Puffin’s Place

The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new survey.
The Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture rallied on Capitol Hill in March 2008.

The Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture rallied on Capitol Hill in March 2008.

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.

Today’s Washington Post includes the above dismal observation.

Who knows why. Seems to me way too many self-defined Christians and self-defined-other are eager to put aside values for the my-country-right-or-wrong syndrome.

If anyone can convince me that god really endorses cruelty, that’s fine. Another “force” to consign to the trash heap.