biggest champions of torture in American public life are conservative Evangelicals and Catholics<\/a>, who boast that they are \u201cprolife\u201d and the Really Realest True Christians fit to sit in judgement of fake Christians and drum them out of the Church.<\/p>\nThat\u2019s why there is a New Prolife Movement. Its goal is simple. Listen to the Church when it says to defend the life and human dignity, not only of the unborn, but of the prisoner. Don\u2019t commit torture for the same reason you should not commit abortion: because the victim is a human being and because you don\u2019t want to commit sins worthy of the everlasting fires of hell\u2013which are real and to which we will go if we do not repent such evils.<\/p>\n
Trump has, for the minute, backed off on his pledges to torture. But when he sees how enormously popular it is with Americans\u2013and with the Best Christians of All Time in particular\u2013there is no reason an impulsive and immoral man like him would not embrace it again if he thinks it will play well with the mob. Don\u2019t be part of that mob. Torture is not only gravely evil, it\u2019s stupid too. All this poll demonstrates is that nearly half of Americans are ignorant and vengeful and don\u2019t care if they hurt the country and insult God Almighty.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
They believe this based, not on the actual information provided by real interrogators who insist it is worthless, but on a steady stream of lies and disinformation from conservative news sources bent on defending Bush\/Cheney torture policies, reruns of \u201c24\u201d, and on applause lines from Donald Trump and other GOPers who champion torture. And the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-98295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-torture-is-evil"],"yoast_head":"\n
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