Religion & Spirituality - 20 July 2007

Christian groups are growing, faith is more public. Is supply-side economics the explanation..

In a country where barely 3% of the population goes to church each week, the affair seemed just another step in Christian Europe’s long march toward secularism. Then something odd happened: A national furor erupted. A conservative bishop announced a boycott. A leftist radical who became a devout Christian and talk-show host denounced the biblical purge in newspaper columns and on television. A young evangelical Christian organized an electronic letter-writing campaign, asking Scandic: Why are you removing Bibles but not pay-porn on your TVs?
Sweden is not as secular as we thought,” says Christer Sturmark, head of Sweden’s Humanist Association

God’s tentative return to Europe has scholars and theologians debating a hot question: Why? The Swedish arm of Gideons, a Bible distribution group, recently gave the chain 10,000 New Testaments in Swedish and English.

Thoughts?

2007-07-20 05:37:38 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-20 05:35:55 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

What words of tea-wisdom can you offer to fill my cuo back up?
*wink*

{{{{{{{ cosmic love }}}}}}}

2007-07-20 05:35:43 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Eventually we plan on getting married. Because of our differences, he has yet to ask me. He wants to get married in a Catholic church, but I don't want to have a Catholic wedding. I want to be married in a church as well. He keeps drilling me about "Catholics don't believe in divorce," I don't either! But because my grandmother was married and divorced nine times, he feels as if I will fall into her shoes. Being Presbyterian, we don't have nuns and the Pope and rosary's or things that come with the Catholic religion. We also don't have to sit down and confess our sins to a priest. I am very comfortable being Presbyterian, as that was the way I was raised. What should I do? Not marrying him is out of the question. I can be flexible if I am convinced but I'd rather not be. SERIOUS ANSWERS ONLY PLEASE!

2007-07-20 05:33:00 · 9 answers · asked by Lissa 1

Perhaps it is Jew-Bu. There is considerable crossover between the Jewish and Buddhist communities, resulting in one of the kindest and smartest forms of spirituality around. They'd get my vote for president.

2007-07-20 05:32:24 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

all my life I asked God for a wife, at age 23 I lost my mind desiring a wife. During my insanity and depresion, I picked up homosexuality in my thoughts...strong, gayness in my eyes by long time lonliness, I only really started going gay around 27, I guess....now I am a man that went to God, perfectly straight till I was 22, thought and struggled with gayness for 5 yrs...now my eyes have gone gay.I have not stoped blasheming him for 2 yrs straight with the lack of providing for one of his children. You have no I idea my hate. Every time I get these gay moments I struggle and threw it off, I start to twich, and this snarl goes on my face and threw my soul. I have even had moments my body lunges like a fist inside my body. so hear it is, a man goes to God for a wife, God gets insulted, tries to make the man gay, man finds his hearts desire has been mocked by the one who says he loves him, by giving him somthing he did not want or ask for.......

how does one forgive his gay God?Jesus?

2007-07-20 05:31:06 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-20 05:30:02 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Could it be usefull?

2007-07-20 05:27:36 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Who was Isaiah?
When did he live?
And lastly; what did Jehovah show him?

Iasiah 11:6-9

2007-07-20 05:26:57 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

To start a jewish clothing Line called JUFUBU?

2007-07-20 05:26:49 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Half the world population has one just like a soul and the other half follows it! In someplaces it is called a p u s s y! We cannot even use the name of our god without spaces in between! Why is yahoo permitting the abuse of our God , not allowing us enough coverage as the christian God or the muslim God?

2007-07-20 05:26:11 · 7 answers · asked by Lestat 2

2007-07-20 05:26:09 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

How was it? Is anyone going to the free Delirious concert out there tonight? Directions?

2007-07-20 05:25:46 · 3 answers · asked by blatinofreak 2

I would love to hear evidence either way, Thanks!

2007-07-20 05:24:37 · 17 answers · asked by Bgirl9488 3

2007-07-20 05:24:21 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't know what religion I actually believe in, so if this sounds like one you knw, then let me know. I do believe in a higher power, unsure about God. Believe there was someone named Jesus, who believed that he ahd to die for our sins. I believe in reincarnation and the after life. I believe in angels, in the way that there is a spirit that looks after you. I believe in ghosts and entities that are both good and bad. I am not against homosexuality or pre-marital sex. I believe in witchcraft as a religion-only like the good. i am unsure about how the world started. I believe there is a scientific reason for everything. I have to see it to believe it. I believe in Karma. IDK. I'm really confused.

2007-07-20 05:22:41 · 8 answers · asked by Jenel 3

Howdy footprint in the sands!

2007-07-20 05:22:35 · 6 answers · asked by . 3

It is a little early, but go ahead and drink if you like. Seriously though, why?????????

2007-07-20 05:19:53 · 44 answers · asked by NONAME 5

Think about it! If you have all knowledge in and about the universe, past, present and future, how can your existence be meaningful or interesting?

What is the point of existing or living if you know everything about your life (from birth to death)? I think life is interesting because I don't know what will happen in the future!

Newton discovered the law of gravitation? He must have been very happy to be the first to realize this, he was religious man. I am sure he thanked god.

God must have uttered, "what the heck I invented gravity and you are wrong, gravity is not a force, it's a curvature of space-time."

"Yawn"

If you know everything and are perfect, what is left for you to do? Wouldn't you be bored to death?

2007-07-20 05:19:25 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I mean nuns are respected and deserve to be but why can't muslim woman be respected for what they are doing.They cover what most nuns cover and what Mary covers in the pics.

2007-07-20 05:18:48 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Christians:Give 3 reasons why the U.S.A needs to/should be a Christian country&3 reasons why we shouldnt be an Atheist country

Atheist the same:

3 reasons why the U.S.A needs to/should be an Atheist country&3 reasons why we shouldnt be a Christian country?

2007-07-20 05:18:21 · 19 answers · asked by Maurice H 6

i need the name of a male saint and y i admire him. 10 points to the first legit answer

2007-07-20 05:16:09 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've been told the more enlightened I become, the more I will be forced into celibacy.

I don' wanna be celibate !! =8-{

So I'm thinking I need some adult female-type volunteers willing to help me conduct an experiment: Can Orion achieve complete enlightenment and in no way, shape or form be described as "celibate"?



Do you think my plan needs more work?

(O.O)

2007-07-20 05:14:53 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

To invent the first aerosol proppelled lunch meat and call it spram?

Oh and to all the futuramaists

WTF

Where did you all come from First Farnsworth

now I see
fry
flexo
Nibbler
Bender
Brannigan

Is there a new religion I dont know of?

2007-07-20 05:13:56 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am an aspiring Christian and have begun to read my bible more thoroughly, and I noticed that in Genesis 9:1 it says that Noah and his sons must reproduce the world, doesn't there have to a female for this to work?

Thanks!

2007-07-20 05:13:53 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was baptized Catholic, but my bf is Christian. What is the difference and how do I choose. By the way, my son is 5 mths. old. When should I baptize him????

2007-07-20 05:13:29 · 10 answers · asked by Jenel 3

If Christ had the power to be and do anything... why didn't he become into a better, more convincing and fluent preacher, as good as he needed to, to spread his message flawlessly and without impediments?. I'm not talking about changing people thoughts with telepathy or anything disturbing people's so-called free-will. He could have done better, that's what i think, and he failed miserably in his attempt to convince people he was the messiah.

2007-07-20 05:11:47 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the Younger," Roman stoic philosopher, writer, and politician (4-65 ACE).

**Remember this person lived during (4-65 ACE).. at the time, I would imagine, the common people were the people who would have been uneducated.

2007-07-20 05:11:00 · 31 answers · asked by Sapere Aude 5

I mean like how did it become a speacial day for christians? and is it enough to pray to God and thank him one time a week?

2007-07-20 05:09:11 · 27 answers · asked by Nourhan 5

It's clearly inconceivable that a human being could just exist, with nothing being responsible for its existence, so how is it logical to suppose that something infinitely more advanced than a human being - an intelligent creator of the universe - does exactly that?

2007-07-20 05:08:18 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous