A survey conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that white evangelical Christians are more likely to support torture than people who rarely or never attend religious services.
The survey said that 62 percent of white evangelical Protestants say that the use of torture against suspected terrorists can be often or sometimes justified in order to gain important information.
When asked the same question, 40 percent of the "religiously unaffiliated" say torture can be often or sometimes justified.
This is for Bezerk Fury and all his Muslim hating threads. If this were a Muslim survey you'd be all over it but crickets when it's a christian one. Some balanced view you have there.
What's this have to do with me? I'm an atheist. All religions are fucked up. The only difference between the rest of them and Islam is that there aren't millions of Christians/Jews/Buddhists running around chopping peoples heads off and blowing shit up for happening to be from the West. They aren't constantly blowing shit up because some book says to. Most of them have moved past that point. Meanwhile, thousands of Muslim clerics around the world are telling their millions of followers to go out and fuck shit up.
There aren't dozens of videos on the internet of Christians beheading people. Ever see the video of the Japanese contractor who got beheaded in Iraq? They decided they would cut halfway through his neck and then let him sit there for 20 seconds suffocating on his own blood before finishing the job. They are ANIMALS. Yet I'm supposed to feel bad when they simulate drowning on one of these guys, fully intending to make sure he lives through it? You people really need to watch some of these videos as you have no clue.
People can cry about morals all the want, but in the end, they don't mean shit. You do what you need to do to ensure the survival of your citizens. I couldn't care less about whether waterboarding is torture or not. I care about its effectiveness. If it's not effective (which signs point to this being the case), then there is no point in doing it.
If Christians were running around pulling this shit all the time, I'd be pissed at them too. As it stands, they aren't.
For example, here's a list of Islamic extremist attacks in just the last 10 days. TEN DAYS!!!!!!!!! How many more have gone unreported in that time span? Look at all the women, children and innocent people killed. Notice the majority of dead are civilians.
2009.05.22 Israel Qaryut 1 0 al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade takes credit for shooting a Jewish settler in the back.
2009.05.22 Pakistan Peshawar 10 75 Ten people are killed when religious fundamentalists detonate one of their own outside a cinema.
2009.05.21 Philippines Zamboanga 3 5 Islamists are suspected in the brutal ambush of a civilian vehicle that leaves three dead.
2009.05.21 Iraq Mosul 2 1 Suspected Sunni extremists storm a home and kill a woman and her daughter.
2009.05.21 Iraq Kirkuk 8 7 Eight Iraqis are blown to bits by a Shahid suicide bomber.
2009.05.21 Pakistan Jandola 9 25 A Holy Warrior detonates himself near a bazaar, killing nine people.
2009.05.20 Algeria Medea 5 1 Five local policemen are killed in an ambush by armed Islamic fundamentalists.
2009.05.20 Thailand Pattani 2 0 Two elderly women are shot off their motorbike, then set on fire by Muslim militants.
2009.05.20 Afghanistan Kabul 2 0 Two Americans are murdered in a Mujahideen bombing.
2009.05.20 Iraq Baghdad 40 83 Sunni bomber take out at least forty Shias with a car bomb near a packed restaurant.
2009.05.20 Somalia Mogadishu 3 0 A 6-year-old child sleeping in his home is among three civilains murdered in an Islamic attack.
2009.05.19 Thailand Yala 1 0 Three Mujahideen murder an elementary school teacher.
2009.05.19 Thailand Pattani 2 0 Islamists ambush and kill two rangers.
2009.05.19 Iraq Taji 2 5 Terrorists kill two Iraqis with a roadside bomb.
2009.05.18 Pakistan Mohmand 2 0 Two hostages held by the Tehrik-e-Taliban are executed and left by a roadside.
2009.05.18 Philippines Basilan 1 0 The beheaded body of a 61-year-old Christian farmer is found following his abduction by Islamic militants.
2009.05.18 Afghanistan Kandahar 1 0 A Taliban machine-gun attack leaves one person dead.
2009.05.18 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A 39-year-old civilian is gunned down by Muslim terrorists while on his way to play soccer.
