Religion & Spirituality - 14 August 2007

Stupidity, lunacy and superstition [as defined by almost everyone on R S]comprise my entire spiritual belief system.

Every time I've mentioned any portion here there's been universal ridicule.

I don't mind, and I don't say much about what I know to be true.

But what I do say concerning atheists, Christianity and other doctrinal faiths is sometimes a mirror of that scorn. My own flaw, not yours.

But because it's an admitted flaw of mine, what's in it for YOU to become angry about?

2007-08-14 04:56:04 · 18 answers · asked by Jack P 7

When Barry Bonds broke the HR record I figured God couldn't possibly exist...now maybe I'm not as sure....

2007-08-14 04:54:06 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

The reason I ask is because Jehovah's Witnesses seem to think Mary is part of the Trinity doctrine. In their brochure "Should you believe in the Trinity?" they say: "If the Trinity is false, it is degrading to Almighty God to call anyone his equal, and even worse to call Mary 'the mother of God'... Does it honor God to call anyone his equal? Does it honor him to call Mary 'the mother of God' and the co-redemptress... between the Creator and his creatures as does the New Catholic Encyclopaedia?"

This gives the impression that Mary, being God's mother and a co-redemptress is part of the Trinity teaching.

Would you please clarify your teachings on the Trinity to show that Mary has nothing to do with it? I uphold the Trinitarian doctrine of the Triune nature of the Godhead, but there is no room for Mary to be included. I think the JW's may have twisted Catholic teachings to suit their own beliefs and confused the issue by bringing Mary into it.

2007-08-14 04:53:37 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

Me and my boyfriend have recently decided to devote our lives to christianity. Every time we have physical contact, its out of love. How could this be wrong? We have discussed whether to wait till marriage, or if it is still right to God if its out of love? So what was considered marriage to the bible? Did they still have legal documentation of marriage back then, or was it just when two people loved on another and devoted their lives?

2007-08-14 04:51:59 · 14 answers · asked by Psychgrl77 3

If you give the sources, anyone who disagrees simply says that the authors were prejudice. If you do not, anyone who disagrees discounts the information as "made up". Even if you give sources directly from the criminal justice system, it is ignored as being skewed for political reasons. Why bother?

2007-08-14 04:51:05 · 16 answers · asked by Enigma®Ragnarökin' 7

that makes you a better person than a person who lives right but doesn't accept jesus ?

2007-08-14 04:49:47 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

and abuse the bible?

2007-08-14 04:47:24 · 26 answers · asked by Inferna Dragon 1

How will I restore my faith, after that, is there a some sort of exfoliant lotion i can get? Noooo... it's banality is more infectious than i thought!

I turn to you R&S in my hour of need!

2007-08-14 04:46:07 · 4 answers · asked by . 6

Seems that whenever a discussion fails to progress (in the way the debate over God's existence has), there is an underlying element that has gone unaddressed.

What do you think the disagreement is really about?

2007-08-14 04:45:05 · 19 answers · asked by Eleventy 6

I found this insect in my yard yesterday, it looked like a ridiculously big wasp with really, really long legs. Any ideas what it is? Thanks! =0)

2007-08-14 04:43:02 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I mean sticking spears into nailed-up dead people to see if their blood is sepparated, that's not wholesome family entertainment is it? I was 3 when I heard this.

2007-08-14 04:42:55 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

And the R&S board in many respects is like an extended family.....

A lot of us "know" each other by experience well enough, though there are many members we don't see so often.


We might not all like each other. Some of us are downright hostile to each other..... But even to those we don't much like, we can probably see some sort of worth in their presence. Once you oppose someone long enough, it becomes very odd and uncomfortable if they just vanish away...... rather like losing a brother or sister.
Even the ones you hate, you love really.


I wouldn't go so far as to start asking who fills what role, as there are clearly too many people to fill all the conventional roles fairly.... You'd have to extend the family pretty far.

I do feel somewhat like I'm just the "couch dude" of the family though... The squatter who has just been living on the couch since time immemorial, often forgotten and generally preferring it that way.

2007-08-14 04:41:22 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

A few days ago my family attended the memorial of my Grandfather (my dad's dad) and while we were there we spread my fathers ashes in a nearby lake he fished in. Well of course it was hard on us all especially my 4 year old. It's like shes just realizing that my dad is gone. She is so depressed seriously she walks around with his shirt on and she doesnt smile I feel so helpless please someone tell me what else I can do I already prayed over her and she cried she is so spiritually connected and so sensitive to others saddness but when your normally bubbly child is so low it tares out your heart. Please Help and pray of course.

2007-08-14 04:40:57 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

In the bible, it's clear who Jesus parents are. Jesus was conceived through the Holy Spirit in the Virgin Mary. Joseph was Jesus's stepfather, who could trace his lineage back to King David.

So, this got me thinking, who's gonna end up being parents to the Beast? Could the Beast also likewise have some sort of immaculate conception?

2007-08-14 04:40:11 · 5 answers · asked by Timmbbo 1

If bible is true word of God, why are men abusing it against women?

