"Ed Hulett -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
news:9787$HOLYSMOKE{at}JamNNTPd:

 RS>> Dan, here's one of those "No DUH!" stories from CNN.


 RS>> WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The more often Americans go to church, the
 EH>   more likely RS> they are to support the torture of suspected
 EH>   terrorists, according
 EH> to a new
 RS>> analysis.

 RS>> More than half of people who attend services at least once a
 EH>   week -- 54 RS> percent -- said the use of torture against suspected
 EH>   terrorists is "often" RS> or "sometimes"
justified. Only 42 percent
 EH>   of people who "seldom or never" RS> go to services
agreed, according
 EH>   the analysis released Wednesday by
 EH> the Pew
 RS>> Forum on Religion & Public Life.

 RS>> White evangelical Protestants were the religious group most
 EH>   likely to say RS> torture is often or sometimes justified -- more
 EH>   than 6 in 10 supported it. RS> People unaffiliated with any
 EH>   religious organization were least likely to RS> back it. Only 4 in
 EH>   10 of them did.

 RS>> http://tinyurl.com/cjtpzx

 EH> Now, for the rest of the story:

 EH> "The analysis is based on a Pew Research Center survey of 742 American
 EH> adults conducted April 14-21. It did not include analysis of groups
 EH> other than white evangelicals, white non-Hispanic Catholics, white
 EH> mainline Protestants, and the religiously unaffiliated, because the
 EH> sample size was too small."

 EH> How convenient of you to leave off the last paragraph.

Does it make any of the rest of the survey invalid?
Nope.

Especially since the two biggest sadists around are both self-proclaimed
"good Christians."
Bush and Cheney.

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