Religion & Spirituality - 6 September 2007

...a friend is an atheist and we are having a birthday party...

2007-09-06 10:39:50 · 18 answers · asked by TfourL 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4F19bpDkzw

2007-09-06 10:36:04 · 6 answers · asked by Patty 2

I was thinking about this and calling myself an atheist is not a choice. It's just what I am. I just CAN'T believe like a Christian or any other religion, I don't choose not to believe...I just can't. You know? So is any religion really a choice?

And though some people become atheist when faced with logic about things, I don't think it makes it logical. Does that make sense?

bah.

2007-09-06 10:32:29 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why are we put through this "test" if God knows precisely how we will use our "free will" in terms of salvation or condemnation? Why does it matter to him that we go through this silly little dance when he already knows exactly how we will either save or condemn ourselves?

Why didn't he just pre-sort into Heaven all of those he KNOWS would've accepted Christ? Why didn't he pre-sort into Hell those he KNOWS would've rejected his message and his son?

Why does he need to see us go through the motions that he already knows will happen? Couldn't he just explain to us in Heaven: "I already knew you'd end up in Heaven... I thought I'd just scoot you in here right off the bat."

2007-09-06 10:30:34 · 28 answers · asked by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7

Are you folks so lacking in Self-Esteem that you lack the initiative & imagination to even create an Avatar???

INUYASHA!

2007-09-06 10:26:32 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Many of you say religion causes Wars, Intolerance Etc.

But let me ask you this, when religion brings about comfort like that last post about the crosses found on 9/11 or the comfort that a mother might feel when her baby dies and she knows the Angel of the Lord took him to heaven to be with Jesus forever, if you took the comfort of the Lord away, that he provides to billions of people, what could you REPLACE if anything in a person's life to bring them comfort when trajedy strikes???

Do you really think people would believe and embrace GOD if they didn't feel his presence, love and comfort when faced with pain?

2007-09-06 10:24:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've read a few articles about the ineffectiveness of prayer..but wonder if believers have anything to counter the articles and studies that say prayer dont work

2007-09-06 10:23:45 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

regarding a question asked by someone else...

2007-09-06 10:23:35 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

For a while, anyway. His mother was a JW until she died. But Ike's dad, brothers and Ike himself all quit. Because...? Failed prophecies.

http://www.adherents.com/people/pe/Dwight_Eisenhower.html

2007-09-06 10:21:02 · 17 answers · asked by Suzanne 5

If so are you still in the Mormon religion?

2007-09-06 10:20:58 · 19 answers · asked by universatile love 3

I may go to a Unitarian Universalist Church this Sunday to check it out. For some reason lately I have been getting more religious. I've always been interested in religion, but have become more spiritual over the last few years. I have been turned off by most mainstream denominations because they are so "either/or" and exclusionary. They are full of people who claim to know with certainty where salvation lies, and who is damned and who is not, and they are so full of people who in that certainty are ignorant of the context and the history of their own religions.

I recently discovered the UU Church. And it seems as if it involves a study of all forms of spiritual truth-seeking and even atheism and agnosticism, pagan sects, and other. So, I am wondering - if I go Sunday - will I hear a typical Christian sermon? Or will it be more eclectic?

2007-09-06 10:17:27 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-06 10:11:53 · 10 answers · asked by tom_liverpool14 2

come on now!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/16/miami.preacher/

I think you christians need to stop following the fake jesus in your buybull and follow this real jesus.
Look at me, I'm an atheist and I am 10 times smarter than you!
You christians should thank me for showing you the real jesus.

2007-09-06 10:10:28 · 3 answers · asked by WINDIWS VISTA ULTIMATE RULES!!!! 1

my moms freind became a scientologist...went on a boat ride out to free water(10 miles off shore)...and was never heard from again.......weird....wonder if this still happens....

2007-09-06 10:09:14 · 1 answers · asked by ? 5

I've been Invited to a Temple of a different faith, should I wear my Pagan Medallion?

2007-09-06 10:07:45 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-06 10:05:05 · 12 answers · asked by miss i know i am right 1

That would be Jehovahs Witnesses' which is extremely poor punctuation. It is Jehovah's Witnesses which would therefore be J'Ws. Or you could just say JWs.

Or here's a better idea: show them respect by using their full and proper name!

2007-09-06 10:04:25 · 26 answers · asked by Bubbles 4

got caught up in a tornado and your house landed on a witch and a bunch of little men you dont know from Adam told you to follow a yellow road would you do it? Personally I dont trust those little people.

2007-09-06 10:00:20 · 29 answers · asked by timssterling 4

For those of you who do not know about it, here is a link:

http://www.lds-mormon.com/veilworker/oathvenge.shtml

For those of you who think it is made up, here is another Mormon site defending it:

http://fairwiki.org/index.php/Oath_of_vengeance

It seems odd that every Mormon I know (I live in Utah) claims to be patriotic, and yet at the core of their beliefs, there was an anti-American plea to God. These temple beliefs should not have been taken out, according to Joseph Smith, NOTHING should ever be changed regarding temple rites. That however, is another topic.

2007-09-06 09:58:09 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-06 09:54:42 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

humans just by proxy?

2007-09-06 09:53:54 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have two

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

The first is about how we relate to God, for God is love from within. The second is about romantic love of others, when I first saw my husband I knew him from before even though we had never met.

2007-09-06 09:47:25 · 17 answers · asked by gnosticv 5

2007-09-06 09:46:35 · 23 answers · asked by Sixx 1

And explain your answer, if you are so inclined.

Is it the same as saying "A bet is only as good as the object on which you're betting"?

2007-09-06 09:46:02 · 24 answers · asked by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7

I have a coworker, about 42ish) who has full custody of his 13 yr old daughter. Mother signed over her rights. Here's the problem. He's a born-again (LMAO...choke on your halo, you hypocrit), so he's renounced sex until marriage. The thing is, he's said to another coworker, " I thought about (daughter's friend) last night." Don't know why or how. Also, he told his daughter that they were going to the coast. His daughter asked if she could bring a friend along, and he said, "yeah, that's why we're going." Another time, he and this same coworker went to the river. The guy brought his daughter along, as he does everywhere he goes. She sat on his lap. After a while, she got up, took the cup of water she had, and splashed it all over his face. No apparent good reason. She didn't laugh, and he worridly asked, "why'd you do that?" Do you think I need to contact the priest? Well...as long as he's not Catholic...just kidding...or maybe not.

2007-09-06 09:44:43 · 11 answers · asked by ron-D 7

You are looking at what some people believe is a miracle.

Two days after the disaster, a construction worker found several perfectly formed crosses planted upright in a
pit in the rubble of the heavily damaged 6 World Trade Center.

The large, cross-shaped metal beams just happened to fall that way when one of the towers collapsed. An FBI chaplain who has spent days at ground zero says he has not seen anything like it on the vast site. As word of the find has spread at ground zero, exhausted and emotionally overwhelmed rescue workers have
been flocking to the site to pray and meditate.

"People have a very emotional reaction when they see it," says the Rev. Carl Bassett, an FBI chaplain. "They are amazed to see something like that in all the disarray. There's no symmetry to anything down there, except those crosses."
HERE IS THE LINK-Pretty Awesome-http://www.september11news.com/Mysteries1.htm

2007-09-06 09:44:04 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why wouldn't they have the doctrine of the trinity if they had been chosen by God to have the fullness of the gospel?

2007-09-06 09:41:42 · 10 answers · asked by odd duck 6

I know some religions believe that if you are not one of them, you got a one way ticket to hell, such as Catholics.
Other religions like Buddhism believe that anyone can reach nirvana, regardless of religion.
So what do you guys think is right? And please don't let your religion influence you, just say what YOU think is right.

2007-09-06 09:40:28 · 29 answers · asked by DIIV 3

Gospel meaning?

2007-09-06 09:39:44 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Because if you get morality from your deity, and you evaluate your deity based on that morality, isn't that circular reasoning? If you have no innate sense of ethics separate from God, how do you know God is the good one and Satan is the bad one, or which one is which?

2007-09-06 09:37:11 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous