And god said, "Let there be torture."
Submitted by James on Fri, 05/01/2009 - 3:41pm
Just when you thought your head might explode with all the apologists for torture, along comes this Pew Center research exploring opinions based on religious affiliation.
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.
I don't know about you, but this is really, really, really sick. The data aren't broken down by state, but I'm guessing North Carolina evangelicals are right out front in the Torture for Jesus parade.
Makes me proud...
...to be unaffiliated with any religious organization.
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Me three
(that's the trinity in me speaking)
Do good. Be nice. Have fun.
Surprising?
These are the same people who believe that a compassionate and all-knowing sky-god sends people to be tortured in hell for eternity if they refuse to believe such an absurdity.
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You're on a roll tonight!
Those are two dots I hadn't connected so clearly. If god can do it, why can't we?
Do good. Be nice. Have fun.
That was the exact sentiment I was about to post
but you said it much more elegantly than I would have.
Progressives are the true conservatives.