As if we needed yet another example of how religion poisons the mind and warps judgment, a study based on a Pew Research Center survey of 742 American adults conducted April 14-21 finds that the more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists.
Conveniently, the study did not include analysis of groups other than white evangelicals, white non-Hispanic Catholics, white mainline Protestants, and the religiously unaffiliated, because the sample size was too small. Like that old lawyer’s saw cautions: don’t ask any questions you don’t want the answer to.
Reporting on the study, CNN notes:
"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 6 in 10 supported it. People unaffiliated with any religious organization were least likely to back it. Only 4 in 10 of them did."
It’s no mystery why so many church and temple goers – Protestants, Jews, and Catholics – approve of torture. Their minds have been poisoned since birth to fear and submit to a religious authority structure that hijacks their innate longing for and love of family and the innate sense of morality inherent in all humans. These religions then warp their followers’ minds with an us-versus-them hate where non-believers are heretics or worthless goyim that are lower than dogs – as the hate-filled Talmud and Bible tell us.
One reason France and Europe in general is so much more advanced, progressive, and enlightened is because they long ago saw through the hate and lies the priests and rabbis were spewing and they threw their poison religions the hell out.
America needs to do the same.