Religion & Spirituality - 9 December 2007

I'm into gay sex and the more I read about Satanism the more it makes sense. Can I still enjoy gay sex if I give my life to Satan?

2007-12-09 02:55:49 · 31 answers · asked by Randy K 1

Would you avoid everyone at all cost and keep from speaking to them? What if it was your boss, the banker, a clerk at a store, dentist, doctor, etc.?

2007-12-09 02:49:08 · 10 answers · asked by Jereme K 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loksatta_%28party%29

2007-12-09 02:49:05 · 0 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it a democratic process where whoever has the most Christians (which I believe is the Catholics) then they are the true Christianity?

My point is if there is only one God then why are there so many different kinds of Christianity with different interpretations of the Bible, Jesus, the holy trinity and more. If there is only one God shouldn't there only be only ONE Christianity?

2007-12-09 02:48:30 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

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2007-12-09 02:47:41 · 14 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God. He asks one of his new student to stand and…

>Prof: So you believe in God?

>Student: Absolutely, sir.

>Prof: Is God good?

>Student: Sure.

>Prof: Is God all-powerful?

>Student: Yes.

>Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn’t. How is this God good then? Hmm?

>Student is silent.

>Prof: You can’t answer, can you? Let’s start again, young fellow. Is God

>good?

>Student: Yes.

>Prof: Is Satan good?

>Student: No.

>Prof: Where does Satan come from?

>Student: From God

>Prof: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

>Student: Yes.

>Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it? And God did make everything. Correct?

>Student: Yes.

>Prof: So who created evil?

>Student does not answer.

>Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible
>things exist in the world, don’t they?

>Student: Yes, sir.

>Prof: So, who created them?

>Student has no answer.

>Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the
>world around you.

>Tell me, son…Have you ever seen God?

>Student: No, sir.

>Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?

>Student: No, sir.

>Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have

>you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?

>Student: No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.

>Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.

>Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says

>your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?

>Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.

>Prof: Yes Faith. And that is the problem science has.

Now the student said can I ask something to you Professor.

>Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

>Prof: Yes.

>Student: And is there such a thing as cold?

>Prof: Yes.

>Student: No sir. There isn’t.

>(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)

>Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, Mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat.
We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

>(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)

>Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

>Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?

>Student: You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light… But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it?
In reality, darkness isn’t. If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?

>Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?

>Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

>Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?

>Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully
understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be
ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it.
Now tell me Professor, Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
>Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of
course, I do.

>Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?

>(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)

>Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work
and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?

(The class is in uproar.)

>Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?

>(The class breaks out into laughter.)

>Student: Is there anyone here, who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have
done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable,
demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures?

>(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face
>unfathomable. )

>Prof: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.

Student: That is it sir… The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things moving & alive.

u know who was tht student
He was Albert Einstein .

2007-12-09 02:46:07 · 33 answers · asked by Purple Rain 4

2007-12-09 02:44:26 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you can see the distinction, you would have seen the Truth.

What say you all?

2007-12-09 02:43:17 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-09 02:42:03 · 7 answers · asked by Бэлзeбот 2

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071206/REVIEWS/712060302/1023

2007-12-09 02:40:42 · 12 answers · asked by Бэлзeбот 2

2007-12-09 02:39:12 · 33 answers · asked by anil m 6

2007-12-09 02:39:02 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why do you all think you have the answers? Atheists for example, are sure there is no afterlife/gods and will argue with theists over this. Christians/theists on the other hand will go around trying to "convert" everyone which we all know isn't very pleasant.

Get this through your skulls: We're ALL human, and we ALL know that we do not have ANY answers pertaining to anything of a spiritual/afterlife nature—if anything to this nature even exists.

Why can't everyone be truthful to themselves and be an agnostic, so that there'll never be these pathetic types of arguments again. There's no proof God exists, and there's no way of proving he/it/whatever doesn't exist.

2007-12-09 02:37:17 · 9 answers · asked by Neighborhood dude 4

2007-12-09 02:36:51 · 10 answers · asked by cuddles 1

2007-12-09 02:36:50 · 6 answers · asked by KrishanRam(Jitendra k) 3

Koran, Hadith, historical evidence

2007-12-09 02:35:47 · 33 answers · asked by sam arama 1

2007-12-09 02:33:51 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

My brother is stationed in Iraq and I put a different Bible verse at the end of all my e-mails to him. Right now I am going through Psalm 23 one at a time. Do you have any ideas of more verses i can use?

2007-12-09 02:32:36 · 7 answers · asked by linnea13 5

I personally believe in purgatory and I've always thought it was kind of like a waiting room were you get second chances and are judge by God. So what are your feelings and beliefs about purgatory?

2007-12-09 02:29:13 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

Published: 12.09.2007

Wise men's bones part of Catholic relics exhibit
By Stephanie Innes
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
The history
Epiphany, a Christian holiday celebrated Jan. 6, commemorates the day the Magi visited the newborn Jesus. In Latin-American tradition, the day is known as Three Kings Day.
The Bible doesn't say how many Magi followed the star until they found Jesus, but through the years the number three has been adopted in Christian tradition because they brought three gifts — gold, frankincense and myrrh. The story says the Magi — or wise men — came from the East and followed the star in search of the newborn king.
The three men are believed to have been astrologers, and their submission to Jesus often is viewed as the submission of magical arts and superstition to the Lord. Because the Magi apparently arrived after Christ was born, the date of Jan. 6 was adopted in about the fifth century. Various cultures adopted numerous Epiphany traditions through the years.
One that's popular in Europe includes blessing homes by writing the year, with the symbols C + M + B, in chalk above the front door of homes, a practice sometimes called smudging. Next year, that symbolism would read: 20 C + M + B 08.
Some believe the letters stand for the names of the three Magi later adopted by tradition: Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar. Others say they symbolize the Latin phrase "May Christ bless this house" — Christus mansionem benedicat.
If you go
The "Relics of the Three Wise Men" exhibit will be at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, 8650 N. Shannon Road, 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. today; and at St. Augustine Cathedral, 192 S. Stone Ave., 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Tiny fragments of bone believed to be remains of the three wise men who visited the newborn Jesus will be on display in Tucson for two days this week.
The Catholic relics tour, titled "Come Let Us Adore Him," will be at the Northwest Side's St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church today, and at Downtown's St. Augustine Cathedral on Tuesday.
"This is the closest I'm going to get to God in my physical lifetime," said Arizona Knights of Columbus spokesman John Garcia. "And since this is a time of Christmas, it puts us closer in touch with the birth of Christ."
The Arizona Knights of Columbus, a Catholic men's group, and the Apostolate for Holy Relics, a non-profit organization, are co-sponsors.
The exhibit is also expected to feature relics from the manger, fabric from the Virgin Mary's veil and Joseph's coat, and a bone fragment from St. Elizabeth, who was the Virgin Mary's ninth cousin.
"It's a tangible thread between heaven and Earth," said Thomas Serafin, a lay Catholic who is president of the Apostolate for Holy Relics.
"It allows us to gather as Christians and sometimes as non-Christians, put aside the man-made differences, give thanks, and ask for intercession for our lives and our families," he said.
The relics, which come from a collection in the Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom) in Cologne, Germany, were on display in Phoenix Nov. 30 and Dec. 2 and will return to Phoenix and Gilbert after the Tucson exhibit. Arizona is the first stop on the relics' international tour. The next stop is Guam.
Though the authenticity of the relics hasn't been scientifically proven, Garcia, the Arizona Knights of Columbus spokesman, said they have a long history of being venerated.
"Remember that this was a time when they needed something physical to believe with. It was a time of coming out of superstition," he said.
The Apostolate for Holy Relics says Emperor Flavius Zeno brought the Magi relics from Persia to Constantinople in the fifth century. Believers say the relics later appeared in the Basilica of St. Eustorgius in Milan, and then were taken to Cologne in 1162 after Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa of Germany invaded Italy.
The display in Cologne is called the Sarcophagus of the Magi. The exterior is seven feet of gilded silver and jewels, and inside are three golden-crowned skulls believed to belong to the Magi, or wise men.
"If my faith is what it is, it allows me to believe these articles really do go back to the point and time when they touched the Lord and Savior," said Tucsonan Antonio Otero, a parishioner at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and marshal for the Arizona Knights of Columbus. "That's why I'm so excited — it's something tangible that I can see with my eyes, and my Lord's eyes gazed at them as well."
Otero said he's not sure what turnout to expect. It is a busy time of year and it's difficult to gauge interest in relics, he said.
But he added that the relics are coming during the season of Advent, the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas, an important time of year to reflect on the Christmas season.
Serafin's organization has sponsored similar relic tours in Tucson.
In October 2003, about 2,000 Tucsonans saw the Tilma of Tepeyac relic, a half-inch square of cloth that Catholics believe was part of a tilma — an Aztec word meaning a poncho-like cloak — worn by St. Juan Diego in 1531 when the humble Aztec peasant spoke to the Virgin Mary on Tepeyac Hill outside Mexico City.
In February 2005, at least 1,200 Tucsonans saw the Relics of the Passion, said to be from Jesus Christ's last hours.
"We do need tangible things to make our minds work," Serafin said. "Scientific testing isn't as important as the meaning in the hearts of the people who visit the relics."
The history
Epiphany, a Christian holiday celebrated Jan. 6, commemorates the day the Magi visited the newborn Jesus. In Latin-American tradition, the day is known as Three Kings Day.
The Bible doesn't say how many Magi followed the star until they found Jesus, but through the years the number three has been adopted in Christian tradition because they brought three gifts — gold, frankincense and myrrh. The story says the Magi — or wise men — came from the East and followed the star in search of the newborn king.
The three men are believed to have been astrologers, and their submission to Jesus often is viewed as the submission of magical arts and superstition to the Lord. Because the Magi apparently arrived after Christ was born, the date of Jan. 6 was adopted in about the fifth century. Various cultures adopted numerous Epiphany traditions through the years.
One that's popular in Europe includes blessing homes by writing the year, with the symbols C + M + B, in chalk above the front door of homes, a practice sometimes called smudging. Next year, that symbolism would read: 20 C + M + B 08.
Some believe the letters stand for the names of the three Magi later adopted by tradition: Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar. Others say they symbolize the Latin phrase "May Christ bless this house" — Christus mansionem benedicat.
If you go
The "Relics of the Three Wise Men" exhibit will be at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, 8650 N. Shannon Road, 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. today; and at St. Augustine Cathedral, 192 S. Stone Ave., 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
● Contact reporter Stephanie Innes at 573-4134 or sinnes@azstarnet.com.

