Well, unfortunately, I think I know what it says about many of us who would call ourselves Christian-evangelical-conservative...Whatever. All titles that seem to have loaded connotations to them. Following Jesus...God's mercy...The radical nature of grace...Loving the enemy...Leaving room for God's justice...Where is any of that in the corporate confessional world of the church? Here you go...Sad, but (ugghh!) true...
"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 six in 10 supported it. People unaffiliated with any religious organization were least likely to back it. Only four in 10 of them did..."
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