Q: What would Jesus do? A: Probably not torture people.

09.27.06 - Posted by AsiansVote

Good for the writers at FaithfulDemocrats.com for speaking out against the Bush Adminstration's support of torture and war from a Christian point of view. Here's Patrick Whelan on the subject:

Christianity calls us to creative solutions, not violent ones, whenever a mob assembles to stone a seeming outcast like Iran. Jesus led by his example, which tells us pure and simple that we must no longer kill or torture in the name of freedom — as we watch the headlines increasingly chronicle how we are being led toward becoming the evil we once aimed to overcome.

And here's Amy Sullivan quoting Paul Campos:

Campos frames his essay with a powerful reminder of the Passion drama we recite every year on Palm Sunday. When Pilate brings Jesus before the crowd and asks what is to be done with him, those assembled shout "Crucify him!"

"That is," Campos writes, "we the people implore the authorities to torture a man to death." Now, there are those who will protest that no one is looking to kill detainees, just to use extreme methods deemed necessary to extract information from them. But morality, Campos insists, "is only possible if there are certain things we must refuse to do under any circumstances."

Torture is evil. Ask your congressperson and senators and ask what they are doing to fight the Bush Administration's efforts to legalize it.

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09.27.06 | Civil Rights & Liberties , Issues , Religion