What would you call someone who is a believer/christian/religi ous person yet counteracts society?
Q. I'm looking for two words that contradict each other...that are basically describing a person OR a way of being. For example, the disturbed christian, or the fat rose, or the mischievous goody-two-shoes, or ordinarily mischievous... Thanks guys!
Asked by Fire and hail - Tue Nov 9 02:43:49 2010 - Words & Wordplay - 4 Answers - Comments

A. the holy devil the saintly rebel
Answered by - Tue Nov 9 03:00:04 2010

How should the marriage look like in the modern society not controlled by any religious organizations anymore?
Q. I mean a modern worldwide society of our future.
Asked by Mambinka - Sun Jul 26 05:39:56 2009 - Marriage & Divorce - 2 Answers - Comments

A. we don't need organization...it's the feeling u know...
Answered by nomokomoyo - Sun Jul 26 05:57:21 2009

Is the rate of child abuse greater in religious organizations than in the rest of society?
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Asked by Desiree - Thu Jun 18 22:58:26 2009 - Religion & Spirituality - 15 Answers - Comments

A. Absolutely. Because brainwashing is child abuse. And we know how much believers love to pass on their own religion to their kids. Heaven forbid the child should make up its own mind when it's ready to. Then there's the built-in Christian excuse for child abuse: "Spare the rod and spoil the child". How many kids were ruined by that verse?
Answered by Seeker - Thu Jun 18 23:01:49 2009

Why do atheists view a Christian, religious moral society as a bad thing?
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Asked by - Thu Jul 7 05:38:23 2011 - Religion & Spirituality - 18 Answers - Comments

How can we as a reasonable society even entertain religious organizations?
Q. I've been to church, Sunday school, read the bible, talked to many many people and as an educated, intelligent, reasonable man I find the "stories" in the bible to be childish, intellectually simplistic, fantastic, unreasonable and uneducated. Christianity is based on this book. People tell me they use this book as their "moral compass". Politicians want this story book to be taught in schools. Some want the constitution amended to include Christian values. How can we as a society even discuss this? Men living inside the stomach of whales? Stories that contradict themselves or are so vague that they are interpreted differently depending on who reads it?Scientific and Social research and hard evidence being simply… [cont.]
Asked by VoiceOfReason - Sun Apr 27 14:55:13 2008 - Religion & Spirituality - 7 Answers - Comments

A. Who said we were a reasonable society? ;-) But I agree with you.
Answered by Looney - Sun Apr 27 14:58:53 2008

ATHEISTS: Why is it considered virtuous to be a Christian/spiritual/relig ious in western society?
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Asked by - Thu Mar 24 13:20:32 2011 - Religion & Spirituality - 21 Answers - Comments

A. Propaganda. Always keep in mind that in the USA, 'christians' are proportionately overrepresented in prison and jail populations. People who say they are holy, and then get caught doing the most unpleasant things are the typical 'christian'.
Answered by - Thu Mar 24 13:21:40 2011

Imagine what will happen the day religious organizations start holding hands and working for one india?
Q. rss//muslim league/christian organizations join hands and spread brotherhood. Put your country first then religious identity later, our weaknesses will become strengths. We can see more resolve in these organizations than congress anyday. They just need to learn to channelize their potential to a bigger cause.
Asked by The F word - Sun Aug 30 03:46:22 2009 - Religion & Spirituality - 4 Answers - Comments

A. It sounds great, but it's not possible. It's human nature to create conflict with those who have different views than you do, and true harmony cannot exist because of our many flaws.
Answered by John F - Sun Aug 30 04:05:36 2009

Are other faith-based organizations besides Christian and secular involved in helping the needy?
Q. I always hear of Christian organizations or non-religious organizations like red cross and such helping people in need around that world. Out of curiosity I googled for other faith-based organizations that help needy people not just evangelize only, I couldn't find anything when skimming. Are there any Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist faith-based organizations that help the poor and needy with food and shelter and stuff?
Asked by Gelle - Fri Jul 3 15:16:43 2009 - Community Service - 2 Answers - Comments

A. Yes Muslims Relief organizations are actively involved in helping third world countries and they even helped other major disasters such as Katrina but they do not have so much propaganda and are not as much organized as the christian groups basically because their values slightly differ. Though the was against terror initially had limited those activities somewhat, they have started to pick up again as better means of identifying funds to terror is better now.
Answered by Steadfast - Fri Jul 3 15:37:12 2009

