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Here are my answers:

Gay marriage

Marijuana

Prostitution

What are yours?

Just curious.

As you may or may not have heard, scientists recently discovered the oldest skeleton of a baby Australopithecus afarensis ever found. Australopithecus afarensis is our oldest known evolutionary ancestor, and have features belonging to both humans and apes. Here's an article if you want to learn more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200609/s17458...

My question is, what do Christians think of this? How does this species that is so like us fit in with your view of Creationism? Do you think this species is really our ancestor? Why or why not? Please give as much explenation as you can.

They deleted this the last time I asked it because I was "insulting other partisipants," apparently, so I'll just leave that line out.

What makes a cult? Is it simply any religion other than your own? How do you know your religion isn't a cult?

Please explain your answers.

...if a young child plays a violent video game, clearly marked as Mature on the box?

The makers of the video game?

Or the parents of the child, who bought him/her the game without checking to see what they were buying?

Please explain your views.

I'll post a link to an article about it, but for those who don't like to follow links, here's the main point of the law:

"It allows the government to seize individuals on American soil and detain them indefinitely with no opportunity to challenge their detention in court. And the new law would permit an individual to be convicted on the basis of coerced testimony and even allow someone convicted under these rules to be put to death."

They claim that this law will only be used to persecute terrorists, but when you get right down to it, what's stopping them from deciding that an American citizen who simply opposes the war is a terrorist? They wouldn't even have to tell you why.

How does the signing of this law mesh with Bush's claim to be a "good Christian?" Why do American Christians stand by while the rights they claim are God given are taken away?

Who, exactly, is the terrorist here? Because I tell you what, I'm terrified, and it's not of Muslims, Iraq, or Iran.

“Truth is the shattered mirror strewn in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own."

~Robert Burton (English Writer and Clergyman, 1577-1640)

True? Untrue? What do you think?

I think it's quite accurate, myself. No one knows the whole truth about why we're here or what made us, but everyone thinks they have the right answer.

Just curious what other's views are. :) Please state reasons for your views.

In this question (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsnH_...

I told the poster that I do not believe in the divinity of Jesus. He responded with "Of course you believe in Jesus' divinity."

Um... what? No I don't.

As you can see, the debate went back and forth for a while. No matter what I said, he pet insisting that I must believe that Jesus was divine.

Why does he think that he can tell me what I believe better than I can? Is this a common Christian trait, or just his own personal delusion? I'm not trying to be disrespectfull here, I'm just confused as to why he thinks he can tell me I believe in Jesus when I very firmly do not.

I see these every once in a while (someone keeps putting them in the bathrooms where I work) and I must say, all the seem to do is paint Christianity in a rediculous light. I mean, how silly is the one about D&D ( http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.a... ? And how dumb are the ones about Evolution (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1051/1051_01.a... , Muslims (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1054/1054_01.a... , and Homosexuality? (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1052/1052_01.a...

Wow, this one makes me sick. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0037/0037_01.a...

I can't believe someone actually thinking "This preachy, badly drawn, borderline offensive comic will make someone think Christianity is great! I'll leave it next to a urinal!"

Is there anyone here who actually thinks Chick Tracts help recruit converts? Can you defend them?

Here's a whole bunch, have a laugh.

http://www.chick.com/catalog/tractlist.asp

Just curious.

No one works in heaven, right? So does that mean the stores are all closed? But, with a word, can you get what you came for?

0:3 *whistles*

Do you celebrate Halloween?

If not, why? Is it against your religion? In what way? What do you do instead? Do you (would you) let your kids trick-or-treat?

If you do celebrate Halloween, how? Do you dress up? What are you going as this year?

I'm hosting a Halloween party and going as a pirate. :D

I mean, look at the way things are. People get married on reality tv shows to people they barely know because other people they don't know voted on it. Divorce is at an all time high, do I have to remind you guys of Slutteny Spears' wedding in Las Vegas that was annuled the next day? People are getting married for all the wrong reasons, for money, for prestiege, for just being able to say they are married.

Really, people, how could allowing gay people to get legally married really make things any worse?

It's like "It's ok to get married to somene you've never met on tv for a million dollers, it's ok to marry someone you're not in love with for money, it's ok to force someone it to marriage by getting pregnant, and it's ok to get married six or seven times and divorce them each after less than a year, but God forbid someone get married to someone they're in love with that just so happens to be of the same gender, because that will distroy the sanctity of marriage!"

Discuss.

I'm 19 (almost 20) and my boyfriend is 22. Our one year anniversary is this month, and we arn't planning on getting hitched any time soon. We are sexually active and practicly live at each other's houses (I've got a toothbrush at his place along with several changes of clothes, sleep over there about 3 nights out of 5) and we're currently looking for apartments in order to move in together.

Right? Wrong? When do you think a couple is ready to move in together? Really, we're going to do it no matter what, I was just curious about what other people thought about "living in sin" as it were in this day and age. Please give reasons for your answers.

I mean, look at the way things are. People get married on reality tv shows to people they barely know because other people they don't know voted on it. Divorce is at an all time high, do I have to remind you guys of Slutteny Spears' wedding in Las Vegas that was annuled the next day? People are getting married for all the wrong reasons, for money, for prestiege, for just being able to say they are married.

Really, people, how could allowing gay people to get married really make things any worse?

It's like "It's ok to get married to somene you've never met on tv for a million dollers, it's ok to marry someone you're not in love with for money, it's ok to force someone it to marriage by getting pregnant, and it's ok to get married six or seven times and divorce them each after less than a year, but God forbid someone get married to someone they're in love with that just so happens to be of the same gender, because that will distroy the sanctity of marriage!"

Discuss.

Imagine there's no Heaven

It's easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people

Living for today

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people

Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will live as one

~John Lennon

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What do you think? I think it is a lovely song and if we followed the values presented in it, the would would be a better place.

Do you grok this in fullness?

http://www.caw.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_All_Worlds

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange...

I see these every once in a while (someone keeps putting them in the bathrooms where I work) and I must say, all the seem to do is paint Christianity in a rediculous light. I mean, how silly is the one about D&D (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.a... ? And how dumb are the ones about Evolution (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1051/1051_01.a... , Muslims (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1054/1054_01.a... , and Homosexuality? (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1052/1052_01.a...

Heh, I love how this one clearly shows the hypocracy of Christianity. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0037/0037_01.a...

I can't believe someone actually thinking "This preachy, badly drawn, borderline offensive comic will make someone think Christianity is great! I'll leave it next to a urinal!"

Is there anyone here who actually thinks Chick Tracts help recruit converts? Can you defend them?

Here's a whole bunch, have a laugh.

http://www.chick.com/catalog/tractlist.asp

Steve the fish, who, as you may remember if you read the first question I posted about him (sadly, it was deleted, what is Y!A thinking these days?) is a devout Buddhist. He meditates daily and has a statue of Buddha in his bowl. However, he wants to learn more about other religions. Can I take my fish (in his bowl, of course) into a church, synogouge, or mosque? Or should I just help him set up an account here on Y!A and let him ask questions? What do you guys think?