Freeper Heads Explode over Evangelicals Rejection of Torture

[berni_mccoy]

Check it out: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1799925/posts

Link to original article (for those that wish not go there): http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070312/pl_nm/evangelicals_torture_statement_dc

Excerpt:

Evangelicals slam torture in war on terrorism
DALLAS (Reuters) - A major U.S. association of evangelical Christians has condemned torture by the U.S. military and reaffirmed its commitment to environmental activism, positions that highlight broader splits in a movement associated with conservative causes.

"United States law and military doctrine has banned the resort to torture or cruel and degrading treatment. Tragically, documented cases of torture and inhumane and cruel behavior have occurred at various sites in the war on terror," the National Association of Evangelicals said in a statement.

Exploding-Head-Freeper Comments:

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To: NormsRevenge
Is that right? Must be the Methodists at it again

Abortion, never mind. Homosexuals in heat--no big deal.

But get that gamblin outa here now!


2 posted on 03/12/2007 10:45:02 PM PDT by petertare (--)
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To: NormsRevenge
Evangelicals are getting to be like Catholics politically. I don't doubt that they'll gradually become more and more of an X-factor as time goes on.


3 posted on 03/12/2007 10:46:00 PM PDT by Zeroisanumber (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: NormsRevenge
Out-of-touch leaders. Nothing new there. Same problem as the Republican Party.


4 posted on 03/12/2007 10:48:17 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (The 4000 American kids who are being aborted today need an Abe Lincoln, not a Stephen Douglas...)
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To: petertare
Abortion, never mind. Homosexuals in heat--no big deal.
But get that gamblin outa here now!

Perhaps you read a different article than the one posted. It's hard to say. Even the relatively liberal NAE affirms a position against abortion and homosexuality. I'm not sure about your gambling comment, but gambling addiction is a scourge and if the NAE has taken a stand against gambling then I will gladly (though being somewhat surprised) stand with them in that.

5 posted on 03/12/2007 10:54:30 PM PDT by the808bass
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To: EternalVigilance
Out-of-touch leaders.
Our evangelical leaders done went and got a educayshun and now they haf to be smrt, like global warming folks is. Sementary is grate!

7 posted on 03/12/2007 10:56:29 PM PDT by the808bass
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What's their position on beheading?


9 posted on 03/12/2007 10:58:48 PM PDT by D-fendr
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[Kurovski]

1. Well, the Fundies should still be some comfort to the freeperlettes.

What with the rapture leaving us all behind to be tortured by God and all.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Boy...

If you want to find every crazed ex-militia type and nascent mass murderer, you really don't have to search much farther then that place.

Dear god, I do hope that most of them are sterile.

[Fovea]

3. I wonder at the disconnect

between the whole tortured messiah on the cross thing and pro-torture Christians.

It makes my brain hurt more...

[whoneedstickets]

4. Christ suffering was necessary as an atonement for sin

so in that instance torture was good.

[HuffleClaw]

5. simple proof they'll turn on ANYONE who doesn't fawnishly support their narrow views

funny