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In a recent Washington Post/ABC poll the question was asked, “All in all, do you think the CIA treatment of suspected terrorists was justified or unjustified?”.

The responses showed that Christians were more likely than the general public to support torture while non-religious were most likely to condemn it.

According to the poll:

39% of white evangelicals believe the CIA’s treatment of detainees amounted to torture.

53% of white non-evangelical Protestants and 45% of white Catholics agreed that it was justified.

69% of white evangelicals believed the CIA treatment was justified, compared to just 20% who said it was not.

75% of white non-evangelical Protestants outnumber the 22% of their brethren in saying CIA treatment was justified.

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But when the Senate report on torture came out, faith leaders almost immediately released statements condemning the tactics described in it.

The Chairperson of the U.S Catholic bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, Bishop Oscar Cantu, said that the practices used “violated the God-given human dignity inherent in all people and were unequivocally wrong.”

There’s a difference between punishing the guilty and punishing people hoping they will turn out to be guilty.

Now that we are finished with the Christmas season, except if you are Greek Orthodox, we are heading into the Lenten/Easter season.

It will be interesting to see if these new findings have any influence on how the faithful deal with the Holy Thursday/Good Friday narrative when it come to scourging, crowning with thorns, and other forms of Christ’s humiliation before His death.

Maybe they will cut the Jews, Pontius Pilate, and the generic Roman centurions a little slack.

 

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