What is the name of the Israeli organization that helps ex-religious Jews integrate into Israeli society?
Q. I'm trying to find the name of an organization that helps religious Jews (mainly extreme Orthodox) who have left their religion and don't know how to function in Israeli society. I remember reading about this organization that helps these ex-religious Jews integrate into Israeli society after having their minds messed up by fundamentalist religion.
Asked by Non-Redneck - Thu Aug 13 10:59:24 2009 - Israel - 2 Answers - Comments

A. One is called Hillel - The right to choose ! And the other one is Dror Fellowship: Center for youth ''going out of the religious and Haredic society''
Answered by Shay p - Thu Aug 13 12:41:54 2009

Do Ethiopian orphans have to convert to Christianity to receive charity from those Christian organizations?
Q. Now that I think of it, whenever I see little orphans being educated in schools, I also happen to see, without fail, a bible somewhere on the TV screen. Let's say the people of Ethiopia refused to believe in Jesus Christ (hypothetically), would these Christian organizations still try to help them? If the answer is yes, then that's not charity. That's religious slavery. @Linda J, I couldn't if I wanted to. I've got school.
Asked by Terry the Klown - Tue Feb 3 23:29:34 2009 - Religion & Spirituality - 12 Answers - Comments

A. I don't think so. That would be awful charity. True Christian charity would provide charity without obligations. Obviously, though, Christians want to influence them to be Christians while they're giving the aid. Not through force, but through love. Love is really what the charity is all about. Love is the most effective way to spread Christianity in my opinion, not force.
Answered by Eric B - Tue Feb 3 23:34:12 2009

Are religious organizations allowed to discriminate against other beliefs in hiring?
Q. Are religious organizations allowed to require you to be a Christian and even say in the ad that they require "an oath of Christianity" as a pre hiring requirement?
Asked by - Mon Oct 31 03:04:39 2011 - Law & Ethics - 3 Answers - Comments

Why do the most dangerous people to society, whether Muslim, or Christian, always come from religious fundies?
Q. It seems that, from terrorists, to the Waco wackos, the most deranged people ever come from overzealous religious nuts. Isn't it about time to banish religion? Before it destroys us all?
Asked by Anon - Tue Mar 6 04:17:56 2007 - Religion & Spirituality - 26 Answers - Comments

A. Fundies follow dogma without question...they are sheep. They cannot use common sense or personal judgment, they are slaves to their dogma and whatever dim witted leader is spewing this poison. Even if you banish religion, you can never banish ignorance...and that is the basis of all fundamentalism.
Answered by Logon17 - Tue Mar 6 04:31:05 2007

Which Christian organizations are closest in their teachings to yours and which are farthest?
Q. Looking at the central teachings of your church, which other churches seem to be teaching a similar gospel, and which are teaching a very different gospel? Consider central teachings rather than superficial similarities, especially Christian ethics. Please identify your own religious organization in answering.
Asked by Bruce - Fri Dec 11 18:39:47 2009 - Religion & Spirituality - 5 Answers - Comments

A. I'm Catholic, and so Orthodox churches have to be considered closest because like the Catholic Church, they have apostolic succession and a continuous history from Jesus to the present day. They recognize the authority of the Fathers of the Church (many of whom lived in lands that became centers of Orthodoxy) in interpreting the New Testament, and thus more closely preserve Jesus' original vision. After that, it gets more difficult because some of the earlier Protestant denominations adhere to early Christian doctrines but are the most compromised with the people of this world on crucial moral issues. For example, Episcopalians look like Catholics, with priests and masses) but they ordain practicing homosexuals and advocate aborting… [cont.]
Answered by Lynie - Sun Dec 13 17:00:42 2009

Will you go to hell if you don't believe in the bible or religious organizations?
Q. If you think the bible has been edited very badly so it is almost entirely changed for peoples own gain and that religious organizations like the Christian and Catholic church are corrupt but you still have faith in god and Jesus will you go to hell?
Asked by - Tue Jun 7 03:01:58 2011 - Religion & Spirituality - 18 Answers - Comments

A. You will go to hell if you are a sinner, and you do not accept God's only way of reconciling sinners to Himself - through faith in the sacrificial death of Jesus for sins; who offered Himself to God., so that sinners might be forgiven. The wages (consequences) of sin is death - physical and spiritual death - eternal separation from God. this is what you need to do to get saved... learn more at:
Answered by wefmeister - Tue Jun 7 03:12:39 2011

Will atheists ever abolish religious belief from the mainstream society or are they too weak?
Q. It seems that more and more people are either becoming/coming out as atheists. There are famous writers and thinkers who are also championing the atheist cause. But the majority of US people are still Christian or whatever. Can the US ever rid itself of the religious scourge?
Asked by Karen K - Tue Oct 6 11:55:29 2009 - Religion & Spirituality - 36 Answers - Comments

A. Can't predict. Islamic terrorists are also thinking the same. Let's see who wins or nobody wins.
Answered by Krishna kiNkr Arya - Tue Oct 6 12:17:30 2009

political organizations and religious organizations in anthropology?
Q. How would you compare and contrast political organizations and religious organizations and how they provide order to society?
Asked by - Tue May 11 15:20:19 2010 - Anthropology - 1 Answers - Comments

A. Have you ever used google?
Answered by * - Thu May 13 05:42:08 2010

Is the token charity work that Christian organizations do genuinely humanitarian or is it more proselytizing?
Q. Do Christians feed starving Africans because they genuinely want to help them or because they want to convert them to Christianity? Is it even possible for a religious organization to be genuinely humanitarian or is the only genuine humanitarian organization a secular, non-profit organization? Motives, people, motives; don t just look at what people do but ask yourself, Why do they do it? Can they gain in any way from doing it?
Asked by Desiree - Fri Jun 19 20:58:47 2009 - Religion & Spirituality - 14 Answers - Comments

A. I always feel they have an agenda which is to convert these poor people. "Let's go to a country where the people are completely, starving, dehydrated, diseased, and dying and give them food. Now let's setup a place in the village where the can have clean water and food and maybe a little bit of A/C or a least a fan. And while they are here let us preach our beliefs at them. And convert them and tell them that if they do not change then after this horrible life they've had they will be judged and sent to eternal hellfire." They do have good intentions but when they start preaching, to me, they are preying on the weakness of these people.
Answered by btu - Fri Jun 19 21:15:56 2009

Child sponsorship organizations and religious affiliations?
Q. When I see infomercials about sponsoring children, it seems like a good idea- you can help them go to school, get vaccinations, etc. But it seems as though most of these organizations have religious affiliations. I wouldn't want all of my money to go towards buying Jesus coloring books for the kids, or trying to convert people who aren't already Christian. Does anyone know of a well managed organization that won't push a religious agenda?
Asked by Krista D - Mon Aug 21 13:03:06 2006 - Community Service - 1 Answers - Comments

A. UNICEF
Answered by Kutekymmee - Mon Aug 21 14:09:01 2006

Are Christian religious organizations like chicken farms; some are humane, others or cruel?
Q. Some chicken farms have free range chickens. The chickens are allowed to roam around an enclosure, roll in the dust, peck in the dirt for grubs and have little chicken social groups with nerds, sporty types and pretty chickens, just like high school. Other chicken farms are cruel and the chickens are permanently kept in small cages with florescent lighting simulating daytime. They live their short and pain filled lives in these small cages never knowing what real sun looks like; never knowing what it feels like to simply have wind blowing in their little chicken faces. This is analogous to the different kinds of Christian organizations, right?
Asked by Desiree - Thu Jul 8 18:40:18 2010 - Religion & Spirituality - 3 Answers - Comments

A. 60 billion chickens are eaten by one species of primate each year
Answered by Made From Embryonic Stem Cells - Thu Jul 8 18:42:42 2010

Should religious organizations provide relief for the poor and hungry?
Q. The top 3 Christian anti-poverty charities, World Vision, Compassion International, and Samaritan's Purse, had a gross receipts of $2.1 Billion, and World Vision alone takes in more than $1 Billion per year to provide anti-poverty care. Is it wrong to dangle God in exchange for food, medicine, and education, particularly in places where there aren't other options?
Asked by pdooma - Fri May 25 16:34:40 2012 - Politics - 14 Answers - Comments

A. They aren't "dangling" God in exchange for all those things. They do share their beliefs while providing these services. They don't force people to accept God or they are denied help. Why can't you just be happy that they are willing to help? Many churches and religious organizations don't give these kinds of thing a second thought.
Answered by - Fri May 25 16:40:22 2012