[Marxism] Waterboarding is next to godliness

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/30/churchgoers-more-likely-to-back-torture-survey-finds/
April 30th, 2009
Churchgoers more likely to back torture, survey finds
Posted: 01:55 PM ET

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 analysis.

More than half of people who attend services at least once a week — 54 
percent — said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is 
“often” or “sometimes” justified. Only 42 percent of people who “seldom 
or never” go to services agreed, according the analysis released 
Wednesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

White evangelical Protestants were the religious group most likely to 
say torture is often or sometimes justified — more than 6 in 10 
supported it. People unaffiliated with any religious organization were 
least likely to back it. Only 4 in 10 of them did.

The analysis is based on a Pew Research Center survey of 742 American 
adults conducted April 14-21. It did not include analysis of groups 
other than white evangelicals, white non-Hispanic Catholics, white 
mainline Protestants, and the religiously unaffiliated, because the 
sample size was too small.

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