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Will You Deny the Truth? ... 4.5 Billion years ago the IRON was "SENT DOWN" to Earth to form the Iron core. This new scientific fact is in total agreement with what Allah (God) revealed in the Quran more than 1400 years ago! ... Watch A much simpler (and more likely) interpretion is that references to Iron being "sent down" to Earth are references to Meteorites. It was well known 1400 years ago in the Middle East, that Meteorites are often made out of Iron.

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When was the Book of Job written? Some parts of the Book of Job may be very old, however, it is likely to have been modified and re-edited over the centuries. One of the most interesting parts of Job is Job 10:10-11 [10] Didst thou not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? [11] Thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. The metaphor of an embryo slowly forming in...

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Muslims: How would you react if my screen name was MUHAMMAD-IS-HINDU? Wouldn't that be disrespectful? I was looking for an answer to this question from "Jesus Is Muslim" but I cannot see any so far.

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Why does the Quran say that sperm is created between the backbone and the ribs? This is where I find this supposed error in the Quran: Yusuf Ali Translation: He is created from a drop emitted― (6) Proceeding from between the backbone and the ribs: There are at least 7 or 8 different Muslim interpretations of this and they all contradict each other.(http://www.scribd.com/doc/24526458/The-Quran-and-Semen-Production) In reality, the Koran is Plagairising Hippocrates.He thought that men and women both produce semen which garhers in the spine and passes through the kidneys on the way to the genitals. Of coarse, this is scientificaly...

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Why is lord Krishna so popular? It is hard to say if you are not a Hindu. However, it seems that those who worship Krishna have some sort of personal emotional & spiritual relationship with him. It seems similar to the way that many Christians feel about Jesus.

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Did the Zealots speak the same language as the Romans? Since the Zealots were all Jews, they would have spoken Aramaic in their everyday lives and used Hebrew in religious activity, just like other Jews. Many may also have spoken Latin or Greek like the Romans, but most probably did not.

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What could have happen to the nation if JFK hasn't been assassinated? I have heard of two theories. One says that the US involvement in Vietnam would have been much less and that the Civil Rights Movement would have achieved its goal earlier than it did. Another theory was one that I saw on a British Comedy Sci-Fi series called "Red Dwarf."It is not to be taken too seriously though. I this, the main characters of the show travel back in time to...

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Babylon was the 1st world power, who do you think is going to be the last? Babylon was not really a World power as it only ruled Mesopotamia, Syria and Israel at the height of its power.It was a great power in the Ancient Middle East though. There were many other great powers in the Ancient World such as the Greeks, Egyptians, Persians, Indians and Chinese.There were also Civilizations in Mexico and Peru at the same time as Babylon. The World of the Babylonins...

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Why do a lot of black people insist that the Ancient Egyptians were black? There was only one dynasty that was ruled by "blacks", it was the Nubians. And DNA results show that most of the ancients are ancestors to the Middle Eastern people there today. I think that it is due to an Afro-centric view of history and a reaction against past racism. In the past, it was believed that Black Africans were too stupid to have developed any Civilization without outside help from a paler skinned "superior" race such as the Egyptians, Arabs or even the Ancient Greeks. For example, Zimbabwe was considered to have been built by King Solomon...

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Was Alexander was better than Napoleon You could say that Alexander was a better general because he never lost a battle.

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Was the Gaza strip and the West Bank part of the "Promised Land" that God promised Abraham? Yes they both are, even using the most conservative interpretations of the term "Promised Land." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Israel The problem is that according to the Bible, it was promised to Israel (Abrahams descendants through Issac), but in the Koran it was promised to Abrahams the Arabs (Said to be Abrahams descendants through Ishmael) I think that it is...

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Is the moon going to turn in to blood in in the last days According to the Bible and Koran it will.However, you do not have to wait until the end of the World.Sometimes the Moon appears red during eclipses. ...

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In the early days, why did God focus on the Middle East and keep such a large area of the world oblivious to his word? e.g: Asia, America, Australia Possibly because the God of the Bible does not seem to not know that anything existed beyond the Middle East and Mediterranean. If you draw up a list of all the lands listed in the Bible, you find that there is nothing West of Tarshish (Spain) in the book of Job, nothing East of Hoddu (India) in the book of Esther, nothing North of Azhkenaz (Ukraine)or South of Cush (Sudan/Somalia) in the...

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If you take some statements from the Bible literally, it contradicts modern science. Is it the same with other important religious texts such as the Qur'an? Here is another example of the Koran contradicting Modern Science. According to the Koran, the Earth is flat and stationary at the centre of the Universe and the Sun and Moon are just little lights that move across the Sky every 24 hours. I had not intended to give another answer to this question, in order to give others the opportunity to answer as well, but this issue arose in the comments...

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I was a good person as people would tell me. the point is i went bad. i kept repenting to allah but i went back to doing the haram. i swore in allahs name i wouldnt do it and kept doing it. what should i do? it seems pointless i keep lying to myself. I am sure that you still are a good person even if you break some religious rules. I think that you need to find a good friend, preferably another woman who you can trust and talk to.

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Why there are so many divisions in Islam and why they hate each other? (Shia Sunni, mappila etc) Probability for the similar reasons there are so many divisions in Christianity. There is no central authority in Islam to resolve disputes or differing interpretations of scripture. This can be a problem when you are dealing with big issues concerning the meaning of life and death. A few hundred years ago, Catholics and Protestants killed each other in religious wars and persecuted...

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So what's the difference between genies and "demonic possession"? Aren't they both just handy excuses for the unknown? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8145862.stm Yes they are handy excuses for the unknown.However, Genies or Djinn are not supposed to be exactly like Demons. In Christianity, Demons are fallen Angels who are said to be led by Satan. In Islam there is a third class of beings besides Humanity and Angels.These are Djinn who are supposded to be made from fire. Some Djinn are good and others evil.Indeed some are said to be Muslims or...

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Who was the most influential person in history? Probably Abraham or Moses if they ever existed.Without them, there would be no Judaism and as a consequence no Christianity or Islam. Therefore you could argue that Abraham or Moses were more influential in the long term that either Jesus or Mohammed.

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Was the world rotating faster ( day and night ) during Adam's life time as compared to our present time which may be a lot slower . Would this explain the reason for his age reaching 930 years old. The Earth did spin faster in the past and it has been slowing down gradually ever since. Billions of years ago, the Earth rotated every 18-20 hours instead of the current 24 hours.In Biblical times there would have been no significant difference from today. However, the Biblical writers were not aware that the Earth is a sphere or that it is rotating. Of coarse, Young Earth...

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What is your favorite War movie? Probably "Saving Private Ryan" as it seems to be quite realistic. What I remember most about it is not the film itself, but somebody who was sitting in the cinema near to me. A few seats away was an old man who would have been old enough to have been in the War. During the film, he began to get upset and by the end of the film he was struggling to hold back his tears.

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Is it true that there are no English translations of the Koran? No, there are lots of translations.I know of 15. Here is a website with 10 different translations. http://qb.gomen.org/QuranBrowser/

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Do you think that an ancient army ( macedonians, Ptolomies, Romans....etc.) could defeat a medieval army in battle? Possibly under certain circumstances. In the Middle Ages Robert thr Bruce used a formation of pikes known as a "Schiltron" to successfully fight armoured knights.This always reminds me of Alexander the Great and the Greek Phalanx. Also, some ancient military technology was better than medieval technology. The Romans used segmented armour which was supposed to be lighter and...

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Why was the Spartan sacrifice at Thermopylae so important? Because it was like the Alamo for the Americans. It delayed the Persians for a couple of days and gave the Greeks more time to prepare. It also inspired the Greeks to unite and fight the Persians.

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Can you share a fun fact in regards to ancient history? At school my History Teacher said that students always remembered two facts about Ancient History. 1) The Ancient Celts often ran into battle naked. 2) The City of Sparta was ruled by officials known as "ephors".

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What is your favorite Western Movie? It is hard to say for sure. I like Alan Ladd in "Shane" because we had to study the book in English class at school.Shane was an iconic good guy who was basically trying to leave his violent past behind him. Another good western is Gary Cooper in "High Noon."I am told that the flim is not really about the American West, but about the McCarthy Witch Hunts.

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Why muslims believe in jesus more than christians? Could you be a little more specific with your question please? I suspect that nobody understands what you are asking.

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What is banned in your country? In the UK, it is a criminal offence to own or watch television without a licence costing approx $200 per year. You even have to pay this if you own a TV but never watch it. The money raised is used to fund the BBC which means that it does not need advertising revenue or Government money. In theory you can go to prison for the crime of unlicensed possession of a television.I am not sure...

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What's your favorite ancient civilization? What about their civilization impresses you the most? The Ancient Greeks because they were the most scientifically advanced.

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What ancient peoples best understood astronomy and the structure of our solar system? Ancient peoples generally did not have any concept of a Solar System. In the Solar System, the planets orbit the Sun, but this was not known in ancient times. The oldest cosmologies that we know off come from the Middle East. They describe the Earth as a flat circular disc with as solid sky dome on top of it.The Sun, Moon and Stars were considered just little lights moving around the Sky....

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What did charles darwin conclude from reading the work of hutton and lyell? Probably that the Earth was a great deal older than the traditional 6000 year timescale derived from the Bible and that this meant that there was sufficient time for evolution to have occurred

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Did Leonardo da Vinci ever build one of his flying machines? I am not aware of any evidence that he ever did. However, a modern recreation of one of his gliders built from authentic materials had some success in gliding short distances. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article855352.ece http://www.damninteresting.com/da-vinci-the-inventor-part-i

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Why do Catholics confess their sins to a priest - why not just confess them to God in your prayers? What powers of forgiveness does a priest have that God doesn't have? Catholics do confess sins in their prayers, but the belief is that it is just too easy to say "sorry" in an insincere and light hearted way in your prayers. The theory is that having to do so to a person who is beside you makes you adopt a more sincere attitude. The RC Church believes in the Doctrine of apostolic succession and it believes that Jesus authorised his disciples to...

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Hi, if any of you have read the Bible you would maybe find out that Science somtimes says the opposite so what do you think is true: Science or The Bible/God/Jesus This answer is to some comments made on one of the other answers by the user “Light to the World” who is a Muslim. Some Muslims claim that the Koran contains dozens of Scientific Miracles that prove its Divine Authorship. It is said that no mere man 1400 years ago could have known about the knowledge in the Koran, which is said to have anticipated modern science by centuries, and...

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My ex told me told me not to go to college b/c I'd "never amount to anything." I got an education, made good grades, and had some good internships, but am unemployed. So maybe he's right. His words still haunt me, years later. What can I do? Do not let it bother you.With an attitude like that you are lucky that he is your ex-boyfriend and not your current partner. He probably felt threatened by you.I am sure that your real friends and family say nothing of the sort. Perhaps you should do some relevant coarses such as on computers or languages depending on what sort of work you are looking for. This also looks good at job...

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If you believe the Bible is the literal truth and without error, Do you believe the earth is a flat disk that is fixed and immovable, and covered by a solid firmament (dome) known as "the Vault of Heaven"? http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/febible.htm This is not really another answer, but rather a continuation of the previous one on Surah 36: 36-40 “And the sun runneth on unto a resting-place for him. That is the measuring of the Mighty, the Wise.” Surah 36:38 Pickthall In Surah 18:85-86 the Sun is described as descending into a muddy pool to get to its resting place. “And he followed a road till, when he...

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If you believe the Bible is the literal truth and without error, Do you believe the earth is a flat disk that is fixed and immovable, and covered by a solid firmament (dome) known as "the Vault of Heaven"? http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/febible.htm Many Muslims are fond of saying that the Bible assumes a flat Earth, but that the Koran is in harmony with modern science. This is not true. There are many verses of the Koran that imply a flat earth. Here is one passage. There are many more in the website in my profile. “Glory be to Him Who created all the sexual pairs, of that which the earth groweth, and of themselves, and of...

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If you believe the Bible is the literal truth and without error, Do you believe the earth is a flat disk that is fixed and immovable, and covered by a solid firmament (dome) known as "the Vault of Heaven"? http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/febible.htm If you take the Bible literally, you get a universe looking like the one in these pictures. This concept is an ancient Mesopotamian idea going back at least 5000 years.The Christian Church only accepted the idea of a spherical Earth between AD300 and AD500. If you take the Koran literally you get a similar picture.If you want to go into this in more detail, have a look at the website in...

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Why do Catholics insist non Catholics aren't Christians, are heretics, and do not receive salvation; and what biblical basis do they have for this? Generally most Catholics no longer believe this sort of thing. Back in the 1960's in keeping with the spirit of the times, the Church changes its policy on Protestants in the second Vatican Council. Previously, they emphasised the differences between Catholics and Protestants but since then the emphasis has been upon what both groups have in common. Traditionally. the RC Church...

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How would you describe 'intelligent design?' How is it different to the Bible's rendition of God creating the world? I think that Intelligent Design is just a watered down and generalised version of Creationism. It hides its religious motives by not referring to the Bible and is disguised as science in an attempt to sneak religion into Public Schools. ID is the thin end of the relidgious wedge.

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Could you describe how the world would be with no politicians? Anarchy and the law of the jungle. We will always need Poiticians despite their obvious shortcommings as we live in a representative democracy and need representatives. The alternatives such as anarchy, military dictatorship or theocracy are even worse.

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Try replacing "blonde", "woman", "man" in one of the jokes you tell with "Jew", "African American", "Asian"...does it seem as funny to you, or does it now sound offensive? How offensive is this Joke? How many Islamic Fundamentalists does it take to change a lightbulb? None, they prefer to sit in the dark and blame it on the Jews and Christians. The original wording was "How many Muslims ...." but I changed the words as I considered this offensive to Muslims.

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"American Jews are unsettled that President Obama equated the Holocaust to the Palestinian struggle" Isn't that true? Aren't Israelis actions in Palestine equivalent to the Jews being forced into ghettos to be controlled and exterminated? No not at all.If the Jews were really like Nazis, the Palistinians would all be dead long ago.Also, the Jews never attacked non-Jewish people in Europe.

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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said India should become a permanent member on the UN Security Council. Do you agree with him? Why or why not? I think that it would be a good idea as long as too many other countries do not expect the same thing. India has close ties with the USA and UK for a long time and is quite a progressive country by the standards of the developing world.They are also hostile to Islamic extremism. It also seems unfair to exclude such a large and important country. Such a policy might turn them into enemies...

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Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier who has been captured by the Taliban. Fox News already named him as a traitor and a guest said the Taliban would do us a favor if he was executed. Do you agree? Why or why not. No I do not agree. The soldier in the propaganda video may well have been tortured or threatened in ways we can only imagine.He may well have been deprived of food and sleep for days or have been subjected to physical and mental abuse. He may have been given a choice to either do as he was told or be filmed having his head cut off. I wonder though, whether or not soldiers are trained...

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The United States of America. is it the biggest name for a country? I think that "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" is a bit longer.

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WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE TENSION BETWEEN JUDISM AND ISLAM IN THE MIDDLE EAST? If the Jews and Mulims were less religious and willing to talk and compromise with each other there would be less tension in the Middle East. In my view, there are two main causes of the tension. 1)Extreme Zionists, many obsessed with Religion grabbibg land from Palestinians. 2)Militant Islamic Fundamentalists filled with bigotry and hate who want to totally destroy Israel and who will...

