Religion & Spirituality - 8 July 2007

about obeying parents in the bible,

does that only apply to children, what with the age of acountability and all

or is it for life

if i die disobeying my parents only, will i still burn in hell

2007-07-08 19:39:01 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

The human life is more missarable now adays.Sucide numbers are increasing day by day.Disaster from every side of life can be expected.Poor people are struggling for their daily food.Poverty death has become very common even in our own souroundings.But who cares whom?But every where we can see Spiritual centers having various programes.What ever ma be ,the people who are suffering are remining same only.What isthe meaning of spiritualityfor them?

2007-07-08 19:38:30 · 4 answers · asked by babu j 1

Most people think religion will come to an end when everyone has converted to Atheism. It would seem to make sense. But if it happened wouldn’t the converts still secretly have some residual religious feelings?

If however everyone converted to Christianity religion would ultimately go through the Easter Island style faith crises and religion could take a permanent death from disillusionment. I mean it’s been 2000 years waiting for the second coming. If everyone were converted how long would we continue to wait before we figured out that it isn’t going to happen?

Personally I couldn’t force myself to believe in a “Literal” god, but it could get religion back on track, doing what it should do, providing celebrations and rituals for the stages of our lives and promoting well being, rather then being self serving and divisive. I’m sure such an idealized notion of religion is naïve but one can hope.

What say you?

2007-07-08 19:37:40 · 17 answers · asked by ♥Gnostic♥ 4

Here it says that Brigham, 2nd President of the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints was divorced and separated from 12 of his 51 women and Henry VIII only had 6 wives. But they both started churches so that they could have more women.

It's amazing everything these men had in common and everything they did in their power to have more women.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigham_Young

http://tudorhistory.org/wives/

2007-07-08 19:33:37 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I cannot answer this question from my eight year old grandson.

He and his six friends have decided that they are not religious because...

If there was nothing in the beginning, how could God create himself?

Some question from an 8 year old!

2007-07-08 19:33:02 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous

The human life is more missarable now adays.Sucide numbers are increasing day by day.Disaster from every side of life can be expected.Poor people are struggling for their daily food.Poverty death has become very common even in our own souroundings.But who cares whom?But every where we can see Spiritual centers having various programes.What ever ma be ,the people who are suffering are remining same only.What isthe meaning of spiritualityfor them?

2007-07-08 19:32:28 · 10 answers · asked by babu j 1

i use to work at the mall (retail) and every ones in awhile a group of women would come in and they would all be wearing long demin jean skirts....what religion is this?? and why do they only wear that???

2007-07-08 19:28:56 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

im gonna be singing a duet in sacrament what are good songs i shoulds sing?

2007-07-08 19:28:50 · 5 answers · asked by Rachel 1

every year on dec 25 the pagans decorated the evergreen tree and gave out presents because it stayed green all year they thought it was the god of the trees

do you follow this pagan this ritual worship of the tree god?

do you think jesus would aprove of this tree worship?

2007-07-08 19:21:54 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

I want to know the best venue for apologizing to Mormons. My parents were Christians and I know how Mormons view Christians. I want to make it clear however, that my family never said anything bias against Mormons but they did not practice polygamy.

The good news is that I want to become a Mormon and already have my wives picked out. How can I speak to some Mormon missionaries about the conversion process (especially female missionaries)?

Thanks for your help! Many Celestial Greetings!

2007-07-08 19:09:43 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

why or why not?

2007-07-08 19:09:34 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.
-- Mark Twain (attributed: source unknown)


You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient "people say."
-- Mark Twain, Autobiography


One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed in it. They have also believed the world was flat.
-- Mark Twain, Notebook (1900)

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.
-- Mark Twain, Notebook

God's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.
-- Mark Twain, Notebook

Irreverence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.
-- Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

-- Mark Twain, quoted from Barbara Schmidt, ed., "Mark Twain Quotations, Newspaper Collections, & Related Resources"

2007-07-08 19:08:52 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

OK i once was mugged going to a club i took a back alleyway some ******* said give me all your money i thought i was a tough guy being only 20 years old at the time so we began to wrestle and in the mist of the struggle he stabbed me in the abdomen, i was such in an adrenaline rush i didnt even notice it , he ran away i chased him and then i felt a rush of pain in my stomach, i decided to get to the street but i was gushing blood like crazy so i decided to rest and keep calling for help stabbed as the time past i seemed to feel the pain les and les and i suddenly began feeling very cold this cold was strange because it was summer and this felt like winter i started drifting in and out of conciousnes then i saw something in the corner of my eye an angel , angel took the form of a cat he didint talk he just looked the next thing i remember i was in the hospital , i asked who found me apparently someo k id followed the cat to where i was and called for help . do u think the cat

2007-07-08 19:08:23 · 20 answers · asked by dean 1

2007-07-08 19:04:29 · 8 answers · asked by douglas j 2

We are together and I am holding you in my arms.
I turn my head to look at you as we lay under the stars.
How beautiful and peaceful on my shoulder you lean,
This would have been a perfect night,
if only it wasnt a dream

2007-07-08 19:04:21 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-08 19:02:38 · 7 answers · asked by douglas j 2

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

2007-07-08 18:56:38 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

i am a member of the church of christ and never was taught that drinking was no allowed....jesus did turn water to wine...but it seems like it is frowned upon but im not sure what to think about the subject....and if drinking is okay how much is too much....

thanks!

2007-07-08 18:52:07 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have this gut feeling i should watch it and i have and i cant shake the feeling she is trying to take him from me he says he doesn't look at her like that and gets emotional when i say he should stop talking to her she calls and txt him while i am with him and she acts like she dont like me and doesnt even speak to me only when i am with him what is up with that

2007-07-08 18:48:28 · 8 answers · asked by soldout4christ 2

1) No matter how hard you try, you can't baptise cats.

2) When your Mum is mad at your Dad, don't let her brush your hair.

3) If your sister hits you, don't hit her back. They always catch the second person.

4) Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.

5) You can't trust dogs to watch your food.

6) Don't sneeze when someone is cutting your hair.

7) Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time
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8) You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.

9) Don't wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts.

10) The best place to be when you're sad is Grandpa's lap.


Just a bit of humor for everyone. Have a nice day/night!

2007-07-08 18:45:55 · 13 answers · asked by beano™ 6

no hell...

peace... forever...

eternal love...

and all you have to do is... nothing.

like the monk who set himself on fire. and sat. burning. all to protest againts the vietnam war.

so at peace with themselves.
I could settle as an atheist in those countries.
open to creation stories, because christianity is flawed because it tries to explain our coming to existance.

foolish of them, because we have discovered this long ago.

d

2007-07-08 18:44:46 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Forgive me if that's not the politcally correct way of asking.

I'm not trying to bash anyone. Just curious.

2007-07-08 18:36:48 · 28 answers · asked by Lyndsey G 3

This is a physical impossibility and only a waterhead would think that this story was real.

2007-07-08 18:35:08 · 31 answers · asked by dowserdave 2

...can I find the expressions "God the Son" and "God the holy spirit"? And where does it specifically say they are equal to God the Father?

2007-07-08 18:31:48 · 17 answers · asked by LineDancer 7

Someone asked me the other day if agnostics had a symbol. Funny enough I drew a blank and all I could tell her is maybe a question mark.
Yet here I am and thought what the heck I'll run a search for it on google images. This is the first hit I get.
http://fusionanomaly.net/salvadordaliagnosticsymbol1932.jpg
Please some explain this to me cause it looks like a tangled sperm?
Im agnostic for those who dont know..but seriously WTF is that?

2007-07-08 18:27:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-08 18:27:12 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

All religions think they have the "Truth"- that they alone can explain the way things are correctly.

Obviously they can't all be right.

So none really is more right than the others.

No matter what you believe there's a good chance your wrong.

So isn't it good to be openminded- wouldn't you have a better chance of finding some "truth"

And for those that think they already have the "truth" does that make you feel better about things, and if so, why?

2007-07-08 18:26:34 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does god instantly know if someone is good or bad. If god does have to think about decisions does that make god not all knowing? If god doesn't have to think about things than how can god really be making insightful decisions? Doesn't the act of making a good decision involve thinking? When god makes a decision does that make it the right decision or are all of god's decisions correct even before god makes them?

2007-07-08 18:19:33 · 17 answers · asked by Herschel Krustofski 2

And if he is is it possible God had sex with other women but did not impregnate them?

2007-07-08 18:17:58 · 16 answers · asked by squeaky 3

My husband and I have been fighting and he said that he doesn't think he loves me anymore about three weeks ago. Since then nothing has really changed, so we're doing a trial separation for the week. He's going to be staying at his parents for the week while they're gone to the beach and I'm going to stay here at home with our nine month old son and we're not going to have any contact at all. I'm wondering.. was this a good idea? I've just run out of ideas and I love him so much. I just want him to realize what it is he'll be giving up if he decides to leave, and hopefully miss me and come home and everything will be okay. I've been torn up for three weeks and I'm about to break. I need some idea of whats going to happen yet he refuses to discuss anything with me. He just wants to ignore it, but how is that helping? I'm scared that this was a bad idea and that he might realize he's happier without us.. what do you think?

2007-07-08 18:14:30 · 29 answers · asked by ... 1