A recent CNN article about Christians supporting torture (“Torture
prompts Soul-searching among some Christians”) gives a pretty bleak outlook on
what is supposed to be our national moral base. Apparently “62 percent of white
evangelical Protestants say that the use of torture against suspected
terrorists can be often or sometimes justified in order to gain important
information.” Now I know what you’re
thinking, “It’s only what Jesus would do!”
This support of torture strikes me as an expression of a spiritually immature society using any tool they have (in this case Christianity) to justify what their own level of consciousness feels is right. It is not right. It is not human. It is not moral. It’s like saying “I never lie, unless I get really scared to tell the truth.”
A nation that can’t live its principles has no principles. And, it makes us no different than those “evildoers” we’re so scared about. On the other hand, a nation that can live its principles has the respect of the international community and world leaders.
Isn’t it harder to get attacked when everyone respects you? And ,if someone does attack, won’t it be easier to get support from the world community?
Let's be the good nation, and lead by example.
Love and light,
-Alex




