Religion & Spirituality - 6 July 2007

in my previous questions Kdude pointed out something to me
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070706163535AA2uZFH&r=w
many many thumbs down for people simply returning a hug
whats that all about ?
and how can people have more thumbs up or down than each other ?

people are strange !

2007-07-06 12:51:10 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am a Chrisitan. i have agnostic friends and respect their point of view. but i don't honestly know an athiest. at least not one that can express anything intelligent about your beliefs. i've always had some questions, and if you answer, please don't be mean or ignorant. i am sincerly curious.
-Is the idea of God offensive? I read what people say about him on here, and it's not even close to what the bible portrays. is the problem with God, or Christians? i can understand it being with Christian. i don't like most of them either.
-What is it about spiritual things that makes you so mad or uncomfortable.
-Christianity teaches: complete exceptance and forgiveness. grace. love from a community. a guide that, if you are honest, is benificial for society in general.
i don't know what people talk about when they say Christianity is built on hate in so forth. that is about as far from the truth as it could be.
any help would be cool. remember, no meanies or dummies.thanks!

2007-07-06 12:46:53 · 29 answers · asked by Brian S 2

2007-07-06 12:46:21 · 15 answers · asked by pakicaki 2

my sister has been dethroned, I'm in charge now. will you join me?

2007-07-06 12:45:52 · 10 answers · asked by krumpmaster terrell 4

Ok just to get this out of the way....I do not in anyway think Muslims are bad people....Just misrepresented by terrorists who have caused the media to brain wash America.

2007-07-06 12:42:26 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

all the nutties come out of the wood work?

2007-07-06 12:41:37 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

Christians tell me that they feel God's presence all around them. Then right after that they tell me that God is desperately trying to get my attention. Well it sure doesn't seem like he is trying to get my attention. If he was desperately trying to get my attention, wouldn't he be standing in the sky waving his arms screaming, "Hey #$%HOLE, I'm right here, you believe in me now"???? Thats what I do when I try desperately to get someones attention. They also claim that they talk to God regularly. Does he talk back????? What does he say to you?????? Whats his voice sound like????

2007-07-06 12:40:51 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Behold! Be watchful, for no man knows the hour!

2007-07-06 12:39:14 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-06 12:38:47 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Scientists have known since the '80s of an Iridium layer. This layer of dirt contains high levels of an isotope of iridium found in meteorites and volcanic debris.

There are more than 100 sites world wide and all of them dated to circa 65 million years ago (and I should point out that many people have conducted this testing, some to prove the theory of a meteor wiping out the dinosaurs wrong). The results are unanimous and conclusive.

So if there was a world-wide flood, the oceans would have flooded the land and just as we find in tidal flats, as the water receded the salt would have condensed on the land and left a rather thick film (about a foot thick) over most or all of the dry land.

This would be a single layer (as it all occurred at the same time) and every core drilling for oil as well as the drilling for iridium would have found it.

Yet, no such layer has ever been found.

Explain, please?

2007-07-06 12:37:46 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))
but you knew that didn't you ?

~ Pangelism - spreading the love and learning from all ~

2007-07-06 12:35:35 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have heard many people talk about it yet I don't know what it really is. Could someone involved in it explain?

2007-07-06 12:33:41 · 10 answers · asked by pippenintheshire 2

He thought Sri Krishna was a myth!
If he studied Bhagavad Gita,he would have known how to defend the country from barbarians,who kill cows and rape women and children-all in the Name of Allah!

2007-07-06 12:33:36 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

What type (Hicksite,Evangelical.etc) of Quaker are you?
Were you born into a Quaker family and,if not ,what drew you to the Friends?

2007-07-06 12:32:09 · 4 answers · asked by James O 7

work for the anti Christ?

2007-07-06 12:31:09 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Considering Genesis claims all the mountains were underwater, and that would require more than a mile of water above the current sea level, and this water was in the atmosphere before the flood, any idea what the air pressure would have to be to allow this?

Ever been a mile underwater? It's enough to squeeze the pulp out of you.

So why insist this is some kind of scientific fact when the truth is it could never have happened without wiping out all life on the planet -before- the Flood?

2007-07-06 12:30:57 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Not just the burn in hell kind of stuff either. Why all the insults.