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Do you think people who do not speak English are missing a lot about what's going on in the world (even if they live in a countries where English is not the main language)? They probably are, if they only speak some very minor language.It would be more difficult to use much of the Internet for one thing. However, I think that if you speak a major international language such as French or Spanish, you can be very well informed.

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Glenn Beck of Fox claimed Obama's FEMA was building concentration camps. Did anyone here believe him? And, should public news and commentary professionals be able to make such claims without any evidence? I think that the system in the UK is quite a good one. Newsreaders are not permitted to express personal opinions, and are obliged to be even handed. In order to give expression to different points of view, they interview other people who express these viewpoints.

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What if every one on this earth convert to islam? It would be a nightmare if everyone on Earth converted to any religion. It would stiffle freethinking,diversity and pluralism and there would be nowhere in the World that you could go to escape. If the Whole World converted to Islam, I think that it would be like George Orwell's novel "1984" with Allah as the ultimate "Big Brother."

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What Jesus (pbuh) said about Muhammed (pbuh)? This refers to the following video clip taked from a lecture by Khalid Yasin given at Sydney, Australia. Khalid Yasin is an american muslim who converted from christianity more than 30 years ago. This guy is an idiot. He left one false religion and joined another false religion. The "comforter" whoever he was to be, was to come to help the disciples of Jesus. Unless he had a time machine, Mohammed never met any of the disciples of Jesus. Therefore Mohammed cannot have been the person who was supposed to come to the disciples. He was born 500 years too late.

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Matthew 21:43 ((Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof)) what is this nation? Many Christians interpret this as Jesus rejecting Israel as Gods chosen people and referring to the Christian Church as the “True Israel”. “Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures: `The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner; this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes’? Therefore I tell...

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Was the Awaited Prophet to come from Arabia? ..... Deuteronomy 33:1-2 combines references to Moses, Jesus and ???. It speaks of God (i.e. God's revelation) coming from Sinai, rising from Seir and shining forth from PARAN ! Well Jim - It looks like the Christians and Jews are sick of arguing with you. You will just have to settle for an answer from an Atheist. I know how much you like my answers so here is another one. First of all, there is no such thing as predictive prophecy in either the Bible or Koran.Once you realise this,you will save yourself a lot of bother. Here is a sensible interpretation of...

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John15:26(But when the Comforter is come,whom I will send unto you from the Father,even the Spirit of truth,which proceedeth from the Father,he shall testify of me)comforter is repeated a lot in bible.one of the meaning of greek word is Mohammed?opinion? Here is the standard Christian interpretation of Deuteronomy 33:2. I am using three alternative translations for clarity. “He said, "The Lord came from Sinai, and dawned from Se'ir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran, he came from the ten thousands of holy ones, with flaming fire at his right hand.” Deuteronomy 33:2...

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John15:26(But when the Comforter is come,whom I will send unto you from the Father,even the Spirit of truth,which proceedeth from the Father,he shall testify of me)comforter is repeated a lot in bible.one of the meaning of greek word is Mohammed?opinion? The Christian interpretation of these verses seems perfectly plausible to me. Here is John 15:26 according to the Revised Standard Version “But when the Counselor comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness to me;” John 15:26 RSV Jesus is speaking to his disciples and people around him. I see...

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Regarding this language learning site, why do you suppose it considers Norwegian, Swedish and even Finnish 'Indo-European' languages, but not Danish? (wasnt sure the best place for this Q) Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are all in the Germanic group of Indo European languages and closely related. Finnish is not Indo European. It is part of a Language Family often called Finno-Uralic or other names. Have a look at this website http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/languagefamilies.html

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Why do so many places in the US have the same name as other cities/places? Like Venice, Birmingham and Paris as well as the "new" names like New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey etc. They probably reflect the origins of early settlers.New York was New Amsterdam when the Dutch had it and when the British took over, they gave it its current name named after York in England. New England was said to resemble England and the original settlers were mostly English. To the north of New England is Nova Scotia (New Scotland) in Canada.Scotland is to the north of England. I...

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Are there pyramids in any country besides Egypt? There are Pyramids in Northern Sudan, build by ancient Nubians, but they are much smaller than those further north in Egypt and they were built much later.

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John15:26(But when the Comforter is come,whom I will send unto you from the Father,even the Spirit of truth,which proceedeth from the Father,he shall testify of me)comforter is repeated a lot in bible.one of the meaning of greek word is Mohammed?opinion? I am sceptical as to whether Jesus ever said these words. After all, this was after his death according to the Gospels. If the Gospels are inaccurate about the death and resurrection of Jesus as many Muslims claim, then you cannot be sure that they accurately record the words of Jesus. However, apart from all this I do not think that John 15:26 can possibly refer to Mohammed as Jesus is...

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Why is their no picture of any sort of the Prophet Mohammad? There are pictures of Mohammed, mostly by other Muslims.The picture below is a traditional Iranian image of Mohammed. Try this link. http://zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/

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Who were the first Europeans to settle in North America? Some claim that it was Stone Age Europeans who made the journey during the last Ice Age. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/columbus.shtml The idea is very controversial though and the jury is still out.

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At the height of the Roman Empire, what percentage of the world's population was under Roman rule? Probably about 25% or around 60 million people. A similar proportion lived in China and slightly fewer in India.

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Is theory of evolution against God or not, and why Yes it is. The whole point of the Theory of Evolution is to explain the origin of the diversity in the living world without any need for God. If Evolution is true, what need is there for God?

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What did Jesus mean by the sign of Jonah? If you are referring to Matthew 12: 38-40, the mainstream Christian interpretation is that Jesus was foretelling his death and resurrection. In the Old Testament, Jonah was swallowed by a large fish but he escapes after several days. According to some interpretations, Jonah may have died while inside the fish and God brought him back to life. In the Gospel story, some people were asking...

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What is the strongest bone in human body that wouldn't decomposed after dieth whatever the conditions (temperature, pressure, reactions..etc)? Unless I am mistaken, the Hadith say that it is the Coccyx. However, I think that the teeth are probably the longest lasting.When fragments of early humans that are a couple of million years old are found the teeth are usually the best preserved parts.Some ancient fossils are only known from a few teeth. Unless there are any Paleo-anthropologists on Answerbag, I doubt if we will get a...

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If God created everything, then who created God? A lot depends on which God you are referring to?

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Only some people take the Bible literally. How do other Christians read it? Please give examples. I attended private schools run by the Roman Catholic Church when I was growing up and they usually did not interpret the Bible literally. For example, the story of Jonah and the Whale.Jonah is upset because God does not destroy the Assyrians who are his countries enemies and he tries to run away from God and is swallowed by a large fish or whale. The interpretation that I was given was...

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What comes to mind when i say "Tele-Evangelist" Jesus wants $100!

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How did the Jews surrvive in Isarael before Christ. Were the Jews the only caucasions in an Arab dominated part of the world before exodus?Where did the Jews come from why were they were they orginally for Israel? The Arabs were much less important in the Middle East before the coming of Islam 1400 years ago. Before this the region was dominated by various peoples such as the Romans. Greeks, Persians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hittites and Akkadians at different periods of history. According to the Bible, the origin of Israel lies in Ancient Mesopotamia almost 4000 years ago with...

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Before Abraham there were no Jews - or worshipers of the One God. Did that god exist before that? If yes, where was he and what was he doing? My opinion is that the God of Abraham was originally just one of many Gods worshiped in Ancient Mesopotamia.Perhaps he was some sort of local tribal or city God in Ur. In his book, "The Religious Experience of Mankind" Professor Ninian Smart, says that the God of Abraham was called "El Shaddai" or "Lord of the Mountains." Abraham may have believed in the...

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Is there any credible evidence today of the Great Flood described in the Bible? I do not think that there is. I suspect that the story is an exaggeration of a one or more smaller local floods in Mesopotamia 5000 years ago. Another source for legends of a universal flood in the distant past may be the flooding of low lying coastal areas by rising sea levels several thousand years ago at the end of the last Ice Age.

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Why haven't u said that mary (the mother of god) is also god? No Christians have ever made such claims because they have no Biblical justification and would be Polytheism and a violation of the first commandment. Some have argued that the Koran misunderstands the Christian Trinity and refers to Mary as a God along with two other Gods, Jesus and the Father. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_in_Islam Christians have only believed that Mary was...

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Honstly...if you find every things mentioned in relegions (God, Hell, paradise ....) true after dieth. what would you say to God if he ask why didn't you belive in me? I would probably ask him why such an omniscient being such as himself made so many scientific errors in the Koran and Bible. I might also ask if I could have a choice as to where I am going between the Christian and Islamic Heavens and Hells and possibly Sheol,Abrahams Bosom,Purgatory,Limbo and Hades if they exist.

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Do you believe in Theistic Evolution? (that God used evolution to bring forth His creation)? Why or Why Not? No, I do not think so. About 99% of the species that have ever lived are now extinct and I would imagine that God would have had a higher success rate than this. Besides, the reason for coming up with the concept of Evolution in the first place was in order to take God out of the picture.

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Is there a rational reason to believe the Bible is more accurate or right than any other holy text? No, I do not think so. The Bible and the Koran both contain the same types of scientific errors. These include, Flat Earthism, Geocentric Cosmology and a denial of Evolution. In my view, they are interesting from a literary point of view and as historical curiosities, but no more than that. If you interpret the Bible literally, then you have a Universe like the one in these pictures.

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Islam has been described as a Arabic version of Judaism while Jews are described as the chosen of God, then why is Islam increasing and Judaism is declining in terms of world wide populations of practicioners. Because Islam is a missionary religion that actively seeks converts and Judaism does not seek to convert anyone.

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Does the bible support the formation of and the state of Isreal and the tactics of Isreal in warfare? why are there so many isreali deviants who do not follow Jewish law living in Isreal? In my opinion it does, but I think that it is very dangerous to use it to justify modern political events. I believe in the separation of Church and State and I think that using the Bible or Koran in politics will lead to enormous bloodshed. Also, there are questions about how reliable and historically accurate the Bible is. In the Book of Genesis, God gives Abraham and his descendants...

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Does the bible support the formation of and the state of Isreal and the tactics of Isreal in warfare? why are there so many isreali deviants who do not follow Jewish law living in Isreal? .

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What's your opinion about Islam (islam not Muslims) ??have you ever red Qur'an? The first time that I read the Koran, my impression was that it was very like the Bible in its content, but that its style was different. I think of the Koran and Bible as being like two members of a family as they are so similar when compared to other Scriptures such as the Vedas. If I had my way though, I would rearrange the Koran so that the Surahs were in chronological order as this...

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Why r u as christian always making jokes when you talking about prophets, God, Hell, even Jesus (ur god)..why don't u use polite words?in Islam talking like this is not acceptable at all and it's considered as a great Sin..is it acceptable in ur culture? Clergymen and conservative Christians generally do not like anyone making fun of God or any other religious figure as it is considered blasphemy. As a boy, I was taught at a private school run by Clergymen. Anyone who told a religious joke or said anything disrespectful was immediately punished. However,less conservative Christians and ex-Christians often rebel against conservative views...

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Is Islam an intolerant religion? Some might say that it is very intolerant to call for the death of anyone leaving Islam.

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Should the media publish images of Muhammad? Of coarse they should.What gives some Muslim extremists the right to tell us what we can and cannot see. Where exactly in the Koran does it say that images of Mohammed may not be shown? For hundreds of years muslims have made pictures of Mohammed so why stop now? I saw a TV News reporter buying pictures of Mohammed recently in Tehran in a shop outside a mosque. These pictures were all...

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Is space really the "final frontier"? Some say that death is the final frontier or perhaps death (and not the future) is the undiscovered country if Shakespeare is to be believed.

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Do you believe the Quranic prophecy of the "splitting of the moon" came true in 1969? I do not think that this was meant to be a prophecy but rather the description of an actual event that is supposed to have occured in AD617. The following Hadith support this interpretation. Al-Bukhari Volume 4, Book 56, Number 830: Narrated Abdullah bin Masud: During the lifetime of the Prophet the moon was split into two parts and on that the Prophet said, "Bear witness (to...

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What is the difference between the Koran and the hadiths? The Koran is said to be the words of Mohammed when he was in one of many divinely inspired trances over many years. Muslims believe that these words came from God. The Hadith is said to be the words of Mohammed when he was not in a trance. The Hadith is thus not as authoritive as the Koran, but it is still very important. The Hadith is to Mohammed what the Gospel is to Jesus.

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Who came up with the concept of hell being a hot place? I suspect that it was ancient Indo Europeans in the second Millenium BC. Originally many peoples in the Ancient World believed in an Underworld without ethical judgement which was dull and gloomy such as the Greek Hades, the Hebrew Sheol or the Mesopotamian Nergal.Both the good and bad went there after death. The oldest references to a hot Hell are in Ancient India and Persia although the...

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Is it wrong for an atheist to quote the bible? Not at all.Sometimes it is neccessary when Christians quote the Bible at you when they are trying to convert you.

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Is any christian insulted by that 'jesus is muslum"? I doubt if it is any more insulting than Christians claiming that Jewish characters in the Old Testament were really Christians.

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Is it known ,today,exactly where Ur was,and Haran, when Abraham was called on to leave it,separate himself from the heathen, and go where HE would lead him? Ur was an ancient city in Sumeria. Today ths is in southern Iraq. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur

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Do you know that Muslims were in the Americas, hundreds of years before Columbus ? .... Read this article before you answer: http://www.themodernreligion.com/ht/before-columbus.html JIM Considering that this is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landings and your general Muslim supremacist attitude, I am surprised that you are not claiming that Muslims were the first to reach the Moon hundreds of years ago.

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Do you know that Muslims were in the Americas, hundreds of years before Columbus ? .... Read this article before you answer: http://www.themodernreligion.com/ht/before-columbus.html There may well have been some very limited contact between the Old and New Worlds before Columbus, but it cannot have been on a very large scale. When Europeans arrived in the Americas, Native Americans had no resistance to Old World diseases. If there had been large-scale previous contact, the Native Americans would most likely have built up some resistance to these diseases. Smallpox is...

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Do you believe God (Krishna) answers prayers? He is probably no worse at it than any other God.

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If Sunday is the holy day of rest why do we have to get up early for church? Sunday is only for resting from secular work if you are religious.The churches would probably tell you that religious activity or work is holy.

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Where were you on Sept. 11 when the 2001 terrorist attacks were commited? I was moving house. I was moving furniture that my brother had been storing in his house whan he called me in to see the TV. For a monent, I thought that I was watching some new Hollywood action film, but unfortunately it was real.

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Where were you when the moon landing occured? I was a little boy playing in our garden and the fields around our house. Just before I had to go in for bed, my father who had been working in the garden came over to me and sat down beside me.He pointed up at the Moon and said to me "there are men up there tonight." I was amazed by what he had said and the memory stuck in my mind.

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Women love cats. Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats. Why? I like cats. When I was a student, we had a cat in our house which I looked after so well that the other students called me "Blofeld" after the characther in the James Bond films.(I do not actually look like Blofeld though.) One of the other students hated cats as he was alergic to them and would try and kick our cat. When he was on drugs, he would try and have arguments with...

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The Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago, so what's the purpose of NATO now? To protect Western countries and Western Values in Europe and North America from external threats now and in the future. NATO, also helps to keep the countries of Western Europe from fighting among each other as they have done for centuries in the past. Basically, the Worlds most progressive countries should stick together.

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What historic event do you have the strongest memory of? The Moon landing.One of my earliest memories is standing in my front garden as a little boy looking up at the Moon and my father pointing up at it and saying "There are men up there tonight."

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If you take some statements from the Bible literally, it contradicts modern science. Is it the same with other important religious texts such as the Qur'an? Another example from the Koran is the story of King Solomon being able to talk to birds and ants. http://www.readingislam.com/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1233567613720&pagename=Zone-English-Discover_Islam%2FDIELayout The Koran portrays him as an Islamic Dr Dolittle.The ants can talk and fully understand human language and that they are concious sentient beings just like...

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From your point of view, who is more humble, muslims or christians or jews? I do not think that there is on average much difference in humility between Muslims, Christians or Jews. The most humble people that I know are East Asians who are Buddhists or followers of Chinese religions.

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How was Noah able to put 1,263,186 known vertebrates and invertebrates in 450’ x 75’ boat? And where did he put the 326,175 known plant species? The problem is even worse than you think. It is extimated that 99% of all species that have ever lived are extinct.Noah, if he had existed would have had over 100 million species to worry about. AIn the Bible, plants are not considered to be alive because they cannot move and because they are not seen to be breathing.Noah would not have bothered to take them on the Ark other than as food....

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WHY IN WESTERN COUNTRIES SHOULD WOMEN ALMOST NAKED TO BE CEVILICED AND FREE, AND WHEN COVER HER HEAD THEY SPEAK ABOUT FORCING, CLOSURE........AND SO ON? I think that it is important to remember that there is more to the World than Islam and the West. In traditional China, India or Africa there is no requirement for women to cover up as in Islam.It is not Islam and the West, but Islam and the rest. It is easy to understand why women in the Middle East originally wore headscarfs and veils. They were protection against the sun and dust. ...

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This comes up often in discussions of the Bible being accurate scientifically so I ask the community - Is a circle the same as a sphere? No - They are not the same.The peoples of the Middle East in Biblical times thought that the Earth was a flat circle. In late OT times, the Greeks discovered that the Earth vwas a sphere, but this is not in the Bible. Translating "Circle" as "Sphere" such as in Isaiah 40:22 is just an attempt by fundamentalists to hide scientific errors in the Bible.

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Do you belive in Darwin theory...or in Adam and Eve ??? and Why? In the 1880's Darwin predicted the that one day, the remains of ape men would be found in sub-sarahan Africa. In 1924, Raymond Dart found the remains of an ape in South Africa which walked on two legs like us, but which had a brain the size of chimpanzee (450 cc).He named the ape Australopithecus. Since then, many other Austropithecines have been found in South Africa,Ethiopia,...

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Does abortion kill a human being? If not, what species does it kill? Yes, it does kill a Human, but it only kills a human being if it occurs in the later part of pregnancy depending on what you mean by "being". Some would say that you were not a "being" or "person" within the womb until your brain developed to a cerain extent and was capable of certain basic mental functions. When you cut yourself and wipe away the blood, you...

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Was it right to ban Baa Baa Black Sheep and remove Golliwogs from Robinsons jam jars and Noddy Books? What about banning Bing Crosby songs? Some people might argue that his song "White Christmas" is rascist.

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Would you prefer American English or British English? I wanted to know because it makes a lot of confusion as color or colour, defense or defence, realize or realise, traveler or traveller. The first ones are American and seconds are British. There is not really any such thing as "correct" English.In the British Isles alone there are a dozen regional accents. I speak and write British English with a Scottish Lowland accent.However, most computer software uses American English andso it is probably best for foriegners to use this. Basically, in the UK,we use a combination of both British and American English.

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Does killing in wars amount to sin? Not neccessarily. In the Book of Joshua, God told the Israelites to destroy dozens of Canannite Cities and kill every man woman and child in them.

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Holy Quran is in total agreement with modern scientific data? This is a question rather than an answer.As a Muslim, do you think there are Scientific errors in the Bible? If so could you give a couple of examples? For example, do you think the Bible teaches a flat Earth?

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"For the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, And He set the world on them." (New American Standard Bible, 1 Samual 2:8). How should we understand those pillars? This is not an answer, but rather the pictures that I referred to previously. This is my interpretation of what the Koran says the Universe looks like.It shows unseen pillars of the sky sitting in a Cosmic Ocean. This is very similar to what the Bible says.

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Which political revolution do you think is the greatest of all? 1)American 2)French 3)Russian 4)Collapse of former USSR 5)or any other(please name) Some British People would say that the most important political revolutions were those in the 1600's in Britain. These are the English Revolution and Civil War of 1642-60 and the Glorious Revolution of 1688-91. In both these Revolutions,the power of Absolute Monarchies was successfully challenged and the resulting Constitutional Monarchy arrangement is still in place today in the UK....

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What comes after humans? I suspect that it may be intelligent machines in a few decades time.Hopefully, it will not be like in Terminator though. Some speculate that we will constantly "upgrade" ourselves with hardware until there is little or nothing biological left.

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To Christians .. Didn't Jesus cry and beg to be saved according to the Bible?! ..".."My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" {Matthew 27:46}.. If Jesus's intention was to be a sacrifice, why would he "Beg" and "Pray" to God to be saved !!!? Because it really hurt with those big nails through his wrists and feet.You would have been making a lot of noise if you had been in his position.

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When the Bible says the earth was created in six days, does that mean literally six 24 hour days? I think that the Bible writers meant six literal days, since the creation week is compared to a normal human calendar week. Exodus 20:8-11 RSV "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy …. for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.” 2 Peter 3:8...

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What was the Religion name of Jesus as stated in the Bible? A lot of people will undoubtably take offense at this question.Even the username "JESUS-IS-MUSLIM" is very sectarian. Imagine if somebody called themselves "MOHAMMED-IS-CHRISTIAN" and started to ask questions in the Islamic Section of Answerbag.Most people would regard this as bigotry. I found this link that actually argues that Mohammed WAS a Christian...

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Is the world more violent now than past ages? I do not think that individual people are more violent, but there are more of us around than in the past and we have deadlier weapons than in the past. That adds up to more violence.

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Why did china have crossbows >200bc(<-200ad) and then way later it was being made was it reinvented or did all the other countrys just copy each other by first copying china? Alexander the Great is known to have used Crossbows in the C4th BC. I suspect that many ancient inventions were invented independantly more than once in different parts of the world.

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Where are the Garden of Eden and The Tower of Babel located? I do not think that either existed exactly as described in the Bible.However, some believe that they are based on real events. It has been argued that the garden of Eden is located in the valley of Tabriz,buried under the modern Iranian City of the same name. I suspect that the Tower of Babel story was bsed on a Ziggurat in Babylon.

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What is the first song you remember listening to as a child? I think that it was "Morning has broken" by Cat Stevens (Now Yusuf Islam) back in the early 1970s when I was at Primary School.It sticks in my mind because we had to sing it a lot in Church. I first recall hearing it on the bus to school, one beautiful spring morning.The song seemed very appropriate for the occasion.Whenever I hear the song now, I still think back to being a little...

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When you say something is 'fair' or 'unfair', like some couple had to get a divorce to qualify for Medicaid, or the insurance didn't pay for water damage or she got custody or some such, what do you mean, exactly? Many people believe that there is a "natural" sense of justice or right and wrong that is universal throughout all cultures that transcends local cultural norms or legal concepts of Justice.

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Do you think the Dalai Lama is a hero or enemy? A hero.Unlike some religious leaders, he does not preach bigotry and intolerance.He probably does not care whether you agree with him or not.He also does a good job reminding the World about what is happening in Tibet.

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Christianity dates back to around 30 CE. It, like other religions, has a creation story about the beginning of everything. I suppose Adam and Eve are supposed to have passed this information down. How long ago are Adam and Eve supposed to have lived? According to Judaism, Adam and Eve were created in 3760BC. The most famous Christian calculation based on the Bible was that of Archbishop Ussher in AD1650.He calculated that Aam was created in 4004BC on 23rd October at 9.00AM in the morning.I have no idea how he got so precise a date and time though. Other Christian groups have come up with dates for Adam and Eve between 4000BC and 8000BC.

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What do you think is the biggest reason Christianity, Islam and Judaism took the place of the ancient Pagan religions to become the front-runners? What didn't Paganism have that they did? I think that it was at least partly due to chance.If history had been slightly different, I suspect that none of these religions would be so well known or widespread. Firstly, Judaism could easily have been destroyed if the Ancient Assyrians had captured Jerusalem when they invaded Judah in around 701BC.If the Jewish elite had been killed or enslaved, then Judaism would have died out and...

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What do Muslim women who wear a hijab wear when they go swimming? The Muslim women that I know wear exactly the same as non-Muslim women when they go swimming and in everyday life.

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It is a scientific fact that girls mature faster in hotter climate? (Muslim claim this as a defence re Mohammad's 6yr old bride) So a 6yr old Arab child is physically more mature than a say Eskimo 6yr old? Evidence pls I am amazed how some Muslims are so keen to defend paedophilia. Why on Earth should anyone want to have sex with a child? Perhaps such people feel inadequate or insecure in some way? It is true that child marriage has been common in most societies including our own in the past. That does not make it right. A century ago, children worked down mines, up chimneys and in factories. Child...

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Why were the Middle Eastern Muslims more advanced in the Islamic Golden Age than they (the majority) are today in modern time? What went wrong? This is my opinion. Firstly, the Middle East was very advanced even before the Muslims conquest. Much of the science of early Islam comes from the ancient Greeks and Persians.Some also came from India and China.China was as advanced as Islam. Secondly Muslim rulers deliberately pursued scientific knowledge and did not interpret the Koran in a literal way. Thirdly, Islam was more...

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A friend of mine converted to Islam, he argued Islam is clear and reasonable (no confusions like Trinity). Is he right? I think that it is clear and reasonable for HIM.Non Muslims probably disagree and that is why they are Non-Muslims.

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What was the Religion name of Jesus as stated in the Bible? .

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Can you cite a scriptual basis for the celebacy of the priesthood in the Catholic Church? The reasons for this are not primarily religious, although some people would claim the celebacy of Jesus as a precedent. In the past, Roamn Catolic Priests were allowed to marry just like Eastern Orthodox Priests still do today. The Church hierarchy in the Middle ages was concerned about keeping the Church under its control and not losing Church property and so it introduced the celebacy...

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What are the main differences in faith bewteen Christians and Catholics? I have heard a small number of very conservative Catholics argue that Protestants are not real Christians and that in reality they worship the Devil without knowing it. But this is just bigotry and not the position of the vast majority of Catholics or the Roman Catholic Church. Likewise, there are a small number of bigoted Protestants who say that the Roman Catholic Church is not really...

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What genre of books do you prefer reading? I prefer non-Fiction as I think the real world is more intresting than fiction.To each their own of coarse. I own a lot of books.They are on popular science, history,religion and philosophy and technology, especially in computers. I bought my first book a very long time ago at Christmas 1969 when I was still learning to read.For ten weeks,we had to bring in some money to school and at...

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Who is the most famous person you have seen up close? What were the circumstances? Bill and Hilary Clinton when they came to visit my City about 10 years ago.Mind you, I only got to within a few dozen yards of them due to the huge crowds.

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Who was there before.......Palestine or Israel? It depends on how far you want to go back and who you ask. I would say Israel, but that does not mean that Palestinians do not have rights including the right to soome sort of homeland or state just like the Israeli's do.

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Should the US stop defending Israel? why or why not? No, the US should continue to support Israel because they broadly share Western values.Israel is the least untrustworthy country in the Middle East. We should not however support extreme zionists or ultra orthodox Jewish Fundamentalists who steal Arab land in the West Bank. Also,if the US does not support Israel, there could be another Holocaust if Islamic Fundamentalists Fascists ever...

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What book have you read that most challenged your personal beliefs about religion,morales, and society? The Koran.I was appalled by what I read in it.Like many religious books, the tone was extremely authoritarian and menacing. I came away from the experience feeling glad that I had not been raised in a family where this book had been taught to me. A book that made a very positive impact on me when I was 17 was a book of three essays by John Stuart Mill written in the 1860's. The...

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Have you read Homer's Odyssey? And you also get a star if you understood it. I had to read it many years ago in an abridged version at school, but I was too young to appreciate it. Our teacher loved the book and thought that it was about the meaning of life and the Ancient Greek equivalent of the Bible. As many people know,it is the story of Odysseus a Greek King and Hero who is forced by duty to leave his wife and young son to fight in the Trojan war and who ends...

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Where did languages and letters come from? This is my opinion.I am assuming you are asking about the origin of languages and the alphabet. Modern People have always been able to talk since our ancestors left Africa 100,000 years ago and probably much earlier. We cannot be completely sure, but even archaic prehistoric humans such as Homo Habilis or Homo Erectus may have had some sort of crude language. Early people were probably...

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If someone told you in your face: "hey, your spouse is ugly", how would you react? I would ask them how long it is since they had their eyes checked.

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Is it true that people start seeing past loved ones right before death? If it is how soon before death does it start happening? I do not really know.However when one of my relatives was dying of cancer in hospital many years ago, he was murmering the names of his sister and mother who had died many years previously and some other things that I could not understand. He was a very religious man who expected to be greeted by dead relatives in Heaven.However, he was not fully conscious and he was full of extremely strong...

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What is an example of something that has changed for the "better" over the last 40 years? The risk of the World being totally destroyed in a Nuclear War has decreased.However, the risk of smaller scale nuclear attacks has increased.

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Which is better, to be a human, and to die after about 100 years (if you are lucky), or to be a jellyfish, and to be immortal? I would rather be human, although I am biased. I doubt if the jellyfish is sufficiently self conscious or intelligent to appreciate its own existence or immortality.

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Assuming that people have souls, where do souls come from? I have heard several theories. Firstly, souls are generated by our brains when they reach a certain level of complexity in the womb. Secondly, God created them all long ago and sends them into a fetus sometime between conception and birth.In this theory,Heaven contains a huge store of deactivated souls that have not been used yet Thirdly, souls are special creations by God.In this...

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What was the Religion name of Jesus as stated in the Bible? The video has been removed, but there is one called "Jesus was a Muslim(Submitted to the will of God) which I presume is similar to the one you are referring to. This video defines being a Muslim in such a vague way that almost anyone can be classified s a Muslim. As a Muslim, how do you define Islam? I define a Muslim, as somebody who performs the five pillars of Islam and who...

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Is it true that Muslims believe that all people are born Muslims? My understanding is that this is a widespread Muslim belief. Many Muslims believe that we are all born Muslims and that we would naturally grow up Muslims if it were not for parents and others teaching us other religions. The argument seems to be based on a belief that Islam is a natural pure original religion from God and that other religions are at best corruptions of Islam. I do not...

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Polls clearly show the will of people is most often ignored when policies are made by North American governments, do you think the system is broken and if so how could it be fixed? I would say that governments are representative democracies and not direct democracies. Elected officials should do what they believe to be right and lead public opinion rather than just follow it. Sometimes public opinion can be fickle and irrational.For example, many people would like to see lower taxes but also higher government spending on things like education and healthcare. In...

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If you had to live off one meal for the rest of your life what would it be? Potatoes and anything.The Irish lived on potatoes and very little else for 300 years.

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WHY DO PEOPLE CRY OPPRESSION IN COUNTRIES THAT REQUIRE WOMEN TO COVER THEMSELVES AND YET FALL SILENT OR CALL FOR LAWS WHICH BAN WOMEN FROM COVERING THEMSELVES? IF IT IS OPPRESSIVE TO FORCE A WOMAN TO COVER IS IT NOT OPPRESSION TO FORCE HER TO UNCOVER? It is certainly oppressive if a Muslim woman or Sikh man is not allowed to wear a hijab, veil or turban in public. I do not believe that the law in general should tell people how to dress. However, in some circumstances, things are a bit more complicated. It could be argued that in government institutions or in the workplace additional concerns apply. Some would argue that wearing...

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Do you believe there is a right to armed resistance if a population is under occupation or siege? Only as a last resort if there really is no peaceful alterntive.Such resistance should follow the rules of war and be ended if circumstances change. I think that the ANC had a right to use violence against the pro-Apartheid white government in South Africa. The ANC started off as a peaceful organisation but was driven to violence.When it had the opportunity to join the political process, its...

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Jews, what is your perspective on Genesis 22:1-24, when Abraham is willing to sacrifice his son, Isaac? I am not Jewish, but this is how a rabbi on TV interpreted this story. He claimed that just as God was testing Abraham, Abraham was also testing God.He argued that Abraham would never have sacrificed his son and that he was just playing along with God. He expected God to intervene at the last moment and if God had not, he would never have killed his son and then he would have abandoned...

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I once saw some schoolboys cover a lizard's head with chewing gum. What would you do/say to the schoolboys? Stop them if you are in a position to do so.Animals are not toys to be abused for amusement. Also, people who enjoy torturing animals are often lacking in empathy for other living beings.There is a very good chance that such children may grow up and mistreat other people if they are not straightened out early enough.

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Yesterday it was stated on an American TV News bulletin: "Apparently if we all followed the financial advice from the Qur'an, the world would not be plunging into a recession." Your thoughts? If the Qur'an contains such good advice on managing money, how come the great majority of the Worlds Muslims are so poor? This sounds like another attempt by people with a very conservative religious agenda to push their extreme views.

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To Christians.. If Jesus was God ... Then how could God sat down at the right hand of himself !!? .. "So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God." [Mark 16:19] I know of a clergyman who answered this question by claiming that God can easily be in several places at the same time in some sort of mysterious way that is beyond human comprehension. There is also the incident of the Baptism of Christ, where God was supposedly in THREE places at the same time.He is aid to have been present as Father Son and Holy Spirit. Perhaps he meant that God was...

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Does the Koran imply that the Earth is Flat? Here is the Cosmos of the Bible for comparison.

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Does the Koran imply that the Earth is Flat? I have been looking into this myself recently.These pictures show my interpretation of the Cosmology assumed in the Koran and Hadith. This is quite similar to the Cosmology of the Bible.

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Follow up; Should a Muslim be able to sue for "human rights violation" when denied entry into public buildings, such as courtrooms for not removing their headscarves No I do not think so. In my opinion,wearing any sort of religious garment in a public building is unconstitutional, since it could be interpreted as a breach of the separation of Church and State. I believe that a Muslim or anyone else in religious clothing in a public building is breaching the Human rights of other people in the building. These people, i my view have a right to freedom...

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Why is it that all major religions originate from the east? It depends what you mean by the East. Most of the Worlds major religions originated in one of three areas. )The Middle East (Judaism,Christianity,Islam) 2)India (Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism) 3)The Far East (Confucianism, Daoism, Shinto) These three areas were the Worlds oldest areas of civilisation and were where most of the Worlds population lived thousands of years ago. It is...

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If life on earth began with the evolution theory then how did the universe begin if you cant make something from nothing? does god exist as science can't explain this to me? Some say that you can make something out of nothing without breaking any law of nature. This theory rewords the law of conservation of energy and matter to say that the total amount of matter and energy cannot change withing a closed system. In this theory, gravity is considered to be a form of negative energy.It is argued that if you add up all the matter and energy in the universe, it...

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Are you aware of how long ago the earth was created? The consensus of scientific opinion is that the Earth is about 4.6 billion years old. This is accepted by virtually everyone except by some Christian Fundamentalists.

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How and when was the Koran written? There are two main theories. Firstly, the traditional Muslim one.This says that the Koran was created by God in Heaven, long ago, possible before or shortly after the creation on the Universe. (13.7 billion years ago?) This theory further states that the Koran was revealed in many parts to Mohammed between AD610 and the Prophets death in AD632.After Mohammeds death the fragmentary records...

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If you take some statements from the Bible literally, it contradicts modern science. Is it the same with other important religious texts such as the Qur'an? There is an intresting story in the Koran which completely contradicts modern science. According to the Koran, in the year AD617, Mohammed split the moon in two and then rejoined the parts. “The hour drew nigh and the moon was rent in twain.” (Surah 54:1 Pickthall translation) If this had actually occured then how come nobody else on Earth noticed it? Also,if the moon...

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Do Jewish laws reason that abortion is okay as long as done before a certain gestation, being that it is not a living life force yet? what about the sacred gift of children and being able too bear children..Judaist only ,please!! I am not a Jew, but I thought that you might be intrested in the answer that a rabbi gave me about Judaism and abortion. He said that Jews consider abortion to be a sin, but not murder. He told me that in his view, the Bible teaches that people have two souls.One is an animal soul which they inherit from their parents just like other animals.The other is a rational or human soul which is...

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A Question to all relegions....Do you consider A city of Mecca and Ka'aba to be a holy place Since Abraham raise its basis and most prophets have pilgrimage to it at least once? Jews and Christians do not consider Mecca important since it is not mentioned in the Bible. Jerusalem is more important to Jews and Christians because the Bible says that it was the City of David almost 3000 years ago and because Christians believe that Jesus died there. In the Bible, Abraham is described as coming from the city of Ur in what is now southern Iraq and travelling to what is...

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A Question to all relegions....Do you consider A city of Mecca and Ka'aba to be a holy place Since Abraham raise its basis and most prophets have pilgrimage to it at least once? Sorry,my internet connection froze and I answered twice by mistake.

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Holy Quran is in total agreement with modern scientific data? I do not think so.Here is a picture of the Universe according to the Koran.

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What would you think/say if your boss told you to put on more make-up for the customers? I would quietly seek legal advice and keep a record just in case this sort of behaviour continues. Perhaps you should send yourself an e mail everytime something like this happens and that way, you will be able to prove the date of your record. Hopefully, this is an isolated incident and it will not happen again, but be sure to keep a record for legal reasons just in case it does not. ...

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Why are Muslims reluctant to build statues, paint portraits, or accompany prayer with musical instruments? Here are some traditional Muslim pictures of the Prophet Mohammed. I some parts of the Islamic World such as Iran you can buy pictures of the prophet Mohammd outside mosques when you leave friday prayers. Most, but not all all Muslims agree that it is wrong to show people in pictures.

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Why are so many Muslims against freedom of speech, particularly in relation to Muhammad or Islam? Imagine if somebody made a film about Jesus and Mohammed having a homosexual relationship. The Muslims would not be the only ones wanting to have it banned.

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Should Muslim women be allowed to wear the headscarve in Western lands? Yes they should. Why should only Muslims be victimised and given rules govning their dress code? What about Sikh men and turbans? In some Muslim countries, all women are required to wear Islamic clothing, but these are very backward countries ruled by religious fundamentalists. Western countries should be above such pettiness. In some cases though things are not so clear. If a Muslim...

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I would genuinly like to know WHY Jesus descended into Hell before ascending into heaven? 1. Introduction This answer is a follow up to my earlier answer. In my earlier answer, I said that I believed that the Mainstream Christian interpretation of the Bible is that Christ descended into Sheol or Hades (not Hell) while he was dead in order to preach to the virtuous dead of the Old Testament who were in Abraham’s Bosom. I was surprised when I received an angry response...

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Has the missing link been found? Yes - See attached picture.

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What is the Genetic purpose of spirituality nee religion, if indeed there is one? Perhaps belief in a higher power even if it did not really exist helped people to survive by adding meaning to their lives and helping them to overcome problems.

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Was there adam and eve or did we come from primates or monkeys? Maybe we came from both. Some believe that the story of Adam and Eve is a myth that has some basis in fact. According to the Bible Adam and Eve are said to have live 6000 - 10,000 years ago near the source of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. One of their descendants, Tubal Cain was said to be the first person to use metals.Adam and Eve thus would only have had stone tools. It has been...

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Are you aware that Evolution does NOT contradict Creation? Surely, if God is behind Evolution, then he is not much of a God? After all 99% of the species that have ever lived are extinct. To some this might suggest that God made a lot of mistakes and that it took him billions of years of trial and error to arrive at humanity. This does not sound like the work of an all powerful supernatural being.

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Do you think it is hopeless for western governments to get the so called Islamic world to like the like them or if there is a way to improve relations what do you suggest? What Muslim countries are most fond/supportive of the west? Senegal in West Africa is overwhelmingly Muslim, but is a Secular state and a democracy since 1960. The country is very pro-western and has close ties to France, the US and UK. A very liberal form of Islam is practiced and women do not have to wear a veil of hijab.In some rural areas, Muslim women may walk about topless in public.Also, prostitution is legal.

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In Islam, why can't women have four husbands? In traditional parts of Tibet, many women have more than one husband and their society seems to manage this. Of coarse, they are Buddhists and not Muslims.

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If Allah chose Jesus as one of the prophets, then why did Jesus say he was the Son of God? I do not think that there is any problem with Jesus claiming to be the Son of God from either a Jewish or Islamic perspective. The title of Son of God is not meant to be literally and it refers to a title of the Messiah as King of Israel.There are no connotations of divinity implied. It is based on 2 Samuel 7:14 where God says that future Kings of Israel will be his sons. "I will be...

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Do Muslims believe in evolution or creation? This is not really an answer, but rather a comment on the suggestion that Surah 51 of the Koran refers to the Big Bang and that the Koran is in harmony with modern science. I have enlosed two pictures.One is of five different translations of Surah 51: 47 - 48. None of them refer to the expansion of the Universe. In fact they seem to describe a Universe that is imagined to resemble a...

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Why do Catholics pray to Mary and saints if the bible in Deutoronomy says "You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, " The Catholic Church considers it a sin for anyone to pray to Saints or Mary. Catholics venerate Saints and Mary, but cannot not worship them without sinning. The Catholic Church would probably argue that it is wrong to focus on brief Biblical passages and not take them in context.They would probably say that things have moved on since the time of Deuteronomy and that the traditions of the...

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I've heard Christmas has pagan origins, is this true? If yes, what are they? Christmas, like many other Christian holidays has Pagan Origins. These are connected with growth and fertility and were celebrated for thousands of years before Christ. Christmas is literally the Mass of Christ. The Mass is a Religious Service in Roman Catholic Christianity. Christmas is at the time of year in the Northern Hemisphere when the days get shorter and darker as we approach the...

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I am desperate, How would you help me free me from the desperateness? I am very sorry to hear of your situation.What are you desperate about - life in general or something specific? I am basically an optimist and when I feel down, I think of my good friends and what nice people they are and also of all the people in the world who are worse off than me. Sometimes a break form my usual routine helps as well. As an optimist though, I automatically cheer up...

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Do Muslims believe in evolution or creation? I suspect that there are a wide variety of beliefs concerning Evolution in Islam, just like in Christianity. Undoubtably, there are very many Muslims who are Theistic Evolutionists, but there are some very extreme Fundamentalists who are totally opposed to the idea of Evolution. Have a look at this site. http://www.qurandeniesdarwinism.com/2.html

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Are you aware that Evolution does NOT contradict Creation? Surely the whole point of the Theory of Evolution is to explain life on Earth without God? If Evolution does not contradict Creation, how come no Christians deduced it from studying the Bible before the C19th?

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Evolutionist's say there is no God. So I ask them where is the missing link? If it can not be found, isn't evolutionisim kinda like a fable....? This picture shows how human brain size has increased over two million years from the size of an ape like a Chimp or Gorilla to its modern size.

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I would genuinly like to know WHY Jesus descended into Hell before ascending into heaven? Many Christians would say that Christ descended into Hades/Sheol or Abrahams Bosom and not Hell. It was believed that in Old Testament times, both the good and the wicked went to Sheol which was located under the ground.In later Old Testament times many began to believe that Sheol was subdivided into Gehenna or Hell for the wicked and Abrahams Bosom for the virtous. Jesus is believed to...

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What possible evidence could falsify the biological theory of evolution? Finding human and dinosaur fossils in the same rocks would cause a lot of problems for the Theory of Evolution.

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How do evolutionist explain recorded history only being around 5,000 years? "History" is recorded in the rocks going back 4.5 billion years and in the stars going back 13.7 billion years. Written history is only as old as the invention of writing.

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Evolutionist's say there is no God. So I ask them where is the missing link? If it can not be found, isn't evolutionisim kinda like a fable....? A lot depends on what you mean by a "missing link". If you mean a small brained ape that walked on two feet, how about the Australopithecines? These have been found in Africa since the 1920's just as Darwin predicted in the late C19th.

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If evolution is a result of natural selection, and nature doesn't pro-actively develop a species. If there is no foresight, than why do we only use 10% of our overall 'potential' brain capacity. Isn't that a contradiction? The idea that we only use 10% of our brain is nonsense. If it were true then we would all be vegatables. Brain scans using magnetic images show that even when asleep we are using 60% of our brain. The idea that we only use 10% of our brains is a myth made up by L Ron Hubbard and the Scientologists. Apparently, if you pay out lots of money, they will supposedly help you to use your whole...

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The Bombardier Beetle, according to Creation Science Evangelism, makes evolutionists look stupid. Can we somehow counter such deliberate misinformation and outright lying? Have a look at this.

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What is the most significant year in world history? How about 701BC? In this year the Assyrian Army unsuccessfully besieged Jerusalem. If they had been successful, they would probably have totally destroyed the City and massacred its inhabitants. As a result, Judaism would have been extinguished and Christianity or Islam would never have developed and the World today would be a completely different place.

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If life originated from Africa, why did Africa evolve technology more slowly than Europe? Probably, because Africa did not have the best environment for developing advanced technology. Most advanced Civilisations in Ancient times were in a belt stretching from the Mediterranean and China. At these latttidudes, there is more good agricultural land, a wide variety of species suitable for domestication and it is possible to traverse this region without having to cross deserts or...

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What was it like in Rome after the fall of the Roman Empire? I do not think that life changed all that much for most people in the short term. There were probably some Barbarians in charge and the Pope and the local Aristocracy would have had a big say in running the City. The last Emperor was deposed in AD476 but life continued fairly normally until AD529 when the water supply from the aquaducts was cut off. Then the population driopped from 1.2...

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What is "JIHAD"means?can someone explain it to me in a easy way?thx alot I think of the term as an alternative word for Crusade.

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In the U.S. Muslim women wear headscarves. In the Middle East Muslim women wear a cloak-like cloth over the whole body, such as Afghan burqas. What level of body covering is required in the Quran for Muslim women, and how much is cultural differences? At the other extreme, in parts of West Africa, it is permissable for Muslim Women to walk around topless in public. Modesty is interpreted as covering up between the knees and navel. All else is optional. Of coarse, the form of Islam practiced in this part of the World would not be approved of by many other Muslims, especially those holding to Middle Eastern interpretations of Islam.

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Were there any kings of England who did not speak English? For 300 years after the Nornam Conquest in 1066, the official language of England was French.It is likely that many of the Kings, at least during the earlier part of this period either did not speak English well or at all.

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When did the Persian empire fall? There were several Persian Empires throughout History. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Empire Each ended in a different way.

