CHURCHGOERS SUPPORT TORTURE

This story was recently reported by CNN News:

Frequent churchgoers are more likely to support torture than their less devout brethren, a new Pew poll finds. Fifty-four percent of weekly churchgoers said torture of terror suspects is “often” or “sometimes” justified, compared to 42% of people who seldom or never attend services, reports CNN. White evangelical Protestants were especially likely to support the practice, with more than 60% behind it.

Among the religiously unaffiliated, only four in 10 supported torture, the least of any group. The survey asked whether torture against terror suspects is often, sometimes, rarely, or never justified. In total, 49% said it was often or sometimes justified, with 25% saying it was never justified. Mainline protestants—Episcopalians, Lutherans, and Presbyterians—were most likely to say “never.”
Source: CNN

If you read the WAKING GOD series, you would not be at all surprised by the above survey. religions are steeped in the blood of innocents. From the Inquisition, Crusades, the slaughter of the Cathars and Templars, to past and present witch burners, organized religion has little problem with torture. One of the reasons is obvious, when those who do not believe as you are demonized or cast or infidels or satan, it does not become too difficult to treat them as sub-human. When you are told that you have the monopoly on spiritual truth, there is little reason to not torture the unbelievers, they are probably just a tool of the devil anyway.