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Religion & Spirituality - 9 June 2007

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i'm thinking 'om namah shivaya' but i'm usually wrong when it comes to important things

2007-06-09 19:31:58 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

It is TOO a religious question. Bush n Jesus are BFF

2007-06-09 19:30:38 · 27 answers · asked by Laptop Jesus 3.9 7

Did you know that if I had never studied the bible for myself...and even had other christians who were quite fluent and clear with the bible, speak to me about what it was written for and what it has to do with humans, that I wouldn't have any clue of what you are trying to tell me when you attempt to share your faith? For instance...this is what someone said earlier and please don't get mad I'm not trying to be offensive but here's what he said...

"Life is now { I am the life}so life is truth, the truth of being {I am the truth}. All roads lead from this point, {I am the way}. The I AM is most important and very simple. The I AM is in life now, you know this I AM if you can just *be*, but unworthy teachers have misled many. ~ : )"

Not trying to be offensive but can anyone who is not a christian determine much of what this means? I think there's a lot of people that don't like christians just because of this...opinions welcome

2007-06-09 19:29:35 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

"Live in sin", for those who don't know about this old idiom: to live with and have a sexual relationship with someone without being married.

2007-06-09 19:28:49 · 30 answers · asked by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7

A geek, cheerleader, the one labeled easy, jock, nerd, band geek etc etc.

I was the leader of the theater crowd until I graduated.

2007-06-09 19:22:22 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

I never feared death. Perhaps that's why i never joined the xian cult or any other cult.

I don't relish the idea of a painful death (I don't think anyone does) -- so, like most people, I hope i go with a minimum of pain. But, death doesn't scare me. I find it interesting. I'm in no hurry to discover what happens "after" -- only because I'm enjoying what I'm doing here, now. I still have other things I want to do here, but death isn't always in our control. Few people get to choose when they die.

But, I guess I find death to be an intriguing "transition".

I don't pretend to know a god, and I don't pretend to have knowledge of what happens at death.

But for those who fear death without the protection of a cult and the cult's framework -- is it that fear that drives them to their cult and keeps them there? If they leave the cult or drop it, do they fear a consequence?

2007-06-09 19:14:56 · 13 answers · asked by nuPhyllis! 3

2007-06-09 18:59:54 · 3 answers · asked by annmwoolr 1

Imagine you had a really close call.

You heart croaks for a couples minutes and you have a 'near-death experience' with the tunnel and angels and God handing you a beer slaps you on the back and says "you see, I was real after all..heh heh heh".

CLEAR! *bzzzt*

You're back to life. You remember your experience.

Would you...?
a. run to your nearest church and become born-again
b. attribute it to some psycho/physiological condition
c. have 'faith' that it was just a dream or hallucination

I just find this situation interesting, since most Atheists say "God has never shown himself, so until he does, I don't believe".

But if he did, as in this situation, wouldn't you STILL not believe anyway??

Is seeing believing or is there more to it than that for you?

2007-06-09 18:59:41 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

I realize the issue can get murky, because the empires the founders were rebelling against combined church and state. Was it the religion, or the state? If they could see the diference, can you?

2007-06-09 18:55:03 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you want "religion" to be taught, put your kid in a "private religious school," if you want your kid to be taught actual "verifiable facts," put them in a "State" publically paid for school...Get it...?!?
Jesus, people...!!!
Even uneducated religious people see the point I'm making...give it up...!!!

2007-06-09 18:46:38 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

obviously the Bible saying so doesn't work logically. So, am I missing something? Jesus said he always spoke in parables, couldn't Creation and the Flood be metaphors or just poetry? Or does that tear down the whole thing for people? Just curious, it seems it would be hard to follow every word of the Bible.

2007-06-09 18:42:07 · 16 answers · asked by ajj085 4

2007-06-09 18:41:28 · 13 answers · asked by JimBob from 'Bama 2

He's just got those really deep set shadowy eyes that just don't make for good photography...

2007-06-09 18:38:53 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

most religions of now were founded in times of old....the world has dramatically changed since then in terms of knowledge. could all religions be wrong in thier view of life? humans back then did have very ignorant views on many different aspects of life

2007-06-09 18:37:31 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

In answers to various questions in this forum, I've been told by Christians that, in the end, the only real need I have of obeying the will of God is so that I won't land my butt in Hell. I've been told that they would be ethical even if they had never heard of the Judeo-Christian deity, but it's better to follow God because his way is the right way and mankind's way is the way to Hell. I've been told by many that original sin was God's plan all along so that we could (1) be free willed and (2) have the need of redemption.

It all comes down to "You need to love and obey God to stay out of Hell. If you don't accept God as your heavenly father and Jesus as your Christ, you will burn forever". Yes, I know it's often not phrased like that. It usually takes a lot of poking and prodding to get anyone to admit to this outright...

But that's what it boils down to - follow God or go to Hell.

So... what reasons other than Hell are there to be a Christian?

2007-06-09 18:30:13 · 35 answers · asked by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7

I do NOT believe in CREATIONISM so you may call me a Christian Evolutionist, for all that I care. I am posing this very question only to observe what sort of responses I will provoke. We have been tormented, ridiculed and totally subverted by liberalists and atheists for an extensive period and that it’s become unbearable for me to live with a painstaking fear that religion will eventually be diminished forever.

Now: What proof(without the sonorous use of the Bible) can you give me to substantiate that we did in fact evolve from Adam?

THAT’S RIGHT…NONE.

We need to wake up. We MUST accept evolution not because it is extraordinary accurate, but because there is enough evidence which can blow the mythological assertion that we came from two humans into the garbage once and for all!

Please Christians read, read, read! Read science and learn. BE OPEN MINDED. LET US ACCEPT EVOLUTION. WE CAN STILL BELIEVE IN GOD AND ACCEPT EVOLUTION!!!!! We are being disparaged consistently on this issue, because there is so much evidence surrounding the theory- that we are ignoring it to advocate our foolish, childish, fallible theory of intelligent design- derived only and entirely BY MAN!

Richard Dawkins- a world renowned evolutionary scientist has repeatedly berated us, calling us stupid, delusional, and more abhorrent names of the like.
FOR INSTANCE-
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO WHERE DAWKINGS CHALLENGES AN EVANGELICAL WHO KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT EVOLUTION (thinks we arrived here by accident!) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNZrBiFI0Ww

Evidence for evolution:
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/evolution-skull.jpg

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution


I DO NOT believe one event in the bible legitimately took place, and that is because as a 16 year old it arduous for me to uphold any of the principles and the stories which are being told in the bible as FACT, because nothing which is written in the bible can ever be validated. We must NOT avert the fact that when Jesus lived he hadn’t written the Bible even though he was literate, brilliant and competent enough to do so.

1) The rapture is PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE.
2) “Jesus will return” oh yea? - Herold Camping was a devout evangelical prominent Christian who played an active role in the conservative Christian radio station 94.7 F.M in America, and prophesized that the world will end in the year of 1994- an ostensibly erroneous theory. But he was so sure about it that he wrote an entire book on this conviction. (Time Has an End)
Now the man is dead.

3) THERE IS NO FLYING SPAGETTI MONSTER. The thought of such existence is totally ludicrous.

I do not want to challenge your beliefs. I am a Christian who is now championing the legitimacy of the Bible. I am beginning to unveil the apparent holes in the bible which you people overly reject, and it is a shame. If the earth is 6,000 years old, then what notion do you hold when it comes to the evidence of preexisting life- dinosaurs who had lived millions of years ago which is not once accounted in the bible? There is fossilized evidence to show that dinosaurs existed, will before humans did- so the earth cannot ONLY be but a few thousand years of age.

WE HAVE GOT TO WAKE UP! We cannot continue to dismiss scientific evidence for our existence for an insipid, inaccurate humanistic version that we came from Adam and Eve.

2007-06-09 18:19:19 · 44 answers · asked by Abi 2

you?

People that truly know someone loves them wouldn't go around saying it

How often do you hear this everyday from the same person?,

. "I know my husband loves me"
. " I know my wife loves me"
" I know my child loves me"

Face, You're trying to convince yourselves subconsciously that your skydaddy loves you

2007-06-09 18:14:00 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

that they both are satisfied, illuminate the no's on there vacancies signs, if there is no one beside you when your soul embarks i will follow you in to the dark.

2007-06-09 18:09:37 · 6 answers · asked by Alina R 3

..so why do people get so bent out of shape over evolving from monkeys?

2007-06-09 18:08:56 · 21 answers · asked by DomesticGodLess 2

"Baptism is a public profession of your inward faith In God."

Since when can infants and toddlers profess a faith that they haven't the capacity to comprehend?

2007-06-09 18:05:59 · 45 answers · asked by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7

if so, why? if not why not?

2007-06-09 18:02:10 · 11 answers · asked by rihannsu 2

And yes, I realize I could look this up on Wikipedia. I simply want to see what y'all are going to say about it, and I hope you DON'T copy/paste an answer from Wikipedia or any place like that.

2007-06-09 17:56:46 · 16 answers · asked by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7

forcing non-believers to take time out of their "educational" day, and violating their "Constitutional" right to NOT be forced to endure or "cater" to other's religious beliefs...
The reason our Constitution separates "Religion" from "The State," is to prevent THAT very thing I'm mentioning...Religious people can "publically" and "audibly" practice their religions in "private" schools, and anywhere else they want, as long as they don't use tax payer dollars to push their religious agenda on the "PUBLIC" against some of the public's will...???
Non-believer's DO NOT ask that they're hard-earned tax-paying dollars go to "pushing" their "non-belief" agenda (because non-believers don't have an "agenda") on the rest of the population...and they expect the same "non-action" in return...?????????????

2007-06-09 17:56:20 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Their marriage is a lawful marriage, in the name of God.

2007-06-09 17:52:24 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-09 17:51:05 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-09 17:50:18 · 22 answers · asked by Sister Rulerlady 2

Lets tak a minute and be funny about it be outlandish it is time to have a sense of humor about death

as for me

I m going to get shot at point blank range with an air canon that launches snickerdoodles.

so u?

2007-06-09 17:46:37 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-09 17:46:31 · 9 answers · asked by Dwayne 3

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