Religion & Spirituality - 12 December 2007

the Denver health department shut down a perfectly good noodle house?

2007-12-12 06:52:05 · 11 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6

I know "secularism" is supposed to be the great Bogey to people who fancy themselves to be "religious." But consider Christianity as it was even 100 years ago, as compared to today. "Conservative" Christians in 2007 would've found the atmosphere among "liberal" Christians in 1907 to be absolutely stifling and oppressive.

Go back 300 years, and Christians were still hanging witches. Why? Because they could. Because religion and law were so identified that if you developed the religious conviction that your neighbor was a witch because her clothes were nicer, you could go to the law and expose her, and they'd hang her as was proper.

So what changed? Was it just an organic development within Christianity that caused people to wake up and realize that they were actually working wickedness - or at least nonsense - in the name of good? No. It was the influence of rationalism, humanism, secularism - all the things that "religious" people still pretend are the great plagues of society.

2007-12-12 06:51:44 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-12 06:51:30 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Right now, do it?

How did you score?

Be honest, you are always honest, right?

2007-12-12 06:51:19 · 34 answers · asked by Bajingo 6

I used to listen to a very good instrumental song, but when I watched the video of it I noticed that the song projects satan or evil symbols. Should I stop listening to it?

2007-12-12 06:50:52 · 20 answers · asked by ? 2

2007-12-12 06:50:23 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

i some cjhristian close them eyes an wonder y they do that.
your stupid...
y yoo cant be like me and not beleve in stupid gods.
i will knock out your christian god..

2007-12-12 06:49:41 · 20 answers · asked by WINDIWS VISTA ULTIMATE RULES!!!! 1

2007-12-12 06:48:16 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

There are many reasons and many theories of why Jesus was crucified. But which one explanation do you favor the most?

My reading of the gospels leads me to believe that Jesus theology of challenging religious authority (O ye hypocrites, sabbath was made for man, refutation fo purity laws, going against Moses's teaching on divorce, thinking for one's self, etc...) was too radical and too threatening to the Jewish power structure lead by the orthodox (yet hypocritical) Pharisees. They then sold him out to the Romans and pushed fabricating Jesus "the new King" as a threat to Roman sovereignty.

Of course no one can be proven right, but I'm just curious.

2007-12-12 06:47:30 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

will you be forgiven if you truly ask for forgiveness with your heart and soul..... and How many have you broken! think real hard about this question before answering it, and before you judge.......

2007-12-12 06:45:42 · 50 answers · asked by Anonymous

Propaganda debunker supreme.

2007-12-12 06:43:49 · 16 answers · asked by FRANsuFU 3

"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else." -- Wayne Dyer



"Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are."-- Julia Cameron


What are your thoughts (spiritually speaking) when you read them?

2007-12-12 06:43:04 · 13 answers · asked by Kallan 7

someone carrying a baby for someone else?surrogacy.is it against Gods laws?i really would like veiwpoints from jw's BUT WELCOME ALL ANSWERS.

2007-12-12 06:40:34 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it the fact that original sin causes the unborn fetus to burn in Hell for eternity?

Or do unborn fetuses go to Heaven? In this case, wouldn't you be doing them a favor by aborting? If most people aren't going to Heaven, isn't it better for those that would be in torment for eternity to never have the chance to burn for eternity? Sure, they'll never get a chance to grow and become "saved," but isn't it better to avoid being eternally "condemned" in the first place?

2007-12-12 06:39:07 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

...someone whose only experience is the third-hand accounts and hearsay of a bunch of Bronze Age goatherders, or the testimony of present-day atheists who suffered a near-death experience and came back to tell us exactly what they experienced (or didn't)?

In the absence of empirical evidence, who gets to be right?

2007-12-12 06:36:51 · 19 answers · asked by The Reverend Soleil 5

Do you believe God would forgive a woman who had an abortion when she was 15?
With all the interesting discussion on abortion - I thought I'd ask.

2007-12-12 06:35:35 · 27 answers · asked by Sister blue eyes 6

"They recognized Him in the breaking of the bread" Luke 24:35

2007-12-12 06:35:03 · 17 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7

That God is supreme?
That He is involved with everything, and that without Him, we wouldn't be here?

2007-12-12 06:34:46 · 23 answers · asked by avani 2

As we know that Israel is the prophetic clock! to show that the coming of Christ is near.

2007-12-12 06:33:45 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-12 06:32:42 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have realized as days are going by time is flying ahead! i cant find a reason 4 this. Does any1 feel the same way? Is is because the world is comming to a end...................

2007-12-12 06:31:23 · 26 answers · asked by Sparkle 2

If this has never happened to you than I think you should mind your own business.

2007-12-12 06:31:09 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-12 06:30:00 · 30 answers · asked by Marvelissa VT 6

if the bible was done away with how would people continue practicing religion?

2007-12-12 06:25:32 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am currently studying Religions of the World. I need to visit the place of worship for a religion other than my own. I would like to do my project on Wicca but need to find a site. Can anyone help?

2007-12-12 06:25:18 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-12 06:24:25 · 19 answers · asked by strpenta 7

2007-12-12 06:23:45 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

"Hitler was a Roman Catholic, baptized into that religio-political institution as an infant in Austria. He became a communicant and an altar boy in his youth and was confirmed as a "soldier of Christ" in that church. Its worst doctrines never left him. He was steeped in its liturgy, which contained the words "perfidious jew." This hateful statement was not removed until 1961. "Perfidy" means treachery... In his day, hatred of Jews was the norm. In great measure it was sponsored by two major religions of Germany, Catholicism, and Lutheranism."
http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/murphy_19_2.html
Not unlike Hitler, Donohue and his organization, thinks he is a soldier of Christ but enjoys crucifying those who doesn't worship his ideologies.
Do not have any other gods before Me.
You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.
Exodus 20:2–17
Is Donohue actually promoting his own version of a god?

2007-12-12 06:23:24 · 4 answers · asked by United_Peace 5

tobacco wasnt discovered until the 17th century, so paul couldnt have been talkinn about tobacco defileing the temple, could he?

2007-12-12 06:23:09 · 15 answers · asked by pastor carl 2

...so you could experience firsthand what you've always had to take on faith until now?

Or if you don't believe in any afterlife, have you ever wished you could give some particularly sanctimonious believer a near-death experience, just so that when they regained consciousness you could say, "There...you SEE?!?! No angels, no afterlife -- you're MEAT!!! UNDERSTAND?!?!"

2007-12-12 06:22:51 · 24 answers · asked by The Reverend Soleil 5