Religion & Spirituality - 25 December 2007

What is your personal goal in doing such? Is it to comfort yourself that you are correct, or is it to prevent religious people preaching to you? Or is it something entirely different? If it is to make people become non-religious and persuade their beliefs, then that qualifies your personal atheism as a religion

2007-12-25 15:48:31 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous

Frozen Mango Daiquiri... vis vis....

Crushed Icy (as in one devastated Icy Gazpacho ~ suspended Yahoo account)
1 cheek of mango (peeled and stoned)
1 measure of lime juice
2 measures of white rum
1 teaspoon of icing sugar
Mango slices... to smear on your lover.

It's not a sin to love Mangos is it?

2007-12-25 15:45:14 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

discuss:
-facts myths...
-your beliefs...
-your doubts...
-your encounters...
-gays in the eyes of god...

2007-12-25 15:42:23 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hello, all:

Can you name and/or describe any current religions that are NOT biased against women?

(Inspired by an answer to this question:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ai_XbLn2L7bWnZoSMZoUckPd7BR.;_ylv=3?qid=20071225202436AAAJddi )

As always, thank you to everyone who takes the time to respond.

2007-12-25 15:34:17 · 38 answers · asked by prairiecrow 7

why

2007-12-25 15:32:32 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know the big difference is that traditional witchcraft is centuries years old and that Wicca was developed in the 1950s by Gardner. Beyond that, what are the differences between the sabbats, gods/goddesses that are worshiped, or rituals that are performed? Please be thorough in your explanations! Thanks. :-)

2007-12-25 15:29:38 · 16 answers · asked by Miss Mellie 1

Personally, I think I have a lot less to worry about now that I am an atheist (actually, I consider myself agnostic, but strongly learning towards atheism). Does anyone else feel like a great burden has been lifted from your shoulders?

2007-12-25 15:28:49 · 20 answers · asked by Psychedelic P 2

if so why or why not

2007-12-25 15:26:47 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is something wrong with me? I'm 19. I feel like I'm just enjoying my life while I'm still young, but I feel guilty.

2007-12-25 15:23:12 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-25 15:20:06 · 36 answers · asked by Zezo Zeze Zadfrack 1

2007-12-25 15:18:47 · 24 answers · asked by firesidechats 1

2007-12-25 15:14:13 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-25 15:11:11 · 2 answers · asked by ? 4

Do you think we will ever see Vatican III happen?

And, if so, when? And why?

If there is a Third Vatican Council one day, what would be the major issues, themes, and questions to be addressed?

2007-12-25 15:05:06 · 10 answers · asked by Zezo Zeze Zadfrack 1

Hello! Happy Christmas to you! ^^

I was wondering if there are any days in the Christian year where people celebrate something and take advantage of that particular day (because its a blessed day or holy day) to make wishes and ask God for something?

I asked a friend and she said Christmas is usually about gifts and not really about making wishes. So I was just curious.

2007-12-25 15:01:10 · 13 answers · asked by Antares 6

Are they god's favorite and why does he discriminate?

2007-12-25 15:00:19 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

I like the name, but am wanting to hear other opinions on it. What is yours?

2007-12-25 14:59:05 · 6 answers · asked by flamespeak 4

I am a 16 year old teen and I have been thinking about become a priest. Can any priest tell me what it is like? Do they get paid and how much? Just everything that there is to being a priest.

2007-12-25 14:58:37 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Shoulda, coulda, woulda? Is the desire to die...natural?
If someone is standing on a ledge..do you talk them down? Or let them jump?
How does someone find the inspiration to continue or not?

2007-12-25 14:58:28 · 25 answers · asked by ? 6

well, I am NOT affliated with any Christian denominations but my ideas closely represent a Unitartian Universalist Christianity.

I love rosaries because they're are beautiful and I am proud of the history of them. I wondering because a lot of people wear symbolic items as jewelry....

The usage of Chinese kanji as tattoos, The Celtis knots jewelry, Native American Dreamweavers, Hindu gods, Polynesian tribal iconography, African American music, Jesus air fresheners, Cornrows, and fake African art.

