Short Sermon On Torture

 

NOTE TO TERRORISTS FACING U.S. CAPTURE AND POSSIBLE TORTURE:

 

The Pew Center for the People & the Press took a survey and the results suggest your best bet for a happy U.S. captivity is to be in the hands of a person who is unaffiliated with a religious group and attends religious services seldom or never.

 

The unaffiliated no-shows had the lowest combined percentage of those who said using torture against suspected terrorists can often or sometimes be justified – just 42 percent of the unaffiliated, and 45 percent of those who skipped services.

 

So if your primary jailer is someone who isn’t a church member and doesn’t go in any event, you’re better than even to avoid the Rainy Cheney.

 

On the other hand, 62 percent of white, evangelical protestants don’t think it’s a problem to encourage dialogue by often or sometimes slamming you naked against a wall. Fifty-one percent of white, non-Hispanic Catholics would agree.

 

Final note: Above all, don’t quote to any Christian words from Christ as depicted in the Bible, for example, Matthew 5:43-47 of the New Living Translation:

 

“You have heard the law that says, ‘Love your neighbor’ and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike. If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else?”

 

Tell these birds to love their enemy and they might just love you to death.

 

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