Now, here is some of that all-America, Apple Pie, Christian “values”:

The Age - Australia

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 to the analysis released Wednesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

White evangelical Protestants were the religious group most likely to say torture is often or sometimes justified — more than six in 10 supported it. People unaffiliated with any religious organization were least likely to back it. Only four in 10 of them did.

Does a man who truly believes in the “Price of Peace” sanction torture? What ever happened to “What would Jesus do?”

What never fails to astound me is that blind spots in American society. American punditry is full with ignorant and hateful rhetoric about how Islam and Muslim society are atavistic and sanction violence. And, yet, here in the USA we have a very militant class of right-wing Christians.

Besides the domestic terrorism [abortion bombings and killing an abortion doctor], these Evangelical Christians are often the most gung-ho members of society. There wasn’t been an American war they did not ferocousily cheer with chauvinistic patriotism.

American pundits often like to state that in the Muslim world, religious leaders often sanction violence. And some do. But here in American religious leaders also sanction wars. Bill Graham is the nation’s most influence pastor and has prayed with every president since Truman. A Syrian intellectual refers to him as “Ayotollah Billy Graham” because it seems that every war that American enters into requires him blessing.

Fortunately for U.S. president, Graham has never met a war he disapproved of. His son Franklin has since made his views on Islam known by calling it an “evil” faith. Besides Graham, there is the incredibly influential Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Falwell. Both men are so important in the Republican party that their endorsements are actively sought. In fact, although a much more sober John McCain called Falwell and Robertson “agents of intolerance” in the 2000 primary, his lose then convinced to give the commencement address at Falwell’s Liberty “University” in 2007. Robertson and Falwell both loudly cheered the Iraq war and the former called for the assassination of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez.

America’s Christian hearts are clearly in need of lesson of peace and international law.