Religion & Spirituality - 28 June 2007

The God Delusion = Richard Dawkins = the dumbest book I ever read!

The other book I was reading was called "God is not great"
And the last one "Science can prove there's no God"

However, the funny thing here, is that all these books were in the religion section! These Authors don't believe in God, and their books are full of things about God! You’ll never understand what are they saying! Their ideology is very bad!

For example if I don't believe in Zeus, why Am I going to spend my Whole life talking, researching, writing about him?

These people are doing the same thing! Why?

2007-06-28 05:11:56 · 42 answers · asked by Not of This World Returns 3

I'm rather confused by this claim. Are they arguing that there is no single principle that 'reality' can be reduced to or are they claiming that 'reality' per se is illusory?

What is the ontology of Buddhism?

2007-06-28 05:10:50 · 9 answers · asked by tuthutop 2

im going to have a Lock in at my Church, what lesson should i teach at the lock in along with what games and the set up for the lock in !?

2007-06-28 05:10:31 · 7 answers · asked by norf2007 1

if one person borns in very poor family. Even he has not got good food and cloth in his childhood. But he is very very intellegent and compleated his B.E. computers and he selected by the one of the multinational corporate IT companies. The employer very much satisfied with his work and they are providing $10,00000 salary for him per anum. The said person remembered his child hood life and he allocated 50% his income to good social causes.
1.He did repairs to school buildings in his village.he provided benches to all students in school. he had created good atmosphere for school.
2.he picked intellegent students from irrespective of the caste and provided them good clothes and shelter.
3.He did repairs to primary heath centre in his village. he provided good cots, beds and bedsheets .he provided all required medicines to hospital in a view that no one should suffer from lack of medicines.
4.He removed silt from the water tank in the village.
this is some part of doing good karma

2007-06-28 05:09:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-28 05:08:10 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

If a Christians asserts that an atheist must have faith to believe God doesn't exists, is she admitting that faith is not a valid method of attaining true knowledge?

2007-06-28 05:07:26 · 16 answers · asked by Eleventy 6

Uploading (sometimes called 'mind uploading' or 'brain reconstruction') is the hypothetical process of transferring a mind from a biological brain to an artificial substrate -- a highly advanced computer.

Once uploaded, one could, for example, inhabit a much more robust and powerful 'body' of any shape or size, move between bodies at will, live in a fully customized virtual environment, reprogram and copy oneself, enhance one's clock speed and intelligence by many orders of magnitude, gather, store, access & assimilate vast amounts of data (simultaneously), travel at the speed of light as pure information etc. etc.

So, do you think that one day this will be possible? Would it be something you would be interested in doing? Why or why not? And how would this, if it became a reality, effect your religious beliefs (if any)?

2007-06-28 05:06:32 · 8 answers · asked by Tangy 2

A passionate struggle for freedom is deeply embedded in the history of the western world. It still inspires us today. And it still inspires oppressed people everywhere. Freedom is our great meta-meme, the crowning jewel of our civilization...but lately, in our own back yard, freedom has taken a perverse, hyper-individualistic turn. We now drink more, do more drugs, live more promiscuously, spend more money, use up more resources, create more waste, and deliberately flaunt our wealth, power, and sexuality more than any other culture on earth. When a modest, pious man living in a poor village a world away looks at us, what does he see? While 79% of university entrants in 1970 said their goal in life was to develop "a meaningful philosophy of life," by 2005, 75% defined their life's objective as "being very well off financially." What happened? Have we found total freedom, or absolute disconnect? Are we becoming liberated, or just increasingly self-centered and alienated? (more)

2007-06-28 05:06:20 · 10 answers · asked by jaicee 6

2007-06-28 05:04:53 · 6 answers · asked by marhama 6

Everyone seems to always be saying mean things about Jehovah's witnesess

2007-06-28 05:03:54 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-28 05:03:31 · 10 answers · asked by ? 3

a stake?

2007-06-28 05:02:20 · 19 answers · asked by LottaLou 7

Oh its too hot!
Oh I feel funny!
Oh no way you strange if you wear a Burkha!
I cant see properly!
Are these excusses really valid and are they true?

