Religion & Spirituality - 9 August 2007

The theory is based on the logic that for every man who is allowed to have several wives (or a harem), several men wind up with no wives, ever. Couple that with a belief that if you die violently, your reward is a harem of virgins of your own, and voila, you have a suicide bomber! Or if you become a powerful man by leading others to their deaths as suicide bombers, you get to have your harem here on earth.

Makes sense to me. We all get cranky if we're denied sex, don't we?

2007-08-09 10:50:31 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

... Because I'm betting they took it totally out of context.

2007-08-09 10:50:10 · 14 answers · asked by Roger C 2

2007-08-09 10:48:08 · 18 answers · asked by The Judge 1

Do you know why this is important?

2007-08-09 10:46:10 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

"An unknown visitor is usually required to produce a dues card or other documentation of membership in addition to demonstrating knowledge of the Masonic signs, grips and passwords......Freemasons use signs (gestures), grips or tokens (handshakes) and words to gain admission to meetings and identify legitimate visitors." -Freemason literature

Hmmmmm. Does this sound familiar to any of you Mormons? I myself have gone through the Salt Lake City temple, and it certainly rings some bells for me. My father went through the temple for the first time in the 1960's, and it was the last LDS function/institution he ever visited again. He told me they made him take an oath of self-mutilation if the secrets of the temple were ever to leave his lips. When I went though the temple, I asked about this, and I was told that this has not been practiced for 20+ years in the temples anymore because some people thought it was too "graphic". It is odd that the Masons had this ritual as well huh?

2007-08-09 10:45:52 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Emmanuel Milingo

In his own words: “My Marriage is a calling from God”

The Roman Catholic doctrine that calls for celibacy as a requirement for priesthood has no Biblical support whatsoever.

While the Catholic Chuch has excommunicated Milingo for installing bishops without permission from the Vatican, most Christians are more concerned about Milingo’s lack of discerment as demonstrated by his connections to Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon - a religious. Moon’s lunacy includes claiming that he is the messiah, and was commissioned by God to finish what - in Moon’s opinion - Jesus Christ failed to accomplish.

Milingo admits Sun Myung Moon is behind his activitiesThe Movement for Married Priests Now- Zambia Chapter had a rally last weekend to mark the commencement of its activities in Zambia with a call to all priests that have married secretly to come out in the open and renounce priesthood celibacy.

Rev Moon just just not be in the mix..

2007-08-09 10:45:31 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm doing a piece on people's interpretation of Hell. Their depiction of it, no matter how graphic. Looking for creative, non cliche answers. But please don't answer just for the sake of answering, or put that you don't believe in Hell. This piece isn't about weather or not Hell exists, it's about people. Thanks for your help.

2007-08-09 10:44:54 · 9 answers · asked by Michaelangelo77777 2

Is it worng if my boyfriend is a Baptist and I am of the Penetosal faith and I choose marry him and convert to being a Baptist? Would it be going totally against my faith...we are both Christians, believe in the Holy Bible?

2007-08-09 10:44:28 · 16 answers · asked by Queen 4

I am catholic and i love both God and the lovely maryjane. But if i am upsetting God by smoking weed..then i guess i wood have to stop.
any ideas people?? :)

2007-08-09 10:38:11 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

What did you find?

2007-08-09 10:36:39 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or where are you at home at?

2007-08-09 10:34:25 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-09 10:32:45 · 10 answers · asked by captain janeway 1

2007-08-09 10:31:44 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

That is like murdering your son or daughter for having an imaginary friend, since no other Gods supposedly exist right?

What the hell is he so jealous of? What a freakin' psychopath.

2007-08-09 10:30:09 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

Have you ever wondered whether our lives are where they are because of our own decisions or because of situations beyond the control of our decisions and how would you decide honestly which had the greater influence??

2007-08-09 10:28:13 · 9 answers · asked by A O 2

im very religious
but my opinion on this changes regularly
my parents say i should wait for my first love
but as a kid i would always say no marriage
but now i think love again..
i wouldnt be like all the other people having sex as a pleasure

so anyways what do u think?

2007-08-09 10:28:00 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'll be leaving on vacation for a month. Just wanted to tell everyone that it has been great reading questions and answers from both sides. I am certain that it will continue as well as repeated questions being posted.

In closing I'd like to leave you with this quote

"I turned to speak to God, About the world's despair; But to make bad matters worse, I found God wasn't there."

"Forgive, O Lord, my little joke on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."

"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."

-Robert Frost, American poet

2007-08-09 10:27:46 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-09 10:25:35 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070809140710AAskUKY&r=w&pa=FZptHWf.BGRX3OFMiTJTWRwS1Q3kgIt1AYqfa2QND67p3UF_qg--&paid=answered#RJtKUjr_JTVlJ0nSJ1Xe

Q:Why is God such a bully? Does he need a time out?
He floods the Earth and watches all the innocent little creatures drown. He make stars go nova to watch them blow up. He watches wars like some people watch the History Channel. He even let His own son come to Earth and killed without stopping it.

and a Christian answers
"He does those things out of love."

so God kills us out of love so nice of him don't you think

2007-08-09 10:22:43 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

How many of you Christians get some kind of pleasure or enjoyment from the belief that people who argue with you about religion or disagree with your religious beliefs will someday burn in and and know that you were right?

PLEASE, if you are a Christian and this is not you, I do not care to hear from you this time. I am only interested in hearing from the Christians who get some type of amusement from the idea of people who oppose them burning in hell.

2007-08-09 10:22:16 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

here what i think personally. God is just a state of mind, he or she which ever you prefere is something that human beings need to hang on to, something to have faith in when times get touph or when one is lonley. I dont really think that "in the beginning" God made the man and all that (if i may say so) crap, because how does evolution, the dinosours, the fact that he only made two people (adam and eve) and they managed to populate the whole world even though they gave birth to two sons. how he managed to flood the world and it was repopolated by moses and his FAMILY.

please dont think i'm a cold blodded atheist, i did used to be a christian and i am only 16.

2007-08-09 10:21:36 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous

he was God, just like Balaham's donkey in the bible, do you believe me? If the christians say no, why don't you believe me and believe that donkey talked in the bible?

2007-08-09 10:18:51 · 6 answers · asked by . 2

2007-08-09 10:18:44 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

We have tea and biscuits! OH! Do us all a favor and give the two people closest to your answer a thumbs up.

"the previous message was a public service announcement from Psychos_R_Us."

2007-08-09 10:14:51 · 23 answers · asked by Enigma®Ragnarökin' 7

Doesn't the fact that creationists cannot agree whether they are "fully ape" or "fully human" tell you something?

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/compare.html

2007-08-09 10:12:51 · 10 answers · asked by JWill 4

2007-08-09 10:09:19 · 9 answers · asked by jollie 1

I'm not Mormon, but I have nothing against it. I just thought it was interesting to know.

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13196/rise-revisits-fastest-growing-religion-claim

The way I put it, if we have 13 million mormons now and 267 by the end of the century, that's more than 20 times more than what we have today so the question came to mind. I only wanted to pass it on.

"We are Mormon. You will be assimilated. Resistance is Futile."

2007-08-09 10:09:14 · 18 answers · asked by The Ghost of Partying 1

If so, what was it and why do you believe it was truly altruistic?

2007-08-09 10:09:12 · 20 answers · asked by Grotty Bodkin is not dead!!! 5

do you always read the questions that start out, "For Christians only."?

Christians: do you usually click on the questions that start out, "Fellow atheists"?

2007-08-09 10:05:56 · 46 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'll go first. I was raised attending Lutheran and Baptist churches all over (on my father's own accord), but was enrolled in a Catholic elementary school, though only for the higher quality of education that can be found in a private school. Naturally, at the time I never once noticed the contradictions present between the mandatory Catholic mass on Friday mornings and the Baptist sermon I'd sit through each Sunday. As a child, I was never really told more about religion than the whole "God loves you, so you should do the same" policy, nor did I think about it much, but whenever I did, the one thing that always scared the hell out of me was the concept of eternity, something that could never end even if you wanted it to (this was in relation to heaven, not hell). I only recently came to be interested in religion a mere two years. Your turn.

2007-08-09 10:04:58 · 34 answers · asked by AnnaDuff 1