Religion & Spirituality - 28 October 2007

Evangelical Christians in the US have helped convince dozens of Iranian Jews to move to the state of Israel in recent months
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/news/currentarticle.cfm?id=58

Iran's Jews reject cash offer to move to Israel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2125155,00.html

2007-10-28 11:44:21 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-28 11:42:57 · 56 answers · asked by beeffey 2

Not sure what it means. They hand out stickers, ask people to buy lei's out on the beaches (here in Hawaii), etc. I'm not into the faith at all, but noticed they always ask me to repeat a certain phrase...I've said a couple times to get them out of my face...but what am I actually saying? Hope it's no allegiance to Hare Krishna or whoever it is. It's always the same phrase though...??

2007-10-28 11:42:18 · 13 answers · asked by killindatjob 1

what if the dead get a disease that creates electrical charges in the barin the get them moving again and inspire their hunger. And when they bite us there blood is so poisinous that we die within a few minuets and have the same effect put on us. What if the bible prophecy is just a new disease or it could be just people opinions coming out of their graves to bite us in the ***.

2007-10-28 11:41:58 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

…and they were really distressed at the thought of death (yet you knew they would die in a few days), do you think it would be better to tell them that they would recover and be alright if you knew it would relieve their worries?

2007-10-28 11:41:34 · 26 answers · asked by skeptic 6

What book do you consider THE BOOK of God and tell me why!

2007-10-28 11:41:13 · 2 answers · asked by ? 4

When it comes to religion, and sinning, these people cannot be trusted. It is easy to do all of the terrible things in the world, then ask for forgiveness and be "born again" but how do we know these people aren't going to try that crap again?

This should be handled like bankruptcy. A born again christian should have that on their church record for 7 years, just so other religious people are aware and can be causious for that time. That sounds like a good plan.

2007-10-28 11:38:45 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

Religion is constantly accused on this forum and elsewhere, of being a cause of conflict and war. However, atheism and policies based on atheistic principles have an appalling record of crimes against humanity.
Hitler, although he is best described as a pantheist occultist, used atheistic, evolutionary principles to formulate and justify his eugenic and ‘master race’ policies. Countless millions were brutally slaughtered as a result, including 6 million Jews. The atheistic regimes of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ceaucesco, Honicker etc. together murdered at least 38 million people, making the century of the great atheist experiment, the most bloodthirsty and brutal in the history of the world. Even today, the atheist inspired ethics of our secular society ensure that the slaughter continues with the sanitised killing of millions of innocent unborn babies in abortion mills and embryo experimentation labs.

2007-10-28 11:37:30 · 45 answers · asked by A.M.D.G 6

Has anybody ever seen this? And what do you think about it?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irTcT0tZpvQ

2007-10-28 11:35:54 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-28 11:32:59 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

I wish i could go back in time and do everything different, but i can't and the people i've wronged don't seem willing to let it go. Because of this, i keep feeling guilty and i know God forgives me, but i can't seem to forgive myself, any advice?

2007-10-28 11:30:11 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've studied theology and find the God of the main three Abrahamic faiths to be absolutely monsterous. I am having a hard time going to church and hanging out with people who can say nothing about how good their God is while they completely ignore everything he has done. In the OT slavery is condoned, women are looked down upon as inferior, God tells his people to kill multiple groups for not believing in him, one is told to kill their own kin if they worship another God. I just can't get my sense of morality to swallow this, no matter how hard I try.

I also can't get past the point of an eternal Hell. It makes no sense to me, and is perhaps more twisted than anything I wrote above. People choose their religion based on where they are born, of course they've heard of Christianity, but they were tought a different religion, just as you were taught yours.

I want to believe there is something there, but I don't think I'll ever be able to believe in such a God.

2007-10-28 11:29:16 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have heard this preached by various preachers all of life but I have actually found no mention of this any where within the Holy Bible. Just wondering if this has been some scenerio drawn up by preachers over the centuries or if I have actually missed something here with this.

2007-10-28 11:28:04 · 12 answers · asked by Delores B 1

I just seen this in another post and my jaw is still on the floor

"Well, since forgiveness only comes through Christ it is kind of irrelevant whether they believe in it or not. If one hasn't entered into the new covenant with Christ and hasn't been forgiven himself, then how can he forgive others? "

I have forgiven many people in my life , I prefer not to hold on to any negative feelings at all
I have forgiven one person who hurt me greatly and yes it took a lot , but I have managed it and feel good
am I secretly a Christian and dont even know it ... given that only Christians can forgive ?

* rolls eyes *

2007-10-28 11:26:48 · 39 answers · asked by ☮ Pangel ☮ 7

...or both? I think of god & religion as different entities

2007-10-28 11:26:24 · 22 answers · asked by ? 2

i see alot of younger people wearing alot the maltese cross and today i saw a young boy wearing a cross, but the top of the cross was made out of the fascist eagles and the swastika. i dont understand what this fad is. is it now seen as cool to support nazis? or do the kids just not know what it means.

and the kid wasnt a skin head, he wasnt even white.
i say kid but he was probably about 20 i see this all the time in these kids. how is this ok?

2007-10-28 11:25:22 · 10 answers · asked by tiafaha 2

It's hard to know if people really believe there are demons.... Or are just a lot of people are going mentally deranged?

2007-10-28 11:25:03 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is their punishment for doing so far worse than that of others?

Did they mistake "profit" for "prophet"?

2007-10-28 11:24:49 · 12 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

2007-10-28 11:21:53 · 48 answers · asked by Anonymous

...came to your church seeking help, what would you do? What would your church do? How would they react? How would you react?

2007-10-28 11:21:34 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-28 11:19:44 · 46 answers · asked by Anonymous

How can some fundies believe that somethings are the "Signs" of the "Devil?"

Like for Harry Potter for example. They believe it supports Satanism. There is no evidence becuase I've read all seven of them and found nothing there that relates to religion of any kind. It's just a frickin' book for people to ENJOY!

plus with other things like the superstitutious "666" being the sign of the devil is silly. There is nothing in this world that has anything to prove Satan is real. If you are going to count "Exorcism", believe me that is just mental illness, poisoning, and psyhical illness. Or someone is just starving for attention.

Another thing, if "Satan" is real, then why do you think he's evil? Just because your bible says so? I believe the whole concept of "the devil" is just to scare people from not believing in "God"

2007-10-28 11:19:00 · 16 answers · asked by mystic_lonewolf22 5

My kinfolk are Buddhist and we did something they didn't agree with and they refuse to have anything to do with us ever again. As Christians, we have forgiven and forgotten, but they keep bringing to surface over and over and will not accept our forgiveness. Do Buddhists believe in forgiveness or do they hang on until the other person(s) give in?

2007-10-28 11:17:48 · 18 answers · asked by Mrs.Blessed 7

I have a cute cat---he is an orange tabby domestic short hair---he's Catholic.

2007-10-28 11:16:44 · 40 answers · asked by Midge 7

Do they not see that religion is needed to keep society in working order?
Is it logical to think that everyone has the ability to create their own moral compass?
What do atheists think of Hitler- who believed that what he was doing was right (Hitler was neither christian nor atheist see: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/mischedj/ca_hitler.html) but whose mindset was incredibly detrimental to society?
Do atheists forget to consider the workings of society in their search for "truth"?

Is it really the atheists who are missing the bigger picture?

2007-10-28 11:15:41 · 16 answers · asked by Anna 4

As in, Catholicism, mainline protestantism, the Orthodox church, the charismatic churches, etc. --- and what do you think this means? I guess I was thinking about it in terms of brand new believers and what to them seems the plainest and truest interpretation of scripture.

What do you think? :)

2007-10-28 11:10:45 · 15 answers · asked by KL 6

That is, no matter what the reasoning one used to believe in God, would it be a good/OK thing in the end because they believed in God?

Would it be OK if YOU believed in God for bad(faulty) reasons?

2007-10-28 11:07:26 · 19 answers · asked by skeptic 6

2007-10-28 11:06:29 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'll tell you why:

If god wanted me to believe in him, don't you think he'd show himself to me, or find some other way to prove it. Why does blind faith have to be the only way to "get to know" god? What's wrong with hard evidence? If god was all-loving, then don't you think he'd do all he could to direct us to the right path to salvation?

No - he just expects us to have faith, no matter what. My mind doesn't just work on the premises that, "I'll believe because I'm going to get some treat when I die, even if it's not likely that it's true." Testing us all of our lives doesn't sound like a very benevolent being to me.

If god expects us to believe in him, when evidence shows otherwise, then why did he give us the critical thinking skills to come to the conclusion that he doesn't exist? It's like giving ice cream to a child with ADD and telling her, "Don't you dare lick it, because if you do, I'll burn you forever." She's GONNA lick it, so why bother

2007-10-28 11:05:56 · 31 answers · asked by Alex H 5

A: Point at me and laugh your a** off, without knowing me?

B: Point at me, laugh your a** off, then ask me, "How did you come to that conclusion?"

C: Ignore me, then look down on me.

D: Hock a loogie on my forehead.

E: Have a civil conversation with me, then come to the realization that not all of us are damning you to Hell or thinking we're better than you?

Who knows, you just might wanna invite me over for some beer.

Have a great weekend!! :)

Edit: they wanted to put this in Lesbian, Gay, Bizexual and Transgendered lol...

2007-10-28 11:01:11 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous