Jesus Would Have Approved Waterboarding

OPS:  Them is some whacky kristians

Red State: Jesus Would Have Approved Waterboarding

More pearls of wisdom from that bastion of politicized Christianist exceptionalism (h/t John Cole):

It’s likely even Jesus would have OK’d water boarding if it would have saved his Mom. He would’ve done the same to save his Dad, or any one of His disciples. For that matter, He even died to save all humans.

It’s obvious He would not be happy with those who voted for the candidate who kills because it’s above his “pay grade” to know if they’re alive. Checking the Commandments, killing innocents is against the 5th. Because pro-aborts don’t know for sure life does not exist at conception, they are still willing to risk that it’s not killing.

So, Jesus wouldn’t be cool with killing babies in the womb but he’d be fine with torturing people? Yep, nothing says “Christ’s love” like strapping a guy to a bench and drowning him to extract information.

This reminds me of a couple of things I’ve blogged about before. The first is the poll that came out a few weeks ago that revealed that a majority of regular church-goers approve of the use of torture:

More than half of people who attend services at least once a week — 54 percent – said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is “often” or “sometimes” justified. Only 42 percent of people who “seldom or never” go to services agreed, according the analysis released Wednesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

There was also this gem of a quote from Christian Right leader Jack Gary Bauer:

via Library Grape: Red State: Jesus Would Have Approved Waterboarding.