That WaPo/ABC Poll mentioned earlier today had some other interesting bits in it: Christians are much more supportive of torture by the CIA than Non-Religious.
http://religiondispatches.org/christians-more-supportive-of-torture-than-non-religious-americans/
Now, I don't think that necessarily means that American Christians (except Bryan Fischer) actually believe that torture is a good and godly thing to do. I think that most of them are simply following along the political and social and pragmatic courses that argue that it's not really torture, but if it is it's still justified because we got all sorts of information, and they were just following orders, and it was so long ago, and WHY DO THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO PUT GEORGE W. BUSH IN PRISON? That, in so doing, they mentally skip over religious consideration of What Would Jesus Do when faced with the question of waterboarding a prisoner or rectally feeding and hydrating one, is less an indictment of Christianity per se than of how much Christian teachings actually influence their political lives.
Some Christians wonder how Atheists can lead a moral life if they don't have a religious framework of Godly commandments that they put first in their lives. It seems to me that some Atheists might ask that very question back.
It's quite tempting to share this to certain communities and see what sort of reaction it provokes.
Heh.
What got to me in writing the above was that whole WWJD moment: can any of these people really visualize Jesus waterboarding someone, or forcing them to be rectally fed and hydrated, or shackling from the ceiling, or letting them freeze to death in a cell? Really? And what does that then say about them or their image of Jesus?
The closest Jesus gets to discussing torture was in listing "visiting prisoners" on a couple of occasions as the good works by which people will be judged. I don't think the visitations included torture.
+Dave Hill I don't think so either Dave 🙂
To be fair, a great number of RC in Ireland are wakening up, but there's always the die hards, who die hard hearted.
Torture no. Questionable cloning research involving fish, perhaps.