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April 30, 2009

For the Love of Jesus!

Hold onto your seat for a minute because I am about to shock you half to death (it's OK because it isn't torture):

A new Pew survey has found that the more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists.

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 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.

I wonder, what would Jesus say?

Posted by Becky at April 30, 2009 04:08 PM