Religion & Spirituality - 5 July 2007

You see it on YA all the time. People degrading others because of their religious beliefs.

The most prominant feud (on YA) is between the atheists and the christians. my question is, why do people CARE about other's religious beliefs? Why must we always try to change people into our own personal religious ideal? After all, isn't the whole POINT of religion that each person interprets it in his or her individual way?

2007-07-05 09:12:03 · 41 answers · asked by Anonymous

Would you rather have a gay son or a lair for a son? How do you translate the Bible to fit your beliefs?

2007-07-05 09:11:11 · 27 answers · asked by Tim 6

MaxMarie SFO(Topcontributer?) has to say:-
" Yup. Ganesha dropped in on me one day. I didn't find it remarkable at all. Nor did I find the urge to convert.
I was doing yoga at the time.

How can you do "Yoga" without sri.Ganesa?--(it is not Ganesha!)-IMPOSSIBLE- I wonder you were doing something without understanding what you were doing.---Yaa -Uganaa--Eesa---sa --YOGA(nesa)
does it appear to be Latin to you ?--then how did you read the original Yoga Texts?--and you were doing YOGA!!!!!!!!!!!! what a wonderful thing?

MMSFO:-"Up until that point I never understood why so many Christian teachers say Christians should not do yoga."

They are absolutely right.--YOGA you can not start without praying sri.Ganesa-if you wish you read Padhanjali's Yoga Sutram original text in Sanskrit or you listen to the learned Christian Preists.

2007-07-05 09:08:50 · 4 answers · asked by ssrvj 7

Mat 13:39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Mat 13:40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
Mat 13:41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
Mat 13:42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Mat 13:43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

2007-07-05 09:06:15 · 35 answers · asked by badboybilzer 2

When clearly he didn't! He died because the crowd wanted him dead over the other guy they had to choose from.

2007-07-05 09:05:12 · 12 answers · asked by ↓ѕіѕтεяматуןdа↓ 2

I'm curious about responses to this prayer someone sent me. I'm not really familiar with Buddhism, but I've never seen a prayer quite like this one.
My guess is, it will rankle quite a few people.

To those who withhold refuge,
I cradle you in safety at the core of my Being.
To those that cause a child to cry out,
I grant you the freedom to express your own choked agony.
To those that inflict terror,
I remind you that you shine with the purity of a thousand suns.
To those who would confine, suppress, or deny,
I offer the limitless expanse of the sky.
To those who need to cut, slash, or burn,
I remind you of the invincibility of Spring.
To those who cling and grasp,
I promise more abundance than you could ever hold onto.
To those who vent their rage on small children,
I return to you your deepest innocence.
To those who must frighten into submission,
I hold you in the bosom of your original mother.
To those who cause agony to others,
I give the gift of free flowing tears.
To those that deny another's right to be,
I remind you that the angels sang in celebration of you on the day of your
birth.
To those who see only division and separateness,
I remind you that a part is born only by bisecting a whole.
For those who have forgotten the tender mercy of a mother's embrace,
I send a gentle breeze to caress your brow.
To those who still feel somehow incomplete,
I offer the perfect sanctity of this very moment.

2007-07-05 09:03:19 · 13 answers · asked by ? 6

2007-07-05 09:02:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have heard it all of my life, and gosh knows the phrase is popular here at R&S, that the Holy Bible is the word of God. Not cherrypicked parts, not only the scattering of loving words, but all of it. If this is so, what should an American bloke make of the guy who sells a daughter into slavery, the guy who is hellbent to burn his son alive, the guy who walks on water, the slaughter, genocide, "dashing" babies against a handy wall, rape, slavery, a talking snake, a talking bush, a talking jackass, the guy who survived three days in the belly of a big old fish, incest, the guy who chopped off 400 foreskins, the guy who rose from the dead and flew up to "Heaven," multiple wives, guys living hundreds of years, and so on and on? It's asking an awful lot of a human critter in the age of space travel, the Internet, wonders in medical science, incredible technologies emerging very day. All of that 21st-century stuff, and a doggoned talking snake? Wow!

