Religion & Spirituality - 9 December 2007

2007-12-09 00:36:15 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-09 00:31:07 · 15 answers · asked by Amama 4

i have read many questions pertaining to Christmas,do you think we all celebrate as we should about Jesus birthday?Do we remember Him as we should or just consider it a day of celebration? Before your answer I know it isnt truly the day of His birth but it is the day chosen to celebrate it.

2007-12-09 00:26:22 · 17 answers · asked by loveChrist 6

It's one thing to use the word 'heart' as a metaphor for emotions (as in "I knew in my heart that it was wrong"). But something else entirely to treat this muscular pump as if it really were the core of one's 'spirit'.

The ancients believed that the heart was the centre of emotions. In fact it's a simple blood pump. It's a far less complex organ than the liver, and less connected to emotions than the adrenal glands.

Yet on R&S there's frequent talk of 'inviting Jesus into my heart' as if the real organ was involved. Someone here recently characterised abortion as 'stopping a beating heart' - as if that were significant in itself.

Seems to me that the actual organ whose characteristics people are referring to is the BRAIN. The brain is the seat of thought and emotion; of love, fear, joy, memory and everything else about us. The rest of the body is a life-support system for the brain, and the heart is just a pump in that mechanism.

CD

2007-12-09 00:16:09 · 27 answers · asked by Super Atheist 7

CNN and Fox news both reported that Robert Hawkins, the Omaha mall shooter was an atheist, while his family claimed to be "Christians".

Although he was definetely a troubled individual to start with, does it seem like atheism breeds trouble like this?

Would it have been any different even if he had been part of a church? Maybe he could have gone further counseling...???

Does it bother any other Atheists that this happened or that Atheism itself paves the way for such behavior???

Keeping in mind that Theism also breeds it's own kind of problems however... is Atheism partly to blame for this tragedy???

2007-12-09 00:14:40 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous