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Pro-Torture Christians
The CNN Sucks Web site today reports on findings from a recent analysis by the Pee-yew Forum on Hatred for Traditional Christian Beliefs, which isolated out this question from a larger poll taken by its Pee-yew sister: “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?”
The CNN Sucks Web site today reports on a recent analysis by the Pee-yew Forum on Hatred for Traditional Christian Beliefs, which isolated out this question from a larger poll taken by its Pee-yew sister: “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?”
Without defining what practices they view as torture to include (Waterboarding? Insects in the room? The attention grasp?), Pee-yew let fly its review about a limited number of white U.S. churchgoers because they failed to sample what they thought were a representative sample in other racial/religious categories. The responses:
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.
The analysis is based on a Pew Research Center survey of 742 American adults conducted April 14-21.
To give added context, the sampling size of people who identified themselves as “white evangelical Protestants” was 174, which means a total of 108 of them said undefined torture was “often” or “sometimes” justified.
Meanwhile, in the name of balance I look forward to Pee-yew’s future poll in which they ask 174 Muslims whether they believe public beheadings are “often” or “sometimes” justified. They can feel free to ask a couple whiteys the same question, but make sure they keep the sampling size small enough to not bother analyzing their responses.
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Pro-Torture Christians | But As For Me links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
timb| 5.1.09 @ 12:19PM
Yeah, 'cause if Muslims are bad, it's okay for christians to be bad, eh? That's exactly what my Bible says...oh, oops, no, it says we're held to an absolute standard and that one of two most commandments was "love thine enemy."
Until I get to waterboard Stacy McCain (to show equal treatment), I don't you people and the Ned Flanders's you think you represent understand anymore about the Bible than the Quran.
Ark Ashamed of Bill| 5.1.09 @ 12:25PM
Does no one have the moral courage to state the obvious, namely that the American Left has never seen anything wrong with torture? It certainly didn’t see anything wrong with the torture of their fellow Americans in Yankee hell-holes such as Camp Douglas (“Eighty Acres of Hell”) in Chicago, it didn’t see anything wrong with Bolshevik torture under Lenin and Stalin, it cheerleaded the Vietnamese Communists while they were torturing their fellow Americans in the Hoa Lo Prison (“Hanoi Hilton”), it brought about the Communist victory in Indochina that led to the Cambodian Communist tortures in Tuol Sleng, and it has never denounced either the torture in Communist Cuba nor the torture perpetrated by our terrorist enemies. The contemporary Left’s use of the torture issue as a partisan weapon to discredit the war is what one should expect from the Left—profound hypocrisy.
Xanthippas | 5.1.09 @ 1:17PM
To the Christians of America,
Thank you for confirming my decision to become an atheist.
Tom Paine| 5.1.09 @ 2:50PM
If you look at the Paul's letter to the Corinthians it clearly states that if you are afraid or feeling insecure about getting elected to a second term, bombing hell out of another country or torturing captives is perfectly fine with God.
Jesus himself, in the book of Matthew, talks about the holiness of water-boarding and sexual humiliation.
Mary, the Virgin Queen of heaven, has herself on occasions been known to thwack people with phone books or induce sleep deprivation for as many as 11 days.
Christians are the guardians of morality in the world. That's why they torture people. They've been doing it for centuries.
The secularists don't get it. We do whatever the fuck we want, because we're America, we're Christian, and we're the best.
Dwight Ratcliff| 5.5.09 @ 12:20PM
While the study was of a rather small sample (742 people), I still find it appalling that of 336 people that attend religious services weekly 54% believe that torture is sometimes or often justified. It makes no difference how you define torture, it is all the same. Mistreatment is torture.
Who cares what Muslims think about torture? The religious-right defines this country as a “Christian nation”. The question is what do Christians think.
Do the religious-right want the United States to be viewed like all of the rest of the terrorist countries? Torture is a form of terrorism.
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Thank you for confirming