They use this excuse to abuse, torment, murder and rape women. The most common example is "Women be submissive to your husbands"

A LOT of men took that as "Ok then that gives me the right to treat my wife as a slave, beat her when she disobeys and rape her when she refuses to have sex with me"

Even Pastors descriminate against women. They say that women should NOT speak in church, they should be seen not heard. That they cannot speak to the pastor for advice but go to another woman. That women are nothing but objects that bring men down to temptation and that they can't control themselves so that means: They cannot be alone with another man, if in a meeting with a pastor even with the husband or another guy, she must bring another woman.

Is this what God intended? For women to feel guilty about their own gender, to take full responsibility of men not being able to control themselves?

2007-08-14 04:39:55 · 17 answers · asked by earth_dragonai 1

2007-08-14 04:39:26 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-14 04:38:39 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

What's the big deal about eating of the tree of knowledge? Not that I believe scriptures are literal. But ok, God sits man in front of a tree then tells him not to eat from it, for no reason at all. After Eve comes about the serpent tells her that her eyes will be open if she eats and that this "Group" that refers to themselves as "us" was actually lying telling Adam on the day that he eats of the tree he will surely die, which was a bold face lie. The serpent actually told the truth if we get technological, their eyes were opened and when they ate of the tree they DID not die, what happened afterwards was by this "groups" own doing. They then shortened Adam/Eve's life spawn and put suffering on them, because they knew that the tree of knowledge lead to the tree of life, so in order that they would not BECOME LIKE THEM, become greater then they, they casted them out of paradise.

So how lied? Who did wrong? Again I am just speaking reflective to what is written, this story is allegory

2007-08-14 04:38:28 · 24 answers · asked by Automaton 5

Is it OK.

2007-08-14 04:36:58 · 11 answers · asked by veera 1

thier children? JW will not allow transfusions, so they are willing to let their kids die. Christian Scientists are worse- as they don't provide any care for their kids medically. I think this crosses the line- it isn't religious freedom- it is neglect.

2007-08-14 04:36:02 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

is there a web site that i can go to and find the address of kingdom halls in the US? or is there one provided by the watchtower? i just want to know in case i go out of state and can visit the kingdom hall where i go. ok thanks alot.

2007-08-14 04:35:09 · 9 answers · asked by Kiid23 3

Do you enjoy the idea that as an infidel you are thought of as fair game and subject to exicution for your failure to accept Allah?

2007-08-14 04:34:55 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

only serious answers please :)

2007-08-14 04:33:42 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

on his 360 page because to behold the entirety of his face would be to see such beauty that it would blind us?

Because, sometimes I think that's why.

What do you think?

2007-08-14 04:32:27 · 18 answers · asked by Marvelissa VT 6

Yep. And guess which movement is the primary supporter of contraception. Check out the fourth paragraph in particular.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cristina-page/what-prochoice-president_b_59991.html

2007-08-14 04:30:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

ok its kinda long so bear with me. i had just lost my dog that i had had since i was 4. and after a few months talked my mom into getting another dog. she said it had to be medium in height, not a puppy, not loud, must be from a shelter, must not shed alot, must be tottally devoted to us, etc. so we started looking and looking and none of the dogs seemed to fit the right description. i had decided that if it was a girl her name would be gretchen and if it was a boy it would be named toby.l one day i was a on the website looking at dogs to adopt and i came across this dog, her name was gretchen, she was a pup, was already house broken, VERY gentle, but shy, medium height, did not shead alot, and had never barked there. i thaught this was to good to be true, so i talked my mom into looking at her. when we got there the 1st thing she did was lay right on my lap and that is when we knew. my q is, is this a sign from god or some thing or did god make this story ment to be or what?

2007-08-14 04:30:54 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

True story: on my grandfather's fifth birthday, his mother's funeral was held. it was right before the funeral that some lovely woman found it appropriate to tell my grandfather that he was never going to see his mother again because she wasn't a strong member of a particular faith. She told him his mother was going to hell. The woman has since passed, but my grandfather hasn't been to church in 75 years. What do you think will/or has happened to this woman?

2007-08-14 04:30:46 · 24 answers · asked by socmum16 ♪ 5

2007-08-14 04:29:34 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you think life was made to go on and on never ending?

We as a society have made icredible discoveries in every facet of life, HOWEVER is thier an end to what we can continue to accomplish?

What could we possibly accomplish in the next 1000 years. cure a few more unknown diseases, learn how to utilize more natural resources for energy? Since Man cannot ever create a Utopia something is got to give to finally end.

This is what GOD's Ultimate Plan is..For human exsistence to learn
to love and to make a ultimate decision on how we want our destiny to play out with GOD or without him...
Thoughts?

2007-08-14 04:27:32 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Dont use the bible? I rember going to my old christan chruch, and the pastor or preacher w/e never used the bible during his sermon. But at the kingdom hall of Jehovah's witnesses they not only use the bible, but everyone has their own bible so they can follow along.

2007-08-14 04:26:26 · 17 answers · asked by ITALLIAN STALLION 2