Religious Sadists Condone Torture | Catholics and Co-Religious Rate Highest In Approving Torture

Reminder, of recent Polling indicating Catholics and Evangelicals highest in torture approval!

Poll: Most Evangelicals and Catholics Condone Torture in Some Instances

By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country

Check out this fascinating new graphic analysis from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

It shows that most white evangelicals and Roman Catholics, along with most frequent churchgoers, say it’s OK to “sometimes” or “often” use torture on suspected terrorists. A slight majority of mainline Christians and religiously unaffiliated Americans, meanwhile, say torturing suspected terrorists could “rarely” or “never” be justified:

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