Since a lot of symbolic items are used as aesthetics, would it be wrong to wear a rosary as one?

2007-12-25 14:52:47 · 16 answers · asked by aloha_bitches 1

There are demons that have sexual relations with people who are sleeping. Some people report being paralyzed and seeing an ugly woman on top of them in the middle of the night. She steals a man's seed and soul at the same time and then morphs into a male demon (the incubus) and impregnates a woman. Do you believe in incubi and succubi?

2007-12-25 14:50:22 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm catholic. My parents use to hate catholics, they actually were catholic then left the church. With me going back they've stopped hating it again (thanks be to God). My oldest sister still hate catholics but she lives on her own. My parents seemed interested in attending christmas eve Mass with me this year. I got sick and took a nap, my oldest sister came over and no one woke me up intime. I awoke to her making fun of the Rosary, which got my mom started. Today my other sister was dipping bread in her wine at dinner and my oldest sister started laughing and kept mocking the Holy Eucherist! I asked her to stop because it was disrespectful but she kept doing it and said 'there is no host' and eventually I just left for my room.

My parents seem so interested in the church until my oldest sister is around, then they hate it again. Even worse is them mocking and making fun of my faith- I dont know what to do about it. I've tried talking, its not working. what else is there?

2007-12-25 14:50:06 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

can you decide right now to be gay? And by be gay, I don't mean go have sex with someone who is the same sex as you, but actually be physically attracted to them and could imagine having a long-term relationship with them.

I don't think you can do it, because I think, homosexuality is in your DNA, and can't be consciously changed anymore than your eye color or your personal taste in food.

And who would choose to be one of the most hated a persecuted group of people and have your rights taken away?

So... can you choose to be gay right now? Can you? Do it just to prove it.

2007-12-25 14:48:57 · 22 answers · asked by ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 3

2007-12-25 14:48:35 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

What was his classification? Did those things only exist in the stone age or can we get one nowadays?

2007-12-25 14:48:31 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

currently i have a catholic mom,and a muslim dad, and it just all seems so fake!!! Yes i do pray and my prayers get answered but i dont know what really happened and who created what.And then sometimes i think if god created the world who created him? Did we create god? (i mean who was the first person to believe in god?) Aren't addam and eve a myth? And what gets me really mad is when someone say that there christian, and know nothing about the relgion!(like they haven't read the bible, ive read some but i get confused) Stuff like when someone gets possesed makes me believe in god, but lately ive been confused, so in your own words can please explain how god does and doesn't exist? Do not post things like i don't know, please! Oh, and dont send me links to really long webpages, or youtube videos(it doesn't wok on my computer)

2007-12-25 14:48:29 · 14 answers · asked by ♥Crayons are yummy♥ 3

Are you willing to accept the truth if it doesn't fit into your preconceived notion of the truth.

2007-12-25 14:46:26 · 13 answers · asked by Toni 2

Christians teach that Jesus eliminated basically all the old Jewish laws (eg. trinitarian (polytheist?)-monotheism, idolatry, how sabath should be observed; dietary laws; sacrifices etc.) because God wanted to spread God's message to the whole world, no longer to just one group.

Muslims have told me God got tired of the Jews continually rebelling against God (they'd revere a prophoet, then later forget, then revere the next prophet who reminded them of God's word but ultimately forget), so he handed His final message to the Arabs.

How many Jews question whether God changed his mind and abandoned them as the Christians and Muslims claim?

2007-12-25 14:46:02 · 19 answers · asked by grassfell 3

As a Catholic, I don't understand objections to this.. It is not worship.

2007-12-25 14:43:50 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I believe that relgion is geographical, for example what is the chances of a child growing up in afghanastan becoming a jehovah's witness or a child from a mormon family in utah proclaiming to be a muslim. . . beliefs are conditioned and taught, what makes someone think they are so right when there is some one at the opposite end of belief, believing they are so right. . . I believe the strong can break through these boundaries and find their own beliefs and spirituality, what are your views?

2007-12-25 14:42:43 · 9 answers · asked by DiscoDave AM 4