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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.
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(full article is here:
Survey: Support for terror suspect torture differs among the faithful - CNN.com)
I just read this about 2 minutes ago and am still not entirely sure what to make of it. The instant reaction, of course is "well, yeah, a lot of religious people are hypocritical, and so it's natural that they'd go to church every Sunday and talk about turning the other cheek, and loving thy neighbor, and do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and judge not lest ye be judged, and then applaud sending violent electric shocks through someone's genitals while making them think they're drowning the other six days of the week." And I suspect that may be the reaction I stay with. Chime in with your own while I mull it over?