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These are probably the same religious people who support the death penalty
...and for the record, the Pew survey explicitly used the term "torture", not "enhanced interrogation' or any other euphemistic dodge frequently employed by the pro-torture crowd.
Survey: Support for terror suspect torture differs among the faithful
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- 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.
15th Century Spanish church officials conducting a routine interrogation.
White evangelical Protestants were the religious group most likely to say torture is often or sometimes justified -- more than six in 10 supported it. People unaffiliated with any religious organization were least likely to back it. Only four in 10 of them did.
The analysis is based on a Pew Research Center survey of 742 American adults conducted April 14-21. It did not include analysis of groups other than white evangelicals, white non-Hispanic Catholics, white mainline Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated, because the sample size was too small.
The president of the National Association of Evangelicals, Leith Anderson, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The survey asked: "Do you think the use of torture against suspected terrorists in order to gain important information can often be justified, sometimes be justified, rarely be justified, or never be justified?"
A Nazerene terror suspect undergoes torture by Roman security
Roughly half of all respondents -- 49 percent -- said it is often or sometimes justified. A quarter said it never is.
The religious group most likely to say torture is never justified was Protestant denominations -- such as Episcopalians, Lutherans and Presbyterians -- categorized as "mainline" Protestants, in contrast to evangelicals. Just over three in 10 of them said torture is never justified. A quarter of the religiously unaffiliated said the same, compared with two in 10 white non-Hispanic Catholics and one in eight evangelicals.
Last edited by PixelPusher; 05-01-2009 at 12:05 AM.
These are probably the same religious people who support the death penalty
Even the Bible says that real believers are few, and that there are many who go as a show of pride. No surprises here.
"Many bear the thyrsus, but few are the bacchantes."
I support death penalty and torture but I don't go to church
Maybe they saw the Passion and wanted more.
Secular liberal societies put a high value on human life.
Sincerely,
Dead babies
Pro-life Christian countries don't start wars and don't kill non-combattants.
Sincerely,
Adolph Hitler,
dubya & head & friends
I'm totally on board with Hitler.
Sincerely,
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I don't go to church, I don't have any religion I believe in and I support torture to get info out of terrorist. I'll say once again, waterboarding is for pussies.
Really?
Internets Tough Guy.
Internets Pussy
What was it like being waterboarded?
What was it like sucking ur moms ?
I have no recollection of breast feeding, and I have never been waterboarded.
I only believe one of those answers.
Suit yourself.
How many times have you been waterboarded?
About as many times as you.
Gold.
Exactly
How about the upwards of 700 innocent people the US tortured?
Hey Jack, you do realize that most of the prisoners held at Guantanamo have been relased and not charged with any crime--after the US determined them to be completely innocent... after they tortured them first.
What was the name of that Canadian gentlemen they abducted from NYC a few years ago, flew to Syria, tortured the out of him, only to find out it was a case of mistaken iden y?
What about those guys mr. tough guy? they pussies too?
First of all waterboarding is not torture. Actually thats all I have to say.
I've always found that alot (not all, of course) of people that call themselves Christians are more pro-war, pro-torture, and even anti-Muslim so this doesn't really surprise me. I guess this is just the political time that we live in. There used to be anti-violent and anti-war Christians. So as a Christian that's against abortion, torture, and preemptive war, what does that make me?
American evangelicals are Republicans first and Christians second.
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