Religiosity = support for torture ???

Somehow, I'm not surprised:

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.

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.

After all, the image of a torture victim is an icon to so many of these folks...

Comments

[fergie]

huh. so hanging out with a merciful God and learning about the sanctity of life in His Eyes somehow goes hand in hand with torturing folks?

This is the same group of people that are incensed into riot by abortion? But it's okay to maim or hurt those that survived the birth process?

Yikes!