2007-06-28 05:01:41 · 9 answers · asked by emz 2

2007-06-28 05:00:43 · 10 answers · asked by asef kazi 1

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2007-06-28 04:59:52 · 7 answers · asked by Gaby 1

Seeing as after you die, you lose your brain and I would suppose it's functionality. Your memories, experiences, what you've learned, etc. would cease to exist without the mind being able to process cognitive information. So after death, do you expect you, or your soul (the form of you after death) to keep the memories? Or do you expect a clean slate of memory, almost as if you were reborn?

Another question along the lines of the brain and it's functionality, would a person with Alzheimer's, who used to be a devout Christian still receive access to heaven, even though they no longer really believe/actively participate in the religion? I ask because when some people with Alzheimer's lose their memory, their religious beliefs can be lost as well.

Also, did you come to this question, expecting it to be something along the lines of bashing Christianity?

2007-06-28 04:59:43 · 22 answers · asked by Southpaw 7

i believe in mother nature.
i believe in myself......i love myself first and foremost..........
.i believe NO ONE has all the answers..........
i believe we are not meant to know the meaning of life but to search for the answer anyway
i believe i am not meant to serve anyone but mankind
i believe my free will is not meant to be stifled by rules and threats and fear..........
i believe in the love and my heart and determining what is right or wrong for myself.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ATHIESTS BELIEVE IN?

2007-06-28 04:57:53 · 12 answers · asked by slopoke6968 7

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*Being a 'Top Contributor' or being promoted to the next 'level' gives you a great feeling of accomplishment.
*You think of questions you want to ask on Yahoo! Answers when you are doing something else and are not even at your computer...and then can't wait to come ask said questions.

I am guilty of all of the above. What can you guys add to the list?

2007-06-28 04:56:14 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-28 04:55:26 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I rejoice in his perfect love, these kids deserved it don't you think?

From The Holy Bible, 2 Kings 2:23-24:

"And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them"

2007-06-28 04:54:37 · 13 answers · asked by atheist jesus 4

2007-06-28 04:54:21 · 39 answers · asked by The Angry Stick Man 6

What exactly qualifies as life? Would you consider Artificial Intelligence to be alive, assuming it was truly self-aware?

How do you feel about this and what is your religion's (or lack of) take on this?

2007-06-28 04:53:57 · 9 answers · asked by Tangy 2

Hi, sorry to bother you, but I started out being a wiccan 3 yrs ago, and i was a solitary for that long. But i feel i must be with other wiicans, because I cant cast circles or cast any spells correctly, even though i constantly practice, and i always screw up, stutter when calling the quarters or casting a money spell, or praying. I just cant do things right and i feel i need a coven or a teacher to help me out.

Do you think i need a coven?

2007-06-28 04:53:13 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-28 04:53:01 · 8 answers · asked by daisy322_98 5

As someone raised Christian (not practicing) I have always questioned "everyday" Christians and their morals/ethics.

My question is: If the Christ were to return - how would we recognize him/her?

It seems that everytime some one proclaims to be the "one" we lock them up as crazy or dismiss them because they do not "fit" our expectations. In any given major city there are a couple dozen homeless wanderers who believe they are the messiah - yet we brush them off. Does Christ need to PROVE himself to us? Or do you think, after 2000 years of his disciples studying his words, Christ would feel that our outlook would be different? That we would show more compassion and understanding to strangers and be more willing to follow someone who's not on TV trying to make big $$$.

What do you think? I'm interested.

2007-06-28 04:51:54 · 15 answers · asked by Buddha13 4

Am I going to be in the God-head. Or is it that the son is not in the God-head.

2007-06-28 04:51:26 · 9 answers · asked by Ham Shank 2

OK I have been reading every one's questions and stuff here. I was wondering if you can tell me your religion and what it is you believe in?


I really have no belief in any thing but I was just curious what it is you believe, worship, and love

2007-06-28 04:50:49 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was discussing with my co-employee about what the devil can do. I learned that the devil can do as what God can do e.g. healing, knowledge, wisdom, etc. except LOVE. And she asked where in the Bible did I find that. I cannot show it to her but deep in my soul I know there is a verse that will support my claim. So if there is anyone out there who knows every verse in the Bible, I need your help. Thanks.

2007-06-28 04:48:35 · 14 answers · asked by Sporty 2

Or doesn't believe? Why can't people just respect each other's decision to believe or not believe how they choose to do so without insulting or talking down to one another or mocking their beliefs?

2007-06-28 04:47:42 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

Jesus's last name was not Christ it is a title one many people have held.

2007-06-28 04:46:31 · 17 answers · asked by Quantrill 7