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[rivka]

Photo gallery of churches, synagogues, convents, meeting houses, and mosques across America displaying banners that simply say "torture is wrong."

It's nice to see these 125 pictures, but I'm left with the question: why doesn't every single house of worship in America have a similar sign?

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[tea-dragon.livejournal.com]

Those pictures don't show all of them of course- we have one at our church too.

It boggles my mind, however, that there are people who think torture is right.

[bosssio.livejournal.com]

I doubt many people think "torture" is wrong. It is akin to laziness, greed, cruelty, rape, murder and exploitation. By its very definition, torture is a very bad thing (tm).

What is more debatable - and is hence the crux of the matter - is the definition of torture and what counts as torture and what doesn't. Waterboarding, torture or just "vigorous investigation"? THAT is where the real question lies.

From this standpoint, it is even more astonishing that more houses of worship don't put up such as sign, since being anti-torture AND accepting waterboarding as a legitimate technique for the US Government to use does not actually require cognitive dissonance as long as you define torture very precisely...

Being anti-torture is like being anti-"bad things happening to good people". Pretty universal and pretty meaningless at the same time, unless you define your terms.

Ah, the lies we tell ourselves to let us sleep at night...

(sorry, feeling cynical today).

[bosssio.livejournal.com]

I doubt many people think "torture" is wrong.

ARGH, I meant I doubt many people think "torture" is right.

must.check.posts.more.closely.before.posting...

[tea-dragon.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I read it as "right" without even thinking about it, shows how carefully *I* read :)