Religion & Spirituality - 21 November 2007

http://newshopper.sulekha.com/news/2007/11/man-marries-daughter-claims-divine-sanction.htm

2007-11-21 20:18:01 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-21 20:14:56 · 22 answers · asked by SuperSkinny 3

2007-11-21 20:14:48 · 12 answers · asked by carl 4

Okay, so, in all seriousness, how many of you Christians got your underwear in a twist reading that, getting all excited over the prospect of saving one of those poor, strayed and lost souls?

2007-11-21 20:11:45 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

i know her parents are fine with me as long as im muslim. and i love her to death and i would do anything to be with her. but my family doesnt approve of me converting. im columbian and she's pakistani. but if i had to pick b/w my parents or her, i'd pick her.

2007-11-21 20:08:19 · 21 answers · asked by ... 1

2007-11-21 20:06:09 · 22 answers · asked by carl 4

Which one leads to Moksha

2007-11-21 20:05:32 · 10 answers · asked by ۞Aum۞ 7

2007-11-21 20:05:23 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-21 20:04:06 · 11 answers · asked by carl 4

wouldn't this describe who the anti-christ is? It doesn't matter how you answer this question, the truth is yes.

2007-11-21 20:01:00 · 21 answers · asked by SuperSkinny 3

2007-11-21 19:58:19 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

When I add mine up, I've had 15. What about you?

2007-11-21 19:57:53 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Apart from their rejection of Christ do you see similarities? It seems to me they are like mirror reversed twins.
Islamicists distort scripture;atheists distort history:eg Bible is corrupt (but the bit of the Paraclete is true) ,atheists (some) claim Jesus never existed.Have you seen atheists and Islamicists help out at natural disasters eg.tsunamis,earthquakes or help their own during war.It's like they believe in letting the 'dead bury the dead'.(that's as close as they'll get to the Bible).
They both don't seem to have leaders that you can hold accountable.
Feel free to add some more similarities.

2007-11-21 19:51:43 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous

What was created first, homosexuals or heterosexuals?

2007-11-21 19:50:30 · 11 answers · asked by samadhisativa 2

2007-11-21 19:48:08 · 14 answers · asked by carl 4

It is beyond me how some one could believe something that some person told them and non of it can be proven to be true
(like the gold plates which are the sole base of their religion)
I do not under stand this
can they show me any proof that Joseph Smiths claims are In fact true despite the evidence proving other wise ?

2007-11-21 19:47:26 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-21 19:46:58 · 15 answers · asked by carl 4

But very few do so when they know what the Catholic Church is.

2007-11-21 19:44:12 · 8 answers · asked by carl 4

Honest to Pete! You people keep saying this but I have yet to see any of you back it up with actual PROOF!

2007-11-21 19:41:29 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

Even though the Bible clearly states he didn't? Shepherds don't watch their flocks in winter, etc.

And why do they also insist that Christmas belongs only to them and no one else?

2007-11-21 19:36:29 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

At our thanksgiving eve service tonight, one of our pastors was talking about being thankful IN all circumstances, not FOR all circumstances. I am one tonight that can say that I am thankful for God's grace, faithfulness, strength and for the body of Christ that is holding me up during a very difficult time. Hope all of you can be thankful today, tomorrow and forever. Happy Thanksgiving!

2007-11-21 19:35:22 · 15 answers · asked by AdoreHim 7

2007-11-21 19:30:49 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

Every three-year old knows God did it, and created Adam and Eve, if that wasn't the truth, why wouldn't we be teaching them about monkeymen and space aliens, or whatever it is your religion believes.............

2007-11-21 19:23:52 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

to SDW:

Thanks for compliementing on my Avatar picture. The black and white yin-yang is the traditional symbol for Taoism. When Buddhism merged with Taoism to create Zen Buddhism, the Buddhist symbol of the red and black yin-yang was chosen to represent their faith. Mine is actually older, but the two are actual the same when you get all technical with it.

2007-11-21 19:23:51 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Pius XII entlisted a Jew to save him from the Nazis

"I’m not a believer, I don’t go to church, but if I found myself before Pius XII I’d get down on my knees, because if my children and I are in existence, we owe it to him."

Silvio Ascoli, Roman, class of 1945, was emotional as recounted the story of his father Bruno, "of the Jewish race" according to the norms of the infamous racial laws, whom the Vatican saved from deportation by enrolling him in its Guard.

Last June the Cardinal Secretary of State spoke about this: "In October 1943, aside from the police and the Swiss Guard, there was also the Palatine Guard. To protect the Vatican and the extraterritorial holdings there were some 575 Palatine Guards.. Thus, the Secretary of State asked the powers occupying Italy to be able to take on another 1425 people for inclusion in the roles of the Palatine Guard. The Jewish Ghetto would just a little distance away…".

Now a new witness testifies to the help.

"My father was born in 1910, my granfather’s family belonged to the Jewish community in Ancona, and his sister with her husband were to be deported to Auschwitz." Bruno, who died in 1970, was the son of a mixed marriage and didn’t frequent the Roman Jewish community. On 28 October 1938, just after the racial laws went into force, the man asked to be baptized.

But it was too late to escape the jaws of the regime which were closing around the Jews. The parish priest tried to help him, writing that Ascoli had attended catechism since August of that year, but it didn’t make any difference.

"My folks tried to approach the Ministry of the Interior, attesting that they weren’t enrolled in the Jewish community. But the response was that whoever had a Jewish parent, and couldn’t prove he belonged to another religion at the time when the racial laws went into effect, was considered to be a Jew. My father was baptized to late. for my family this was a terrible blow."

Thus the Ascoli were forced to declare at the Governor of Rome’s offices their membership of the "Jewish race". Two years later, in 1940, Bruno married in church, a Catholic, Maria Bianchi, even though the marriage could not have civil effect. "My mother married him knowind that things could go bad." The couple found a place in the via Famagosta in the Trionfale quarter.

In October 1943, after the arrival of the Germans in the capital, Bruno Ascoli became a wanted by the police. "One day the fascists and nazis showed up at the house and asked for my father. Luckily, he was out. My family managed to let him know not to come back." Bruno escaped and briefly found a place in the loft of the repair shop of a tire dealer. "He stayed there for two week, and my mother went secretly to take him something to eat. But at the end of October, the tire dealer made him leave because it had become too dangerous to keep him there. That is when, thanks to the concern of an uncle who worked in the Vatican Museum as an usher, my father came to be enlisted in the Palatine Guard." Bruno Ascoli became an auxiliary of the Pope’s honor guard, and could live at the Vatican.

"He saved his skin! He stayed there for a few months. There are photos which show him in the Palatine Guard uniform within the walls of the Vatican. In December 1943 he got precious safe-conduct papers from the Holy See attesting to his membership in the Pope’s honor guard." Silvio, the son, explained that he was in a kind of rotation, in the attempt to save as many persecuted people as possible.

"In the first months of 1944, the Holy See told my father about another hideout, in the Via Mocenigo, near the Vatican walls, close to a wood warehouse. This proves there was an organized network of aid and assistance. I also told this to my children: if the Vatican had not helped my father, I would not be here. I believe that Pope Pacelli chose well: no public denunciations which would have provoked acts of repression – I don’t dare imagine what would have happened had the SS entered the Vatican – but rather give concrete help to the persecuted."

2007-11-21 19:19:26 · 4 answers · asked by carl 4

Why are people so obsessed with how the earth and humans came to be? Why does it matter weather it was God or an explosion and why do people keep arguing over it today?

2007-11-21 19:17:59 · 15 answers · asked by Kurtus S 1

such as the temple get up of a bakers hat , aprons , secret hand shakes, and magical UnderRoo's ?
and the vow they take that says, If I tell anyone of these secrets may I be cut from ear to ear, and my insides be taken out of my body (when taking this vow they motion with their thumb cutting their throat from ear to ear).
this is done in the temple in Utah
I know this for a fact as Ive seen on a video that was taken from an exmormon who taped this while wearing a hidden camera
Why do you deny these things?
I expect denial from Mormons I just want to know why
nothing against you

2007-11-21 19:17:36 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

No doubt there are lot of descriptions about bhakta and drarmik persons. but how would u define such person in just one sentence.

2007-11-21 19:16:15 · 28 answers · asked by sangeeta iyengar 2

And then complain about the decadance, and try to promote Sharia law?

2007-11-21 19:13:41 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

are you serious when you say "it matters whats in the inside?"

2007-11-21 19:13:30 · 24 answers · asked by Rolanda 1