Religion & Spirituality - 29 August 2007

Alex MacGregor VC, aged 93, of Reading, Berkshire. He has been let out of Hospice to end his days peacefully at his home with his son, me (his grandson) and my two sisters.

Alex was a road worker all his life, retiring thirteen years ago at the age of 70 and had two children, one of whom died young and was survived by my father. His wife, Daisy, died in 2001 of heart problems and he has been unconsole-able ever since.

During WW2 Alex served with the Light Infantry (rank of Lance Corporal) and earned the Victoria Cross for walking out in to enemy fire to retrieve his RSM, who had been hit by shrapnel and was unconscious. They remained close friends until the latter's death only a few months ago.

Alex is now very sick and does not have long left, and we are here to look after him and make sure he is comfortable. He is looknig forward to seeing all of his old Infantry friends again and tasting his wife's steak and kidney pie again.

He doesn't have many friends left...

2007-08-29 05:04:56 · 28 answers · asked by Monty 1

2007-08-29 05:04:33 · 22 answers · asked by Bien Chula 5

wearing Niqab in public? Also if you live in a Muslim community do your brothers and sisters support you in your decision or do they act like the Non Muslims and shun you? I'm asking because I am seriously considered buying and wearing Niqab and overhead Abaya Insha ALLAH sometime in September and would just like you're help and commets on this. My husband has said I don't need to wear it here in USA because he fears for my safety if we're outside if I decide to start wearing the Niqab and overhead Abaya. But I am thinking of doing it anyway for ALLAH(SWT) and because I believe it is fard on every Muslim woman since the wives of the Prophet(PBUH*) wore them. Shokran for enta/enti help.

2007-08-29 05:01:10 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

why do people judge on the outside ,but not the heart goto my 360 blog after you answer me, then come back and edit the answer

2007-08-29 05:00:44 · 31 answers · asked by juliette 2

For those who are unfamiliar he was a Congalese Pygmy who was featured in the Bronx zoo to promote the theory that humans evolved from primates.

2007-08-29 04:59:13 · 4 answers · asked by Edward J 6

A sin bearer is a being on whom the guilt of someone else is placed, one who accepts not only the guilt of others but also the consequences of their trangressions, thus making the punishment of the true offender unnecessary. Christ is our sin bearer.

We all need to be reminded from time to time that God hates sin, all sin. Big sins and little sins. public sins and private sins, old sins and new sins, sins against ourselves and sins against others, the sins of the youth and the sins of the elderly, weekday sins and Sabbath sins, sins of ommision and sins of commission. GOD HATES SIN!

Why does God hate sin? Because sin is contrary to the high and holy character of God. Sin is rebellion against God. Sin is disrespect for God. Sin is ingratitude to God. Sin is arrogance before God. Sin is meaness toward God. Sin is tension with God. Sin is infectious; hence, dangerous to others and lethal to the individual bearer.

Jesus came to save us from our sins, not in our sins.

2007-08-29 04:57:53 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-29 04:57:47 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you're not spiritual or religious, why not go to a different category instead of just saying that God doesn't exist?

P.S. - I don't hate atheists.

2007-08-29 04:54:29 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why do some people have such a dislike for Jewish people? Wasn't Jesus a Jew?

2007-08-29 04:53:34 · 15 answers · asked by Al 2

Prominent creation scientist Em Adjineri has recently concluded a brief study on animal crackers, and determined that they could not possibly have evolved from animals. This proves that evolution is false.

Animal crackers contain no meat. Therefore, the animals that make animal crackers would first have to have evolved into plant form, and then into cracker form. Additionally, they all would have had to shrink drastically.

Em Adjineri also discovered that there are no possible selective pressures that would cause giraffes, elephants, and lions to all convergently evolve into cracker form. Therefore, animal crackers must have been intelligently designed.

God created animal crackers because there are certain animals that we can't eat because they're endangered. However, humans are supposed to be able to eat all animals. The animal crackers are a substitute for the animals that we cannot eat.

2007-08-29 04:52:18 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-29 04:51:25 · 5 answers · asked by Steel Rain 7

I see a lot of people referring to themselves as "Pagan," but that's kind of a blanket term.

Do you mean you believe in and worship Thor and Odin, or Apollo and Zeus, or some type of Druidism or what?

I assume you don't mean Hindu, etc, because they actually identify themselves as such. I also assume you aren't witches or wiccans for the same reason.

What brought you to this type of Paganism since basically everyone else has discounted the types of gods mentioned above centuries ago as just metaphors, or avatars if you will, for natural scientific occurrences?

2007-08-29 04:51:14 · 37 answers · asked by Vernacular Catholic 3

I know infinite means without beginning or end, so what I mean in the question is unending. When your talking about punishment, justice means you have balance regarding the administration of punishment. Meaning the punishment fits the crime. The Bible teaches justice. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Balance. So the scriptures that are used to teach unending sadistic torture are simply not translated well, and are misunderstood.

2007-08-29 04:51:12 · 17 answers · asked by curious_inquisitor 1

I ask this because every single person I know who has claimed to be a "Christian" is a huge hypocrite. One group of Christians I knew would go out to eat and complain about everything to the waiter and manager to get free meals. Another group of "Christian" women at a church I went to were very cliquey and didn't like outsiders in their bible study. Another man who was Catholic would always make sexual comments and innuendos to me. There's also all these sexual abuse scandals within the Catholic church. It's pretty much a joke. Does anyone else notice the hypocrisy at all? I believe you don't need a religion to get by in this life.

2007-08-29 04:45:11 · 30 answers · asked by Martie 1

Evidently he did:

I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

- Adolf Hitler, to General Gerhard Engel, 1941

I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me, as the village priest had once seemed to my father, the highest and most desirable ideal.

- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1 Chapter 1

As long as leadership from above was not lacking, the people fulfilled their duty and obligation overwhelmingly. Whether Protestant pastor or Catholic priest, both together and particularly at the first flare, there really existed in both camps but a single holy German Reich, for whose existence and future each man turned to his own heaven.

- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1 Chapter 3

2007-08-29 04:42:33 · 36 answers · asked by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7

2007-08-29 04:42:13 · 19 answers · asked by Murazor 6

think people are interested in your know it all attitude?
The whole God thing is so convienient. When you don't know you can just throw the have faith card. When your challenged you can throw out your interpreted scripture that is so vague it can be spun any direction. And if all else fails you can just say personal experience. Well in my understanding the great deciever can even be decieving you! It is a personal journey! I don't recall asking you to be my personal savior.

2007-08-29 04:41:09 · 34 answers · asked by a2z_alterego 4

That is where did God come from? I think Genesis explains God's existence. He was always there. The Alpha and the Omega. But how did he get there? Everything has a creator! But God doesn't. He is the ultimate Creator (with all due respect .) This is one mystery that I will never fully understand. But knowing this will not change my mind that there is a God. I'm human and God after all is God. There are things in this world and in this universe that we as humans may never understand until the day that we meet with God. Constructive thoughts and comments only. If not, jog on.

2007-08-29 04:41:03 · 41 answers · asked by Kooties 5

can anyone help me find this text (scripture) in the bible?

2007-08-29 04:40:27 · 5 answers · asked by che masai 2

i saw this question as an answer for another question and it made me a little curious to find out..

2007-08-29 04:40:25 · 26 answers · asked by yvettexas007 1

Has George Bush mastered time travel and moved back in time to inflame Islamic tensions in the 10 th century?

2007-08-29 04:40:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Who is in need of repentence? And why do we care, or do we?

2007-08-29 04:38:16 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

He was the first Englishman to found a religion - Thelema - which is today a recognized faith around the world. Because of Thelema Students travelled to Sicily from around the world to "find their true wills" or their purpose in life.
OR
Aleister Crowley was a self-proclaimed drug and sex "fiend," a mostly self-published author of books on the occult and magick.
OR
Crowley inherited a fortune and worked hard at being strange.
OR
Crowley like many great men before him, was a man before his time. He lived in a society that could little understand him or appreciated his latent genius.
OR
His knowledge of witchcraft and magick was profound and without question, and he has passed on that knowledge through his books.
OR
His writings so shocked the peoples of his era that he was robbed of the praise that it merited, and as a poet he never received the recognition he deserved.

2007-08-29 04:35:11 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

1) Have you ever experienced a "dry" point in your walk with the Lord? I think you understand what I mean.....one of those, "Lord....where are you?" points?

2) And if so......what have you done to continue the good fight of faith?

My answers:
1) Yes......God seems to go silent, but I know that He's always there.
2) Juest keep on believing & trusting in Him even when things seems quiet

2007-08-29 04:34:34 · 27 answers · asked by primoa1970 7

2007-08-29 04:34:29 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

I thought your Bible has all of your answers?

2007-08-29 04:32:40 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-29 04:32:40 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

Someone just asked me 'so you believe God exists. Why?' I was like 'why not?'

well, setting aside my religion (which is Islam), what I believe is you always need someone to guide you along the path to your destiny. Like you need parents to tell you things you should know about everything, you need teachers to guide you through all years of your life. Just like that, I believe I need someone, a superpower who knows everything and to which nothing is hidden, a God, to guide me through all the phases of life, to tell me what is good for me and what isn't and if something isn't good for me, why is it so!

I was going to committ a real sin a month ago and i swear there was nothing that could stop me from doing that sin except for one thing which is the fear of God. I am sure if it hadn't been for that fear of God, I would have committed that sin right away and messed up my whole life. So what's so wrong with believing on a God when it's just for good, nothing else?

2007-08-29 04:32:01 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

..a fresh touch of God in their lives?
Please don't be shy and a 'Yes', with or without details is fine.
If your not a Christian yet, please let us know,
Bless you as we respond in faith for you.

2007-08-29 04:31:11 · 37 answers · asked by ? 6

You people have to get out of the Dark Ages and start living in 2007. There is no magical sky daddy and the boogie man is not real either! You have to accept responcibility for your own actions and there is no "after life."

2007-08-29 04:28:09 · 8 answers · asked by chuck b 4