Monday, May 04, 2009



Religion and torture

This is scary: according to a poll by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, the more often you go to church, the more likely you are to support torture. Conversely, those who seldom or never attend religious services, and those who classify themselves as "unaffiliated" (which in US-speak, gloms atheists together with those who refuse to pick a Christian denomination) are least likely to support torture. So much for the old claim that morality cannot exist without religion - instead, it seems the opposite is the case, and that religious fanaticism undermines morality.