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 6 in 10 supported it. People unaffiliated with any religious organization were least likely to back it. Only 4 in 10 of them did. The analysis is based on a Pew Research Center survey of 742 American adults conducted April 14-21. It did not include analysis of groups other than white evangelicals, white non-Hispanic Catholics, white mainline Protestants, and the religiously unaffiliated, because the sample size was too small.
Friday, May 1st, 2009
Churchgoers More Likely to Back Torture of Suspected Terrorists: Poll
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Stephan: The sad truth is that the Evangelical literature of legalistic-centered -- as opposed to love-centered -- Christianity is built on fear, and gleefully embraces the idea that the born-again community will be saved, while everyone else in the world is thrown 'into a lake of fire to be tortured for all eternity.' It is tragic that a community which purports to follow a man whose central message was love is filled with so much judgment and hate, and is so tolerant of torture. If you doubt what I am saying go to any Christian book store and spend an hour reading the books of Evangelical leaders like Pat Robertson. You will immediately notice that the default metaphor of this literature places everything in the context of war, struggle, and death.
Thanks to Rosemarie Pilkington, PhD.
