Religion & Spirituality - 7 December 2007

Isn't that a bit like overkill? Surely one of those crazy dudes is enough?
From a purely objective perspective of course.

2007-12-07 01:29:38 · 26 answers · asked by Jerusalem Delivered 3

Leviticus 12:1-8
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2012;&version=9;

Aren't "sin offerings" only made when a "sin" has been committed?

2007-12-07 01:28:23 · 12 answers · asked by Gap™ ( uses the WikiBible™ ) 2

Isn't that just the height of arrogance?

2007-12-07 01:26:42 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-07 01:26:15 · 33 answers · asked by anil m 6

2007-12-07 01:25:46 · 8 answers · asked by Addu khan 1

please state your religion or if your athiest (Non Beliver) or angnostic (not sure do not hate do not like)

2007-12-07 01:24:50 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you think it is rejecting God or suicide? Suicide to me seems like it would be kind of difficult to repent. But the Bible says it is the other.

2007-12-07 01:23:59 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-07 01:23:08 · 8 answers · asked by Green is my Favorite Color 4

There was an article in the Washington Post today about a guy in Louisiana who bilked his friends and family out of more than $800,000. He claimed that his wife was a secret agent who could arrange to have spy satellites diagnose their medical problems; then, in exchange for payment, she'd have secret agents administer medicine to them while they slept.

Hmmm...

A guy who claims to have connections to someone who watches them from the sky, and knows everything about them...and if you just pay tribute to him, will come "like a thief in the night" to cure all your ills....

This all sounds so familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on it....

2007-12-07 01:21:42 · 16 answers · asked by The Reverend Soleil 5

Is there any piece of information you wish you could erase from your mind?

2007-12-07 01:20:47 · 10 answers · asked by Eleventy 6

is it not just as likely that if there is one god there is many gods? why has the idea of just one taken off. If one can just be there with no explanation then why not an infinite number of gods?

2007-12-07 01:18:37 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-07 01:17:53 · 10 answers · asked by anil m 6

i'd like to experience it first-hand, but all the pagans i know of are either wiccan or wicca-ish, with a heathen thrown in here and there.

2007-12-07 01:16:51 · 3 answers · asked by bad tim 7

I was considering becoming a gay, it looks like a lot of fun.

If I make this life choice can I still go to heaven?

2007-12-07 01:14:23 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous

This year is 2007, which is technically speaking 2007 years after the death of Christ. From that point of view, our calendar system has it's basis on religion. So should a non-religious calendaring system be implemented?

2007-12-07 01:13:25 · 28 answers · asked by jazzman 1

Then shouldn't it be up to the individual churches, and not the State to define it? What if there was a church or religious group that approved of, and practiced Gay Marriage? Would a ban on Gay Marriage violate their Freedom of Religion? Would it violate the Separation of Church and State? And, if we allow the State to tell churches what they can and can't do, then is the First Amendment still valid?

2007-12-07 01:08:41 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Creationists and "Intelligent Design" theorists claim that the odds of life having evolved as it has on earth is so great that it could not possibly be random. Yes, the odds are astronomical, but only if you were trying to PREDICT IN ADVANCE how life would evolve.

Just like you could not possibly predict in advance how a deck of cards would shuffle, they have to shuffle in SOME order (just as life had to evolve in SOME order) and just because the odds of that particular shuffle was 8.06582E+67:1, we don't ascribe it to god.

If all six billion humans shuffled one standard deck of cards every second, it would take 4.26276E+50 years to achieve every possible shuffle; and that assumes no duplicate shuffles.

So just because the odds of any particular event happening are vanishingly small, it is ignorant to assume that divine intervention had anything to do with it.

2007-12-07 01:08:00 · 14 answers · asked by A Baby Ate My Dingo 4

2007-12-07 01:07:03 · 9 answers · asked by Sporadic 4

What constitutes a "cult" in your opinion? Is Mormonism a cult? Scientology? Islam? Paganism? Atheism? Christianity? Is a cult something evil, good, or neither? Are all religions cults, or just certain religions? Are you a member of a religion that frequently gets labeled as a Cult? How does that make you feel, and how do you answer it?

I am asking this out of respect of all religions.

2007-12-07 01:06:10 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-07 01:05:48 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-07 01:03:56 · 17 answers · asked by Juliet H 2

Why would anyone wish to celebrate a day when the earth is shrouded in darkness the longest? According to wikipedia, Swiss kings would sacrifice male slaves, other groups would gather together to ‘lay hands on’ and make pledges, with wild boars as witness, just before they butchered the beast, then they enjoyed eating its flesh while its head adorned the table. And these where the ‘civilized’ functions for this ‘holy day’ Well, I guess that is why they wanted as much darkness as possible. Perversions love to hide among the shadows. What a contrast when compared to the Birth of our Lord, when the Light of the WORLD is celebrated

2007-12-07 01:02:37 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is the Wiki entry for Yahoo answers. Go down to "criticisms." I honestly could not believe my eyes. Do you have an opinion on this one, or are you just laughing uproariously? Should someone edit it to say something about the phrases "Vile Temptress" and "Incarnatrix of Evil"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yahoo%21_Answers&oldid=174553658

2007-12-07 01:01:58 · 20 answers · asked by ZombieTrix 2012 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewu1laA2nmI&feature=related

2007-12-07 00:59:53 · 10 answers · asked by diamond_kursed 4

All this talk about Romney being just a mormon. You got to be kidding! A cult is a cult! It matters not if Mitt Romney or Joe Louis was apart of it, it is still a cult. We are all motivated by our beliefs be in God or in self. I do not want ANYONE leading me with cultic ideologies. It is impossible to separate a person from his/her beliefs, impossible. It is not about having several wives, most mormons do not practice that doctrine. However, it is still a viable practice. To me, it is what mormonism is REALLY all about that disallows me to vote for him. Would you vote for Jim Jones if he was running or Rev Moon? A faulty belief is a faulty belief. It is what it is. Romney has and always will guide his life based on his beliefs. Well, he can do so at will but not in D.C. Romney speeches! I am not more move with his physical appearance than I would be if he was Peewee Herman. No more extremists in the White House!! "God bless America." Well, He does not bless cults!!

2007-12-07 00:58:20 · 10 answers · asked by shawnLacey 4

2007-12-07 00:58:12 · 22 answers · asked by jazzman 1

2007-12-07 00:57:14 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

i see christianity as this

"God came to an insignificant outpost of the Roman empire as a human, caused a minor commotion, but enough for any historical records to show, he then died, so he could bleed, so that he could forgive sins that we commit because Adams girlfriend listened to a talking snake.

Now please give me a brief summery of your religion, in as short as possible. thanks xxxx

2007-12-07 00:56:53 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-07 00:54:28 · 27 answers · asked by serf m 2

The Prayer of the Pilgrim Soul

Surround me, dear God,
With Thy holy presence;
Let Thy shadow and Thy light
Transcendant shine.
Keep me within Thy warmth and circle,
Protect my island of life
In this vast universe cast adrift;
Next to Thy heart I lay my mind.
Circle of Thy presence,
Close embracing, all sustaining,
Guide me through this darkness,
Guide me by Thy Light--
Bid my tumbling thinking cease.
And when I am submerged
In final transport,
Far beyond Orion's electric pools,
Or the eye-whorls of universal space,
May I make my journey
Safely in the absence of else
But Thy infinite Grace!

2007-12-07 00:53:42 · 24 answers · asked by anil m 6