Religion & Spirituality - 3 December 2007

I just recieved a "chain "in memory" mail" that states that the UK is taking the Holocaust out of the history lessons in school because it offends the Muslim population who believe it never occured. We are supposed to pass it on..

For my part, I think that this is a ENORMOUS overgeneralization and who ever wrote the email is putting the words of Iran's leader, who stated that the Holocaust maybe didn't happen the way we think - or never happened, in the mouths of the whole of the Muslim community world-wide. This is the stuff that makes people hate ignorant Americans.

So....is this true? Is the GENERAL Muslim belief that the Holocaust never happened?

And quite frankly - I am not interested in the opinions people who either A) are not Muslim or B) who are uneducated about the Islamic faith in scholastic way. I have a BA in Religious Studies and don't really want to hear opinions of Christians, Atheists, etc.

2007-12-03 05:54:58 · 8 answers · asked by SisterSue 6

2007-12-03 05:54:08 · 9 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6

2007-12-03 05:52:42 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-03 05:52:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

do you ever think...but what if there is a God and I do spend eternity in Hell......

please be honest. i know you want to sound, sane, tough, or cool.
just be honest.

2007-12-03 05:51:32 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous

Your brain has not evolved enough because you believe in a human theory.

2007-12-03 05:50:08 · 37 answers · asked by King Arthur 3

*shudders*

2007-12-03 05:49:37 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Who out there belives that ethics and morals are just things created to keep us inline by the religion and culture? i do, what do you think?

2007-12-03 05:48:52 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-03 05:47:08 · 16 answers · asked by Link strikes back 6

I need to know how to honor there celabrations . They are so kind of honor our believes and I want to do the same for them . can anyone tel me what I can do . They bring us Christmas goodies for our hoiday

2007-12-03 05:47:07 · 11 answers · asked by iamblessed 6

2007-12-03 05:46:54 · 22 answers · asked by Happily Happy 7

I know that lying is a sin. My question is do you think that it is a sin to lie when you are simply doing so to spare someone's feelings?
For example: a co-worker wears a new pantsuit to work. It is really a very nice pantsuit, but you personally do not like it. She asks you "do you like my new pantsuit?" And no you really don't, but you tell her "yes, I do" to spare her feelings. Is that a sin?

2007-12-03 05:46:17 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

i dont like my parents at all, my father is crazy he hits me just for saying something silly and my mother is always putting me down, if i dont give her money she says i am the worst daughter ever, but does who give her money are the best children of hers. im 24 with 3 childrens and i am single i work to give my children what i can, she says if i dont give her money she will throw me out the house. i dilike them both, i feel awful since one of the ten comandment is honor your parents how am i supposed to follow this when i dislike them so much?

2007-12-03 05:43:57 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have asked this question before a long time ago and never got any satisfactory answers.
Is the womans menstruation cycle part of the curse that was put on mankind after Adam and Eve ate from the tree?
Or is it a blessing for the woman?
In the bible it tells us not to have sex while we are menstruating and it warns a man not to engage in sex with a woman while she is menstruating.
Do you think that menstruation is something that God designed to be a cleansing of the woman and therefore a time to refrain from sex and it's good for the woman because during that time she doesn't have to be bothered about sex from her husband (I'm serious)
or...it is part of the curse.
Remember God told Eve that now she was going to bear children in pain. Which means before that it was not painful to have children. And Adam and Eve lived in perfection, and menstruating is bloody, nasty, and smelly and an awful thing every month for the woman(well it's bothersome)
So what do you think?

2007-12-03 05:42:01 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

people who don't want to hear it (for religious reasons) or to assume that everyone should enjoy hearing it?

Doesn't that mean that you are putting an emphasis on the consumerist and fun aspects, and forgetting what Christmas is?

2007-12-03 05:41:07 · 28 answers · asked by Silver 3

happen, why only I can't see those miricles...how should I improve my self to see those miricles... a book guide please.

2007-12-03 05:40:49 · 3 answers · asked by Thomas 1

Is it a guessing game?
Or is it a matter of which interpretation(s)
best fits their conveniences?

2007-12-03 05:40:21 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-03 05:39:43 · 20 answers · asked by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7

If the Bible was inspired by God why would God speak to us by such generic letters from Paul to the churches? God sure has used a strange way to give us his Word, don't ya think?

2007-12-03 05:39:01 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was baptized Catholic, had my first communion, and confession, but in my early teens my parents split up, I went with my dad who was not catholic and I didn’t finish my sacraments. I’m 32 and have lived a horrible life. A non Catholic life, I did start going to church, but continued my sinful life, Religion wasn’t talked about much at my household and both parents worked full time jobs so it was up to my older siblings to raise me, who though it was ok to give me mary J when I was 9, all I saw was drugs and sx, that’s really all I knew, my parents weren’t around. I was married and divorced twice, never in the church though, I’ve had kids out of wedlock and I have been living in sin for …I don’t know if you include the other husbands. About… 16 years now. I’ve been too ashamed to go in to the office, my kids need their sacraments and so do I.

Mainly because of what I’ve seen on this sight, I’m terrified to go in there and get this done, my heart is pounding just thinking about it and my anxiety overwhelms me. I am on anxiety meds, I have a big problem with it.) I’m so scared that it paralyzes me…to top it off I read this

2007-12-03 05:37:44 · 5 answers · asked by Sarah 2

Tell me.

2007-12-03 05:34:00 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

What is the most used religous book?
I think it was the Quran, but I'm not sure.

2007-12-03 05:32:58 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

if i name my teddy like my father
i would certainly not like and how can i tolerate things like that
painful
there are some people here just see relegion as fun have no respect for relegion and why are they here for
asking folling us who are devoted towards the relegion
so asking for the people who like to name there teddy same as there prophet as there teacher
MOHAMAD PEACE BE UPON HIM
LOVE HIM FROM
1.5
BILLION PEOPLE
UNLIMITED ANGELS AND LAST BUT SURE NOT LEAST
GOD THE GREATEST

2007-12-03 05:32:55 · 26 answers · asked by Abbas 4

In Luke 6:24, Jesus says:

"But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort."

What did he mean by this?

2007-12-03 05:32:37 · 12 answers · asked by Billybww 4

because he couldn't give me an answer--maybe you can

For Lent in the Catholic religion you are supposed to give up something that you normally have or do---well, I want to know if I can give up Catholicism???

2007-12-03 05:32:21 · 9 answers · asked by me m 2

How hard is it to say "Seasons Greetings", or "Happy Holidays"?

2007-12-03 05:31:46 · 74 answers · asked by Anonymous

It was snowing and below freezing in NOVEMBER, a few days ago, where is Al Gore? I thought it was global WARMING.

::)
does anyone else find this funny??

2007-12-03 05:31:06 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-03 05:31:03 · 4 answers · asked by marcel f 1

2007-12-03 05:30:38 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why do some Christian ministers such as John Hagee from Texas back Christian George Bush, Jr. but other Christian ministers such as Joel Osteen from Texas seem to leave George Bush, Jr. out of his sermons?

2007-12-03 05:28:35 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous