Religion & Spirituality - 27 October 2007

In the US, we have a right to participate (or not) in whatever religious tradition we choose. This freedom of religion means allowing others to have their own moral code; people might have their store open for business on Sunday, or attend a mosque for worship, or drink/smoke/gamble, or write books/make movies about offensive topics, or have sexual relations outside a committed relationship, or even form a household with someone of the same-sex.

Laws should forbid things that are intrinsically, verifiably, and significantly harmful to people and/or society. Same-sex marriage, IMO, doesn't fit those criteria. Therefore, a law against it would be based primarily on religious opinion. BTW, giving rights to only traditional marriages IS THE SAME AS outlawing SSM.

Either you believe in the Freedom of Religion and therefore legally allow people to hold and practice either Christian or non-Christian values AND ALSO not legally endorse one value system over another OR YOU DON’T.

2007-10-27 20:13:18 · 7 answers · asked by nc 3

This is a simple question that needs a simple answer.

2007-10-27 20:11:41 · 11 answers · asked by Change... 1

2007-10-27 20:10:01 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

What if you are dumb, blind, deaf, etc(I know about this girl who was blind AND deaf) and there was no way for you to learn about God. And what about cavemen, they were humans but they couldn't speak, only grunt. And does god know all languages?(Sorry I never read the bible) So what if you teach your baby a language you made up and lived on a island forever. That means you're child is going to hell?

I also believe that the reason people believe in such things strongly are that:
1. Their parents or their background(People around you) based on religion and devoted their life to it. Ex: If my parents hate something, I come to hate it as well.
2. The way the bible was written, in circular thinking AND the fact that the bible keeps you believing with hopes and fears. Like it would say that if you didn't believe in God, you will go to hell.
3. People believe because they fear otherwise, like imagination vs reality. I believe imagination are there to soften reality.

I am only 15yo..

2007-10-27 20:01:03 · 8 answers · asked by TheUnknownKind 2

2007-10-27 19:58:02 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Curious if you could tell me about sections in Talmud that address dealing with a person who has broken Mitzvahs.

2007-10-27 19:55:45 · 3 answers · asked by יונתן 4

2007-10-27 19:53:18 · 10 answers · asked by jackie_khai 2

Do you think that everyone have a person to destine to be together?

2007-10-27 19:52:40 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-27 19:49:35 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

who is adam and eve in the muslim religion??

and someone in another thread said that the devil got them kicked out of heaven.. can someone please explain this?

2007-10-27 19:48:55 · 6 answers · asked by ZmognessPwnage! 1

Thats what I said.

2007-10-27 19:48:16 · 28 answers · asked by jill@doodle 5

2007-10-27 19:37:11 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

Don't you think all you guys need to stop this endless debate?
Sides of christianity, ahtiest, jewish, muslim, etc of this ongoing war to be #1.

Taking religion just waaaaay too far. Billions of people live on earh. We all have different backgrounds and culture and outside appearance from one another. My ancestors had different teachings from these so called religions. None of these teaching tell us to disrespect/grieve/be angry with/(insert your bullsh**) with other religions.

How can u respect other people and even your own religion when you give the "I'm better than you" babble? I don't believe in Christianity. I don't believe in Muhammad. Yet I like it( in fact I'm facinated and been doing research) and respect it. You don't know me, but you know I don't believe in you and you disrespect/grieve/be angry with/(insert your bullsh**) for it? What Have I done to deserve this?

Respect others the way you want to be respected and I shall do the same

2007-10-27 19:32:45 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

You know what I mean: who displays the most malevolence? Who has the most deficient sense of humor?

Feel free to finger an alternate group if you feel neither of these are appropriate candidates.

2007-10-27 19:29:43 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

Could it be the gap started when satan sinned and that the Genesis account is a recreation of the earth after satan's sin caused God to destroy it? The Bible seems to have two spans of time that are contrasted. They relate to the foundation of the world. God was active before and after the foundation of the world. What do you think?

2007-10-27 19:25:17 · 9 answers · asked by ZORRO 3

2007-10-27 19:21:18 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

ok so to you muslims out there (im also muslim)

ok so i am wondering a few things.. questions:

1.difference between sunni and shi'a?? and why whos right..
2.do sunni's believe in the "mahdi" or only shi'as?
3.does it really matter if your sunni or shi'a?
4.why are there more sunni's then shi'as..

2007-10-27 19:21:04 · 8 answers · asked by ZmognessPwnage! 1

2007-10-27 19:20:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Also, are you a member of a congregation or not?

2007-10-27 19:16:06 · 14 answers · asked by jungle84025 2

I think its strange that everybody is so sure their religion HAS to be the right one, when so many of them are rather new. Christianity is at most 2007 years old, but the egyptions religion is MUCH older than that, so what makes them so sure they are right?

2007-10-27 19:14:01 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-27 19:07:30 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

To prove my psychic abilities, I will ask you to answer only three questions.
1. What is your home state.
2. What is your favourite colour
3. Do you think Brad should dump Angelina and go back to Jennifer
If you answer these questions, I will tell you what you do for a living and what kind of car you drive.

2007-10-27 19:02:53 · 45 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-27 19:02:46 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

"Unfortunately those in Lutheran Churches only follow what Luther said and they don't go directly to the Bible like Luther told them they should. Which is why the Lutheran church is the 2nd largest provider of abortions in the state of Illinois, right after planned parenthood."

This in "additional details" in a recent question I answered about the Catholic faith. To say the least, it floored me. The questioner didn't prove a source for the allegation -- I asked, but as of yet there have been no further details.

This can't be true; it's just totally against everything I've ever known about the Lutheran church. Is is actually possible for someone to so grossly misconstrue "Lutheran Family Services"? Or is it something else?

Understand: This is not retaliation for hostility shown to my own faith by the same questioner; I'm not that thin-skinned and this R&S participant is only one of many like-minded where Catholicism is concerned. I'm just sincerely boggled by this.

2007-10-27 19:01:57 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've spent a significant ammount of my life searching for some nugget of proof of God's existance and have never heard anything more convincing than "You have to have faith"

Where does faith come from then? Isnt accepting something without any evidence whatsoever foolish? How is this any differant than the propaganda used to brainwash the nazis?

2007-10-27 19:01:43 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

How much does that phrase s*ck, R&S?

Can we have a moment of silence for the lost?

2007-10-27 18:59:25 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

were Jews of the Middle East white??????????

2007-10-27 18:58:15 · 14 answers · asked by David O. 1

OK I understand the big bang idea. I understand why you think that with the red shift and all. So I will skip the crap. How do you think that the first atom got there? When you atheists are confronted with that you always say "Well Gods don't just appear do they?" but that would a stupid assumtion scientificaly speaking because God would be of matter not exposed to humans. And if you can't answer that then isn't atheism a faith?

2007-10-27 18:56:06 · 19 answers · asked by (o_o) 4

if relegion says god is formless then why hindu worship idol

2007-10-27 18:52:32 · 7 answers · asked by wisdom 1

My husband and I were celebrating our anniversery and we went to eat and had a great time. We decided to go to the movies but many of the movies were rated R and my husband and I were not comfortable seeing those.

So we opted for a PG13 movie but came to find out it was about a man who falls for his brothers girlfriend and we did not think that was too good. We changed our movie to a action thriller
but as I was watching the movie I felt nervous and scared inside my husbands leans over and asks if I wanted to go home and I said yes from what we saw of the movie there was no sex however it did made me feel uneasy. So we went home.

My question is does the Holy Spirit sometimes speak to your heart when something is not right? I even cried because I never felt this way before. The movies were given to us as a gift and what do I say to the people who gave us the gift when they ask us what we saw?

2007-10-27 18:52:19 · 7 answers · asked by encourager4God 5