Religion & Spirituality - 18 July 2007

It's true. Who criticises Catholics the most? They are always Protestants/Lutherans/whatever. Another church, just run from a different location. In my country so-called 'Christian' terrorists shot and blew innocent people up on a regular basis just because said people happened to belong to 'the other side'.

Who slags off Muslims the most? Christians. Come on, you follow four of the same major five prophets. You're 80% of the way to being Muslim yourself.

Who comes on this forum and whinges about Christian cult members like Mormons or Jehovah's witnesses? Men of the cloth who think there were dinosaurs on Noah's Ark and that a date's gone too far when the boy gets a hardon. (Obviously never having had a hardon themselves of course).

I'm atheist and I don't single out any particular religious belief for my contempt, nor do I criticise people for following these beliefs. Some people do, however, and they call themselves Christians. Where's their Christian compassion?

2007-07-18 11:18:02 · 10 answers · asked by Citizen Justin 7

2007-07-18 11:17:35 · 7 answers · asked by david w 2

Okay, I don't know if this has been asked before, but with a forum so huge, hasn't everything?

Okay, after observing this "forum" for about two days now, and having known a couple atheists, my questions are:

1) Why do most if not all atheists tend to be horribly miserable people?

and 2) Why do they make such efforts to destroy a Christian's faith - even Christian children's faith - and make them miserable like themselves?

I mean, sure, Christians tend to try to convert people, but it is, for the most part, with very good intentions. Don't the atheists see that they are crushing people's hope in efforts to share their misery?

So, maybe you don't see that God exists - and I won't get into that - but you gotta admit, Christianity gives people hope and joy. I know. And I wouldn't trade it for anything. Now, could you PLEASE leave the kids alone?

2007-07-18 11:17:13 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-18 11:15:43 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

There are multiple universes which are all created by a superior being or beings (god). Each universe has different rules applied to them that are set by the superior being. These rules are what we call physics and chemistry. The big bang represents the time when god started our universe. After the universes are set in motion god does not alter anything in them. God just sits back and watches how each universe turns out. This makes the creation of universes as sort of a game for god. God may have a purpose for creating the universes but we will never know. Human beings are not being judged and there is no afterlife.

I'm not suggesting that these are true; I just want to know if there are any religions out there like this.

2007-07-18 11:14:54 · 12 answers · asked by Herschel Krustofski 2

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2007-07-18 11:14:33 · 8 answers · asked by person 1

you can translate the bible to whatever you think it should mean?? isnt that vague?

2007-07-18 11:11:08 · 28 answers · asked by slopoke6968 7

2007-07-18 11:11:04 · 35 answers · asked by newtypist 3

We have had an incomplete set of Srimad Bhagavatam for a while. I was ecstatic when the other day we unexpectedly received a new full set.

However, I remember hearing that there is much "revisions" of the new books of Srila Prabhupad, and some people are vehemently against these revisions which they say change Prabhupada's message.

Is it really that much different? Also, maybe the older Bhagavatams that we have already had been revised, I am not sure. I am wondering what to do now, is it not good to read from the new Bhagavatam, or was all this fuss blown out of proportion.. What is the difference between the old and the new?

Someone please help me with this....

2007-07-18 11:10:35 · 4 answers · asked by happy_n_freeone 3

2007-07-18 11:08:24 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

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2007-07-18 11:07:50 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

Check the people on your lists, and then see who are on their lists, and so on.

Draw it up on paper, and you begin to see how inter-connected we are with something like Y!A.

Now project it out into the non-cyber reality with friends and families and co-workers, etc.

Life requires relationships.

No one is an island unto himself.

And as long as Life requires relationships, would not loving relationships be the most beneficial?

2007-07-18 11:05:50 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-18 11:05:18 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Bitter atheists too.
You're an atheists cool, fine, whatever. But why do most of the atheists seem mean? Ya know a convo like this. "I believe in God." "Oh, you do? Well I don't."

But instead we get this. "I believe in God." "Oh, you do? Well no one asked you and God doesn't exist and your a fool for praying to God. Because you're really praying to nothing. You're stupid. When you die that's it it's over, and I hope it's soon."

agree to disagree friends?

2007-07-18 11:05:11 · 20 answers · asked by laurenhonish 2

i just read a question asking why christians cuss....most of the answers were "because everyone sins..." why are you saying cussing is a sin? aren't cuss words just words like every other word? any word can be demeaning if used with bad intentions....so why do christians claim cussing to be a sin?

2007-07-18 11:04:49 · 27 answers · asked by drinklifetothelees 4

This time my question is serious. And it is a religious one, because it is religion that dictates what the meaning of the word evil is.

