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Contradictions: 2 Kings 8:26 says "Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign..." 2 Chronicles 22:2 says "Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he ...

Can I just point out that there are examples of homosexuality between animals as well. This is why I believe it is innate, and not physiological.

OK. These people could be right in saying that our holy book is completely wrong. I would appreciate it if you, in turn, respect the fact that there could possibly ...

Except, our laws do not work like that. According to the CPS website on the subject, we are allowed to use 'Reasonable force' in self-defence. Yes, but in most cases ...

So you're telling me that a man tries to rape me and I can't shoot him? You're telling me if someone's trying to kill me or my family and there ...

Sorry Aedomir, I meant crime in Europe was higher than I thought it was, not higher than the US. Just for clarification :D And shotgun, people don't need guns. There ...

I agree that it is false, but I wouldn't call it a lie. A lot of the stories in the Bible are, in my view, ways in which people in ...

Crime in Europe may be higher, but guns are not used in them. >0.5% of all crime is committed using firearms. Here are some statistics of my own, taken from ...

The bit where the girls' finger gets snipped off in House of Wax. And her mouth is glued shut. I have no idea why that scared me so much.

Shotgun, I can only say that in the UK and a lot of Western Europe, as well as Australia, there are very few gun-related crimes and deaths, and very tight ...

Really? My bad :) :oops: Sorry, thunder. Just before my mock chemistry paper as well *bangs head on desk.*

Two parents aren't necessarily better for the child. If they're both abusive, unhappily married or simply bad parents, then the child would have a worse time than if it was ...

You just defined your cut off point as when vital organs are fully formed. Cells are, by the way, not alive. That is not debatable, that is a fact. We ...

I don't think a certification process would hirt anyone, the only problem with that is we already have one. Yes, but it is an incredibly lax one. 25% of the ...

Yes. We need people to be better educated in these sorts of things, to stop the kind of knee jerk reaction that a lot of people feel when people mention ...