♥Mira♥

I keep hearing about how atheists have no morals, and are hedonistic, etc...

Do you know any personally that have given you this impression? Do you know any that haven't? ARE YOU SURE?

I am your friend, your neighbor, your Girl Scout leader. I'm that person who stopped by the side of the road to help you fix your tire. I'm your sister, your co-worker, a fellow member of the PTA. Your children are friends with my children. Unless you bring up god, you will never know I'm an atheist.

I support Habitat for Humanity, St. Jude's Children's Hospital, am an organ donor, and a bone marrow donor.

Who exactly gave you the impression that I'm amoral and a bad person?

We all need more Magina-like qualities, how should we get more people to emulate him, so we can have a more perfect society?

I'm searching for the father of my love child, and I hear he sometimes comes in here....

Perhaps you know him? David Israel

Praise Jesus!

1st, Please don't take offense to the questions, I respect Wicca, I'm just curious.

2nd, Christians, please don't tell me I need to read the bible, go to church, get saved, or that I'm going to hell. I'm not interested.

That said....I understand that Wicca is polytheistic, yes?

Is there a set list of goddesses or gods that every Wicca believes in?

Do you get to choose which goddesses or gods you believe in or worship?

Are there any atheistic Wiccans, who just celebrate nature for nature's sake?

Thanks in advance for the info! =)

I was wondering about handfasting. It sounds like a beautiful ceremony. I was just wondering, is it a civil ceremony? I mean, if you do it, are you legally married in your state? Do you have to get someone who's state certified to perform it, and if so, what do they have to do to be officially recognized? Can anyone perform the ceremony, if it's only going to be symbolic and not legal?

I guess that's a bunch of questions. Sorry about that. =)

Thanks in advance for the info!

If God did not create the universe, how did it come into existence? The 2nd law of thermodynamics disproves the big bang theory, and even Darwin recanted his own theory on his deathbed. But if God didn't create everything, then WHO did? You can't get something from nothing...SOMEONE had to have created all the matter in the universe....

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I checked Amazon, couldn't find it for sale. Are there only a few copies of this movie that they have to pass around the country? Did I miss it when it was playing in my town? Will I have to wait for the video release?

I do love a good horror movie =)

**This is in no way meant to be insulting***

I'm a nonbeliever. You don't know me. Why do you care if I go to hell or not? I can see trying to convert the people you love, but why me?

If you're trying because I'm a human and should be saved, or because that's what the bible tells you to do, wouldn't that be like trying to earn your way to heaven with good deeds?

If you do care about me personally, why? You don't know me, I could be anyone, especially here in Y!A.

I understand that the baldness gene is passed through the mother. So...I'm not bald (of course)...my father isn't bald, but one of his brothers is. My mother's brothers and father are bald. Are my boys safe because my father isn't bald? I'm just not sure how this works. Can anyone enlighten me?

Did I just get a bunch of thumbs down for being a military wife for 9 yrs? Do you think military members WANT to be in the middle east? Sure there are some that do, but what about those who joined so they could support their families??

If it was just a bad answer, so be it, but really....I'd like to know if you blame the actual guys out there risking thier lives for you....do you blame them for the war??

I'd link the question, but apparently I'm doing it wrong, it didn't take.

Children aren't born "believing" anything. If, when you were a child, your parents told you that the things you didn't understand came from magic.....then gave you a book that said magic was true.....you wouldn't believe it, would you?

Why doesn't this skepticism extend to the bible?

Do you believe because your parents told you to? At some point that was probably the case....so what convinced you that they were right? A personal experience?

God created Adam. Then God created Eve from Adam's rib. That would (other than gender), make her a clone, wouldn't it? At the very least, she would have the same DNA. So...if all humans came from Adam and Eve, we would all have the same DNA, and would all look alike?

If you believe everyone came from Adam and Eve, yet you see that we do NOT all look alike, aren't you admitting that there is proof of evolution right in front of you?

If you see this, and still say there's no proof of evolution, are you saying you think there's no such thing as DNA?

One last question...if God just decided that people were going to look different, and that's that....WHY? Why wouldn't he want us all to look like his perfect creation, an image of himself?

So Esau was a big dummy. He shouldn't have been so capricious with his birthright. But there's no commandment that says "Thou shall not take things for granted."

HOWEVER...

"Honor thy father and thy mother"....Jacob honorred his mother, but certainly not his father when he tricked him.

"Thou shall not kill"....Jacob killed off most of his brother's family.

"Neither shall thou steal"....Jacob stole both Esau's birthright, and his blessing. Easy to steal, maybe, but stolen.

"Neither shall thou covet thy neighbor's goods"....I would assume that extends to thy brother's birthright.

So how come Jacob's still the good guy with God? Because the commandments weren't written yet? He didn't know better? If Jacob was meant to have the birthright, wouldn't it have been easier for God to have just pulled a switcheroo in-utero, and have Jacob be the firstborn? Would have saved alot of grief and drama!

I read the links and the actual bible verses (most of Genesis, actually). Here's what I came up with:

Esau was a hard worker. Jacob helped his mom around the house. Esau had such a rough day one day, that he thought he might die, and he asked his brother for some food. Jacob held the food for ransom. Esau, thinking he might die without some food, said ok. Brothers being what they are, he maybe thought his brother was being a jerk, but wasn't really going to try to take his birthright....he was wrong.

Then, with the blessing...it was a blessing specifically for ESAU. Isaac checked several times to make sure it was Esau and not Jacob. When Esau got back, after doing what his father asked, he found out he had been robbed of his blessing too! And it says he cried about it, so he DID care....

Now, someone said the person who told me the story must have been Muslim, because they think Esau was right. (He's a Baptist, btw)

I think Esau got a raw deal: does that make me a Muslim?

Okay, so I saw a question the other day that said (something like): "Why did Esau despise his birthright?" Now, admittedly I did not read the story, but I was told by someone who studied the bible for years, that Esau did not despise his birthright. His twin brother Jacob tricked thier blind father into giving Jacob the birthright that should have gone to Esau. Can someone clear this up for me, or tell me where to find the story so I can read it myself?

Thank you!