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Update on Poll Suggesting Evangelicals Support Torture
By Jacqueline L. Salmon
Just in, here's another look from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life at its much-discussed poll analysis that suggested evangelicals are more likely to support torture than those from other faith traditions. Washington Post pollster Jon Cohen scrutinized the survey and noted that the differences were more likely caused by political, not religious differences.
Pew sides with us. Religion, it notes in its new analysis released this afternoon, "is only one of many factors correlated with views on the justifiability of torture. Differences between Republicans and Democrats are even larger than differences across religious groups, with 64% of Republicans saying torture can be often or sometimes justified, compared with only 36% among Democrats."
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May 7, 2009; 4:16 PM ET
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Posted by: ThomasBaum | May 11, 2009 5:55 PM
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JACQUELINE L. SALMON
You wrote, "differences were more likely caused by political, not religious differences".
For some there is no difference, politics and religion are one and the same.
By the way, if one looks at Christianity as no more than a religion with it's attendant rules and regulations and dogma and whatever rather than the realization that it is a relationship, why should anyone else be surprised that the one who looks at it in such a worldly way not have a clue what Christianity is about?
As I have said, Christianity is just part of God's Plan which is unfolding before our very eyes.
See you and the rest of humanity in the Kingdom, the new heavens and the new earth.
Take care, be ready.
Sincerely, Thomas Paul Moses Baum.