Comments on: American Christians Approve Of Torture?

By: political info

political info — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:36:20 +0000

For which means do you support torture then?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 24 May 2009 22:00:12 +0000

rfid india…

You have got to be kidding!…

By: oopie

oopie — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:58:02 +0000

torture is acceptable to them because narcissists don’t care about anyone else in any way unless they can be used to feed their ego, and nothing is more narcissistic than faith.

By: A Parent

A Parent — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:54:13 +0000

After World War II the United States Tribunals, hanged several Japanese Commanders and Soldiers for waterboarding American POWs in order to get information about the US military. What is the difference between what was JUSTICE in the late 1940s, and now?

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:20:52 +0000

I must admit this issue has caused me some difficulty. I am a “white Catholic,” so according to the survey I might be in favor of something like waterboarding, but I’m not. Certainly not any harsher technique either. Surely the people at Abu Ghraib went off the deep end, too.

But I think under the circumstances the intelligence community was in, they should be forgiven for this. What, after all, are you supposed to do when potentially thousands of lives are at stake, and you need to get information that might save those lives? That should be the question of the day right now, not whether we should prosecute our own people for trying to protect us.

And another thing is also bothersome…how is “torture” defined in the Pew survey? I have a hard time believing that all these churchgoers are really a bunch of sadists in favor of torturing people. What they are is probably confused and angry. They feel, like I do, that we have the right to protect ourselves, and to question people who want to take us down.

Are no harsh methods allowed at all against people who want to kill us? Should we just grovel at the feet of the world and say, “We are so horrible! We are so evil! Do whatever you want to us because we deserve it!” We’re talking about folks who think nothing of cutting someone’s head off and putting it on video…are we really worse than they are? I don’t think so.