(I KNOW THAT SOMEONE WILL REPLY THAT ATHEISTS ARE HATEFUL AND WE STARTED THE NAME CALLING FIRST)

Ok, fine. Whatever. That is not a grown up argument.

2007-07-06 12:30:51 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

In some Major Oriental & Greek Religions, there is equality &

there are Feminine Goddesses.

But in Some Major Religions of ther Globe, there are no feminine

Representations in the Hierarchy of Gods.

Don't YOU feel it is Discrimination against Women?

How do you Justify it?

Please Take it OBJECTIVELY & Respond.

Star the Question if it is interesting!

Over to You all,

..

2007-07-06 12:30:19 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

still have support websites for Kent Hovind. Kent Hovind was that famous Evangelical Christian who got arrested and thrown in jail for 10 years because he was conviced of 20 counts of tax fraud. I saw this webiste saying that he was targeted by the scientific community because of his creationist beliefs. How many counts of tax fraud must a man get convicted of before the creationists admit, "OK maybe he did it." Man it's got to burn the creationists knowing that the most famous creation scientist of all time got thrown in jail for 10 years due to tax fraud.

2007-07-06 12:27:26 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

hi, britt here as u would call me[English actually] [big diff] just watched dog the bounty hunter and one of them said we used to catch nightcrawlers and sale them for a nickel, what is a night crawler.???????????? [ apparently they used to catch them in there back yard in the grass]

2007-07-06 12:25:21 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

keep the wholly bible for the answer...

2007-07-06 12:23:38 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

They say, "God CANNOT become a man. . ."
It is arrogant, first of all, to say that God cannot do something.
And God DID become a man in the Old Testament.
Genesis 18
1And the LORD appeared unto him (Abraham) in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
2And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
3And said, My LORD, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:

Abraham called these three men, "MY LORD", and then he bowed to them. Had these men been angels, they would have told Abraham to rise and not to worship them.
When Daniel tried to worship Gabriel, the angel told him not to, that he is just a messenger from God.

2007-07-06 12:21:07 · 14 answers · asked by . 7

Why not look for God everyday?

2007-07-06 12:20:43 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Isn't an 'idea', for example, something that bears fruit only in the future, and thus is not necessarily immediately visible, other than in theory?

Except maybe, in others.

Is this called [temporary] agnosticism?

The question though, is the one at the top. :-)

2007-07-06 12:19:59 · 16 answers · asked by goodfella 5

Today's world doesn't seem to support the bibles description of God. Look at the amount of innocent death in the world today. Then think how can God be All loving, All knowing, and All powerful. You can only really pick 2 out of the 3. Maybe he is All loving but doesn't know about what's happening or can't do anything about it. Or maybe he can do something about it, but just chooses not to. That would make him Powerful and Knowing.... Just not loving... See the paradox here. He can't be all three. Or the world would not be the way it is today.... You wouldn't be able to explain the rape and murder of a small innocent child. Even though it happens more times then anybody would like to admit... My question, is this just ignored in church or temple.. Or do you have a reason for this...?

2007-07-06 12:19:02 · 13 answers · asked by usefulidiot230 3

2007-07-06 12:18:33 · 28 answers · asked by Searcher 7

It's something that I generally laugh off, and i've only ever used the reporting system on a couple of occassions where the offense has been extreme and very personal. One was a very nasty attack on my 4 year old daughter (from a "christian").

I can't imagination atheists actually be small minded enough to report the christians every time they tell us we'll burn in hell, even though it's a blatant violation of guidelines.

Would there be many christians left here if we all reported them everytime they went against guidelines?

2007-07-06 12:17:39 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-06 12:16:33 · 36 answers · asked by ? 2

Like, you would say a president's term, a king's reign, an emperor family's dynasty....ehh....I'm not sure I'm giving great examples, but you know what I mean, dontcha? ^_^

2007-07-06 12:15:17 · 11 answers · asked by Kiwi 2

My life has been going wrong I mean dont get it wrong or anything but like I used to have everything great when i was in 5th I became saved everthing has been getting harder and harder people says he was suppose to be easy or whatever I love jesus and would never go against him ever I just was wondering. I am 15 when i was 10 i got saved 11 12 1 14 and 15 my life has been going wrong I dont know what to do.

2007-07-06 12:13:43 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous