Religion & Spirituality - 23 December 2007

Does every atheist really believe that god doesn't exist?

Someone who doesn't believe in X doesn't mean that that someone believes that X doesn't exist necessarily.

The real definition for atheist should be "someone who believes that god doesnt exist". This (dis)belief is different from the agnostical "someone who doesn't believe in god".

Given that real agnostics don't believe in the existence nor in the inexistence of god.

lack of belief = more like an agnostic = agnostical atheist?
disbelief = atheist.

Well, I just wish to have to opinion about the subtilities between "lack of belief" and "disbelief" in atheists.

Thank you :-)
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2007-12-23 03:11:01 · 16 answers · asked by Axel ∇ 5

What are the Modern Remnants of this One Church, and is it truly one Church still?

2007-12-23 03:10:54 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Lets see how many get this one...

Do you think you are totally independent according to the scriptures or that you have a role, ie. To bring up your husbands kids.

2007-12-23 03:07:58 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-23 03:07:55 · 30 answers · asked by D Uncle 3

2007-12-23 03:07:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-23 03:04:46 · 15 answers · asked by Cal 2

Did He always know?

Or did he learn this as he got older?

2007-12-23 03:02:21 · 17 answers · asked by Zezo Zeze Zadfrack 1

2007-12-23 03:00:51 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

We're supposed to DIE in 2012???

BRING IT ON!!!

[but seriously, are we REALLY going to die in 2012?]

2007-12-23 02:59:24 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Which of the following do you believe:

a.) Big Bang

b.) Earth is 4.6 Billion years old

c.) Evolution

d.) Dinosaurs lived

I'm a Christian and believe in all of these except the big bang. Even if I wasn't Christian, I still wouldn't believe the Big Bang theory.

2007-12-23 02:56:20 · 24 answers · asked by ~JennyBunny~ 7

If you were going to drive a car from, say, Newcastle upon Tyne to Hell, what route would you take? What is the distance and how long would it take to drive? At what point do you cross from the realm of the living to the realm of the expired? What goods and supplies would you take on the journey? Do you need documentation and if so what and where do you obtain it? Any special precautions or observations?

2007-12-23 02:54:59 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Doesn't he believe in the GOSPEL OF JESUS?
Who was the man who preached LOVE and PEACE and whose BIRTHDAY WE CELEBRATE this month of December?

2007-12-23 02:52:02 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven?

2007-12-23 02:49:39 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

do you think satan can be a kind of Tulpa??


Tulpa: a being or object which is created through sheer willpower alone. In other words, it is a materialized thought that has taken physical form (a thoughtform)

2007-12-23 02:48:25 · 5 answers · asked by mixedhoney03 2

He is an extremely contraversial Episcopal Bishop who has written many books espousing a very liberal theology.

Here's a quote from one of his books called A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith Is Dying and How a New Faith Is Being Born:

Martin Luther ignited the Reformation of the 16th century by nailing to the door of the church in Wittenberg in 1517 the 95 Theses that he wished to debate. I will publish this challenge to Christianity in The Voice. I will post my theses on the Internet and send copies with invitations to debate them to the recognized Christian leaders of the world. My theses are far smaller in number than were those of Martin Luther, but they are far more threatening theologically. The issues to which I now call the Christians of the world to debate are these:

1. Theism, as a way of defining God, is dead. So most theological God-talk is today meaningless. A new way to speak of God must be found.

2. Since God can no longer be conceived in theistic terms, it becomes nonsensical to seek to understand Jesus as the incarnation of the theistic deity. So the Christology of the ages is bankrupt.

3. The biblical story of the perfect and finished creation from which human beings fell into sin is pre-Darwinian mythology and post-Darwinian nonsense.

4. The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

5. The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity.

6. The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

7. Resurrection is an action of God. Jesus was raised into the meaning of God. It therefore cannot be a physical resuscitation occurring inside human history.

8. The story of the Ascension assumed a three-tiered universe and is therefore not capable of being translated into the concepts of a post-Copernican space age.

9. There is no external, objective, revealed standard writ in scripture or on tablets of stone that will govern our ethical behavior for all time.

10. Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.

11. The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its reliance on guilt as a motivator of behavior.

12. All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination.

2007-12-23 02:43:51 · 9 answers · asked by Zezo Zeze Zadfrack 1

My wife and I have been best friends with this LDS couple for the past 3 years. We normaly hang out about 3 times a week. things have went pretty well because my wife and I have done our best to be sensitive to their beliefs. ex. When we go out we refrain from ordering liqure, we dont' swear around them, and we don't invite them to watch R-rated movies. My wife and I are pretty strong christians so its not like it is difficult to not curse, were not alcholhics so its not difficult for us to pass up a drink. We do refrain from R rated movies, even though they don't bother us.
Last night we rented Rush Hour 3 (PG-13), there are some parts where girls have some skimpy outfits and there was a part where they were making out on a bed. I happen to look over at them and they were closing their eyes.

Am I offending them?How do I tell them this is getting out of hand? We're all adults you would think we would be mature enough to handle a little skin (there was no nudity) and some kissing?

2007-12-23 02:36:39 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-23 02:34:46 · 8 answers · asked by Buke 4

a)going to church
b)tithing
c)believing jesus was god son
d) following his teachings

Which ones of his teaching is more important to follow?
turn the other cheek
love your enemy
help the poor

2007-12-23 02:34:23 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

Last night our neighbours called. They want us to come over on New Years Eve. I haven't decided if I want to go or not because Im still kinda upset because everyone in the neighbourhood bailed on us when DH got cancer. Some of them still run away and take off in the garage when they see us coming. Its just really weird and very uncomfortable. They will all be there.

What would you do ?

2007-12-23 02:34:10 · 7 answers · asked by mullinon 3

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary. My confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a crèche, it's just as fine with me, as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew, went to. In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response:

She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'

In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says ‘thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal’, and ‘love your neighbor as yourself’. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with, 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.' Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing?

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.

My Best Regards.
Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein

2007-12-23 02:32:57 · 25 answers · asked by sego lily 7

John Lennon - Merry Christmas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8jw-ifqwkM

What does Christmas mean to you?
Sincere answer only please!

2007-12-23 02:30:03 · 1 answers · asked by ? 6

The reason why I asked this question, is to see who is really educated in regards to this subject. Is it Jewish people of today, Is it African people, or is it the Arabic people. So many ideas have been thrust upon us who these people really were a lot of us do not know. Please google it you will be amazed.

2007-12-23 02:26:28 · 4 answers · asked by Solany J 2

Do you believe evolution proves that there isn’t God? If you do, please elaborate for me and explain how it proves that there isn’t a God.

I’m an Agnostic.

2007-12-23 02:25:50 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

This article by a level headed, thinking Muslim ending with the words: "So let us leave the traditional Christmas alone. In a nation with such a rich Christian heritage it is entirely appropriate that this celebration is Christian." shows what arrant nonsense is being fed to us by secular manipulators who suggest that Christmas is offensive to people of other faiths. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=DI2JNWQTAPUI3QFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/opinion/2007/12/23/do2311.xml

2007-12-23 02:25:17 · 12 answers · asked by Doethineb 7

Satan Told Eve that if she ate from the Tree she Positivly would not Die. If she had an Immortal soul, as many Christian religions Belive, Satan was Right in telling her that she wouldn't Die. If just the phsical body dies and not the "Soul" she never really died did she?

2007-12-23 02:22:34 · 12 answers · asked by Korvyn 1

It has been said that all atheists are loving, accepting, respectful of all other beliefs, and are open-minded.
Why, then, do some of them ask such disrespectful questions? Why all the ridicule? Why the disdain for our beliefs?

Somehow it doesn't jive to hear such claims and to then see such questions as "Why are Christians so stupid?" , "Why do Christians believe in a "sky daddy?", "Why didn't God copulate with a cow?", "Is logic the 'piss' on Christians' picnic?", and "Should all Christians be sent to a mental asylum?"
Help me to see the respect in these questions.

There are some really terrific people here who are atheists. However, there are others who are really unkind and disrespecful. They damn us no matter what we do or say.

Has anyone else found this to be true?

2007-12-23 02:17:28 · 40 answers · asked by batgirl2good 7

Tony Blare can not consider himself a Christian after all the things he has done. How has the Pope taken him to the Catholic church? It seems like they will take anyone.

2007-12-23 02:16:51 · 17 answers · asked by chris h 3

2007-12-23 02:15:56 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-23 02:14:57 · 22 answers · asked by Happily Happy 7

2007-12-23 02:14:08 · 8 answers · asked by voice_of_reason 6