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The more you attend Church, the more likely you are so support Torture.
December 21, 2014 at 8:45 pm
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/05/07/67...erate.html
Quote: Specifically, it's from the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life, and it surveys Americans' attitudes on the torture of suspected terrorists. Pew found that 49 percent of the nation believes torture is at least sometimes justifiable. Slice that number by religious affiliation, though, and things get interesting. It turns out the religiously unaffiliated are the least likely (40 percent) to support torture, but that the more you attend church, the more likely you are to condone it. Among racial/religious groups, white evangelical Protestants were far and away the most likely (62 percent) to support inflicting pain as a tool of interrogation.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/05/07/67...rylink=cpy
I consider this pretty hard evidence that going to church and being religious does not instil moral values on somebody. For years we've had to bear claims that despite all the obvious realities of the world, religion is a good thing. Why then is there a direct link to religiousness and the support of torture? Why are Atheists (and other non religious people) the least likely to support toture?
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RE: The more you attend Church, the more likely you are so support Torture.
December 21, 2014 at 8:52 pm
IMHO
Out of sight, out of mind.
The more you go to church, the more you are exposed to the ideas/threats of torture. Stories/Hell.
Acceptable through exposure?
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RE: The more you attend Church, the more likely you are so support Torture.
December 21, 2014 at 9:01 pm
Exactly. They worship a dude that owns a massive torture chamber that they think people go to for eternity, and think this is good work for a supreme being.
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RE: The more you attend Church, the more likely you are so support Torture.
December 21, 2014 at 9:15 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2014 at 9:16 pm by Jackalope.)
Correlation isn't causation and all that jazz, but when torture features in your worldview as the highest form of righteousness....
Just sayin'.
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RE: The more you attend Church, the more likely you are so support Torture.
December 21, 2014 at 11:04 pm
Torture no, enhanced interrogation techniques? Yes!
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RE: The more you attend Church, the more likely you are so support Torture.
December 21, 2014 at 11:12 pm
(December 21, 2014 at 8:52 pm)Kitty Galore Wrote: IMHO
Out of sight, out of mind.
The more you go to church, the more you are exposed to the ideas/threats of torture. Stories/Hell.
Acceptable through exposure? That makes good sense. Religion is full of threats. That surely isn't love!! Religion is really screwed up and screws people up bad. It tried to screw me up bad and did for awhile but I'm too smart to fall for those lies and threats of hell, purgatory, limbo and the like if you don't believe. The people who are religious dictators or priests and the like are egomaniacs who like to feel full of power and make others feel very small, ashamed of themselves and incapable of being decent human beings without believing in their false god. There is no god. I may be damned to hell by them who believe in the unbelievable but I couldn't care less. Religion is the real evil entity and I can see how those who attend church would approve of torture. They only want to do back what is done to them and that is pretty natural.
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RE: The more you attend Church, the more likely you are so support Torture.
December 21, 2014 at 11:35 pm
Quote: white evangelical Protestants were far and away the most likely (62 percent) to support inflicting pain as a tool of interrogation.
As long as the cocksuckers aren't on the receiving end.
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RE: The more you attend Church, the more likely you are so support Torture.
December 21, 2014 at 11:36 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2014 at 11:37 pm by Strider.)
(December 21, 2014 at 11:04 pm)Drich Wrote: Torture no, enhanced interrogation techniques? Yes! You do know those are essentially the same thing, right?
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." ~ Benjamin Franklin
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RE: The more you attend Church, the more likely you are so support Torture.
December 22, 2014 at 12:12 am
(December 21, 2014 at 8:52 pm)Kitty Galore Wrote: IMHO
Out of sight, out of mind.
The more you go to church, the more you are exposed to the ideas/threats of torture. Stories/Hell.
Acceptable through exposure?
Stimbo would disagree with that I'm sure, he disagreed with me that exposure to things in life doesn't make you think bad things.
Actually I'm not supporting torture, but then what was described as torture recently by certain people in Congress wasn't torture, it was tough interrogation and it did save lives of Americans, atheist and Christians alike.
Torture, is what the Taliban and ISIL do, blame the ones who actually actively support and live that practice, stop the fight among us and support this country, before we lose it. Remember the Soviet Union was brought down without a war, we can be too.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: The more you attend Church, the more likely you are so support Torture.
December 22, 2014 at 12:14 am
(December 22, 2014 at 12:12 am)Godschild Wrote: (December 21, 2014 at 8:52 pm)Kitty Galore Wrote: IMHO
Out of sight, out of mind.
The more you go to church, the more you are exposed to the ideas/threats of torture. Stories/Hell.
Acceptable through exposure?
Stimbo would disagree with that I'm sure, he disagreed with me that exposure to things in life doesn't make you think bad things.
Actually I'm not supporting torture, but then what was described as torture recently by certain people in Congress wasn't torture, it was tough interrogation and it did save lives of Americans, atheist and Christians alike.
Torture, is what the Taliban and ISIL do, blame the ones who actually actively support and live that practice, stop the fight among us and support this country, before we lose it. Remember the Soviet Union was brought down without a war, we can be too.
GC
God loves torture he made hell so its secretly his fetish.
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