Religion & Spirituality - 11 July 2007

have a field day with each other but Wiccans and Islamists are pretty much left alone. Aren't they all a sham?

"Wiccans worship a deity that is both male and female, a mother Goddess and father God, who together created all that is, was, or will be"

"Islam is to testify that there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, to perform the prayers, to pay the zakat, to fast in Ramadhan, and to make the pilgrimage to the House if you are able to do so."

Granted Islam is the worst offender along with Christianity but shouldn't we give them all their fair share?

2007-07-11 02:08:18 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Anything at all?
You continually say that you don't believe in the Science of Evolution, yet Scientists prove daily that their theories are correct. Not only that, their evidence comes under very intense scrutiny by their peers.
Now your claims of demons, angels, miracles and other such fairy-tales require no proof. You say that faith is all that is needed. Yet you demand that people believe as if there were proof.
This of course, is madness.
So please, unless you have actual proof, if not credible evidence, do NOT come here and say that such-and-such is "real".
Sound fair?

2007-07-11 02:05:34 · 19 answers · asked by Yoda Green 5

2007-07-11 02:04:37 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have notised you have alot of top answers on jehovah's witnesses, are you a jehovah's wittness? i was wondering becouse i m a jehovah's witness myself, (not baptized, but on my way). u also seem to be very handy with the bible.

2007-07-11 02:02:38 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am talking to believers.

2007-07-11 02:02:08 · 6 answers · asked by Benyamin 2

2007-07-11 02:00:17 · 29 answers · asked by succubus 5

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

-Stevie Wonder

Namaste

Peace and Love

2007-07-11 02:00:06 · 11 answers · asked by digilook 2

My husband staretd woking nights two months ago so five days of the week I have to sleep alone in our apartment.well , this may be crazy but each time I start to doze of , between being asleep and being awake , I see dark human forms standing beside the bed or at the bedroom door.I am having restless nights because of this.It it is just not a one of thing, it's like almost each time l start dozing off.I can tell if the forms a male or female because of the shape.last night , I turned of the light &just as I was dozing I saw the shape of a man on the left side the bed almost like leaning toward me.usually it's the right side and female. I got up , turned on the hall way light &fell asleep.I have never been afraid of the dark or sleeping alone.what is happening coz this is starting to really scare me.sometimes it will happen when my husband is home but not as much.My husband thinks Im just being a little paranoid but every night is just too much for me .any help will do .I need to sleep

2007-07-11 01:56:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Here is a powerful and amazing statement on Al Jazeera television. The woman is Wafa Sultan, an Arab-American psychologist from Los Angeles. I would suggest watching it ASAP because I don't know how long the link will be active. This film clip should be shown around the world repeatedly!!!
Your thoughts?

http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=
nul

2007-07-11 01:55:10 · 17 answers · asked by floridagirl1261 3

2007-07-11 01:53:57 · 4 answers · asked by Benyamin 2

The attached question is just really weird
http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070711053003AAwGWzS&r=w&pa=FZptHWf.BGRX3OFMiTBUVSP4W817lZiW5tOh2EBvn3k_kE2HNg--&paid=answered#FbZaLkG5GW5q.2Q3uPo7

Isn't it fair to say, that if someone prays, they're not an atheist?

Why can't people like the one who asked this question get it into their heads that we really, truly, don't believe in a god in any way, shape or form?

Isn't this trying to suggest that atheists are taking up Pascal's wager?

Isn't that just a tad insulting?

2007-07-11 01:51:37 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

considering how much evil has been done and still is done in the name of god..............

2007-07-11 01:51:35 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

When studying the bible; and making interpretations, how do you know that you have interpreted correctly. How do you weigh up what you have discovered.

2007-07-11 01:51:25 · 28 answers · asked by 8 2

How do you feel about these hardships? Does it help to know that God understands how we feel about this? Why?

2007-07-11 01:50:29 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Buddhism in Yahoo! answers is included in "religion and spirituality". Unfortunately most people who look up this topic are predisposed to arguing about whether Christianity or Athiesm is true. Most Buddhists I know don't want to enter in this dialouge either way...
In Yahoo! answers should Buddhists have their own category (even if Christians and Athiests don't) so they don't have to be bombarded by hate when they ask a question?
No matter what you think please tell me your Tradition and star my question so that Yahoo! answers knows what you think...

2007-07-11 01:49:46 · 22 answers · asked by Bonbu 4

I know thousands upon thousands followed Billy Graham's teachings, and thought of him as infallible. They even entrusted him with their souls, believing that repeating his sinner's prayer saved them.

BUT who is his successor? I never did hear anything about a replacement.

2007-07-11 01:49:20 · 9 answers · asked by The Raven † 5

Fellow Catholics and Christians. Given that it is widely believed by many of my brothers and sisters of faith that we follow god to avoid an eternal roasting in Satans parallel universe for the resurrected dead. And given that we couldn't possibly have missinterpreted the meaning of the original words which we replaced with hell. Please be so kind as to point out 1 verse in the old testament where avoidance of the eternal torture pit is given as a reason for following god. Perhaps a book by Solomon or several pages of the sayings of Moses would be justifiable given the gravity of the situation. But all I ask for is ONE VERSE.

2007-07-11 01:48:46 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

E.G
Why do bad things happen to good people?

2007-07-11 01:46:08 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

The news reports on the Pope's document are totally incorrect. The quotes in the news reports are not even in the document.

I suggest people read the actual document at http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20070629_responsa-quaestiones_en.html

Here are some quotes:

there are "numerous elements of sanctification and of truth" which are found outside her structure, but which "as gifts properly belonging to the Church of Christ, impel towards Catholic Unity"

It is possible, according to Catholic doctrine, to affirm correctly that the Church of Christ is present and operative in the churches and ecclesial Communities not yet fully in communion with the Catholic Church, on account of the elements of sanctification and truth that are present in them

"It follows that these separated churches and Communities, though we believe they suffer from defects, are deprived neither of significance nor importance in the mystery of salvation.

2007-07-11 01:46:03 · 7 answers · asked by Sldgman 7

2007-07-11 01:44:26 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it a good or a bad thing?

Any scholarly or scientific views would be especially welcome, but I'd like to know what you think, the 'general take' on it, too.

Best Wishes,

A. R.

2007-07-11 01:43:18 · 33 answers · asked by goodfella 5

To me it seems he was most angry at money changers in the temple and self righteous hypocrite religious leaders. He defended the prostitute and told the robber he'd see him in heaven.
So why do so many Chrustians choose abortion and gays as their top 2 issues??? I guess if they chose greed and hypocrisy it wouldn't be as interesting??? Or they might have to point at themselves more???

Don't you think every time a preacher talks against homosexuals, an image pops in the minds of the children in the church??? Aren't you instructed to keep your minds on that which is good and pure, etc.???

2007-07-11 01:39:34 · 8 answers · asked by topink 6

show the scriptures about them

2007-07-11 01:33:48 · 14 answers · asked by mayambala s 1

As you can see i have an alternative name,and it is one that i know will get ridiculed by most people who believe in christ
but here goes.i am a Satanist by my own making,i have been this way since i was 13yr's old,but to put it into prospective.
I will not ridicule your beliefs if you don't do it to mine ok.

2007-07-11 01:32:30 · 19 answers · asked by the-Devil-is-King 2

Question #5 of questions asked to Christians:

My reference is the Bible Answer Book

Sincere believers are sharply divide on this question. Some say Christians can lose their salvation and subsequently must be born again and again if they fall away. Others contend that true believers cannot lose their salvation through sin, but they can apostatize or walk away from their salvation. Still others hold that salvation begins at the moment of conversion (not death) and continues for all eternity - This is the veiw I have.

We will do well to remember that everlasting life means just that - life everlasting. This life does not begin when we die but when we embrace the Savior who died in our place. As our physical birth can never be undone, so too our spiritual birth can never be undone. Christ said "ye must be born again" (John 3:7), not "ye must be born again and again and again. in Philippians.

2007-07-11 01:29:32 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

And will god destroy it ? I need to know because if it is here , I will run away and never look back .

2007-07-11 01:29:32 · 9 answers · asked by Islam Is A Dangerous Cult 3

2007-07-11 01:26:31 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-11 01:24:25 · 3 answers · asked by d_r_siva 7

from a religious point of view

2007-07-11 01:22:47 · 17 answers · asked by James L 1

I am a christian but something just occurred to me if god knew some people were going to hell why create them

in the first place wouldn't it be better not to create them i ask myself who is evil the person who commits the raping or the killing or god

2007-07-11 01:22:16 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous