Religion & Spirituality - 8 June 2007

...especially when the debate is with christians and they're at the loosing end, and can't prove their point?

2007-06-08 01:58:46 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

I myself am a Jehovah Witness and i know the scripture but wanted to see what others thought the scripture was. I just wanted to see what was on the in the minds of your all and see if you knew.

2007-06-08 01:57:23 · 20 answers · asked by dark skinned bonita 1

many people consider love as meaning of live. However, how you will define love? sex, obssession, marriage, fun, emotions or something else? we all see how love come and go; how many lovers quarell and change their mind. also we see that in love 'everthing is permitted, like in war'.
so, do love has such purity, as high developed religion?
I consider some things even more important that love, like returning the care to your parents.
love, as seen in today's world, is changeable, full of positive and negative emotions and has connection with social position and fame and skills. so love become poluted in today's world.
pure love seems to be love to God that is religion. so for me religion is higher meaning of life that worshiping the lover.
the lover is just human. the lover is not God. therefore the lover is limited. we never know when such lover will condemn us if she is not satisfied or insulted.
God is never insulted and will never leave us. do you agree?

2007-06-08 01:57:00 · 15 answers · asked by Suchness 5

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2007-06-08 01:53:50 · 31 answers · asked by qat_800 3

2007-06-08 01:49:06 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you believe in the god your parents believed in, how can you claim it's the true and only god?
Just imagine, if you had been brought up in a different cultural environment, you would believe in a different god and think it's the only true one. How does that make your specific god concept valid?

2007-06-08 01:48:58 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-08 01:47:15 · 39 answers · asked by allahdevil1 3

I’ve noticed over the years that the moral views of Hollywood and the media seep into our television shows and movies.

It’s not unusual to have all religious persons portrayed as ignorant and uneducated, screaming about hell and damnation, or mean spirited. I can’t think of a “regular” movie or program in which a religious person was portrayed realistically.

Also, I’ve noticed that homosexual couples have become just a normal aside to many stories. The show isn’t about a gay relationship…and homosexuality isn’t really mentioned. But there will be a gay couple, and a few things might be mentioned about parents who didn’t understand, or nuns who looked down on them. But the “good” people in the show are loving and accepting of this very normal relationship.

Everyone in the movies and on TV has sex outside of marriage, lives together, has babies out of wedlock, and has abortions. All of these things are portrayed as acceptable. The only people who do not accept these things, are portrayed as the weird religious fanatics or uptight parents.

Our young people watch these shows. Are their values and morals are being handed to them via Hollywood in a subliminal manner? They are given stereotypes where homosexuals portrayed as victims of a backwards world. Parents who do not approve of their children having sex are seen as narrow-minded, and the parents who take their kids out for lunch and birth control are the progressive, informed parents.

What do you think?

2007-06-08 01:45:02 · 11 answers · asked by Misty 7

Jesus Christ is the "I AM" or God Himself in a visible body.

"For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." -- Colossians 2:9

"Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?" -- John 14:9

"Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you Before Abraham was, I AM." -- John 8:58

"God is one." (Galatians 3:20)

2007-06-08 01:42:25 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is a "What if" question, if you don't like hypotheticals, please don't answer, I'm only interested in reading answers of people who want to play along with a hypothetical.

What if your president would convert today to, let's say, Paganism? He would start saying things like "Behind all of life there is purpose, set by the hand of Zeus" and "Thor told me to attack Korea" and "People who don't believe in Ra are not true patriots".

Would you be worried about freedom of religion in your country? Would you be insulted, specially by his last quote? Would you still trust his judgments in political decisions? Would you care about how Muslims, Hindus and atheists feel about a President who talks to Thor?

2007-06-08 01:40:06 · 22 answers · asked by ? 6

Does Allah instruct Muslims to do the same? Or are you told to remain apart (i.e., don't share your beliefs) from the rest of the world?

2007-06-08 01:37:47 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

He is addicted to hydrocodone and I am new at all this so I'm not sure how to pray or what will happen. If you cant answer could you refer me to someone who can.

2007-06-08 01:37:37 · 21 answers · asked by SR 76 2

Ok, here's the thing. Yes, Christians seem to have a religion against being gay/gay marriage for the most part -- that's the commonly held belief. BUT I don't understand why the Christian bible needs to enter this debate on a political and legal scale. Because legal marriage in the U.S. is free from any kind of religious requirements. You don't have to involve religion in marriage. You CAN if you choose to, but the only thing that counts is the legality of it. Atheists can marry, right? Buddhists can marry. Even Christians can get married without a priest/minister if they so choose, by a justice of the peace.So, marriage is NOT a Christian institution (legally).

Therefore, religion should have zero influence on whether or not gay marriage should be legal.

So, when debating gay marriage, why do people (including politicians) need to bring up religion when the point is moot - religion cannot affect ANYONE's right to marry in the U.S.?

2007-06-08 01:34:18 · 30 answers · asked by spike_is_my_evil_vampire 4

If heaven is in the clouds then it can't be that much bigger then how is every one dead going to fit, and what are you going to do in heaven when your dead any way

2007-06-08 01:30:39 · 18 answers · asked by person_who_iz_me 2

2007-06-08 01:22:58 · 32 answers · asked by Gypsy Gal 6

From Wikipedia's featured article on Atheism:
According to a study by Paul Bell, published in the UK Mensa Magazine in 2002, there is an inverse correlation between religiosity and intelligence. Analyzing 43 studies carried out since 1927, Bell found that all but four reported such a connection, and he concluded that "the higher one's intelligence or education level, the less one is likely to be religious or hold 'beliefs' of any kind."[90] A letter published in Nature in 1998 reported a survey suggesting that belief in a personal God or afterlife was at an all-time low among the members of the National Academy of Science, only 7.0% of whom believed in a personal God as compared to more than 85% of the general U.S. population.[91]

But then, anyone reading through this forum already knew there was a correlation.

2007-06-08 01:18:11 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous

What is a good guess survey 75%,50% or 25% have never seen or heard of TBN?

2007-06-08 01:17:40 · 10 answers · asked by Mr Christian Ct 4

Why should I read Dawkins (your favorite poster child, and I mean that literally)? Isn't he just propoganda for your side? Just once, I'd like to see an athiest read both sides of the argument (like "The Case for..." trilogy by Lee Strobel) with an OPEN mind. If Strobel is propoganda for 'our' side, who's more closed-minded? I've aleast read some of Dawkins' material and found him to be immature and childish.

2007-06-08 01:16:32 · 20 answers · asked by capitalctu 5

is the only way there will be peace is if there is no free will

2007-06-08 01:16:07 · 16 answers · asked by person_who_iz_me 2

would there be enough evidence for a conviction?

2007-06-08 01:13:42 · 28 answers · asked by loufedalis 7

When a serial killer kills twelve people he goes either to death row or to prison max security no parol but a ciggerate company causes more deaths around the world than most wars do im not sayin what serial killers do is ok im sayin that murder should be puneshed no matter what the form and if a normal person were to do all the things ciggeretes do they would be charged with murder 1-3 premedited murder recless endangerment manslaughter and many many more not to mention they are proffiting off of others death and sickness ciggerettes are the worst drug and should be illegal like the rest dont you think

2007-06-08 01:11:34 · 11 answers · asked by Requiem of a doomed fate 1

a lot of people seems to believe in god and the bible and all that i don't. think what you will. i look at it as nothing more than something people came up with to give hope reason something to look forward to. i think it is a story written by man in nothing more than a book. Jesus wuz human one day divine the next. i have learned a lot on the topic of god but so much goes unexplained and people are so quick to believe and yet they make fun or think witchcraft is stupid. believe in neither its just an outside perspective. people that believe in god are so quick to disregard everything else mythological or magical seems to me to be more hypocritical than anything because non of you have proof of any of it and yet you critisize what others believe and think they are going to hell for it. oh and those of you who believe so whole much why is it you do not follow the rules of your bible and figure god will forgive you. maybe he does exist but i would rather burn in hell than serve in heaven

2007-06-08 01:11:08 · 22 answers · asked by pan_clock 3

Since Lokasenna went in 14 days from being the leading expert in Asatru to a very outspoken fervent atheist, shouldn't she change her name now?
Since her name derives from a semi-religious Asatru text from the poetic Edda and contains the name of a Norse deity which she now denies the existance of...?

Don't you think some real Asatruar might be insulted by this?

2007-06-08 01:09:17 · 16 answers · asked by art fanatic 2

ever thought about if Jesus hadnt called Lazarus by name and simply said come forth that all would have come out of the grave in gravecloth

2007-06-08 01:01:38 · 17 answers · asked by loveChrist 6

he already have an bad encounter with the Catholic Church, here what do you think.

2007-06-08 01:00:21 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

How does this quote make you feel and what do you think about it?

"Q. What message would you like to give to the West?

A. I would like to repeat that Islam is a religion of Peace. Westerners should not be carried away by false propaganda against Islam or Muslims. True that there is an element of terrorism among the Muslim community. But so it is in any other religion. If some followers of a religion violate its teachings the blame lies on the followers not on the religion. How many Christians practice the peaceful edict of Bible: ’if someone slaps you on one cheek turn the other cheek also towards him’? And still no one will deny that Christianity teaches LOVE and PEACE. The same approach should be adopted when forming an opinion about Islam."

2007-06-08 00:54:40 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Fellow Christians - have you ever noticed that when you direct a question to Christians, that un-believers come out of the woodwork to put in their comments as well, as sarcastic as they are?

I think it is interesting that they claim to not believe, yet they answer questions that are not directed to them regarding a subject that they claim to not believe in.

Your thoughts?

2007-06-08 00:53:59 · 21 answers · asked by God's Child 4

Do they have something to hide?

2007-06-08 00:42:09 · 22 answers · asked by anonymous lucy 3

Ezekiel 28:13-17
tells the account where the devil who was created by God to be one of the Highest ranking angels aka he was anointed cherub that covereth. He was an angel that fell into sin (the sin of pride) and for that him and his followers (other angels) where cast out of Heaven.

So a two part question (for Christians)

1. Can you or will yo be able to sin in heaven?
2. If it is so and you sin in heaven will you (or can you) be kicked out?

2007-06-08 00:41:21 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-08 00:41:21 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous