Religion & Spirituality - 16 November 2007

this is a serious question. serious answers only, please.

2007-11-16 06:10:13 · 8 answers · asked by PediC 5

2007-11-16 06:09:12 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

There's a question on here that asks whether jesus was murdered or something else, and the general concensus of opinion seems to be that he was "murdered".

Given that the definition of "murder" is:
"the killing of a human being by a sane person, with intent, malice aforethought (prior intention to kill the particular victim or anyone who gets in the way), and with no legal excuse or authority. "

and that Jesus was killed by the Roman authorities with the legal excuse that he was formenting rebellion, in what way can it be said that he was murdered instead of executed???

2007-11-16 06:09:04 · 22 answers · asked by Alex 5

http://www.morallaw.org/

2007-11-16 06:08:54 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

and eat their own bread etc.
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/isa/4/1#1

2007-11-16 06:06:23 · 11 answers · asked by Priestcalling 3

I love the Lord but sometimes I have felt the spirit of oppression one day when I worked in insurance everyone was being negative and I could feel this in the air and I asked a co-worker who is a christian and he said he felt that there was opression too.

My question is can you feel vibes whether something is negative or postive, does the Bible have anything to say about this energy?

Also when I clean my house I open all the windows and pray over each room that Gods peace would be present and I ask God to remove all negative thoughts and energies we might have brought into the home. Do any of you do this?

Do you also think that words spoken that are negative go into the universe and continue to cause hurt even long after the words are spoken?

2007-11-16 06:04:20 · 13 answers · asked by encourager4God 5

dibs on Mary!!! (though I will probably end up being the donkey!)

2007-11-16 06:04:20 · 21 answers · asked by GEISHA 3

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/personal/11/16/flying.spaghettimonster.ap/index.html

What say you ....?
:) Love, S.P.
xoxoxo

2007-11-16 06:03:35 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://scriptures.lds.org/en/dc/132/1,38-39,55#1

mitt romney declared that plural marrige is an abomination. I heard it on the news several months ago. but Joseph smith defended plural marriage as a restoration of the fulness of the gospell. Some even taught a person must accept a plural wife in order to gain celestial Exaltation.
but i know the BoM denounces it. i also know that STRANGE wives are denounced in the book of Ezra.
God, the BoM says, Loves the chastity of women. so? i ask where is the ultimate Expounding of this doctrine when a Later prophet (president) of the church made an official ban of plural marriage. ?

2007-11-16 06:02:36 · 4 answers · asked by Priestcalling 3

will you assume that baby belong to a monkey?

2007-11-16 06:02:27 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

Our son's work-mate has recently come from Ghana to Scotland and is a Roman Catholic. He's keen to join any Catholic processions going on in the city around now. Somehow, I think the weather there might be a deterrant for processions, but if there are any events you Scottish Catholics know of, could you kindly advise? Then I'll pass the info on. Ta!

2007-11-16 06:01:32 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Will I need gasoline for the mower? Will there be gasoline in heaven?

2007-11-16 05:58:21 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-16 05:56:44 · 12 answers · asked by SisterCF 4

2007-11-16 05:55:23 · 15 answers · asked by I'/\/\AZILLA2 3

That most the people that have these AM or VT "badges" are atheists.

And most atheists here bash people for being followers...anyone else find the irony hilarious?

Also, does anyone else feel bad for them because it comes off as a desperate attempt to be accepted or be part of a group?

2007-11-16 05:54:42 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'd love to know what they believe...I just don't want anyone, missonary or whatever, to come to my house. I don't need anyone to "explain" things to me. If the first Mormon (LDS, whatever) people could interpret for themselves, I'm sure I can manage without someone staring over my shoulder. Seriously, I like reading people's holy books, I just don't want to be bothered by people trying to convert me. Anyway this can happen?

(I'm might be willing, if I have to, to pay for it if they sell it in stores, but I've never seen it, and I prefer free things anyway.)

2007-11-16 05:54:41 · 25 answers · asked by Skalite 6

My 3rd grader has a wonderful teacher this year. We would love to give her a gift for Hannakah, is this appropriate? If the teacher were not Jewish, we would have no issues with giving her a Christmas gift, but we don't want to be insensitive to her religion since we are not Jewish. If this is appropriate, when should we give it to her, as Hannakah is for 8 days?

2007-11-16 05:54:27 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

I decided to quantify the vitriol in R&S. I looked at the 10 most recent questions and counted the number of vitriolic remarks (those that included a direct insult either towards Christians, a specific member or towards another member's religion which had no associated redeeming quality or meaning behind the negative remark) made by those claiming to be atheists (i.e. containing an atheist reference in their name or by the blatant obviousness of their comment) and by Christians (using the same criteria). I only counted negative remarks and ignored those that were neutral, positive or dubious. I ignored the Saudi Arabia rape thread, even though it would have clearly painted atheists in a poorer light, because the distinctions were more difficult there. In total, I counted 32 vitriolic atheist remarks and a single vitriolic Christian remark. So why is it that atheists are so distinctly more vitriolic than Christians?

2007-11-16 05:51:43 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

After all, he's just carrying out "God's will" by killing people in a war zone, right? I mean, didn't "Thou Shalt Not Kill" come with a bunch of fine print?

2007-11-16 05:50:11 · 3 answers · asked by The ~Muffin~ Man 6

2007-11-16 05:50:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Crime Statistics > Rapes (per capita) (most recent) by country
VIEW DATA: Totals Per capita
Definition Source Printable version

Bar Graph Map Correlations


Showing latest available data. Rank Countries Amount (top to bottom)
#1 South Africa: 1.19538 per 1,000 people
#2 Seychelles: 0.788294 per 1,000 people
#3 Australia: 0.777999 per 1,000 people
#4 Montserrat: 0.749384 per 1,000 people
#5 Canada: 0.733089 per 1,000 people
#6 Jamaica: 0.476608 per 1,000 people
#7 Zimbabwe: 0.457775 per 1,000 people
#8 Dominica: 0.34768 per 1,000 people
#9 United States: 0.301318 per 1,000 people
#10 Iceland: 0.246009 per 1,000 people
#11 Papua New Guinea: 0.233544 per 1,000 people
#12 New Zealand: 0.213383 per 1,000 people
#13 United Kingdom: 0.142172 per 1,000 people
#14 Spain: 0.140403 per 1,000 people
#15 France: 0.139442 per 1,000 people
#16 Korea, South: 0.12621 per 1,000 people
#17 Mexico: 0.122981 per 1,000 people
#18 Norway: 0.120836 per 1,000 people
#19 Costa Rica: 0.118277 per 1,000 people
#20 Venezuela: 0.115507 per 1,000 people
#21 Finland: 0.110856 per 1,000 people
#22 Netherlands: 0.100445 per 1,000 people
#23 Denmark: 0.0914948 per 1,000 people
#24 Germany: 0.0909731 per 1,000 people
#25 Bulgaria: 0.0795973 per 1,000 people
#26 Chile: 0.0782179 per 1,000 people
#27 Thailand: 0.0626305 per 1,000 people
#28 Kyrgyzstan: 0.0623785 per 1,000 people
#29 Poland: 0.062218 per 1,000 people
#30 Sri Lanka: 0.0599053 per 1,000 people
#31 Hungary: 0.0588588 per 1,000 people
#32 Estonia: 0.0547637 per 1,000 people
#33 Ireland: 0.0542829 per 1,000 people
#34 Switzerland: 0.0539458 per 1,000 people
#35 Belarus: 0.0514563 per 1,000 people
#36 Uruguay: 0.0512295 per 1,000 people
#37 Lithuania: 0.0508757 per 1,000 people
#38 Malaysia: 0.0505156 per 1,000 people
#39 Romania: 0.0497089 per 1,000 people
#40 Czech Republic: 0.0488234 per 1,000 people
#41 Russia: 0.0486543 per 1,000 people
#42 Latvia: 0.0454148 per 1,000 people
#43 Moldova: 0.0448934 per 1,000 people
#44 Colombia: 0.0433254 per 1,000 people
#45 Slovenia: 0.0427648 per 1,000 people
#46 Italy: 0.0402045 per 1,000 people
#47 Portugal: 0.0364376 per 1,000 people
#48 Tunisia: 0.0331514 per 1,000 people
#49 Zambia: 0.0266383 per 1,000 people
#50 Ukraine: 0.0244909 per 1,000 people
#51 Slovakia: 0.0237525 per 1,000 people
#52 Mauritius: 0.0219334 per 1,000 people
#53 Turkey: 0.0180876 per 1,000 people
#54 Japan: 0.017737 per 1,000 people
#55 Hong Kong: 0.0150746 per 1,000 people
#56 India: 0.0143187 per 1,000 people
#57 Qatar: 0.0139042 per 1,000 people
#58 Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 0.0132029 per 1,000 people
#59 Greece: 0.0106862 per 1,000 people
#60 Georgia: 0.0100492 per 1,000 people
#61 Armenia: 0.00938652 per 1,000 people
#62 Indonesia: 0.00567003 per 1,000 people
#63 Yemen: 0.0038597 per 1,000 people
#64 Azerbaijan: 0.00379171 per 1,000 people
#65 Saudi Arabia: 0.00329321 per 1,000 people
Weighted average: 0.1 per 1,000 people

2007-11-16 05:49:23 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was blocked from answering this question, so I will answer it here.

We do not worship the Pope, Mary, nor the saints.

God alone is worthy of worship.

We ask Mary and the saints to pray for us, just as all Christians do of family and friends.

We honor the Office of Saint Peter, which is occupied by the current Pope. We welcome an Apostolic Blessing, if we should be so graced, by the Bishop of Rome -- the Pope -- who is the successor to Saint Peter.

2007-11-16 05:46:58 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-16 05:46:44 · 16 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6

2007-11-16 05:46:11 · 6 answers · asked by baileybc 2

One for the strictly religious (regardless of religion)
One for athiests
One for middle of the road folk (Go to church but don't want school to be religious, for example).

Or, how would you split up the country - or would you?

2007-11-16 05:45:28 · 36 answers · asked by Go Bears! 6

How can anyone give any credit to Genesis when it was the beginning, there were no people to see or record God making the world in 6 days so where did that story come from?

2007-11-16 05:45:02 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.armorofgodpjs.com/

Christians: What are your thoughts on these types of products?

Non-Christians: How does this type of marketing affect the way you view Christianity?

2007-11-16 05:43:52 · 15 answers · asked by Celestian Vega 6

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."

-- William Shakespeare

2007-11-16 05:43:39 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

and committing injustices against his/her neighbors?

2007-11-16 05:42:53 · 10 answers · asked by Ťango 3

If so many believe in George washington....yet never met him....
then why the belief in Jesus...whom also they have never met....
"Met" meaning in Live in color......

2007-11-16 05:42:05 · 22 answers · asked by craftsmanunltd 3