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Which is the ONLY religion, apart from Christianity, which requires belief in Jesus as the Messiah? I doubt if anyone other than Christians believe that Jesus was the Messiah. Some Jews call themselves Messianic Jews and regard Jesus as the Messiah, but such people are really just Christians. Most Jews would probably reject Jesus as the Messiah and Muslims would say that Jesus was just a Prophet.

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Who believes the Koran is the final Revelation of Allah? I do not believe that the Koran or any other Book is a Revalation from God.(If he exists) I first read the Koran over 20 years ago but I was not impressed.To me it just seems to be a collection of stories many of which are absurd. Islamic Fundamentalists would obviously disagree with me but that is their perogative.

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Do you agree with me that people should not make fun of other religions? In general, I agree with you, but I think there are exceptions. Most of us may find some of the ideas of other Religions a bit strange, but our own Religions often contain ideas that seem equally bizzare to outsiders. I would make a distinction between the Religious views of normal people and those of Fundamentalists. For normal people, Religious beliefs are a private matter and do no...

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Why did Leonidas choose to stay and die at Thermopylae? Is his death the Spartan ideal? Leonidas may well have wanted to die a heroic death and be remembered as a martyr, but there may well have been a practical reason. There were said to be 7000 Greeks defending the pass and all but 1000 withdrew. Leonidas and those who stayed with him may have been covering the withdrawal of the other 6000 Greeks. If all 7000 Greeks had tried to withdraw together, they may well have been...

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Is Buddhism strictly defined as a religion? Have heard some very highly educated people say that it is more of a philosophy and that a person could be for example a Roman Catholic and pratice Buddhism. I do not think that you can be a Roman Catholic if you are a serious Buddhist. I think that Buddhism is incompatible with Western Religions. Western Religions have certain basic concepts due to them having arisen in the same part of the World, the Middle East. All believe in a supreme God, linear time, one life on Earth and then an eternal life in Heaven or Hell.They believe that your...

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What Race do you think the Ancient Egyptians were? Why?.... I think that the Ancient Egyptians were the same race as their modern descendants in Egypt today. I doubt if the Ancient Egyptians had any real concept of race though.They divided the peoples of the world into four main groups. These were Egyptians, Berbers, Asiatics and Cushites.

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Why didn't Hitler set up Irish forces to fight the English during WWII? Hitler did not have any significant Irishment to fight for him in WW2. The South of Ireland was Neutral in WW2, but they secretly helped the Allies.If the Irish Government had sided with Hitler, then Southern Ireland would quickly have been occupied not only by the British, but by the Americans as well. Besides, tens of thousands of Irish, both Catholic and Protestant volenteered to serve...

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What mathematicians first developed Modern written numbers? Probably the Indians. The Arabs copied "Arabic Numerals" from them.

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Young-Earth Creationists: If the Earth is only ~6000 years old...do you think the Indian civilization was founded just a few hundred years ago? The Indus Valley Civilization existed in modern Pakistan from around 2500 BC and they probably practiced an early form of Hinduism. I have never heard of anyone who believes that Indian Civilisation is only a few hundred years old.

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Where is purgatory in the bible?I say it isn't. It depends on which Bible you use.The main justification used for it is 2 Macabees 12:44-46. Here Judas Maccabeus and his followers pray for their dead friends. Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians regard the Books of Macabees as pert of the Bible but Jews and Protestants do not. The Doctrine of Purgatory is based on the idea of Salvation by Good Works. The Good go to Heaven,...

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Who wrote muhammeds words and during whose leadership were the firist published I think that a lot of Muslims would say that the Koran is not the word of Mohammed. They would probably say that it was eternal and has existed in Heaven since the creation of the world. They would probably further argue that Mohammed just recited words that were put into his head by God and that these sayings were written down by his followers after his death.

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How come muslims are ready to kill dozens of innocent people for just $2000? Chk link I am sure that the great majority of Muslims would not be willing to kill innocent people no matter how much money they were offered. Those who carried out the shootings in Mumbai are not typical Muslims. They are just naive and gullible idiots who have been brainwashed.

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How long has man walked the earth? Between 150,000 and 2,500,000 years depending on your defination of "Man" or "Human".

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Non christians: Does "Merry Christmas" offend you? No, not at all.Christmas does not really have anything to do with Christianity. It is a pre-Christian festival that was hijacked by the Church.

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Why was population growth rate so small during the period around 1 A.D. Probably because the death rate was almost equal to the birth rate. There would have been only very basic medical care avialable and most people would have died before they were old enough to have children.In many places there may not even have been very much clean drinking water. The situation would have been like in a modern developing country that was sudenly deprived of all modern...

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What is the last thing Jesus said before he died? Don’t let anyone touch my Easter egg. I’ll be back to collect it on Sunday

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Why are so many Catholic priests child molesters? I doubt if Child Abuse is any more common among Catholic Priests than among Protestant Ministers. However, since the Roman Catholic Church is by far the largest Christian Denomination in the World, it logically follows that it must contain more Paedophiles tan any other Church due to its size.

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What do Catholics think about gays? In practice, the Roman Catholic Church hates Gays in the same way that Conservative Protestants do.

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For the non-believers-when people start disappearing (all the christians) from the face of the earth (which is the rapture) will yall believe that Jesus is real or will you still be in doubt that God really exists and still doubt that the bible is a true? If people started to dissappear as you describe, I would assume that Scotty was beaming them up to the Enterprise. Star Trek is more real than Christianity. What is more, Mr Spock once came back from the dead just like Jesus.

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Who founded Christianity? Somesay that it was founded by Paul and not Jesus. The Author Karen Armstrong in her book on Paul entitled "The First Christian" argues that Jesus was originally an entirely Jewish figure and that Paul distorted his teachings to found Christianity.

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What do you think of this, was Mary Magdalene a prostitute or not? The Roman Catholic Church has changed its mind about Mary Magdalene and rehabilitated her. It was the RC Church that started the idea, but now they claim that it was an error in Biblical interpretation by an early medieval pope.

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What would the world be like today if Judaism was not born? Modern Judiasm might easily not have developed if history had been slightly different. This nearly happened in 701 BCE when the Assyrian Army besieged Jerusalem after destroying other Jewish Ciries.The Siege was ended probably due to plague in the Assyrian Army or a huge bribe from the Jews. If Judiasm had never existed, then there would be no Bible or Koran.Jesus and Mohommed would...

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What do you think is the biggest atrocity in the history of mankind? If you measure atocities by the number killed, then the three worst ones are probably. 1)Tens of millions killed or starved to death by Mao Tse Tung. 2)Tens of millions killed or starved to death by Stalin 3)The Nazi Holocost of Jews and other undesirables.

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DID THE IRA SURRENDER? - THERE FOR THE UVF WON? I do not think that this is true. The IRA stopped fighting and a face saving means for them to end their violence was found. You could say that they failed in their aim to achieve a United Ireland by violence. However, they and their political representatives were too clever to admit this and they put a good spin on their actions. The UVF were never the main group fighting the IRA....

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I've heard people say that the bible is about 10,000 years old but dinosaurs died out about 75 million years ago. How do people explain this? Is it really possible to belive that the bible is an accurate document and believe in dinosaurs at the same time? There is a fairly simple explaination and it is the one that is accepted by the Roman Catholic Church and non-Fundamentalist Protestants. This is that the Bible is not literally true and contains much that is mythical. The further back you go, the less reliable it is. Moses is supposed to have written the 1st five books of the Bible around 1400 BC., but in reality, very little of the...

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Do creationists really believe dinosaurs walked with adam and eve? The ones that I know believe this.They seem to think that Adam was like Fred Flintstone.

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How does the theory of evolution explain the development of religion? You may find this book of intrest. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=darwin+and+the+spirit+of+man In it, the author argues that believing in some sort of power greater than yourself has advantages in the struggle for existance and helps people to explain the world and overcome lifes difficulties.

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Creationists: What do YOU think is the single most compelling argument in favor of Creationism? I am not a Creationist, but I know a "good" arguement in favour of Creationism. Just look at the way spectacles fit the human face so well.They always fit over the nse and ears of the user. Surely, a Creator must have known thousands of years ago that we would one day use spectacles and intelligently designed the human face in order to suit spectacles. How can we deny the...

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Do you think we will eventually move from earth to another planet to solve over population? It is also possible that huge cities in space may be created. The problem with the Moon and Mars is their low gravity which may cause long term health problems. In a huge wheel shaped or cylindrical shaped city many miles accross, artificial gravity could be created by rotating the city.

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What was the population of Planet Earth in 2000 B.C.? According to the World Book Encyclopedia artice on "World", the Earths pouulation in 2000BC is estimated to have been approx 100 million.

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Dante's inferno, Myth, truth or Blasphemy? Unless I am mistaken, there is a section in it about Mohommed being tortured in Hell. I imagine that Islamic Fundamentalists might consider this blasphemy and get very annoyed if they were aware of it.

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If you could go back to any point in history to witness anything first hand, what would it be? I would go back and see Jesus and take along a videocamera in oder to check out if all the things said about him are true. Of coarse, I would have to learn Aramaic.

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Only Bibles from Christian book stores; I Have been told that the translations are all corrupt. That is why the book of Mormon was written. Where is an example of the Christian Translations being incorrrect? You should ask whoever told you this for examples. I doubt though if any Scriptures are a 100% accurate account of what the religions founder originally said. Mormons believe that the Book of Mormon is a third revelation from the Christian God. The first two being the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. Most non Mormons however either reject the Book of Morman as a C19th forgery or...

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Is mankind capable of running governments? If you look through history it doesn't look good. This sounds like the type of question that Religious Fundamentalists ask before proposing to set up a Theocracy. Since the end of the second World War, the Governments of Western Europe have done a reasonably good job and provided an unprecedented 60 years of peace and prosperity.

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Which nation or people were the most advanced during the dark ages? Probably the Chinese with the Islamic World coming Second.

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Who was the greatest figure of the 20th Century after Pope John Paul the Great? According to opinion polls in the UK,the greatest ever British person was Winston Churchill because he helped to save the World from Fascism. Many believe that if it had not been for Churchill, then Nazi Germany would now rule the World.

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Why did paintings of the Mughal Emperor show him with such light skin, when the only photograph ever taken of him, shows that he actually had very dark skin? Perhaps it has something to do with the Indian Caste System and pale skin being associated with being of high caste.

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Why do people hate groups like iranians so much? Beforethe Islamic Revolution in 1979, most Westerners probably did not know much about Iran.Many probably did not even know that it existed. I think that people hate Iran because it is run by a really awful bunch of Islamic Fundamentalists.

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What evidence is there that the Biblical authors hated any groups or people? It would appear from the Book of Joshua that they hated Canannites since the Israelites massacred them. In the New Testament, the story of the Good Samaritan implies that many Jews during the time of Jesus hated Samaritans.

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Why Christians and Jews are adopting hostile manner against Islam and Muslims despite the fact that all the Muslims believes and respect all the prophets and messengers of Israelites, i.e. Abraham, Isaac, Jakob, Moses, Zachariah, Jonah and Jesus alike. Another reason for hostility towards Muslims by some Christians and Jews is due to centuries of conflict with Islam. Some Hindu's hate Muslims for the same reason. At the time of the Prophet Mohommed, North Africa and the modern countries of Turkey, Syria,Iraq,Jordan and Israel were mostly Christian.Following the death of Mohommed, his followeres conqured these areas apart from what is...

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Why is Obama a black candidate when he's half white? I am not an American, but as I understand it, people who have even one black parent are considered black.

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Do stars really twinkle? I have heard Astronomers on TV say that stars do not really twinklle. They say that twinkling is caused by light being scattered by the Earths atmosphere and that if you were in outer space, you would see no twinkle.

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Whats the diffrence between Allah and Yahweh(biblical god) Some say that the God of the Bible is very anthromorphic and often makes direct contact with people, whereas the God of the Koran is more distant and only communicated with humanity via the Angel Gabriel. It is easy to picture the Biblical God as a big man in the Sky, but the God of the Koran seems much more mysterious. Some people consider them to be diferent beings as they seem to...

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Does it annoy you when people tell you that you're going to hell b/c you don't practice their religion and when you ask why is your god is so great, they reply with something like, "you can see his miracles all around you"? Yes it does. Such people are usually Christians, but occasionally Muslims as well. I try and avoid such people, but if I cannot, I suggest to them that their holy book says that the Earth is flat and then I run off some qoutations to support my arguement. While they are on the defensive, I suggest that a belief in A Flat Earth completely invalidadates the Bible and the koran and all thie...

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Is religion based around God or can people have a religion without believing in God? Several of my friends are Theravada Buddhists from Sri Lanka and Thailand. They do not believe in a God because such a belief would be contrary to their religion.

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Do you support abortion? I do not like the idea of Abortion, but I think that it is neccessary. I believe that women should be free to have Abortions on demand for the 1st three months of pregnancy.I think that Abortions after this time should only be carried out if there is a good medical reason.I also believe that Abortions in the last three months of pregnancy should only be performed if the mothers life is in...

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Why Christians and Jews are adopting hostile manner against Islam and Muslims despite the fact that all the Muslims believes and respect all the prophets and messengers of Israelites, i.e. Abraham, Isaac, Jakob, Moses, Zachariah, Jonah and Jesus alike. I do not think that all Christians and Jews have a hostile attitude to Muslims, but many find the very idea of Islam offensive. In Christianity, Jesus was the last of the Prophets and the Bible says that any prophets coming after him are going to be false Prophets. For this reason, there is no place in Christianity for Mohommed.For Christians, Jesus was the seal of the Prophets and to...

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Why do people stare at muslim women who wear a hijab? It is ironic that Conservative Muslim women dress in traditional Ilamic clothing in order to avoid attention from men, yet their clothing often has exactly the opposite effect to that desired. More generally, I have noticed that Muslims who were not born in Western countries do not seem to be aware that men or women covering their head while indoors is considered extremely rude. A woman...

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Is any one interested in workshipping the Greek Gods? Some say that they are still worshiped under different names every sunday. Zeus = God the Father Apollo = Jesus Mercury = The Holy Spirit Diana = Virgin Mary

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Who is the last prophet of god? Anyone who wants to be.You can even become one yourself. Just start up your own religion.

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Why do people stare at muslim women who wear a hijab? Some Western Men find Muslim Women in a hijab, veil or headscarf sexually arousing. Such Muslim women are probably quite devout and conservative. This makes them very appealing as they are "forbidden fruit". Islamic clothing could also be considered a form of uniform and many men like women in a uniform.It is similar to Nuns being considered sexy.

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If you want to be a muslim, do you have to learn arabic? Also, is it okay for a woman not to wear a hijab? It depends on what sort of Muslim you want to be. The vast majority of the Worlds Muslims do not speak Arabic.Only a minority of Muslims live in the Middel Easr. The biggest Muslim Country in the World is Indonesia. There are more Muslims in India than in any Muslim country. Arab, Iranian or Pakistani Muslims are likely to have a very conservative dress code especially for women. On...

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I have not been baptized and would like to become Catholic. Is there anyway I can be baptized without it being in front of the whole congregation? Most Priests would be willing to have a provate ceremony with just you and a few close friends or family members.However, you may have to complete a coarse in Religious Instruction over several months before they will baptise you.

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What are the main differences between a Protestant Christian and a Roman Catholic Christian? There are a number of differences, but in my opinion the most significant is their differing views on how to get to Heaven. Generally, Protestants believe in Salvation by Faith in God. Good Works are of secondary importance or irrelevant. Generally, Catholics believe in Salvation primarily by Good Works. Good Works take the form of good behaviour and participating in Religious Rituals...

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What are the main differences between a Protestant Christian and a Roman Catholic Christian? There are a number of differences, but in my opinion the most significant is their differing views on how to get to Heaven. Generally, Protestants believe in Salvation by Faith in God. Good Works are of secondary importance or irrelevant. Generally, Catholics believe in Salvation primarily by Good Works. Good Works take the form of good behaviour and participating in Religious Rituals...

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Is there a female in the painting of "The Last Supper" including Jesus' deciples? I doubt it.Most Art historians would say no. If the figure on Christs right is a woman, then there are only eleven disciples in the picture and this would be a bit odd. The apparently female figure on Christs right is the Apostle John. Many think that his appearance is a joke by Da Vinci. It is widely believed that Da Vinci was Gay and thst he was attracted to effeminate young men. ...

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When was it actually proven that the earth was not flat? The idea of a spherical Earth was proposed by Pythagoras befor 500BC. Plato and Aristotle provided arguements based on observational evidence in the C4BC.

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Did Bible writers believe the earth was flat? Here is what Job thought the World looked like.

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Did Bible writers believe the earth was flat? Isaiah does not refer to a spherical Earth.Her refers to a flat circular one that is tent shaped.

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Did Bible writers believe the earth was flat? I believe that they did think that the Earth was Flat and that Jesus thought so too. In the Gospels, Jesus and Satan go up a very high mountain and look down on all the Earths surface. It is only possible to see all of the Earths surface from one point, if the Earth is flat.

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Do Christians believe Judas is in Hell? I mean he was necessary to carry out God's will so how could he have been condemned for that. It would seem that God used Judas and tortured him for it. I heard that there is a group of Roman Catholics campaigning for the canonisation of Saint Judas Iscariot. Unsurprisingly, the Pope is totally against the idea.

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Did good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell before Jesus came to earth to die for us? For most of the Old Testament period, the Jews believed that both the good and the bad went to Sheol. In later times, it seems that the Jews began to believe that Sheol was subdivided into sepparate regions for the good and the bad.These wer Abrahams Bosum and Gehenna (Hell) Jesus is said to have visited Sheol while he was dead and rescued the virtous dead bring them into Heaven. Some...

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What are some stories or historical events in Genesis that are similar to stories in literature of other ancient Middle Eastern civilizations? The Creation Story has similarities to the Mesopotamian Creation Story Enuma Elish, in which the Gods create the Universe in six days and rest on the seventhh. The Noah's Ark Story has similarities to the Epic of Gilgamesh. In this story, Gilgamesh finds a magical plant that can rejuvinate the elderly or perhaps give immortality, but he is decieved by a snake and deprived of it. ...

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Short of a time machine, do you think we will ever truly found out how the earth began, with out theories and "I thinks" or "I believes". We may never have a time machine, but some day we may be able to observe the creation of Earth like planets arounf nearby stars.

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When the universe will stop expanding? Possibly never.As I understand it, the expansion rate of the Universe is speeding up.

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Has light always traveled at the same speed or like everything else it too has slowed down? Light cannot have changed its speed or we would not exist. Stars produce energy by fusing hydrogen atoms together to form helium atoms.A helium atom is slightly less massive than the hydrogen atoms used to build it. The difference in mass is converted into energy according to E=MC Squared.E == Energy, M = Mass and C = The speed of light. If the speed of light had been significantly faster...

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Heres one: why did the big bang explode? please dont answer "we dont know" Some might say that the question is innapropriate. Causation requires the existance of time. If time was created in the Big Bang, then there cannot have been any "before" the Big Bang for a cause to occur. Some argue that everything in the Universe may have a cause, but this does not neccessarily imply that the Universe as a whole has a cause. After all, it is argued, we each...

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Can any aspects of cosmology be linked with Judeo-Christian beliefs? It seems many religious people are now getting behind the idea of the big bang, but want cosmologist to support Aristotle's idea of an "unmoved mover" controlling our universe. I do not think so.The Cosmology of the Bible is totally different from both that of modern science and Aristotle. The Bible assumes Ancient Mesopotamian Cosmology as per the pictures below.

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Why do males have nipples? I think that it is because our distant ancestors over 1.5 billion years ago were assexual and when two sexesemerged, they never became totally sepparate. It is probably easier for nature to give male mammals redundant nipples than for them to have none while keeping them on female mammals.

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When we die, we are taught that we will go to Heaven yet often in the Bible, scriptures refer to Paradise Earth and that we will live on it, after being resurrected. I read the Bible daily and get confused. Scriptures reflecting everlasting life in Heav My understanding is that according to the Bible, your soul goes to either Heaven or Hell.If you are Catholic, Purgatory is involved as a third option. At the end of the World, we are to be given new bodies for our souls to inhabit and the Earth will be renewed. Sinners go to Hell both in body and soul. Heaven comes down to Earth and the virtous live there.

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If Heaven and Hell exists and I ended up in Heaven but, for example, my parents went to Hell for being aetheists, how could I really live happily ever after up there, knowing that they were down there for eternity, despite being good people? Some more liberal Catholics and Protestants believe that non Christians including Athiests will go to Heaven.

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What do you call a person who does not believe in god or satan, heaven or hell? A Liberal Christian Theologian!

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Is heavin real? see the attached picture.

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Do any of the texts in the Bible contradict scientific principles? How about the long day of Joshua? (Joshua 10: 12 & 13 ) It breaks the following: 1)Law of conservation of momentum (angular & linear) 2)1st law of thermodynamics 3)Law of gravity. If the Earth did stop rotating for Joshua, where did its angular momentum go to? Where did it gain new angular momentum from when it resumed rotating? The Earth has a circumference of about...

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Is man truly made in the "image" of God? Probably yes. In the Bible, God is humanoid. Jacob wrestles with a man who later turns out to be God and Ezekiel sees a vision of God as a man of bronze anf fire. Other peoples thought that their Gods were either human like (Greeks and Romans) or partly human and partly animal (Egyptians and Indians) There is a good chancethat the Jews of Biblical times envisaged God as having a human...

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Why did the jews leave the middle east, and move into continental europe? Many of them had no choice as they were deported by the Romans after the revolts of 70AD and 135AD failed.

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If idolatry is a sin and offensive to god then why do so many religions make idols and images and bow down to them and serve them number 1 commandment exodus 20:3-5 In the Roman Catholic Church, worshipping of statues and images is a sin.However, using them a an aid to focus the mindupon prayer is not. Throughout most of the last 2000 years until the invention of printing 500 years ago, most people could not read or write and what few books that existed were extremely expensive. For this reason, the Roman Catholic Church used images and statues in...

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Was the book of geneses taken from other books; i.e The Epic of Gilgamesh? Yes, the creation story is based on the Mesopotamian Creation story, the Enuma Elish. In this, the Universe is created in six days and on the seventh, the Gods rest.

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According to the Bible, where was the Garden of Eden actually located? It is sais by the Bible to be at the source of four rivers. Two of these are known and are the Tigris and Euphrates. According to soem therefore, the garden of Eden is located in Kurdistan where these rivers originate. One Archaeologist has located the Garden of Eden in the valley of Tabriz in Iranian Kurdistan. Unfortunately, the ciry of Tabriz now exists where the Gardenonce was.

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How old is the earth according to the Bible? Creation was in 3760BC according to traditional Jewish sources or 4004BC according to Archbishop Ussher in thev C17th.Ussher's age is the most famous of many Christian calculations on this subject. Modern Christian Fundamentalists differ on how best to add up the genealogies between Adam and Jesus. Some claim that there may be some gaps, although these would have to be small or they...

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Does the bible mention abortion or something that could be interpreted as abortion? Yes, look at Hosea 13:16. Here, God punishes the Samaritans for thie sins by having the Assyrian army attack them. This attack is to include ripping open pregnant women in accordance with Gods wishes. This could be interpreted as God condoning or even causing Abortions.

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It is known that the universe is infinete to my understanding it has alwasy been here, how can we puta time date on it? For several decades, it has been known that the Universe was between 10 and 20 Billion years old. These numbers were worked out by measuring how fast the galaxies are receding from each other and working out when they were originally together. More recent measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope have refined this calculation to 13.7 Billion years for the age of the Universe. The...

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Is christianity the only "faith-based belief" that's supported with scientific evidence? Here is the Universe according to Job.

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Is christianity the only "faith-based belief" that's supported with scientific evidence? Here is the image of the Universe that Isaiah had.

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What are some of the proofs of the Bible and little facts that point to its validity? (e.g. the Bible has always said the Earth was a Sphere etc) Here is Jobs Universe.

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What are some of the proofs of the Bible and little facts that point to its validity? (e.g. the Bible has always said the Earth was a Sphere etc) Here are some attachments that are relevant to claims that the Books of Isaiah and Job refer to a spherical Earth.

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Can the spirit of a loved one who has passed revisit us? The Bible seems to imply that this is possible. According to the Bible, the Ghost of the Prophet Samuel came back to Earth to speak to King Saul. In the Gospels, Jesus met with Moses and Elijah who had been dead for hundreds of years. This type of thing does not occur very often and it seems to only occur when it serves some purpose of God. I do not believe in Ghosts myself, but the...

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Do any of the texts in the Bible contradict scientific principles? What about the story in the Gospels where Satan takes Jesus up a very high mountain and shows him all the Kingdoms of the World. Why did they have to go up a high mountain? The Bible suggests that this was neccessary in order to view all the kingdoms of the World. However, it is only possible to view the whole of Earths surface from a single point on a mountain top on a Flat Earth. ...

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Do any of the texts in the Bible contradict scientific principles? Yes, lots of them do. It is doubtful if the Biblical writers had any concept of science. One small example would be God creating rainbows after Noahs flood was over. Surely, the laws of optics and the refraction of light existed before the flood? If you interpret the Bible literally, you get an Ancient Mesopotamian Universe like the one in these pictures.

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If you take some statements from the Bible literally, it contradicts modern science. Is it the same with other important religious texts such as the Qur'an? If you believe that the Bible is literally true, then you have to believe that the World is Flat. The same applies to the Koran. I have also read the Hindu Scriptures "Rig Veda" and "Vishnu Purana" and they also make reference to a Flat Earth. The ideas of Modern Science may change and develop, but new theories always build upon older ones. Newton built upon...

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Do dead people need the living to pray for them? If the Protestant interpretation of Christianity is correct, then the dead do not need prayers. If the Catholic interpretation is correct, then they will often need prayers from the living. Most Protestants believe in Salvation primarily or entirely by Faith. If you have faith and are saved, then when you die, you do not need prayers since you are already in Heaven. If you do not...

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Why would someone who just had Ecclesiastes 9:5 read to them tell you that they pray for their dead loved ones in "purgatory"? Reading Scripture is a rather complicated process, especially as there are multiple interpretations of any passage and lots of Theologians with different points of view. Furthermore, Roman Catholics who believe in Purgatory have six additional books in the Old Testament. One of these, the 1st Book of Macabees contains a scene where people are praying for the release of souls from Gehenna, a...

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"For the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, And He set the world on them." (New American Standard Bible, 1 Samual 2:8). How should we understand those pillars? Have a look at the attached pictures.

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Is christianity the only "faith-based belief" that's supported with scientific evidence? I was reading some of the comments concerning the issue of the Bible supposedly referring to a spherical Earth and I could not let them go unchallenged. I would argue that there is no evidence whatsoever to support Christianity. Nowhere does the Bible suggest that the Earth is a Sphere. The passages being quoted are not being taken in their proper context. In fact, the Bible implies that...

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Christians - Do you believe the story of Jonah and the whale? If not, what makes you believe other stories in the bible? I do not think that most Christians do take the story of Jonah literally. Protestant Fundamentalists certainly take the story literally, but Roman Catholics and Non-Fundamentalist Protestants and Jews no not. Jonah is said to have lived shortly after 800BC when the divided kingdoms of Israel and Judah were being threatened by the Assyrian Empire. However, most non-Fundamentalist...

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What will the Antichrist do, when he comes to earth? According to some on the Christian Right he will successfully run for US President in 2008.

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Who do you think is the Anti-Christ? Some people on the Christian Right probably think that the AntiChrist is Barack Obama. Here is some "proof" Barack Hussein Obama is a name in three parts and with eighteen letters in total.Divide eighteen by three and you get three sixes or 666. What more proof do you need?

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Senator Obama is a self professed Christian. He supports abortion on demand. Please tell me how does killing an unborn child in his mother's womb show that child the love of Christ? Some people see no conflict between Abortion and Christianity. It is perfectly plausible that Jesus would be pro-choice. He may well have taken the Jewish belief that ensoulment begins at conception and that Abortion is not therefore murder. After all Jesus said that unless a man be born again he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heavem.Jesus thus appears to have believed that persons existance...

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If Barack Obama becomes president will it still be called the White House? At least he will not paint it pink like Paris Hilton was planning to do if she was elected.

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Do you think Barack Obama could be the Antichrist? Of coarse not.There is no AntiChrist and there never will be one.Only Religious nuts believe this sort of nonsense.

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Barack Obama is the most popular candidate among foreigners, who was the last candidate to have this international appeal? I am pretty sure it was Bill Clinton. When he visited the UK, some people would queue outside his hotel all night to get a glimpse of him. He is still very popular and so is Hilary.

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What is Obama's ethnic background? I just read this week he is 50% white, 6.25% African and 63.75% Arabic. If this is true how can he claim to be African American and not Arab American? Is there a web site you definately know of to confirm or disclaim? Obama is also claiming to be Irish on his mothers side. Perhaps, he will change his name to "O'Bama" if he visits Ireland.

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Don't you just love Obama!? He seems like a great guy, but it is too early to tell. If he plays his cards right, he will be remembered along with JFK, FDR nad Abraham Lincoln.If all three were still alive, I am sure that they would have voted for Obama. If you take into account, the views of foriegners, then he may be tha most admired man in the World at the moment. Mind you, I am waiting for the Christian Right...

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Is obama related to osama binladin Perhaps you also think that Barack Obama is related to Saddam Hussein.After all, Obama's middle name is Hussein.

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Is male circumcision on new born males becoming less of a trend in the USA? Will you allow it to be done to your new born male? As a European I cannot understand why anyone would want to be circumcised or have it done to children. A foreskin helps to protect the tip of the penis. Many also believe that uncircumcumcised men experience more intense orgasms than those who have been circumcised.

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What is the reasoning of the Christian faith, to tell children if they don't believe in Jesus/God, that, they will burn in hell forever and ever? Why are they forced programed to accept this supernatural mythology without any scientific backing? Hell is just a very simple marketing strategy for Christians. Fear is a very simple and powerful motivator especially for Children. Many Muslims use fear of Hell to promote their beliefs in the same way.Howeve, Islamic Fundamentalists believe that being a Christian is a sure way to end up in Hell. Nowadays though, many Christians do not accept that Hell exisists as a place.

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My Christian flatmate tells me that I will go to hell because I don't believe in Jesus. She also said my relatives are burning and being tortured in hell as non-believers. Is this what Christians believe? Your "Christian" flatmate sounds like an Evangelical Protestant who believes that you have to have faith in Jesus and be "saved". There are three main types of Christian. Roman Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox. A few extreme Protestants try and use the term "Christian" in a narrow and exclusive way. Generally, Protestants believe in salvation by faith and...