2007-12-09 02:27:04 · 10 answers · asked by Hatikvah 7

Aren't we already living in that reality? By your standards, the world has no God. We are all there is. What would you gain, by taking away religion?

If God is not part of the equation of life, I ask haven't we been living a life of atheism.

Who would dictate your lives better than the atheists who hide behind a puppet?

After all, are you ready to tell your children there is no heaven or hell?

That death keeps everything and we'll always be left with nothing.

Are you ready to tell them that all the success in the world means nothing, because it's all make-believe, just like the Bible?

I really want you to think hard. If you think religion is dead wrong.

What is life for? What are we suppose to be happy about, exactly? What life will be left?

Questioning the Bible is only the beginning, then we'll question the human mind / logic, human behavior, human value.

"God" is the key to our salvation. All which is good exists because that key is around. "Decisions"

2007-12-09 02:26:55 · 20 answers · asked by Adversity 3

I am not perfect by any means, but:
I don't smoke, I never have.
I don't drink.
I never swear.
I have never broken the law.
I have never claimed benefits.
I have always worked (as a nurse).
My children tell me I am a wonderful mum.
I have never killed a living creature, not even a fly.
I have never hurt a living person, (knowingly).
I am considered kind and thoughtful.
My friends tell me they cherish me.
I recycle almost everything, I always have.
I don't drive a car as I care about the environment.
Part of my earnings go to charity every month.
I have always voted.
I am not a racist.
I am not xenophobic.
I am not against religion of any kind.
I care deeply about people animals and all living things.
I do voluntary work for the homeless.
But...
I cannot enter the kingdom of heaven because I express, as nature intended, for me, my love, sexual and emotional to women, not HATE, but love.
What is it that I have done that is so bad that I can't get into heaven?

2007-12-09 02:26:06 · 48 answers · asked by Bunny 4

2007-12-09 02:25:54 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have members of my family that have not spoken together for more than two years. Have you experienced this also?

I am a Christian and I have spoken to both sides about forgiveness, but still to no avail. I also try to be an example by not getting angry at people, and by giving people room to apologize / repent. Is there anything else that I can do? All are welcome to answer.

2007-12-09 02:22:05 · 20 answers · asked by ignoramus_the_great 7

antichrist?

King Jesus is Gods gift to us? Why would religions say not to celebrate Gods gift to us?

2007-12-09 02:17:24 · 22 answers · asked by t a m i l 6

Your religion affect that belief?

2007-12-09 02:17:12 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

Tell me about yourselves. Thoughtful answers only.

Sorry if this Q posts twice, my first one didn't make the list!

2007-12-09 02:14:27 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

That was Dec25,3BC. When the Magi brought the gifts to a child King Jesus.

That Jesus was born in June, conceived in September.
Does these months contradict with scripture?

Maybe we should rewrite our Christmas stories a little?

http://www.bethlehemstar.net

2007-12-09 02:14:24 · 8 answers · asked by t a m i l 6

I think in Christianity there can be no ETS, because they would also have the similar sin problems that we have, and therefore have need of Christ also. A problem involving simultaneous Christs and Second Comings would exist, for one thing. Also all evil would have to be eradicated throughout the universe at the same time, or then you would also have problems about the existence of multiple Satans, you know - no longer on earth, but still existing on Planet X or something.

From a Christian doctrinal or philosophical expansive perspective, what do you think?

2007-12-09 02:13:40 · 8 answers · asked by ignoramus_the_great 7

2007-12-09 02:11:09 · 26 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7