A survey conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life recently found that white evangelical Christians are more likely to support torture than people who rarely or never attend religious services.
A similar survey in the opening months of Operation Iraqi Freedom revealed support for the war was greatest among white evangelical churchgoers. At the time it struck me as problematic that self-described followers of Jesus, the “Prince of Peace”, were the easiest to convince to go to war.
And now apparently torture is okay too. This is the worst manifestation God-and-country nationalism I’ve seen in a long time. This isn’t authentic Christianity. Its simply American folk religion masquerading as true religion, and a failure of public theology on a massive scale.
What in God’s name are they teaching in American seminaries these days?
Read the full CNN.com story here:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/22/torture.christian/
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