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Who do you think is the Anti-Christ? I think that the AntiChrist was imagined as a future Roman Emperor who would come to power a few years or decades after the New Testament was written. The AntiChrist was supposedly somebody who would rule the World and persecute Christians.In Luke 2:1 the Roman Empire was considered to be synonomus with the whole world. Obviuosly, the AntiChrist never came since Biblical prophecy is...

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Do you thin Atlantis was a real island? If so where do you think it is located. No, I do not think that Atlantis as described by Plato was real, but I thinl that the story has some basis in fact. I suspect that the story is made up , but based very loosely on historal reality. I think that the main inspiration for Atlantis was ancient voyages to the Americas in the first millenium BC. Recently,cocaine has been found in some ancient Egyptian mummies dating from...

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If Obama wins the election today, will Jesse Jackson still want to castrate him? Should the Secret Service keep an eye on him? I think that there is a bigger danger from white supremacists who are probably feeling really pissed of today.

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Is anyone bracing for the new Bolshevik revolution in America led by our new Lenin, Barack Obama? Why do you hate Obama so much? Is it because he is Liberal, because he is black or because his father was a Muslim? I am sure that some people said similar things about JFK just because he was a Catholic. You should realise that most Americans are not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Men and it is only right that you should have a President who reflects this. Obama's election means...

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Is obama related to osama binladin Yes, they are in fact the same person. Bin laden has been lying low for years due to having to recover from extensive plastic surgery. It has all been done out in Area 51 using captured alien technology from the Roswell crash flying saucer. This is why nobody has been able to find Bin Laden in Afganistan. Is it coincidence that Obama first rose to prominence a few years ago around...

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Who is America's most-liked person? If you include opinions of non-Americans Barack Obama is undoubtably the most admired. Bill Clinton is still very popular too.

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Are we in clay&iron Nabuchanezzar's dream statue's toes right now? No. I do not think that we should take Daniels prophecies very seriously. His prophecy supposedly refers to major kingdoms or empires that will be important in World History. However, he has not mentioned either China or the Arab Empire of the middle ages.Both had a very major impact on World History. Daniel got it wrong.He was a false prophet.

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Is the garden of eden really in IRAQ(Desert)...? No, the most lilely location of the Mythical Garden of Eden was probably in Kurdiatan in a valley in North West Iran near the city of Tabriz. That is the conclusion of David Rohl in the book "Legand:The Genesis of Civilisation"

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What do you think the world would look like if Hitler won the war? I suspect that the World would be reorganised in accordance with Nazi ideology. There probably would be no Jews or Gypsies lft by now.Much of Eastern Europe would have been ethnically cleansed of slavs, except for those being worked to death in labour camps and factories.No Eastern European country would exist.There probably would be millions of Germans in their palce and selective breeding...

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What was the population of ancient greece when it was founded? Nobody really knows, but some historins have estimated that it was no more than 2 million people.There would have been additional people in Greek colonies around the Mediterranean.

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What was the biggest empire in North or South America prior to European settlement? It was the Inca Empire.The Aztecs would have had the largest Empire in North America, but it would have been smaller than the Incan Empire.

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How would American history be different had the native horses not gone extinct before the Native Americans could domesticate them? I doubt if the Native Americans having horses would have made much differnce in the long run. Most historians think that the biggest problem that native people faced when confronting Europeans was an almost total lack of resistane to Old World diseases. It is widely believed that in 1600 the Native American population was only about 10% of what it had been in 1500.

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Did the war change womens role in britain around 1914? Yes, it resulted in many women working outside the home for the first time especially in factories, since so many men were away fighting. This helped to promote greater equality for women since it proved that they could do any job that a man could. The part played by women in the First World War persuaded the British Government to give most of them them the vote in 1918.

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What do you think of a man that constantly beats on his wife/GF? He should be sent to prison and never allowed within a mile of the home of his wife or girlfriend under pain of further imprisonment.

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Do animals and birds also dream while sleeping like human beings? To the best of my knowledge most mammals do. When a person is dreaming, their eyes are moving under their eylelids. This Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep. If they awake during this type of sleep, they remember having a dream. Often, a persons eyes do not move under their eyelids during slleep. If somebody is woken during this type of sleep, they do not remember any dreaming. Many...

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Was the invasion of Iraq a crime of aggression as the BBC have suggested today? Some people on the BBC News may have suggested this, but the BBC itself is legally obliged to be politically neutral.Reporters often mention the views of others but may not express opinions of their own.

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If people in other countries hate America, is it our government they hate or the people living in it? People in the UK and Ireland do not hate American people in general, especially since half have aancestors from the British Isles. Generally, the more right wing an American is, the less popular they are.There is a perception that many Americans are loud, arrogant and overbearing.

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So which countries currently don't hate America? The British and Irish have never hated the USA. Many in these countries though hate George W Bush and those on the right of American politics. The Christian Right in particular are widely disliked.Of coarse, many Americans hate such people too. There is a belief that such people are loud, overbearing and arrogant. I am sure that most Canadians and Australians like the USA, but not...

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Do you regard someone who was raped as "Damaged Goods"? Of coarse not. This sort of thinking implies that women are comoddities to be controlled by men. Some people are even so sexist as to describe all unmarried non-Virgin women in this category. My girlfriend was unfortunate enough to be raped when she was 15 and it does not diminish her in any way in my eyes.

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If women want to be treated equally then should they not expect men to open doors for them, pull out chairs, etc,? Women have no right to demand this, but most do appreciate it when men behave in this way as a matter of courtesy. If you want your relationship or friendship with women to be as good as possible, then such behaviour as described above will usually help a lot. Treating men and women as equals does not neccessarily always mean treating them uniformily.

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What if whites were slaves instead of blacks? just to let you know im not racist. Watch the movie "White Mans Burden" starring John Travolta.

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Do you think someone will use Nucular weapons in the near future? Yes, the Iranians are very likely to use them if they are allowed to develop them.

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When did the American Socialist Party take over the Democratic Party? As I am from the UK, I find this sort of question amusing. To an outsider like me looking at US politics, there is no left at all.By British standards, the Democrats are a centre - right party and the Republicans are an extreme right wing party, some of whose members have views verging on Fascism.

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Which modern day country did the Queen of Sheba come from? Many believe that it was Yemen. There was an ancient pre-islamic Arab Civilisation there 3000 years ago.

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How does one reconcile the belief in a soul and the theory of evolution? Just when did the soul become immortal? Are we to be welcomed by Neanderthals upon entry to Heaven? I do not think that you can.How do you know that you actually have an immortal soul? Surely, your brain generates your conciousness or "soul" just like your computer generates the picture on its screen.If your brain is damaged or destroyed the "picture" disappears.

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How much money does it cost to get into heaven? It depends on which TV Evangalist you talk to. I heard one such individual proclaim "Jesus wants $100". Mind you, that was a few years ago and prices have probably gone up since then.

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What is the origin of the concept that hell is somewhere beneath the earth's surface and heaven is somewhere up in the sky? Long ago early people probably thought that the Universe is naturally divided into three parts. Firstly, the Earths surface where people live. Below is the land of the dead. This may be related to the common practice of burying the dead in the ground. In most early cultures this was a dull gloomy place where both the good and evil went after death.Sheol in the Old Testament fits this...

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Rough survey, how many atheists, how many christians, how many muslims, how many jews, how many what? I'd like to get a rough idea as to the ratio of faiths/non-faiths on AB. Please, no theology discussion, just a simple "I believe this" I am a Secular Humanist, Liberal and Athiest. I believe that all religions are wrong and that the supernatural does not exist.

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How many of you believe that if a Christian missionary goes to a strict muslim country, like Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia etc and is killed, that they brought it upon themselves? No, Christian Missionaries do not deserve to be killed no matter how stupid they may be. Surely though, it is obvious to them that looking for converts in a Muslim country is a very dangerous thing to do? I suspect though that some Missionaries may have a death wish and want to martyr themselves. It is no secret thhat in the US, there are strong links between the Republican Party and the...

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If the German luftwaffe had won The Battle Of Britain what would have been the eventual outcome of the war? Probably not too different as long as the Americans an Russians became involved. It has been suggested that the Germans could have landed 50 000 men in southern England in two days, but that they would have eventually been compelled to surrender. The arguement goes that in 1940, the British Royal Navy was the largest in the World and that this would have decided the outcome. The...

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If you could go back in time would you strangle Hitler as an innocent child? No - I would kidnap him and arrrange for hm to be raised .by Jewish Foster parents

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White Americans often classify themselves as "Anglo-Saxxon" which is usually associated with the battle of Hastings What i don't understand is that the Anglo-Saxxon army lost the battle, and Britain became a predominately Norman country..so they r wrong? There were two million people in Anglo-Saxon England in 1066 but only 20,000 Normans, so there was no real change in the ethnic make up of the country.

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What are some British curse words? I used to work in an American Company. One day two senior American Executives arrived. They introduced themselves as Dick and Randy.(Richard and Randolph) The whole room burst out laughing much to the Americans bewilderment. They did not realise tht nobody in the UK or Ireland would use such names. Dick is slang for penis or idiot while randy means that you are full of uncontrolable...

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Should Britain continue in the EU which is now overun by piss poor Eastern Bloc countries with nothing to offer but cheap labour. Amazing how the unemployment rate in Britain is getting on for two million again. CHARITY begins at home, but not in the EU. Some might say that the EU is our home. It has created peace in Western Europe and Economic prosperity. We need the East Europeans in order for the EU to grow big ennough for us to stand as equals in a future world of multiple Superpowers. We should say no to xenophobia and welcome not only the East Europeans but also Turkey into the EU. Britain, like other European countries is not...

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Why everyone thinks that the 'roman empire' was so great, while indeed the real romans were just the wastes, thieves and crooks from all over the italic regions whom reunited under a man and kicked the shit out their cities, enslaving countries and sorts? Empires by their very nature tend to be run by selfish cliques of aristocrats who ruthlessly exploit those under them. One reason people admire the Romans is that they were ahead of their time in many ways. Ancient Rome had a population of over a million people. This was due to an efficient waste didposal and water system. No European city reached this size again until AD1800. The...

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It has been suggested that if the Roman Empire had not fallen, we would have advanced as far as 500 years more than where we are today. What are you thoughts? Agree/Disagree? I think that in the long term, we are better off without the Roman Empire although it was a great Civilisation in its time. Had things been slightly different, the Roman Empire might have survived like the Chinese Empire into modern times and covered all of Europe. However, the EuropeanMiddle Ages were not all bad. Many of our values and institutions have derived from the fragmented...

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How could a great general like Hannibal lose the battle of Zama, when he had a army almost equal to that of the Romans? Perhaps the Romans had been fighting Hannibal for so long that they learned from him and improved their own tactics?

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Brits: Should we leave the EU and ally ourselves closer to the USA? No, we should be in the EU. The UK is not big enough to stand alone in a world of big countries like the USA, Russia, China, Japan and India. Becoming the 51st state of the USA is not an option if we want to keep our identity. We should ally ourselves with other EU states like Spain, Italy and Poland who are also suspicious of the French and Germans. Also, the close ties between the...

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Why are the Early Middle Ages referred to as The Dark Age? Possibly because there were so many Knights. (Nights)

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Why doesn't Northern Ireland unite with the Republic of Ireland and become one united Ireland? Mainly because most of the people in Northern Ireland do not want a United Ireland. Also because in private, the Southern Irish Government do not want a United Ireland. They could not afford it and it would upset the political system in the South. Most Southern Governments are coalitions with tiny majorities in the Irish Parliament. (The Dail) It would be harder for the system to work in...

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Was the British empire evil? No more than any other Empire. I think that it was justifiable in the past, but that nowadays in a more democratic age, Empires cannot be justified. Without the British Empire,many modern Nations such as the USA would not exist.I suspect that Free Market Capitalism and representative Government would be much less widespread had it not been for the British Empire. The Empire also gave the...

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Which is a better system of government: a constitutional monarchy or a republic? A Republic if you are creating a new country. However, the UK has had a Constitutional Monarchy since the late 1600's and has been one of the most politically stable countries in the World for centuries.

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Why did we have an increase of Irish immigrants previous decades ago? Was Ireland's economy bad? Some Irish have been in America since at leat 1700. Over the centuries, vast numbers of poor peasant farmers emmigrated to North America in the hope of getting a better life. Up until the late 20th Century, Southern Ireland was a mostly poor agricultural country.

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What year was the battle of the boyne (the year northen ireland was made)? The Battle of tje Boyne was on 12th July 1890. Northern Ireland was not created until the partition of Ireland in 1920/Before that the whole of Ireland was part of the UK.

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When is the best time of year to visit Ireland? Summertime, as it rains a lot in Ireland all year round, especially along the West Coast.The weather is best in the summer.

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Any Irish people on answerbag? I heard Barrack Obama talking about his Irish roots. All Americans are Irish at election time.

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Is Lucky Charms sold in Ireland? Yes, but only Americans buy them. You can also buy autographed photos of Saint Patrick who died 15000 years ago.

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Henry VIII was a lecherous, murderous, evil pig. But, what would the world be like now had he not broken with the Catholic church? Probably very different. For starters, the USA might not exist and history may have been very different. Some believe that a Catholic England would have been brought into the orbit of the Spanish Empire and that it would not have united with Scotland to form Great Britain. It has been argued that in such circumstances, NNorth America would have been mostly Spanish speaking and eventually...

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What is you favortie fact about History? My history teacher at school said that there were two historical facts that students never forgot. 1)The Ancient Celts ran into battle naked. 2) Ancient Sparta was governed by officals called "ephors"

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What, as exactly as possible, is the ancestral link between the ancient Irish, Scottish, et al, and Scandinavian countries? They are all Indo European Cultures descended from a group of peoples who inhabited the Russian Steppes around 3500BC. These people probably domesticated the horse and gradually drifted westward and assimilated the existing peoples of Europe. As a result, peoples such as the Irish, Scottish and Scandinavians speak related languages and have other customs and cultural similarities in common.

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If the ancient Greeks thought the world was flat, what did they think was holding in all the water? All Ancient peoples thought that the World was Flat at one time or other. Most seem to have believed that it was supported on some sort of mountain like pillars that rose out of the bed of the cosmic ocean. In the bible, these are called the pillars of the Earth.(1 Samuel 2:8, Psalm 75: 3 , Job 9:6, Job 38: 4 – 6 ) Some ancient peoples also believed that the Earth floated on some...

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Would it be right to harbor ill feelings against the colonizers? Why? I do not think that you should have ill feelings against the descendants of colonisers, if the colonisation took place hundreds of years ago. Ill feelings such as these will end up causing ethnic unrest and possibly wars.

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How widespread were the use of tartans in the ancient world? Probably very widespread.Tartan has been found in Ancient China from sites dating back 4000 years. These sites are Tocharians who were an ancient Indo European people originally from the Russian steppes.

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Who invented pants? I suspect that trousers were invented by Ice Age Eurasians tens of thousands of years ago. There is a fairly good chance that these peoples dressed much as modern Eskimoes have done up until recently.

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Who do you think discovered (excluding the native inhabitants) America first? Was it the Spaniards, the Vikings, or someone before even them? Some think that the Americas were discovered by Australian Aboriginies or a people related to them about 60 000 years ago. This was before the arrival of the Indians ancestors. It has been claimed that the peoples who colonised Australia 60 000 years ago also spread out accross the pacific and eventually reached the Americas. There are said to be some 50 000year old archeological remains...

