{"id":333,"date":"2011-09-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/09\/professional-interrogator-to-armchair-interrogaters\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T11:54:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T18:54:18","slug":"professional-interrogator-to-armchair-interrogaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/09\/professional-interrogator-to-armchair-interrogaters.html","title":{"rendered":"Professional Interrogator to Armchair Interrogaters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>Torture, which we did at the orders of the Bush\/Cheney Administration while American Catholics, to their shame, supported it in greater percentages than the general population, is a) evil, b) stupid, c) counter-productive, and d) deeply destructive of our souls\u2013actually making us less safe from terror and a more corrupt people than the mere abortion-loving nation we already are.<\/a> I\u2019m proud of the Witherspoon Institute for publishing this. I hope more conservative outfits undertake this cleansing of memory and work to move the Right away from this revolting embrace of folly.<\/p>\nYears from now, Catholic apologists will have the tedious task of pointing out to anti-Catholics that it was never the Church that supported this despicable lapse into barbarism, just Catholics who chose to ignore and rationalize away this obvious teaching of the Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n