Religion & Spirituality - 20 July 2007

2007-07-20 01:51:38 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

science? In other words does not god explain the big bang to the ignorant and not the other way around? Thor explained thunder to the ignorant, Zeus explained lightening etc. Does not man invent a god to explain the naturan forces that he does not understand?

2007-07-20 01:50:34 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

If not, does it mean that religious belief is the last remnant of the stone age?

2007-07-20 01:49:47 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

in 2001, i migrated from one poor african country to rome -italy. then i lived under a catholic priest roof with other immigrants. one night five italian men can into my room and raped me under gun point, one of them was recording the sex abuse wth camera,,,, oh my god, later i left italy to another part of europe. this tme, im a born again, tday 2007 the gay club now goes about showing my nakedness to people that im a gay. making my message of our lord jesus christ baseless. my friends in the church are even avoiding me. how can i come out of this trauma. plsss tell me what to do, should i take my life or what.

2007-07-20 01:48:38 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Granted that there are many atheists that are more than willing to answer your questions and provide answers that are very accurate, have any of the questioners actually read the answers and learned something about these theories, or are you just asking to make a big fuss?

2007-07-20 01:47:00 · 11 answers · asked by Southpaw 7

Is that a thing of the past?

2007-07-20 01:46:04 · 22 answers · asked by Gypsy Gal 6

and that it is a SIN if you do. Is this TRUE?

2007-07-20 01:43:33 · 32 answers · asked by Saved by Grace 3

2007-07-20 01:43:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-20 01:42:44 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

this is nuts!we the people have the same rights not different!

2007-07-20 01:41:39 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

The atheist Bertrand Russell wrote in his book "Why I am Not a Christian" that if it is true that all things need a cause then God must also need a cause. He concluded from this that if God needed a cause then God was not God (and if God is not God then of course there is no God). This was basically a slightly more sophisticated form of the childlike question, "Who made God?" Even a child knows that things do not come from nothing, so if God is a "something" then He must have a cause as well, right?

The question is tricky because it sneaks in the false assumption that God came from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that the question does not even make sense. It is like asking, "What does blue smell like?" Blue is not in the category of things that have odor, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, God is not in the category of things that are created, or come into existence, or are caused. God is uncaused and uncreated - He simply exists.

2007-07-20 01:40:31 · 23 answers · asked by J Jacob 4

2007-07-20 01:40:31 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does a priest have to be a virgin, or just celibate from the moment he takes his vows?

2007-07-20 01:38:28 · 13 answers · asked by nom de paix 4

So many people are like: Gay people are wrong.

How the hell are they wrong and why is it your business when its not you?

The common reply is: Its against Christianity.

Then I ask: Where?

Where in the bible does it say gay people are bad or wrong? I'm a perfectly straight guy but it sickens people to hear people slander a group of people who are just like you and me except for their relationships, which they plainly can't help.

Any comments on this?

Also I would like to say that another common argument is that the penis and vagina were designed to be put together, two penises were not (same goes for lesbians). Why does everything have to be sex related? Sure, lots of gay people do it on the other side, but then again just as many don't have sex and are just together for love. Either way, it is no-one's business.

Then they would say: In the bible.

2007-07-20 01:37:40 · 14 answers · asked by Sado 3

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2007-07-20 01:35:23 · 4 answers · asked by I Love Jesus 5

How come on yahoo answers (religion) the only questions that are really on here are the ones about being a freaking atheist or not believing in God?? Watch, the only people that will respond to this will be atheists or devil people. I don't care if you write negative mean things about me or what I believe in b/c you’re just an attention seeker...I LOVE JESUS!!!!!!!!!

2007-07-20 01:35:22 · 17 answers · asked by ♥M♥ 4

I wish someone could explain to me why we can't have a religious/spiritual site and not be continually attacked by the atheists and agnostics and all. I feel they have a right to choose, but not to choose to rain on our parade because like when I ask "what is the name of this song" people don't usually come in and beat me up for my question. This is question and answer, NOT QUESTION AND OPINION

2007-07-20 01:33:22 · 27 answers · asked by I Love Jesus 5

2007-07-20 01:32:11 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm a High Preistess in one religion. But ended up looking at another religion due to a friend.
Now the other religion is samiliar to my "home" religion. I'm half Native.
If this may help anyone is their such a thing called Druidcraft?

Thank you all!

2007-07-20 01:31:17 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

both are just lessons of faith.

2007-07-20 01:31:02 · 16 answers · asked by ann a 1

even if it was something you didn't want to do or didn't agree with?
eg. not marrying someone of a different religon

2007-07-20 01:27:27 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I once had a work colleague who tried to convince me that I should embrace spirituality rather than atheism.

When I told him there was no evidence to support what he was pushing on me, he responded by telling me about a "course" he'd done in spirituality.

He said that it had to be true, because the guy running the course had spent his whole life studying spirituality.

When I asked him if that made all the priests, Rabbis, witch doctors, etc. true as well, he didn't understand where I was coming from.

It seemed to me, that because he wanted to believe in spirituality (by this, I'm talking believing in ghosts, angels, reincarnation and truckloads of other out there stuff), he chose anything he grab hold of it to validate his beliefs, whether logical or not.

Isn't this really what all religious people do?

Why are they so adamant that illogical ideas are true?

2007-07-20 01:27:23 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have my own form of religion cause i cant go to church they always give me the same $hit ''your going to hell if you cant pray'' ''or your going to hell if you dont confess''
''your going to hell if you dont go to church'' ''not being a christian puts you under satans control'' and then get angry at you for disagreeing its retarded what ever happened to the regular church goer now you cant walk up in to a church without the bible thrown at ya. BUT i mean dam if thats all true then thousands of other religions go to hell if though some of them are better like buddhism wich is true peace and simple life with no sin or pressures from the outside world and they dont harm another person so if they go to hell then The Creator sucks

2007-07-20 01:26:42 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Did Jesus not defeat satan at Calvery? And if so, to say otherwise, is to deny the power of our Lord.

2007-07-20 01:25:58 · 12 answers · asked by shovelead 3

Here's how it might do it:
http://richarddawkins.net/article,1322,Evolution-IS-a-Blind-Watchmaker,Chuck-Kopec-cdk007

2007-07-20 01:20:35 · 7 answers · asked by Super Atheist 7

Some of the answers that are given are realy strange and some boardering on blasphemy.

2007-07-20 01:19:13 · 18 answers · asked by shovelead 3

2007-07-20 01:16:49 · 9 answers · asked by Muluken Demissie 1

I don't believe in tithing because everything already belongs to God. It seems to me that the function of giving something is a form of sacrifice.

As far as charity, is it the act of giving money or alleviating suffering. If a billionare gives $10,000 to a build an orphanage but a poor person can give only $50 to feed the orphans for a week, whose sacrifice is

2007-07-20 01:16:36 · 10 answers · asked by nom de paix 4

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2007-07-20 01:13:34 · 8 answers · asked by Yahoo!Answers 1

Someone answered my last question by saying "I see the NT as being in harmony with the OT"

What the?????

Has the guy ever read any of either one?

OT= Do as I say or I'll wipe you out in a really heavy handed manner.

NT=Invented Jesus dude suggests people try being nice to each other.

I can remember as a kid in the catholic church, they were very selective about which bits of the OT to push onto everyone, and most of it was dismissed as just stories.

Apart from both the OT & NT being works of fiction, what could people find they have in harmony with each other?

2007-07-20 01:10:06 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous