Religion & Spirituality - 20 November 2007

People in Europe actually have fun. Europeans don't find it necessary to illegalize everything that is fun. Every summer I take a trip to Europe. Every time something new and fun comes along, Christians have to come along and call it a sin and illigalize it just to ruin everyones fun. When I turn 18, the first thing I'm doing is to do whatever it takes to become a legal citizen in one of the European countries.

2007-11-20 16:25:53 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Big question. I have rheumatoid arthritis I am in pain everyday and if I don't take shots I don't walk. I am 30 with a handicap placard. It sucks. I have prayed and prayed tried meditation, I still am in pain. Why doesn't God take it away. I did not ask for this and I try to stay positive, I tried that game plan too. It is not working. I am worried about my future and I am too young for it too end not well. So why. The doctors are not helping. And I do not understand. You know sometimes God works, sometimes prayers work, but what about for the big stuff. If doctors can't heal me then who can? So what else can I do? Spin on my head, do a hat dance. I mean what. I want it to go away. And if God is all good and we can do all things through Christ then why can this not be done?

2007-11-20 16:24:35 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hi,

1)I heard from most of the Wiccans that there is no evil.
But how can this be, we all do kill other living beings to survive.

Isn't it the most evil and everlasting truth?
Besides that, people fight, rape, war etc., aren't all these actions evil?

2)If God/dess -or both- created the universe with love, where is all those evil coming from?

3)If there is a dualist point of view in Wicca -Goddess & God, Women & Men, Evolution & Involution etc- why isn't there Good & Evil?

I am not against Wiccans, I know you have a very peaceful system.
I just want to know your way of thinking.
Thanks.

2007-11-20 16:23:50 · 14 answers · asked by survey taker 2

Theyve burned all my books and have openly ridiculed me at church(they make me go i have no choice).I feel like theyre killing me.

2007-11-20 16:22:26 · 24 answers · asked by Laurdania 1

You're supposed to suffer because of your great-grandma, Eve. That means no tennis and no gym class.

2007-11-20 16:22:01 · 36 answers · asked by Potatoe Plague 2

2007-11-20 16:20:43 · 10 answers · asked by TTC 3

is wrong with that? He is the Creator isn't He and not you?

Isaiah 45:7

Who are you (the pottery) to question the POTTER; "why has THOU created me thus?"
Read Jeremiah 18:1ff ..The story of the Potter's and his clay story.
Are you wiser than your CREATOR , oh you puny creature ; called men ?

What say you all?

2007-11-20 16:19:50 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-20 16:16:04 · 9 answers · asked by Devon 2

My class viewed a film on contemporary feminist spirituality this morning that mostly focused on Goddess worship and featured very few men. Because of this, the one male who decided to attend class today asked if the men in these religions play any specific roles. Half of the women in the class immediately jumped down his throat and said rather ugly things to him, but I think it was a legitimate question for someone who knows nothing about the religion. Are there specific roles for men and women within these belief systems? Sources to email and/or post would be appreciated!

2007-11-20 16:11:21 · 11 answers · asked by sshsearching 2

2007-11-20 16:10:11 · 12 answers · asked by Buke 4

2007-11-20 16:09:09 · 52 answers · asked by pastasauce8889 1

Are you gonna invite any Native Americans to your Thanksgiving dinner?

(If you have NA in your genes...that counts)

2007-11-20 16:08:45 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-20 16:06:25 · 45 answers · asked by Shinigami 7

I am not suggesting what is referred to on this site as "fundie" dogma. I have a unified theory of all things developing and I have given it a name "One". I am completely certain that this forum does not provide me enough space to offer my argument.

One thing I am certain off is disagreement from every angle. So, this is a poll of sorts; how many people by percentage would be willing to investigate an argument that provides a unified solution to man’s biggest questions? How many would be free thinking enough to consider such an argument?

2007-11-20 16:05:41 · 22 answers · asked by Old guy 5

We have all these thoughts on heaven and hell, when we really don't know what we're saying to begin with. Without evil, there is no good. This world works both with good and evil, so acts upon events can unfold in this planet. From negative, is positive. They go hand in hand. Lets just say text book style, hell is a place the evil are condemned. What defines evil though? Do men and women that serve their countries go to hell because they murder in belief for their call of duty, their country, their belief? One of the commandments that COMMAND you, says you should not kill. How do you explain that? Is there fine print that says "exception of wars." A man that steals to feed the poor, does he go to hell? Some religious beliefs believe that sacrificing your life for a cause grants you to heaven, yet to others that condemns you to hell. We will never understand how this universe purely operates, so many should stop believing in silly stories that tell us how. Be rational. Not insane.

2007-11-20 16:05:27 · 17 answers · asked by The Only Quest 1

There is one argument a LOT of Christians use - "Ok then, how did the molecules come about?" well I ask: "How did God come about? He would be FAR more complex than anything else in the universe wouldn't you say?"

2007-11-20 16:05:07 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Knock it off big guy....we get it!

2007-11-20 16:04:19 · 12 answers · asked by Grunty O 2

If you look up, is it because you want to see God?
If you look down, is it because you are ashamed?

I tend to look up...

2007-11-20 16:01:43 · 25 answers · asked by Janet Reincarnated 5

my friend wants to become a nun because she says its easier than falling in love and getting hurt (I think it's not a great idea) and she is Jewish. she doesn't want to convert, though.

2007-11-20 16:01:02 · 7 answers · asked by notepad39 3

My back yard is the woods... I like to sit on my back porch and contemplate the greenery and I pray. That's my altar.

Peace!

2007-11-20 15:59:54 · 4 answers · asked by Janet Reincarnated 5

I'm writing a paper about going to church with a religion not my own..but problem is I haven't been able to go.

So if there are Catholics out there reading this..could you please tell me what its like from the moment you walk through the door of the church, and the kind of rituals that are done...i've been to a catholic church once and i've noticed that they do things ritually and in order etc. thanks

2007-11-20 15:59:22 · 6 answers · asked by SUNNY 2

Serious question, looking for personal thoughts. Thanks.

2007-11-20 15:59:03 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-20 15:58:38 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-20 15:56:44 · 29 answers · asked by anam 2

We all believe in the same God so why judge Religions?

Catholics believe in the same God as you do but yet many of you judge us, did Jesus tell you to?

So what if we do things that are different, what has it got to do with some people, why tell us we can't do this and we can't do that, and what we do is wrong, is that your place or not?

Instead of judging why not show love and peace, that is what Jesus wants!

2007-11-20 15:56:37 · 20 answers · asked by TigerLily 4

2007-11-20 15:55:22 · 31 answers · asked by Chrissy 3

Who are these angels?
Vs 6
And angels who did not keep their own principality but abandoned their own dwelling place, He has kept in eternal bonds under gloom for the judgement of the great day.

A cross reference for these angels is seen in 2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned but delivered them to gloomy pits, having cast them down to Tartarus, they being kept for judgement.

What do you believer these angels have to do with the account in Genesis 6:2 where the sons of God and the daughters of men were married and the breed of men called Nephilims were born.. these mighty men of old.

What do you know of this matter in the word? Please feel free to share on it.

Ty in advance
in Christ
sandy

2007-11-20 15:54:35 · 15 answers · asked by Broken Alabaster Flask 6

As I am doing study and research on Astrology, I require birth details of great and prominent personalities (past and present) of the world.

Required four major details are hereunder:

1. Name of the personality
2. Date of Birth
3. Place of Birth
4. Time of Birth

Reason for asking details of great personalities just because of analysing their particular event happened in a specefic period.

Reference of any website (preferably free download), books or any other reliable sources please.

Your details will be a great help to me.

Thank you.

2007-11-20 15:54:08 · 2 answers · asked by Arunvijayakumar 2

Is it necessary that Muslim present should be equally violent ? I am asking this question because a number of Answerers have tried to justify their present violence by quoting Middle Dark Ages. How much justified are such excuses ?

2007-11-20 15:51:56 · 20 answers · asked by guru 2

2007-11-20 15:50:12 · 26 answers · asked by *~Ariel Brigalow Moondust~* 6