Please include your religion in your answer, unless of course you do not want to. It's entirely your choice, but... ya, you get the drift.

2007-07-18 11:02:40 · 42 answers · asked by ? 5

2007-07-18 11:02:10 · 17 answers · asked by jamoca 7

Gods Forgivness, but on the other hand bad deeds on earth acheive gods wrath?

You may say that any sin committed on earth is against god, but then why is not every good deed on earth commited towards his fellow man, seen as a reason for forgiveness?

2007-07-18 11:01:06 · 11 answers · asked by Andy C 2

2007-07-18 11:00:01 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

William Blackstone considered natural law as “dictated by God himself”. That “It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original".

2007-07-18 10:59:42 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

she forced her beliefs on me and now everytime I go to my place of worship I get this feeling in my heart and I know everyone feels the same way around me and it is a great comfort. I find it hard to worship a different football team now and could never go to another ground to watch a different one or stop going altogether, i get this overwhwellming feeling when they score a goal. This is all down to parental upbringing and geographical location-no other reason.
Does this sound familiar to anybody?

2007-07-18 10:58:19 · 8 answers · asked by thethinker 2

I am a Christian myself, but I find myself staying away from church because I find people at church very fakey, rude, and hypocritical. They seem to almost loath people that are not on their same "path to righteousness." When Jesus would help people, he would first speak to the sinful, because therein lies the problems. Why do some Christians not follow this same path? Why do they get angry when you miss one day? Why do they allow their perceptions of the world to cloud their judgement?

2007-07-18 10:57:50 · 20 answers · asked by talljon 3

in regards to this answer:
God is not made out of something physical.God is a spirit and dwells in the spiritual world.But is capable of manipulating the physical world.

2007-07-18 10:56:40 · 17 answers · asked by slopoke6968 7

My fiances whole family are members of the church of Christ.
I was raised seventh day adventist, belong to United Methodist, and really now finding my answers through the Bible.
My problems with the church of christ are these,
They believe if you arent baptised you go straight to hell.
I believe in baptism as an act of obedience to God. I think if you are a christian, yes you should be baptised but if you give your life to God and scheduled to be baptised in church but die in an accident the day before, God will take that into account on judgement day. I dont believe baptism is what could keep you from heaven.
Also, They supposedly do everything by the bible, but the bible says women heads should be covered during prayer. For some reason The COC overlooks this?
It also says in the new testament that we can be filled with the holy spirit and talk in new tongues and cast out demons.
But they choose not to talk of this at all. And even poke fun at people on TV doing this.
Why?

2007-07-18 10:54:52 · 8 answers · asked by jamzesmom 2

I was baptized a catholic,and as a mormon, when I was between 10 and 12.
I became a christian way before that at 5 and half years old. Then the Lord called me back later in life as an adult!

2007-07-18 10:54:43 · 35 answers · asked by Wellll... hello then! 1

2007-07-18 10:53:28 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-18 10:52:09 · 17 answers · asked by kittana! 2

Is this fair?

1) Religion can be attributed to good things (charity, consolation, morality, etc.) and bad things (intolerance, oppression of women, etc.)

2) All of the good things about religion can be accomplished without religion.

Therefore, the world would be a better place without religion.

I have a feeling some may argue against my second premise. I would submit that 1) our morality is derived from an innate sense of right and wrong. For example, many holy texts have things in it that go against widely held moral standards (stoning people, slavery, etc.) When we pick and choose what parts we agree with, WE are the judge of right and wrong, not the holy text. 2) Obviously anybody can perform charity work whether they are religious or not. 3) We can find consolation and "spiritual inspiration" without religion by understanding how unique we are in the scope of the vast universe and can appreciate beauty in nature without attributing it to a creator.

2007-07-18 10:51:16 · 29 answers · asked by RcknRllr 4

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2007-07-18 10:50:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Reading these boards there is a lot of catholic bashing, mostly around things that are not true.

So whats the difference.

Catholics look to priests, bishops etc to interpret the bible, evangelicals look to their pastor. Now surely someone with 2000 years of tradition, history etc has more experience than some pastor who in western society is living a pretty nice life.

Catholics dont pray to saints they ask they to pray for them. This is in revelation, have you never heard of the prayers of the saints (again you will say that your uneducated pastor said it meant believers)

Catholics do believe in Salvation only through Jesus Christ by grace. I mean Jesus set up the cathlolic church.
The evangelical model alows people to give two fingers to God and the rest of the world as long as they say a few words on a card.

Please help me understand this.

2007-07-18 10:49:17 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous