Thursday, April 30, 2009

Religion and torture

So a poll shows that 62% of white evangelicals and 51% of white Roman Catholics believe that torture (or whatever the euphemism of the day happens to be) can often or sometimes be justified, with only 16% and 20% respectively saying it could never be justified.

I wonder what the head of the Catholic Church thinks about that.

2 comments:

PlanetAlbany said...

What is the justification for polling only white Christians? Would the results have been different if nonwhites were included? Also, I'm glad to see you and the pope singing from the same hymnal.

Brian said...

Good question. They must've polled non-white Christians, because they have a category 'Total US population'.

The graphic only accounts for 540 of the 742 sample size, the other 202 presumably being non-white Christians and other religions.

It's a mystery to me they didn't publish those results.