Religion & Spirituality - 15 October 2007

Why are so many good, decent and loving religious people willing to take a black eye?

Why do so many of you allow hate mongers and half informed, radical right wing bigots to besmirch religion, faith and God?

Why don’t the truly faithful and loving, those who truly know God, or whomever you worship, why don’t you regulate the hypocrisy and bigotry that is shoveled onto the world by so many evil doers in the name of your God?

It’s a horrible condition. I wish you would all stand up and take your God back from those who would use him to preach, and instill hate and worse, use Him to promote murder.

What a wonderful world it would be.

2007-10-15 03:24:07 · 14 answers · asked by Glenn P 4

Is faith a noun, verb, or adjective?.Is faith a feeling and emotion or is it something tangable?
Don't worry I am going somewhere with this..I just need to set up my next question by the majority of the answers I get from this one.

2007-10-15 03:21:51 · 30 answers · asked by hdy 3

do you think it's genuine

2007-10-15 03:21:28 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

A few months ago I attempted a series of questions for atheists. Unfortunately, I didn't start right, and realizing this had to step back for a while to try to think about how I was going to try to discuss certain concepts in a Q & A format. I believe that I'm better prepared at this point.

"I think, therefore I am." What is wrong with taking this as the first principle of philosophy?

2007-10-15 03:21:27 · 17 answers · asked by delsydebothom 4

"We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out."
Adolf Hitler, in a speech delivered in Berlin, 24 October 1933

Hitler stated: "Christ was the greatest early fighter in the battle against the world enemy, the Jews . . . The work that Christ started but could not finish, I--Adolf Hitler--will conclude."

"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Ralph Mannheim, ed., p. 65, New York: Mariner Books, 1999

"And the founder of Christianity made no secret indeed of his estimation of the Jewish people. When He found it necessary, He drove those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God.
---Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, pp.174


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2007-10-15 03:21:05 · 9 answers · asked by kloneme 3

2007-10-15 03:20:55 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-15 03:17:55 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Looking at the church service for Catholics, known as the Mass, we see that Catholics kneel in the real and true presence of Jesus. Humbly kneeling in the presence of God, they offer gifts to God, the bread and wine, work of human hands. They ask God's mercy and offer Him praise and sacrifice.

So I have to wonder, do protestants really consider it to be "worshiping God" when they go to church and listen to a man talk for most of the service, giving his personal interpretations and opinions about scripture and God?

It seems to me that Catholics are focused on Christ while the protestants are focused on their pastors.

Serious answers only.

2007-10-15 03:17:03 · 24 answers · asked by The Raven † 5

2007-10-15 03:15:10 · 10 answers · asked by frenzy-CIB- Jim's with Jesus 4

2007-10-15 03:15:04 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

i can certainly think of a few creations that occur without the assistance of a creator. take mud for example. water from a storm falls onto dirt on the ground. and voila!!! we've got the creation of mud. simple, no creator. now you're probably saying, "but mud isn't a complex creation." well, then my question to you is, how would you define something as being complex? is it something with a complex design? well, then what about snowflakes?

2007-10-15 03:14:34 · 13 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5

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Are any of you planning to boycott Miller for this outrage?

2007-10-15 03:14:32 · 14 answers · asked by Daewen 3

All "parts" as individuals should be called "GOD" if they are all ONE God ?


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2007-10-15 03:13:20 · 20 answers · asked by kloneme 3

why was he baptized?

2007-10-15 03:12:09 · 16 answers · asked by Azeem 2

you believe they are in heaven and will see them again
whats to be sad about?

2007-10-15 03:11:13 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Catholic Church has always condemned abortion as a grave evil. Christian writers from the first-century author of the Didache to Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Evangelium Vitae ("The Gospel of Life") have maintained that the Bible forbids abortion, just as it forbids murder. This tract will provide some examples of this consistent witness from the writings of the Fathers of the Church.

As the early Christian writer Tertullian pointed out, the law of Moses ordered strict penalties for causing an abortion. We read, "If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely [Hebrew: "so that her child comes out"], but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot" (Ex. 21:22–24).

This applies the lex talionis or "law of retribution" to abortion. The lex talionis establishes the just punishment for an injury (eye for eye, tooth for tooth, life for life, compared to the much greater retributions that had been common before, such as life for eye, life for tooth, lives of the offender’s family for one life).

The lex talionis would already have been applied to a woman who was injured in a fight. The distinguishing point in this passage is that a pregnant woman is hurt "so that her child comes out"; the child is the focus of the lex talionis in this passage. Aborted babies must have justice, too.

This is because they, like older children, have souls, even though marred by original sin. David tells us, "Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me" (Ps. 51:5, NIV). Since sinfulness is a spiritual rather than a physical condition, David must have had a spiritual nature from the time of conception.

The same is shown in James 2:26, which tells us that "the body without the spirit is dead": The soul is the life-principle of the human body. Since from the time of conception the child’s body is alive (as shown by the fact it is growing), the child’s body must already have its spirit.

Thus, in 1995 Pope John Paul II declared that the Church’s teaching on abortion "is unchanged and unchangeable. Therefore, by the authority which Christ conferred upon Peter and his successors . . . I declare that direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, always constitutes a grave moral disorder, since it is the deliberate killing of an innocent human being. This doctrine is based upon the natural law and upon the written word of God, is transmitted by the Church’s tradition and taught by the ordinary and universal magisterium. No circumstance, no purpose, no law whatsoever can ever make licit an act which is intrinsically illicit, since it is contrary to the law of God which is written in every human heart, knowable by reason itself, and proclaimed by the Church" (Evangelium Vitae 62).

The early Church Fathers agreed. Fortunately, abortion, like all sins, is forgivable; and forgiveness is as close as the nearest confessional.

2007-10-15 03:10:41 · 5 answers · asked by Sentinel 7

To those who believe Christians are forcing religion by standing up for what we consider moral standards. But when the secular society trys to pass a law that they consider moral it is not forcing it on us.

2007-10-15 03:10:23 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

i was just curious...what do actually atheists believe? and how r their beliefs in conflict with christians (or other religions) ?

2007-10-15 03:10:17 · 19 answers · asked by is it me? 2

I think it is because America invented it... Don't make up that Muslims ever have sex because they don't... Where do they get babies from, you will probably ask.... They adopt them from non-Muslim orphanages...

2007-10-15 03:09:34 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it possible?

2007-10-15 03:09:11 · 11 answers · asked by mutterhals 3

2007-10-15 03:08:15 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is for purely information purposes as it is asked so mant times here;
The Greek roots of the term "Catholic" mean "according to (kata-) the whole (holos)," or more colloquially, "universal." At the beginning of the second century, we find in the letters of Ignatius the first surviving use of the term "Catholic" in reference to the Church. At that time, or shortly thereafter, it was used to refer to a single, visible communion, separate from others.

The term "Catholic" is in the Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian creeds, and many Protestants, claiming the term for themselves, give it a meaning that is unsupported historically, ignoring the term’s use at the time the creeds were written.

Early Church historian J. N. D. Kelly, a Protestant, writes: "As regards ‘Catholic,’ its original meaning was 'universal' or 'general.' . . . in the latter half of the second century at latest, we find it conveying the suggestion that the Catholic is the true Church as distinct from heretical congregations (cf., e.g., Muratorian Canon). . . . What these early Fathers were envisaging was almost always the empirical, visible society; they had little or no inkling of the distinction which was later to become important between a visible and an invisible Church" (Early Christian Doctrines, 190–1).

Thus people who recite the creeds mentally inserting another meaning for "Catholic" are reinterpreting them according to a modern preference, much as a liberal biblical scholar does with Scripture texts offensive to contemporary sensibilities.

2007-10-15 03:06:41 · 10 answers · asked by Sentinel 7

OR was it the Devil?
& why

If you say God, then why so many diffent religions?
If you say humans they which human?

2007-10-15 03:06:22 · 20 answers · asked by Changed4the Better :-i 2

For 1500 years Christianity was basically represented to the non Christian world through the RCC.

In other words, are Protestants saying that the non Christians were correct in calling early Christianity the wrong path for 1500 years ?

Yes or No ?

Were the enemies of Christianity correct back then......... and the Protestants are correct right now ?
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2007-10-15 03:04:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I hear both Christians and Atheists say that the "other side" is inflicting their beliefs on them. How personally does this effect you? Christians are free to worship, Atheists are free not too. Has anyone ever infringed on your rights? (give an example).
Both sides say that the other is constantly pushing their beliefs..I think that is true when you read the posts in this forum.
Why does the "other" fellows belief bother us so much? Why do we feel the need to make others conform?
I would really like to hear from both sides with no dogmatic or insulting responses ..Like "they will go to hell" or "all wars are started by religion" or "they are ignorant"....if possible....Thank you so much.

2007-10-15 03:03:44 · 3 answers · asked by PROBLEM 7

R&S, I know this isn't exactly a religious question but I wanted to ask my friends in this section. There is someone in my life who I want to believe can change and improve himself. However I have been told by many people (most of them older, wiser, and more credible than I) that people generally don't change, at least not permanently.

I'd like to hear some encouraging words about people who really were able to make a positive change in their life.

I'm not looking for "they found God" stories, by the way. :oP That to me is not necessarily an improvment.

Thanks!

2007-10-15 03:01:17 · 25 answers · asked by Linz ♥ VT 4

So one of the commandments is to honor thy father and mother. Does this mean the people who gave you life here on earth, or those who raised you? I ask because I love my mom (really just because the Bible tells me to, she has never been a mother to me), but I don't respect her or have feelings about her either way, but my step-mom raised me and I love her like she gave birth to me. So I am always caught in: what does God consider a mother? The one who gives birth (because let's face it, giving birth doesn't make you a mother), or the one who nurtures, raises, and teaches His word?

2007-10-15 03:01:01 · 11 answers · asked by Skiball 3

Tell me more about the history of the jews...

2007-10-15 03:00:50 · 13 answers · asked by wizard101z 1

2007-10-15 02:58:31 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-15 02:57:02 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous