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.
This survey had a small sample size and was not as in-depth as necessary to get an accurate picture on this subject but the results are disturbing ... and not at all shocking. The bible delves into torture on many occasions and appears to support it when engaging the enemy, whoever that is. Raping and pillaging--no problem. Stoning unruly children or those wearing two fibers in one garment--no problem. Treating women as property without any rights as human beings--no problem. Tell me again how the religious own the moral high ground. I keep forgetting why that is still conventional wisdom.
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