The Bible mentions it, and people have been using it regularly for centuries. ... However, some people use it on a different level, some people use it in reference to death. ... If our judgment is in error regarding general deterrence, then such error must be made on the side of saving innocent lives and not on the side of sacrificing innocent lives. ... The weight of the prisoner's body below the neck causes traction separating the spinal cord from the brain. ... How can this be called punishment if no lesson is taught? ...

• Word Count: 1718
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

I never notice how there was actually a dispute whether religion and science could go together, and actually they can. ... I am not saying that God can not heal because he can, he can do anything. ... Basically using drugs to help have a baby, which could help and nonetheless cause harm. ... So how dare we judge people with their "no valid experience" because it doesn't show on a radar? ... Both, science and religion, can change the world if more people start to realize how much we need these two together. ...

• Word Count: 1798
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Unfortunately, when it comes to Bible text, use of exaggeration is often times yet another cause for disagreement and controversy. ... Many believe that the entire Bible is God's word and God "spoke" only truth , therefore the Bible must be "inerrant" or void of any kind of error. ... How will you escape being condemned to hell?" ... Also, a rare example of how a few lines of simple text can turn brother against brother and cause more than a few a sleepless night. ... The chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel presented themselves in the assembly of the people ...

• Word Count: 1777
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

To fundamentalist Christians, it is a place where people will be intensely tortured without any hope of relief. ... It is pictured as either a place of annihilation, where people simply cease to exist, or of eternal punishment. ... They view the concept of an eternal punishment for a single oversight, error, thought crime or sin during life is unjust. ... "How can Christians possibly project a deity of such cruelty and vindictiveness whose ways include inflicting everlasting torture upon his creatures, however sinful they may have been? ... The Roman Catholic Church teaches that punishment ...

• Word Count: 1279
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate