Religion & Spirituality - 27 December 2007

as a result of a minor but prevalent type of parent separation anxiety disorder ?

2007-12-27 01:04:16 · 7 answers · asked by proteusmirabilus 4

Take Christ out of Christmas.....what a joke....


I heard that their are people trying to get Christ taken out of Christmas now I am not a really a Church going person but this to me is a Joke... come on people get real..... And they want to call it Xmas... pretty much what some people call it but wtf.. really hmmm have fun with this one.... O btw Merry Christmas to all you morons that want to take Christ out :)


Question:

What would this accopmlish...
and what are your thoughs on this issue..

2007-12-27 00:58:14 · 40 answers · asked by David 2

....... "oh but now we have the NT which superceded the OT" argument. In this way the parts about condoning slavery and stoning unruly children to death can be sidestepped and glossed over.

However it is still ok to use the OT to justify hating gay people or simply saying being gay is wrong.

So are some bits still relevent and other bits not ? How do we know which are the bits to keep and which bits to discard ?

Two of my best friends are gay. One is a surgeon who saves lives every day. How anybody could believe that such a person would be "cast into a lake of fire" is beyond me.

2007-12-27 00:52:56 · 16 answers · asked by Achtung Barry 1

The bible was written by humans - Good humans, but humans all the same.
There are hundreds of years between those who wrote the books in Bible - many of which did not know Jesus.
Then there is the problem of translation - translators do not translate direct form original text, but earlier translations - sound like broken telephone.
How can the Bible possily be "The Word of God."
Im not criticizing, just discussing.

2007-12-27 00:52:48 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

There's been a lot of talk about how the hijackers who destroyed the World Trade Center expected to receive 72 virgins (or 70 or 50, depending on whom you listen to) in paradise. Is this really true? (That they expected this, I mean, not that they'll receive it.) It seems a rather unsophisticated and juvenile theology: "In heaven you can eat all the ice cream you want and stay up past ten o'clock and it's always recess." Is there any Koranic basis for believing that those who kill and die for the faith will get the aforementioned virgins?

Hadith number 2,562, known as the Sunan al-Tirmidhi ,

"'The smallest reward [each] for the people of Heaven is an abode where there are 80,000 servants and 72 wives, over which stands a dome decorated with pearls, aquamarine and ruby, as wide as the distance from [Damascus] to [Yemen].'"

2007-12-27 00:49:06 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do not worship any other gods but me,,,hmmmm jesus???

2007-12-27 00:39:28 · 34 answers · asked by lisa w 3

I've searched and searched and haven't seen why we have Sunday services and not Saturday services. People have told me that Jesus changed it but never gave me a verse or reasoning. My research has found that the Catholic church changed it. If so then why do non-catholics observe the Sunday worship instead?

2007-12-27 00:37:56 · 22 answers · asked by Buddy_Lee_Hombre_de_accion 7

I wish Christians would stop believing that their religion is the only one. There are many other religions that have just as much evidance to back their religion.
I would love to know what drives Christians to believe that any non-christian is a sinner?
Surely a lack of tolerance and narrow-mindedness is more of a sin, because thats what causes wars.

2007-12-27 00:36:24 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous

How can anyone claim that Islam is a religion of peace when anyone who tries to bring the Islamic world into modernity is assassinated? We've seen it in Lebanon all too frequently and now Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in Pakistan,

2007-12-27 00:36:12 · 38 answers · asked by mzJakes 7

She has just been assassinated by suicide bombers.

2007-12-27 00:32:39 · 14 answers · asked by Celestial Teapot 3

2007-12-27 00:31:35 · 49 answers · asked by phoenixxgrey 3

Should the Pope put more pressure on World Leaders to stop all of their mischief.... Should he excommunicate Catholic leaders who overtly fly in the face of Christ's message and doctrine? Should he call on Catholics to boycott those who do not respect Christian values? Should the Vatican also clean up its own house as well? I don't mean turning back to the Grand Inquisition but standing up for Chrsitian values, no one else seems to!!!!

2007-12-27 00:28:40 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

ok so adam and eve were the first people on the earth followed by abel and cain ( their sons) .

What i want to know is where the heck did cain's wife come from?

2007-12-27 00:27:40 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

and do u believe in god or satan?

2007-12-27 00:23:53 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

was it's because of our MIND that's could not hang-on for longer or our BODY that's had reached the CLIMAX ?. Now , would it's be the MIND or the BODY that's had betrayed us in our SEXUAL-INTERCOURSE EXPECTATION ?.

2007-12-27 00:23:08 · 16 answers · asked by Azman M 4

2007-12-27 00:12:07 · 19 answers · asked by lina_bejb 1

Jesus and John the Baptist started out together, and Jesus had the very highest praise for John and his ministry... and yet today's preachers seem to overlook Lk. 3:3 and Mark 1:4 about John preaching the baptism of repentance for the "forgiveness of sins." It suggests that John's baptism had the power to forgive sins long before the crucifixion came along. Just another Gospel Enigma... or can you explain why preachers consider Luke 3:3 about the forgiveness of sins, so unimportant.

If you want the context of this question... http://gospelenigma.com ...find it in chapter 7

2007-12-27 00:11:01 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've never had a Mormon call round at my door, but as a JW, I'm interested to see how they preach?

2007-12-27 00:07:50 · 14 answers · asked by Paul S 4

or do you take most as humor however bad some of it is?

i find that a lot questions arent serious here but what are your thoughts-thanks for any answers in advance--smile and enjoy the day

2007-12-27 00:01:30 · 18 answers · asked by lazaruslong138 6

2007-12-27 00:00:42 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

First we must define what we mean by hatred, otherwise Muslims feel much more license to lie, relative to what they personally consider to be "hatred". The following quote, from a YA user, by a Muslim living in America, expresses perfectly what we mean by "hate for the west":

USER "JOB" ---

"IN the West, money is god almighty even among a vast majority of those who say they are "religious". Televangelist wear silk suits, Rolex watches and are driven about in a stretch limo as they go to and from their mansions. They admit to sexual tryst and affairs, to drug use and homosexuality and then they say they have been forgiven.

I am an old man who has watched as the West has fallen into a steady decline of decadent and immoral behaviors that would shock the ancient Romans, that would scandalize the people of Sodom and Gomorah and, sadly, I have watched as much of the world has tried despirately to adopt the ways of the West."

2007-12-27 00:00:40 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous