02 May 09
Originally posted by rbmorrisDid the article say anything about whether chopping a baby up in its mother's womb is torture ?
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new survey.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/30/religion.torture/
05 May 09
Originally posted by shorbocka true fundamentalist would know that Jesus taught followers to "love their enemies - do good to those who hate you"
scary
but in the states i believe "going to church" covers very different people.
I'm not sure ordinary (normal? sane?) believers will support torture much more than non-believers. The statistics are twisted by the fanatic christian fundamentalists.
Or so i hope.
but the problem is that many Christians have replaced Christ and the Bible with the Idols of Conservativa & Republica and the rantings of their talk-show "prophets" -- (not to be confused with the Idols of Liberalia & Democrata)
05 May 09
Originally posted by Melanerpesone need not be a fundamentalist to know what Christ taught about loving others. You will find that most of the "main line" denominations heartily dissaprove of any torture whatsoever.
a true fundamentalist would know that Jesus taught followers to "love their enemies - do good to those who hate you"
but the problem is that many Christians have replaced Christ and the Bible with the Idols of Conservativa & Republica and the rantings of their talk-show "prophets" -- (not to be confused with the Idols of Liberalia & Democrata)
06 May 09
Originally posted by rbmorrisI suppose that depends on your idea of what torture is. Is torture trying to extract information out of someone when innocent lives are a stake or is it random pain inflicted at a whim? My guess is that church goers are more in favor of capital punishment than nonchurch goers. I have no statistics to back me up, but that would be my guess. You see it is based upon the idea that if one is a murderer or will particiapate as a murderer based upon what they know or do, they automatically give up certain rights to life, liberty and happiness.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new survey.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/30/religion.torture/
06 May 09
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Originally posted by rbmorrisYou might want to read the article again. In fact, the Protestant churchgoers look just as against, if not more against torture than the non-churchgoers.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new survey.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/30/religion.torture/
Over 30% of the Protestants said torture is never justified while just over 40% of non-churchgoers said it is allowable seldomly.
It was the Evangelicals that (inexplicably) skewed the survey with over 60% supporting torture at least on some level.
Anyway the point is, it has a lot less to do with "going to church" than it does what your core beliefs are.
And then of course there is political leanings and the definition of torture to muck everything up anyway.
It is my opinion that the issue of equal importance is the devisive nature of the people who concocted this survey; obviously to use as cannon fodder verses Christians. I say that because as the article admits, the survey didnt target a single non-Christian churchgoer of any kind.
Kind of obvious what their agenda was in putting this survey together but I'm pleasantly surprised to see that the Liberals who think terrorists should be negotiated with over a hot meal and a warm cup of tea--if not set free altogether--didn't manage to skew the non-churchgoer answers enough to show them less likely to support torture than the churchgoing Protestants. That's interesting!
06 May 09
Originally posted by jaywillNice bit of bubble-gum-like 'politics'. Torture is the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty. What revenge or confession is being extracted from a foetus in an abortion procedure? So your wordplay falls flat. And we're left with nothing but a nasty, shrill, vacuous little post. I appreciate that you probably feel strongly about the issue, but this means surely the onus is on you to not just blurt out non-sequiturs, but to make your case properly.
Did the article say anything about whether chopping a baby up in its mother's womb is torture ?
06 May 09
Originally posted by FMFwrecked and rec'd
Nice bit of bubble-gum-like 'politics'. Torture is the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty. What revenge or confession is being extracted from a foetus in an abortion procedure? So your wordplay falls flat. And we're left with nothing but a nasty, shrill, va ...[text shortened]... urely the onus is on you to not just blurt out non-sequiturs, but to make your case properly.