2007-07-05 09:01:42 · 29 answers · asked by Yank 5

2007-07-05 08:59:20 · 25 answers · asked by DEPRESSED™ 5

And would Sampson know about the heel?

2007-07-05 08:58:37 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-05 08:58:21 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

even though they suffer from selfishness? and really only care about themselves and how THEIR life turns out. whats up with all the false sense of security.....do they really think their 401K will save them from disaster? the niavety and blind ambition has really kept a lot of real progressive healing from happening.

2007-07-05 08:57:56 · 18 answers · asked by amecake83 3

I answered: A SATANIC OCCULT

Someone reported my answer as in violation of the code of conduct and I lost 12 points. Do you think freemasonry involves Satanic rituals at some level?

2007-07-05 08:55:01 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

The way i spell magickal is with a k deal with it

2007-07-05 08:52:43 · 7 answers · asked by funkyjason11 2

me to do...

1. seek out the "cross" that jesus was nailed on
2. just make the new toilet seat out of a replica piece of wood

2007-07-05 08:49:39 · 6 answers · asked by ↓ѕіѕтεяматуןdа↓ 2

2007-07-05 08:48:00 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

A lady my family and I hardly knew was at my dad's funeral.

While I was eating she came up to me didn't even say "sorry or anything." She continued on and on at least an hour about her problems and life in general. I was already depressed about my dad and other things. Then a year later after my dad's death she starts following me at my church, and then the store I go to grocery store shopping at and the same laundromat too, and asking me strange questions, about me and my family! She was stalking me, because she lives 20 minutes away and there are plenty of stores and 2 churches where she lives.

Is she crazy or what, and what do you make of this?

She also asked me how much $$ did we get from my Dad, and does my family have to work or anything.........

No she is not a relative, or mistress or anything like that.
What is her interest?

2007-07-05 08:47:24 · 14 answers · asked by DREENA 2

and I mean on this WEBSITE but also in REAL LIFE

2007-07-05 08:46:18 · 24 answers · asked by Saved by Grace 3

I just read many people apparently believe the flood actually happened. So, how do you believe the kangaroos got to australia?

2007-07-05 08:46:03 · 13 answers · asked by Ray Patterson - The dude abides 6

what effect does that have for intelligent design adherents?

2007-07-05 08:45:29 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-05 08:44:52 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Currently taking bets on how many answers will contain the words "unequally yoked". Over/Under is 6½.

*drink*

2007-07-05 08:43:57 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

I would like to know if there is a list somewhere of all Christian beliefs regarding Hell worthy trespasses. How many are there? What is the most ludicrous. This includes any from all time periods, because if it was once true, according to the Bible, it must always be true, because that is the word of the lord, and he can't be wrong.

2007-07-05 08:41:23 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Instead of trying to cram the bible down everyone's throat.

2007-07-05 08:40:14 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

no disrespect but this is my observation that they are always in a hurry and are stern, never seen one laughing of joking in public, perhaps they do it in private.

2007-07-05 08:38:45 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why can't you just help feed the people instead of preaching while feeding. It is really needed?

2007-07-05 08:38:19 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-05 08:35:56 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've been thinking about alot of stories in the bible lately and this morning I've had noah's story stuck in my head.

To me it's a symbolic parable or something, cause I don't see a message or lesson in it either.

The main things that get me are ..
God was flooding the planet to kill sinners but chose an alchoholic to build an ark SO big it could hold every creature on the planet, then he'd have to travel the world in a time without auto-propelled motors and bring back a male and female member of ALL animals, including highly dangerous ones like tigers and elefants, with zero zoological training and again with no way to safely them back. then he kept all the animals alive with no incident or injury for an extended amount of time.

Also I remember reading a science article stating that the water on earth came over a long period of time in crashing meteors. Which means that the amount of water on earth is somewhat fixed, even if the glaciers where to melt completely ..

2007-07-05 08:35:53 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous

Was it source material for the creation museum? If so which episodes?

2007-07-05 08:35:12 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

And whose questions do you most like generally?

2007-07-05 08:34:47 · 16 answers · asked by Lamya 6