Giving Church a Bad Name
Posted by Michael.
A recent Pew study reports that “churchgoers are significantly more likely to support torture”, but apparently they only asked “white evangelicals, white non-Hispanic Catholics, white mainline Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated” so insert your own GOP-bashing comment here.
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. White evangelical Protestants were the religious group most likely to say torture is often or sometimes justified — more than six in 10 supported it.
I just wish the article had a little comment somewhere saying “not all people of faith are vindictive and intolerant” with a link to the peace churches. Don’t even have to mention Quakers by name, I’m not greedy.
