Religion & Spirituality - 15 August 2007

I don't know what the I am.

2007-08-15 10:32:45 · 12 answers · asked by bugginthug 1

Vermont is the most liberal state in the country (they have a senator who is a socialist, for crying out loud). But you never see a hurricane slam into the coast of Lake Champlian, do you?

2007-08-15 10:29:40 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

What if you were asked to prove it?
Has on-line preaching work been approved?
I'm very curious and interested in this so please don't think I'm judging.

2007-08-15 10:28:18 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

For instance...if you could receive certain privileges for domestic partnership benefits, etc. (in the event being in a homosexual relationship awarded you certain benefits, rights or privileges you currently did not have)?

Or....hypothetical situation...Your gay Uncle Charlie passes away and in his will it says he'll leave $2.5 Million dollars to the first of his nieces or nephews who "comes out".

Eventhough you're straight...and christian....would you do it???

2007-08-15 10:26:54 · 21 answers · asked by Adam G 6

2007-08-15 10:24:10 · 21 answers · asked by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6

I read it an hear it all the time, and everytime they say, they think they have layed out something profound, never before heard, real progresive. Weve all heard it, the infamous response to any criticism about violence done in the name of allah, "have you ever met a Muslim", "I know a good Muslim, so dont bother me with details", "I visited an Islamic country once...".

You know, many people in London also knew, what they described as "very nice Muslims" people and were shocked to find out that they were the animals behind the London bmbings? Ever read the accounts of people who knew these Islamists before they murdered for Allah?

Wait a second, do you think its possible that they act one way, all the time harboring intense hatred for the culture they live in? No, thats not possible is it...its not possible to feel extreme hate and also act nice based on religious instruction is it?

Almost all armed conflict worldwide is Islamic, what could possibly speak louder?

2007-08-15 10:24:09 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

hmmm....

rank, rank, rank, rank.

2007-08-15 10:22:04 · 47 answers · asked by Love Yahoo!!! wannabe a princess 4

That according to Ohio State University and the Byrd Polar Research Center; the worlds most dramatic climate change occurred world wide @5500 years ago at the time of the Noahitic flood. This based on samples taken from drilling through ice core glaciers.
And "OetzI' the frozen man found by hikers in 1991 is around 5500 years old. Mammoths are frozen in water. Fossils are made by "sudden" sedimentation.

2007-08-15 10:20:54 · 13 answers · asked by Who's got my back? 5

A questioner (at http://tinyurl.com/2mzpns ) asks people to pray that the she keeps her job. I'm sincerely interested how such a thing would work - especially if God has a plan, and has already decided the outcome

1 God plans for her to lose her job. Impressed by the number of prayers, he changes the plan.

2 God plans for her to keep her job. Unimpressed by the low turnout of prayers, he changes the plan.

3 God has plans for her job. Prayers are insufficient to change the plan.

4 God has no plans for her job, but intervenes based on the prayers.

5 God has no plans for her job, and allows the issue to work itself out regardless of prayers.

6 God plans for her to lose her job, and prayers can't change it. But a last-minute prayer from the Pope [or similar] is sufficient to cause the change.

7 God has plans for her job. He knows about the prayers in advance. The plan goes ahead as intended.

Are any of these close to the way it works? If not, how, then?

CD

2007-08-15 10:20:46 · 18 answers · asked by Super Atheist 7

I do believe that there is something out there. not the christian god, or the islamic, muslum, or jewish god, but something. I know there is a word for it but i can't remember it. it might be agnostic but i'm not sure. Can some word please tell me the word?

2007-08-15 10:17:28 · 59 answers · asked by Dani 2

Have you ever gotten into an argument and the other person actually seriously says something along the lines of, "You're right, I'm wrong, I lose. I'm a dumb ***. Man I feel so stupid."
Has this ever happened? (Maybe not these exact words, but something like it, where the person actually admits to losing?)
Has the other person actually ever shown any signs of defeat or surrender?
Or do people always try to save face?

2007-08-15 10:17:25 · 38 answers · asked by Fish Stick Jesus 2

The argument from inconsistent revelations ,
The problem of evil
The argument from poor design
The argument from nonbelief
The argument from parsimony
The omnipotence paradox
The argument from free will
The Transcendental argument for the non-existence of God
The counter-argument against the Cosmological argument ("chicken or the egg")
Theological noncognitivism
The extra-temporal being vs active creator argument
The atheist-existentialist argument
The "no reason" argument
The witness argument
The conflicted religions argument
The Argument from a Proper Basis
The "Need for an Answer" argument

For the full details, check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence_of_God

Please elaborate.

2007-08-15 10:14:24 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-15 10:14:05 · 17 answers · asked by Love Yahoo!!! wannabe a princess 4

have accepted this watered down non-bibical version of Christianity that we find here in the United States?

2007-08-15 10:07:56 · 32 answers · asked by Kristina K 2

regardless of sexual orientation gay or transsexual anybody
should be allowed to attend Church on a regular basis and yes
Jesus "Welcomes all of us People" to worship the Lord every
Sunday even if that person is homosexual he or she should be
allowed to attend Church services and felt Welcomed" with
no judging or condemning them
And kicking people out of their Churches is wrong and it is
wrong'
What would the Lord Jesus do??

2007-08-15 10:06:37 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

A god is
a superhuman being or spirit worshiped as having power over nature or human fortunes; ∎ an image, idol, animal, or other object worshiped as divine or symbolizing a god

I have now started worshipping fire. You can't deny fire is real. It cleary has power over nature and human fortune. So my god is real. No where in the definition of a god does it have to be sentient. A god does not have to create the universe. Although combustion on some level probably did have a part in it's creation and life could not exist without it. Atheists may no longer say there is no god. Take that losers.
On a side note this also disproves the christian god. Their god says he is the only god and since I have a proven different god I win there too.





(There may be some flaws in this logic. Ignore them please.)

2007-08-15 10:06:00 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

- There too everyone would deny the existence of God.
- They would laugh at Noah for telling them that the rain would come.

All of you unbelievers here will drawn and I will be safe on the Ark with a few of my favourite chickens and goats.

2007-08-15 10:03:47 · 25 answers · asked by Jamres 1

2007-08-15 10:02:41 · 17 answers · asked by miss w 2

non-descriptive question headers?

2007-08-15 09:59:02 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've heard evolutionists making all sorts of wild claims on this board. For example, some of them say we came from monkeys, others say we came from apes. Some people say we came from single-celled organisms. Others say the entire universe was created from nothing, so we came from nothing.

So which is it? According to your own theory, we came from all these different things. Is it possible that all these different things would magically combine to make humans? Obviously not. The fact that evolution says we came from all these different things (bacteria, apes, monkeys, nothing, mammals, etc.) proves that Intelligent Design must be true.

The only way that a monkey could be combined with an ape and bacteria and a bunch of other stuff to make a human is if somebody took the trouble to combine them. Otherwise you'd end up with a monkey with ape legs and a bacterial infection. It's obvious that only God could combine all these things to get a human.

2007-08-15 09:55:40 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous

Are these people so careless in their reading, that they miss all the conspicuous lies in this primitive book, starting on the very first page?
Or, are they just so desperate to believe it, that they will pretend not to notice how silly and childish the stories are?
Why would they not be interested enough in this topic, to study the history of this book, even to see who wrote it, or when it was written?

2007-08-15 09:55:10 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it being rebroadcast - I was unable to watch...

2007-08-15 09:53:22 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

“Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved”
- Lao Tzu -

2007-08-15 09:52:59 · 26 answers · asked by Shinkirou Hasukage 6

The Messianists and the Christians detested one another with the peculiarly virulent loathing that seemed to characterise Jewish religious controversies. Paul’s version won through a historical accident. As we have seen, the Jews broke into open rebellion just before the end of the reign of Nero, and he was forced to send his general Vespasian to try and subdue them. But in the year after Nero’s suicide, Rome had four emperors. The first was Galba, the Spanish governor who had joined Vindex in the rebellion. Within a short time the Praetorian Guard found him too strict and closefisted, and murdered him. They appointed Nero’s friend Otho, from Portugal. Meanwhile, the German troops had proclaimed their general Vitellius emperor, and he marched on Rome and defeated Otho. Otho committed suicide. Then Vespasian, still on the other side of the Mediterranean, was proclaimed emperor by his troops. He seized Egypt and cut off Rome’s grain.

2007-08-15 09:52:24 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

do answer this, i will disprove christianity using the answers people will give

2007-08-15 09:51:56 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-15 09:51:11 · 5 answers · asked by nobleservant 2

I'm not looking for "it's stupid", "it's evil" or "it's wrong". I just want you to tell me what it is to the best of your knowledge. And If you don't know what evolution is, please do us a favor and don't humiliate your self by answering.

(posting a definition from dictionary/online or Wikipedia will exclude you from consideration for Best Answer)

2007-08-15 09:50:32 · 14 answers · asked by Trademark™ 2

Good or Bad!

2007-08-15 09:50:26 · 19 answers · asked by Willafred B 2

What do you do daily on your path in a spiritual nature.
I burn insence and light candles and offer prayers to the God and Goddes each day.
How does everyone else do things?

2007-08-15 09:48:00 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

can you prove me wrong ?

lol just thought I would put a different slant on a drinking question , although you can all drink if you want

2007-08-15 09:45:54 · 80 answers · asked by Anonymous