Religion & Spirituality - 12 June 2007

2007-06-12 12:00:45 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

1st and 2nd Maccabees and Baruch? If so what did you think of them? (Someone just gave me a New Jerusalem Bible which contains all those books. Thank You.

2007-06-12 11:59:18 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've know of more stories than the one I will post but this is just an example for those that demand proof.

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2005/07/03/400/20937
full story here: http://www.mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=492059

I am curious what everyone thinks...please comment

2007-06-12 11:59:00 · 32 answers · asked by Sassafrass 6

Do human beings exist to serve God because without Him they would not exist?

2007-06-12 11:58:41 · 12 answers · asked by Mike Miguel 2

Do you share my belief that many, perhaps most of the young men and women who participate here are far from being representative of today's teenagers in the United States? I am five times a grandfather, and my grands, every one, are bright, quick, truthful, imaginative, independent, and respectful toward their grandfather. So, while meandering about here, I must constantly reaffirm in my mind that it's my grands in California and not the seemingly hopeless, frustrated, disrespectful, pain-stricken, confused, semi-literate, and perverse young people here who are the centerpiece in our Nation's future. And you?

2007-06-12 11:57:31 · 22 answers · asked by ? 3

You are 23 and just finished college while working full-time to pay your way. You had moved from several hundred miles away to attend this college, and since moving have established yourself in a good job, made several friends, and come enjoy the area.

You have a girlfriend back home whom you have dated for about a year and a half. You have been utterly miserable with the relationship for several months, but the fact that it is long-distance has made it tolerable because you only have to see her once or twice a month and you stay busy with school and work all the other time.

Before you graduate, she realizes that the relationship is going sour and that you don't plan on moving back after finishing. She decides to stop taking her birth control and becomes pregnant in an effort to make you move back home and get married.

What do you do? Marry her and try to make it work? Don't marry her but take responsibility for the child? Does she move up there with you or do you go back to her?

2007-06-12 11:55:15 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Firstly I am not saying that religion is bad or good my personal opinion doesn't matter.
Secondly if you think all religion is bad please try to think which one you dislike most.
Thirdly if you don't dislike any religion please don't put down an answer.
If you choose christianity please specify catholic or protestant.
Lastly you can put why you hate it, but always put the name of the religion first.

2007-06-12 11:54:31 · 58 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-12 11:53:31 · 14 answers · asked by Brynn 3

I asked a question about the achievements of science and the achievements of religion. I am an atheist. Most of the answers that I got were that science is only half of the big picture. They told me that to live a full life, you have to have religion and science split up 50-50 to live a full life. However, I do not believe in God and I completely lack superstition. If superstition is half of the big picture, then I am glad I am missing out on half of my life. Many of them claimed that the Bible answers questions that science cannot, like what is the purpose of life. I think the Bible is wrong. I think there is no purpose to life and I think we are all an accident. Now here's my questions.
1) Why are my ideas so scary to religious people?
2) Why do they so fanatically try to change my beliefs?
3) I leave you alone, why can't you leave me alone?

2007-06-12 11:51:18 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

i would like to read the scriptures that tell me about purgatory since i cant find them on my own....

2007-06-12 11:50:28 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am at a point in my life that I need solid answers and reasoning for the things that go on in my life. After just graduating from college I sat back and reviewed all those people who have fornicated, committe adultery, became fake pastors and so forth and I have watched them advance like no one I have ever seen before. I have watch girls sleep with anything and vice versa, and still get good jobs, be loved and have the whole universe in their possession. But then there are people like me. Follow the "Good Book" rule of helping out thy neighbor and keeping on a straight and narrow path...and I have not prospered yet. Now I may only be 22 but I know that faith can only lead you so far. So I put a little action into it. And guess what. I am still no where. I got good grades, virgin girl looking to prosper. I don't see how an all love God can be all loving, when the very thing he instructed you to do gets you know where. Beside Christianity, what are some other alternate religions?

2007-06-12 11:49:59 · 46 answers · asked by from_me_to_you 3

I was curious about what other people thought of the Mormon Church.

2007-06-12 11:48:12 · 19 answers · asked by Inferno 2

2007-06-12 11:46:26 · 66 answers · asked by atheist 3

If God is the supreme creator, Alpha and Omega, beginning and end, who was at God's beginning?

I once heard a quote "As man is, God once was. As God is, man may become." This leads me to belive that God was a man. And so someone created him. Who was that? Shed some light religious gurus.

2007-06-12 11:46:18 · 29 answers · asked by C.Run 2

Why would a person 60 years of age wear dark sunglasses. It isn't for fashion, or to be different, but why? You can't even see her eyes, that the glasses are black.

She is the only one in the congregation who does so, and I attend many different masses and churches and haven't seen anyone who wears glasses like this.

2007-06-12 11:45:58 · 12 answers · asked by DREENA 2

2007-06-12 11:45:31 · 34 answers · asked by I'm Sparticus 4

2007-06-12 11:45:28 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-12 11:45:22 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-12 11:45:09 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-12 11:42:07 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-12 11:40:23 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Jesus declared he was the rock of the church and that peter was the stone...Later on he was dragged off to rome and executed

2007-06-12 11:39:54 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-12 11:38:33 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

"Stop the Fluff. Think for yourself. Fight the Bunny!"

this quote is from the website "Wicca: for the rest of us"

http://wicca.timerift.net

2007-06-12 11:37:44 · 29 answers · asked by Bobby 3

2007-06-12 11:35:24 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

could not move.

2007-06-12 11:34:29 · 39 answers · asked by benignmalaprop 2

Jesus declared he was the rock of the church and that peter was the stone

2007-06-12 11:34:28 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Logic can be the study of the principles of correct reasoning

1. Intelligence coming from non-intelligence.
Iogical or illogical?

2007-06-12 11:33:56 · 21 answers · asked by yaabro 4

I hardly ever see the more zealous types questions on here, is anyone else noticing that since YA implemented the blocking system

Also, did anyone else besides me block Myshield? I am so glad not to have to deal that lunatic anymore

2007-06-12 11:31:01 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

It's a big world. There are other countries besides the U.S. They keep taking the position that Revivalist/fundamentalist "Christians" are the top leadership of Christianity,notwithstanding that almost all Christians are Eastern orthodox,Roman Catholic or mainstream Protestant. Then they ignore the one area - for all their preoccupation with fundies - where the Bible Belt vote really does affect our affairs as a nation - gung-ho anything-is-acceptable support for Israel - which you would think would be a leading concern. They go out about school prayer,etc, and other areas where fundies have consistently failed,then ignore their successes. Right now we have a U.S. sponsored duel war raging in Iraq and Afghanistan because we have a fundie president who thinks Jewish neo-cons are from God and he has but to do their bidding and everything will be great. Shouldn't this excite your interest? Or are you not capable of grasping the reality of anything that takes place outside our borders?

2007-06-12 11:30:38 · 14 answers · asked by Brynn 3