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Do you think Nazi Germany's invasion of the USSR was the number one reason why it lost in World War II? Yes, it probably was.After all, two thirds of the German army was tied up in Russia during the war. Some believe however, if the Germans had not been distracted for six weeks or so by invading the Balkans, then they could have captured Moscow before the Russian winter set in. Others ay that it would have been better for the Germans to invade the Middle East instead of Russia.That way,...

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Why did Nazi Germany fail to conquer Britain in World War II? Several reasons. Firstly, they were not up to the job of an amphibious invasion in 1940. Secondly, in 1940, the Royal Navy was the biggest in the World. Thirdly, Hitler was more intrested in attacking Russia and he did not devote enough resources to planning an invasion of Britain. Fourthly, he did not have enough submarines to cut off supplies to Britain. Fifthly, the Americans...

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Where in the Bible does it say "Thou Shall Not Get An Abortion" or "Abortion Evil" or even anything /against/ Abortion? Some people would ay that Abortion is Biblical and that opposing it is a very serious sin. God is an Abortionist. He killed a whole planet full of people during Noahs flood including pregnant women.Obviously, this involved the destruction of their fetuses. Also, Joshua was an Abortionist.God commanded him to carry out Abortions in the Bible.When the Israelites massacred the inhabitants of...

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What does God look like? Look in a mirror and you will see a picture of God. Many people create God in their own image.

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What does god physically look like? If you mean, the Judeo-Christian God and he actually exists, then he looks human if the Bible is to be believed. In the Bible, Jacob wrestles with a man who later turns out to be God. Ezekiel has a vision of God in human form.God walks around the garden of eden chatting with Adam. Also, humanity were suposedly created in the image od God and so God must be therefore human shaped. ...

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What is the oldest language that is still in use today? Some think that it may be the Basque Language that is still spoken in parts of Spain and France, near to the Pyranees. Some believe that it is direct descendant of the languages that were spoken in Western Europe before Farming was introduced around 5000 BC or earlier. On the other hand, others believe that the language of the Bushmen of South Western Africa may be over 100 000 years old...

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Whose the hottest: Michelle Obama, Jill Biden, Sarah palin or Cindy McCain? Definately Michelle Obama. I wonder which of them has the most fake nude pictures on the Internet?

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Do you like Sarah Palin? No, not at all. I think that somebody with such extreme religious views is unfit to be Vice-President and potentially President. Just imagine Sarah Palin reading the Book of Revelation late some night, longing for the second coming of Christ and the end of the world while having her finger on the Nuclear trigger. She is likely to despised by Europeans and just imagine her trying to deal...

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What is the first thing you think of when you hear the name....Sarah Palin? A pig in lipstick

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Does your spouse/significant other know your email password? Yes I would as I have nothing to hide. However, I would change it again in a few weeks explaining to her thatthis was in the intrests of Internet Security.

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What happened to the Pharisees later in their lives? The Pharisees still exist. All modern Rabbis are Pharisees.Some believe that Jesus was also a Pharisee.

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Does the Bible really contain all the answers to life's questions? Yes it does, but whether or not they are the correct answers is questionable. In fact,most Religions give answers to lifes questions, but we can never be sure if they are correct or whether any genuine answers to these questions really exist.

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I heard it said we would not be finding missing books of the biblical characters if God did not will it so. Where do you stand on this debate? Are the [relatively] new books part of the bible or are they fraudulent additions to it? Which version of the Bible are you referring to? There are three different versions of the Christian Bible. 1)The Protestant Version (66 Books) 2)The Roman Catholic Version (72 Books) 3) The Orthodox Christian Version (Around 78 Books) I presume that the new books you refer to are works such as the Gospels of Judas, Philp, Mary Magdelene and others.

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Adam And Eve Must of Been One Colour, White or Black.....So Where Did The Other Race Come From? Ancient peoples did not really have any concept of Race in the modern sense of the word. The Ancient Greeks and Romans believed that differences in skin colour were due to the environment. Some Rascists especially in the days of slavery claimed that only white people were descended from Adam and Eve. It was argued that other Races were created along with the apes and monkeys.Of coarse,...

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Where did the saying "warts and all" originate? As far as I know, it originated in the mid 1600's with Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell was a puritan.He is said to have deplored vanity and the way in which artists often flattered famous people when they painted their portraits. According to tradition, Cromwell told an artist painting his portrait that the picture should be completely honest and include his warts and any other facial...

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How many books are in the christian bible It depends on which Christian Bible you are talking about. For Protestants, there are 66, for Roman Catholics there are 72 and for Eastern Orthodox Christians there are about 78 depending on which Church you are in. There are many books which were written in the last few centuries before Christ that are considered to be spiritually uplifting but not divinely inspired. These are called the...

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Do belive all things are possible with god No - There are lots of things thtGod cannot do.For example: 1) Make another God 2) Sin 3) Make a mistake

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In the Bible, is there more than one creation story? There are two creation stories and two flood stories as well as two versions of other incidents. Some believe that this is due to the division of the kingdom of Solomon into Israel and Judah after his death. It has been suggested that two different versions of many stories developed, one in Israel and one in Judah. It has also been suggested that following the destruction of Isreal by the...

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What do you think Jesus looked like? Probably, like a bearded Arab Man. I think that the traditional image is a bit too pale skinned.

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When Mormon missionaries knock on your door, are you nice or rude to them? I think that it is best to be polite as they have probably been raised to believe that non Mormons are wiked and evil.We should not confirm their prejudices. Besides, they are only there as they were brainwashed into their beliefs as children as in most religions. I tend to feel sorry for them since they are probably victims of childhood psychological abuse. I think that it is best not...

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Why the hatred for Islam? Because, like many other religions, it is seen by many as a backward looking totalitarian ideology that is opposed to human progress and freedom.Many believe that Islam wants World domination and to impose its beliefs on others. When many Westerners see Islam, they see the dark side of their own history. Only a few centuries ago, Catholics and Protestants were killing each other in religious...

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If in Islam, when a man dies for Allah, he get's 72 virgins, what does a woman get? A cynic might say that Muslim women do not go to Heaven and they get Hellfire. After all, if each man already has 72 women, he would not bneed any more. Therefore Muslim women may well alll go to Hell. Of coarse, this answer is chauvinst and sexist, but then so is Islam.

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Atheists, what do you beleive is the reason why this Universe was created? The universe happened but was not created. We do not know if there was any reason. In the earliest instant of its existance, the Universe was so tiny that it was in the sub atomic realm of quantum mechanics where udeassuch as cause and effect become blurred.

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Are you one of those people who think that atheists are atheists just because it gives them a license to sin? No. There is no such thing as sin.It is a Theological comcept used to frighten people. Lots of Clergy are making a good living this way. If sin is defined as disobeying God, then it is impossible in principle for an Athiest to sin since he does bot believe in God.

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Do you trust atheists? Yes, because I am one myself. Several of my Chinese friend were raised in China without any concept of a God and they do just fine. I also have friends in Sri Lanka who are Buddhists and they do not believein God as such a bekief is cintrary to their religion. Agian, they get on pretty well without God.

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What is the meaning of life to an Atheist? Why should life have any absolute meaning? I think that we have to make up our own meaning such as being happy with family and friends and trying to make others happy.

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Atheists, have you ever had dreams or visions about Jesus or Saints or things like that? Do sexual fantasies involving Jesus or the Virgin Mary count?

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For someone who was extremely religious and became Atheist. What made you switch? Several things. Firstly, the Theory of Evolution. I discovered as a teenager, that my parents, teachers and clergy had been lying to me about Adam and Eve for years. Secondly, silly stories in the Bible, like Jesus going up to Heaven in the sky. Thirdly, Christian morality especially relating to sex.I came to the conclusion that Christian sexual attitudes were a disgusting form of...

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Atheists: Do you think the Bible, even if not the literal "Word of God" still contains a fair amount of worthwhile wisdom? No. I consider the Bible to be a book of Hebrew Mythology, and the equivalent to the Oddyssey and Iliad in Greek culture. The Bible was written by people who thought that the Earth was flat and although the Bible is a great work of literature, I see no need for it in the modern World.

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Why do Atheists celebrate Christmas? For the same reason that northern Europeans celebrated it for thousands of years before Christ. Christmas marks the end of the year and a time to forget about the old year and enjoy yourself. I do not believe in any God, but I celebrate Christmas though not with Christ.

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I have been gone from my bf for about a month and a half now. Last night I learned that he has looked at porn for a few minutes about once a week or less. He didn't do this when I was there. I am very angry, but I love him so much! What should I do? Why is watching porn a problem? My girlfriend does not mind at all. She is of the view that it only goes to prove how virile I am and she says that she likes the idea of me being so intrested in sex that I take an intrest in womens bodies. She realises that when I look ay pictures of naked women, that I am only intrested in them as a fantasy and not as real people. My girlfriend told...

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I am having a problem with my wireless Internet connection.I will describe it in the comments below. I am looking for a general explanation of the steps that I need to take to fix it. If I get a few pointers, I can sort out the details myself. This is not an answer, but some mre details for the question above. I have been connecting to the Internet for years via a cable modem and recently, I upgraded my connection to include a wireless router from my ISP. My ISP set things up a few weeks ago and all was OK until a few days ago. My connection was working and I left my PC for a few hours. When I returned and clicked on...

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Is God an abortionist because he destroyed millions of fetuses by drowning lots of pregnant women during Noah;s Flood? Another intresting thing about the Bible and Abortion is that not only does God commit Abortion himself, but he also encourages his followers to carry out Abortions. In the Book of Joshua, the Israelites massacre the inhabitents of many Canaanite cities, many of whom would have been pregnant women. Of coarse, Joshua caried out his Abortions with Gods blessing and that makes them OK.

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According to you: What is the biggest threat to Christianity in the 21st Century? I think that scientific progress will be the biggest threst to Christianity in the 21st century. By the end of the century, the following may have occured. 1) Creatuin of life from non living matter in the laboratory thus proving that the origin of life was not a miracle 2) The discovery of Alien life, especially if it is more intelligent than us. 3) Artificail intelligence. Does a...

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Is anything worse than hell? Yes. Being in Heaven for all eternity with millions of Born Again Christians who are endlessly praising the Lord and generally sucking up to him

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How does one reconcile the belief in a soul and the theory of evolution? Just when did the soul become immortal? Are we to be welcomed by Neanderthals upon entry to Heaven? I do not think that you can reconcile the idea of an imortal soul with Evolution. Other animals are not expected to have immortal souls, so why should humans? If we use the term soul to mean selfconciousness or personality, then perhaps it is a pattern generated by the brain not unlike an image on a screen generated by a copputer.

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Is not 600,000 men an unreasonable number for the men coming out of Egypt? In six genera-tions, the total number of people would be less than 100,000. If all the rebellious generation was to die in the wilderness, why is the number still over 600.000? This is a comment and not a real answer. Historians estimate that the population of Egypt was only 2 million in 2600 BC when the pyramids were built and 8 million around the time of Christ. Yhe figure of 600,000 men is probably just a big number made up by writers hundreds of years after the Exodus.

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What happens to people after death? nobody knows despite claims to the contrary. There are several alternatives. 1) Nowhere, you cease to exist. 2) You go to Heaven 3 You go to Purgatory for temporary punishment 4) You go to Sheol, a dark gloomy place for both good and evildoers.(Old Testament idea) 5) You go to Hell 6) You come back as somebody or something else. 7) You wake up in the distant future in some sort of...

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How do you get rid of a jehova's witness that won't quit coming to your house at 6 in the morning? There is a very good way to get rid of Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons when they turn up at your door. Check who it is before you open the door and then quickly strip naked. The open the door enough to show your upper torso and lower leg. Then you tell the visitors that you are a Devil Worshiper and that you are in the middle of an orgy. Next tell them that they are welcome to come...

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What is said to have caused the Great Flood? According to Christian Fundamentalists, the water had two sources. 1)Waters above the Firmament 2)Fountains of the Deep Waters above the Firmament Fundamentalists claim that there was a water vapour layer above the atmosphere which condensed as rain. Fountains of the Deep These are said to be springs of underground water. The problem is that a vater vapour layer above the...

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What are some of the proofs of the Bible and little facts that point to its validity? (e.g. the Bible has always said the Earth was a Sphere etc) The Bible does not say that the Earth is a sphere. Isa 40:22 describes a flat circular Earth. Furthermore, Jesus went up a mountain with Satan to look down on all the Kingdoms of the World. You cannot see the whole of the Earths surface from a single point unless it is flat. Another traditional line of apologetics uses allegedly fulfilled prophecy. In reality, no genuine prophecy in the...

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How can light get to us from stars which are millions of light years away in a universe which the Bible claims is only thousands of years old? Christain Fundamentalists have two answers to this.Neither is very good. Firstly, they may claim that the light from distant stars was created in transit and thatthe light was never near the distant stars. In effect, observers are seeing things that never happened and God is descieving us. Bertrand Russell called this arguement "Last Thursdayism". This is because we could say...

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Is the Bible more consistent with flat earth theory or round earth theory? I believe that the Bible assumes that the Earth is flat. There are several dozen passages that suggest this. Fundamentalists often claim that the following to passages imply a spherical Earth 1)Isaiah 40:22 and 2)Job 26:7 Isaiah describes the Earth as a circle and not a sphere. Job describes a solid dome like sky being stretched over the empty place below the dome. The reference to...

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Did Noah have 2 of every plant, Fungi, virus, bacteria, insects aswell, if not why are they still plants No he probably did not have two of every Plant although I am not sure about Invertabrates. Christian Fundamentalists usually say that Noah only had Amphibians, Reptiles, Mammals and Birds, about 24,000 species. The Biblical concept of life is different from our own.In Genesis, life is equated with breathing air and being able to move. Plants were not observed to do eather and so were not...

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Were there koalas on Noah's Ark, and if so did Noah drop them off in Australia after the flood, or did they walk back? There were no Koalas on Noahs Ark. The Biblical writers did not now that Australia, the Americas or sub-saharan Africa exosted. The world of the Bible is a Flat circular disc centred on Jerusalem and about 3000 miles accross. It stretched from Tarshish (Carthage) in the West to Hoddu (India in the Book of Esther) in the East. In the far north was Askenaz (Ukrane) and in the far south was...

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According to known scriptures Genesis 5:5 ,Adam had lived for 930 years. Why is that the present human cannot live that long despite the advent of technology,medicines and genetic engineering. Adam and Eve are just a myth and nobody has ever lived as long as some Biblical Characters have. Age of death is determined for any organism by the mosy efficient use of resources to propagate the speciaes. Imagine an anology with cars. If you buy a very expensive sports car, then it is worth your while maintaining it for decades. On the other hand, if you buy a very cheap second hand...

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"For the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, And He set the world on them." (New American Standard Bible, 1 Samual 2:8). How should we understand those pillars? I believe that the "Pillars of the Earth" should be interpreted literally and in line with Mesopotamian Cosmology. Mesopotamian Cosmology has several images of the Universe. One is of a flat circular disc sitting in a vast ocean.Below the disc is the land of the dead and up in the sky is the land of the Gods.The sky is a solid dome supported by a ring of mountains protruding from...

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Where is the kingdom of heaven? The Kingdom of Heaven does not really exist. It is just a Judeo-Christian Religious concept. In the Bible, Heaven is a place up in the sky. Jesus is said to ascended to the Kingdom of Heaven a few weeks after his Resurrection. Krushchev is often qouted as saying that he sent Yuri Gagarin into space in order to find the Kingdom of Heaven, but that he did not have any luck. The book of...