2009.05.17 Iraq Baghdad 4 10 Four innocents are blown up at a coffee shop by Religion of Peace bombers.
2009.05.17 Afghanistan Helmand 6 0 Six local police are murdered in a Sunni bomb attack.
2009.05.17 Iraq Mosul 9 3 Nine Iraqis are taken down by Islamic terrorists.
2009.05.16 Chechnya Grozny 4 5 Four people are killed by a Shahid suicide bomber.
2009.05.16 Pakistan Peshawar 11 31 Women and children are among those murdered when Islamists bomb a commercial district near an Internet cafe.
2009.05.16 Iraq Baghdad 1 2 A child is killed when Muslim terrorists lob a mortar into a family home.
2009.05.16 Iraq Baghdad 4 12 Jihad bombers take our four Iraqis in two attacks.
2009.05.15 Iraq Mandali 1 0 A young woman is the victim of a suspected honor killing.
2009.05.15 Iraq Mosul 1 0 A Christian is kidnapped and beheaded.
2009.05.15 Afghanistan Khost 3 4 Sunni terrorists strike a mosque with a rocket, killing three civilians.
2009.05.15 India Kupwara 2 0 Mujahideen shoot two civilians to death in their home.
2009.05.15 India Kupwara 1 0 A park ranger is kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic extremists.
2009.05.14 Pakistan Miranshah 3 4 Three local soldiers are murdered by Taliban roadside bombers.
2009.05.14 Iraq Baqubah 3 0 al-Qaeda gunmen shoot two men and their mother to death inside their home.
2009.05.14 Somalia Mogadishu 26 98 Twenty-six civilians are killed in a series of street battles as al-Shabaab Islamists fight for Allah.
2009.05.14 Afghanistan Ghazni 1 1 A Taliban attack leaves a security guard dead.
2009.05.13 Pakistan Mingora 5 0 Five more people are beheaded by Sunni radicals.
2009.05.13 Iraq Baghdad 3 1 A young boy is among three Iraqis murdered by Mujahid gunmen.
2009.05.13 Chechnya Vedeno 3 0 Islamic bombers take out three people.
2009.05.12 Afghanistan Khost 7 13 Four religious extremists blow themselves up, killing seven laborers.
2009.05.12 Pal. Auth. Ramallah 1 0 A 30-year-old woman, and mother of seven, is stabbed to death by her nephew in an honor killing.
2009.05.12 Pakistan Nishat Chowk 1 0 The Taliban murder a rival mosque leader.
2009.05.12 Iraq Kirkuk 7 18 A child suicide bomber, recruited by al-Qaeda, takes out seven Iraqis along a city street.
2009.05.12 Pakistan Suhrab Khan 6 0 Islamists behead six people.
2009.05.12 Iraq Baqubah 1 0 A 13-year-old girl is kidnapped and brutally murdered by al-Qaeda.
2009.05.12 Pakistan Swat 7 0 Seven civilians are shot to death by the Taliban on suspicion betraying Islam.
2009.05.11 Iraq Mosul 1 0 Muslim kidnappers murder a 5-year-old Christian boy.
2009.05.11 Iraq Mosul 3 7 Three Iraqis are killed in two Mujahid bombings.
2009.05.11 Daghestan Kizilyurt 1 3 A policeman is gunned down in a marketplace by suspected Islamic separatists.
2009.05.11 Pakistan Peshawar 10 12 A 6-year-old girl is among ten locals massacred by a suicide car bomber.
2009.05.11 Somalia Mogadishu 2 3 Islamists lob a mortar shell into a cafe, ending the lives of two patrons.
2009.05.10 Afghanistan Helmand 7 20 Two suicide bombers take out seven civilians in an attack on a taxi stand.
2009.05.10 Afghanistan Zabul 3 0 Three civilians are blown apart in a Jihad bombing.
2009.05.10 Somalia Mogadishu 39 60 Islamists pour mortars and machine-gun fire into eliminating the 'enemies of Allah.' At least thirty-nine people are killed, including civilians at a mosque.
2009.05.10 Iraq Taji 2 0 Suspected al-Qaeda kill two innocent Iraqis in a roadside attack.
2009.05.10 Afghanistan Nangarhar 8 0 Eight construction crew workers are murdered in a Taliban bomb blast.
