The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life took a survey about torture and divvied up the results according to religion.
Guess who is least likely to support torture?
White, non-Hispanic Catholics? C’mon, these are the folks that invented the Inquisition. More than half thought torture can often or sometimes be justified.
White evangelical Protestants? You mean the group that has been most consistently pro-torture in the government and public debate? Nope, three out of every five believes torture can often or sometimes be justified.
So, who hates torture the most? White mainline Protestants and those with no religious affiliation.
And who hates torture the most within that group? Those who do not regularly attend religious services.
So, atheists, agnostics, and the religiously disinterested are the ones most likely to think torturing people is wrong.
