Ross Sauer -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 RS> "Ed Hulett -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
 RS> 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.

 RS> Does it make any of the rest of the survey invalid?

The "rest of the survey?"

It makes the survey incomplete and the article misleading.

 RS> Nope.

In your dreams.

 RS> Especially since the two biggest sadists around are both self-proclaimed
 RS> "good Christians."

Complete, unadulterated biased opinion.

 RS> Bush and Cheney.

And here we have your hatred displayed for all to see.

Ed

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