through space at around 770,000 k/ph. You could at any moment in time be travelling at nearly 900,000 k/ph. You cannot sense or precieve this speed. Does it mean that it's not true. Just because you cannot see and touch God dosen't mean he dosen't exist.

2007-06-07 09:39:24 · 17 answers · asked by Peter C 2

:-)

2007-06-07 09:37:34 · 11 answers · asked by goodfella 5

IIf so, please state why and what your religious affiliation is.

I believe everything happens for a reason and our lives take a certain path for a reason that is not necessarily predestined but leads us to where we need to be.

2007-06-07 09:37:10 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

It took the Southern Baptists until 1995 to apologize for their role in slavery!!! (Southern Baptists are Southern, because they broke from the Northern Baptists over slavery...thinking it ordained by God)

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_n21_v112/ai_17332136

How many gay people have they turned away from the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ with their rhetoric, campaigns and outright hate speech...calling homosexuals, degenerates, abominations and scum of the earth.

They were out of touch on slavery for 150 years....why do they think that they are not out of touch about the social issues of our day.

Slavery is Biblical...but, they no longer call for the literal interpretation as they did in the 1800's...

Your thoughts?

2007-06-07 09:36:44 · 30 answers · asked by G.C. 5

i mean, the blatant sexualisation of female popstars to sell records is rampant these days

many of these female popstars claim to be christians

im an atheist and its fine by me

but what do you think? is god looking down on them with a smile or a frown?

2007-06-07 09:36:09 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it just me, or do others also still find it amazing that in a religious section, with 500 questions every hour about very tough subjects, that we still can find an amazing amount of genuine questions, honest questions, funny questions, thoughful questions, thought-provocing questions and friendly questions?

Between all those questions I sometimes see a question that might offend others, I laugh and move on. And every hour I see at least 5 people asking why everybody is so mean to eachother. Why? Is it human nature to focus on the negative?

2007-06-07 09:33:51 · 29 answers · asked by ? 6

y'know, the one who ordered or condoned murder, genocide, infanticide, rape, torture, etc, many christians come back with "Well Jesus came and changed everything and now it's not like that". But isn't Jesus god? Is he the same god who did all these nasty things? Is he a different god? If he's a different god, then are there 2 gods? So there actually isn't "one true god"?

Come on, either god and Jesus are the same thing meaning Jesus is responsible for the bloodshed, or there are 2 distinct gods...one's cruel and one's a preacher.

So which is it?

2007-06-07 09:33:10 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

and when i answered, and politely told them i wans't interested they asked if they could please speak to my parents instead.

i love it when people think i'm 15. it's especially funny if you answer the door smoking a cigarette.

anyway, this will probably get deleted because it's not a question, so, uhm, what funny things have happened when jw's came to your door (not mean crap please)

2007-06-07 09:32:08 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-07 09:31:14 · 20 answers · asked by Eleventy 6