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Church-Goers More Likely to Support Torture
File this in the “I’m embarrassed to even be somewhat distantly similar in faith to these people” category:
The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new survey.
More than half of people who attend services at least once a week – 54 percent – said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is “often” or “sometimes” justified. Only 42 percent of people who “seldom or never” go to services agreed, according to the analysis released Wednesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
Torture – of any human-being, proven terrorist or not – is plainly, unequivocally wrong. It’s morally reprehensible, unbefitting of America, and clearly spoken against in the Bible. The voices and rationale you see being reflected in this survey are purely cultural, not Biblical – and I hate to mention it, but American evangelical Christian culture sucks.
(Via Daring Fireball.)