Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
Bwahahahaha!
Well, this will probably come as no news to most of the people here:
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.
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 to 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 six in 10 supported it. People unaffiliated with any religious organization were least likely to back it. Only four in 10 of them did.
Sully, of course, is shocked that his co-religionists are less moral than us heathens:
So Christian devotion correlates with approval for absolute evil in America. And people wonder why atheism is gaining in this country. Notice the poll does not even use a euphemism like "coercive interrogation" - forcing Allahpundit to substitute it. (Even HotAir, it seems, finds it difficult to write the sentence: "Evangelicals are more likely to be conservative and conservatives are more likely to support torture.") But it remains a fact that white evangelicals are the most pro-torture of any grouping.
Got news for ya, dude - anyone who has been paying attention could have predicted that this was the result. And for those of us who are constantly told that religion is the font of all morality - well, we just have to laugh.
Jim Downey
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** Livin' in Ameristan (home of the xian taliban)
• Christianity is the practice of nihilism -- Nietzsche
Xian-ism is nihilism. Directed inward, hatred of self. Directed outward, hatred of others and of nature. Everywhere one of the big-3 monotheisms has touched has become a cultural cancer of hate-based morality. Many non-religious persons still buy into vengeful customs enshrined in our laws and uneducated mental habits.
• God doesn't enjoy “executive privilege”
To directly attack an entrenched institution has value as a way of dislodging culturally conditioned believers. Also, when the cultural costs of membership exceed its perceived benefits -- the previously faithful will vote with their deserting feet.
1. Out all politico-religious operatives. These are the dregs of fundie land -- they call themselves “dominionists”.
2. Time to eliminate the special IRS status of all religions. Tax their property, tax their income, de-fund their parasitical faith-based initiatives. (Obama out Bushes Bush on this nonsense.) Then we’ll see how long their pernicious special interest groups last.
3. Time to stop xian-taliban (harassers-stalkers-murderers) from enforcing prig morality and unlawful social control, especially at the state, county, and local levels.
• Agitate for a secular state
A secular state will not demand our dollars to support xian TV cons, greedy preachers, priestly pedophiles, ID idiots on school boards . . . who cram their non-existent god, fictional good book and perverted values down our throats.
Creating a religion-free culture is our task for the next 100 years. Now, that is something worth your effort.
anti-supernaturalist
Torture approval
When you consider that a great many christians are looking forward to standing on the battlements of heaven and looking down on the sinners burning in hell (cause you didn't think like we did and are getting exactly what you deserve) it's not too surprising that they would approve of torture, eh? And some of the more rabid ones (Gary North comes to mind) would like to start stoning unbelievers, and especially homosexuals, to death right now if they could get away with it. As I've said many times, good people are good in spite of their religion, evil people use their religion to justify their wickedness.
Why is this surprising?
Why is it surprising that Christians, especially evangelicals, don't condemn torture? Simple: A man was (supposedly) tortured and killed in order to save their sorry asses. Torture (of someone else) is intimately involved in the central myth of their religion. Hence, it can't be all bad.
This is no surprise to me
I've had to drop the "Who would Jesus torture?" bomb a few times.