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 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.
via cnn.com
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Who comes up with this crap anyway? Maybe us churchgoers should torture all you non-churchgoers, right?
Ivan, but you already do! ;-) Kidding aside, I am an atheist, but not a New Atheist (a la Dawkins)… I do realise that religious people (like any other such large categorisation) occupy a wide range of beliefs. More, some of the greatest advances (of value to me) were not merely inspired by religious teachings (I am referring to Gandhi, MLK, others) but explicitly borrowed from such teachings. There is however, I maintain, a disconnect in the beliefs of some of the faithful and the words of their prophet(s).