The more you attend Church, the more likely you are so support Torture.

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/05/07/67...erate.html

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.

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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?