How Would Jesus Torture?
Georgia congressman Lynn Westmoreland discusses torture:
"Pressed on whether that means he supports torture, he said, "What's torture? Torture is many things to many people ... people have different breaking points."
Asked whether he would support using electric shocks, he said, "Electric shocks are given to people during initiations to different clubs ... Is that torture? I don't know."
Asked about beatings, he said, "Are you talking about tying his hands behind his back and beating him in the head? No, I'm not for that."
Westmoreland criticized the handful of GOP senators, including former Vietnam prisoner of war John McCain, R-Ariz., who are blocking President Bush's effort to reinterpret Geneva Convention protections on detainees. He said he supports the White House position, which calls for a narrower interpretation of the protections, allowing more aggressive interrogation tactics."
Bluester: I'm going to love watching, reading and listening to all those famous moral values people deconstruct torture for all of us over the next few days,if not weeks. I'll have to stock up on snack items because I sure as hell do not want to miss seeing great Christians, some of the very best. Like Ann Coulter and Bill Bennett, perhaps Tom DeLay could weigh in and what about Ralph Reed? Jerry Falwell and Pat (I'm not crazy) Robertson will intrepret all of it into Jesus language for us so our dissonance levels don't exceed their spontaneous combustion points.
I can see it now. Everybody sitting at what they call a roundtable discussion and defining the very exquisite details of good "interrogation" versus the real thing, torture. It will be such an uplifting time, especially for neo-cons. They can be caught up in the Spirit as they hear their Lord speak to them through his messengers as in the time of old.
What great moral questions can be explained! Questions like, how would Jesus torture? That's the real question anyway, isn't it? Would ol' Jesus say, "Blessed are the interrogators for our sake, blessed are those who torture others in our name, for such are the kingdom of America"? What do you REALLY think about that?
Do you think Jesus would give a big thumbs up to waterboarding? I mean it's not like the guy is really drowning, he just thinks he's drowning, so it's kind of like baptism by immersion anyway so maybe Jesus would call this "tool" the cleansing ritual of confession, whattya' really think about that?
Would the Saviour have to draw the line at crucifixion, or maybe not, huh? I mean, what's a few nails through the hands and feet if there is no organ failure. A little blood maybe but if done strategically through intervals of on again, off again, I can see why the crucifixee would want to confess stuff pretty quickly, so death could be avoided in most cases. The lambs must be protected. If we know a bad terr'ist knows something about harming the lambs then I think, yes, let's go ahead and crucify.
See where we're headed? What fun.
"Pressed on whether that means he supports torture, he said, "What's torture? Torture is many things to many people ... people have different breaking points."
Asked whether he would support using electric shocks, he said, "Electric shocks are given to people during initiations to different clubs ... Is that torture? I don't know."
Asked about beatings, he said, "Are you talking about tying his hands behind his back and beating him in the head? No, I'm not for that."
Westmoreland criticized the handful of GOP senators, including former Vietnam prisoner of war John McCain, R-Ariz., who are blocking President Bush's effort to reinterpret Geneva Convention protections on detainees. He said he supports the White House position, which calls for a narrower interpretation of the protections, allowing more aggressive interrogation tactics."
Bluester: I'm going to love watching, reading and listening to all those famous moral values people deconstruct torture for all of us over the next few days,if not weeks. I'll have to stock up on snack items because I sure as hell do not want to miss seeing great Christians, some of the very best. Like Ann Coulter and Bill Bennett, perhaps Tom DeLay could weigh in and what about Ralph Reed? Jerry Falwell and Pat (I'm not crazy) Robertson will intrepret all of it into Jesus language for us so our dissonance levels don't exceed their spontaneous combustion points.
I can see it now. Everybody sitting at what they call a roundtable discussion and defining the very exquisite details of good "interrogation" versus the real thing, torture. It will be such an uplifting time, especially for neo-cons. They can be caught up in the Spirit as they hear their Lord speak to them through his messengers as in the time of old.
What great moral questions can be explained! Questions like, how would Jesus torture? That's the real question anyway, isn't it? Would ol' Jesus say, "Blessed are the interrogators for our sake, blessed are those who torture others in our name, for such are the kingdom of America"? What do you REALLY think about that?
Do you think Jesus would give a big thumbs up to waterboarding? I mean it's not like the guy is really drowning, he just thinks he's drowning, so it's kind of like baptism by immersion anyway so maybe Jesus would call this "tool" the cleansing ritual of confession, whattya' really think about that?
Would the Saviour have to draw the line at crucifixion, or maybe not, huh? I mean, what's a few nails through the hands and feet if there is no organ failure. A little blood maybe but if done strategically through intervals of on again, off again, I can see why the crucifixee would want to confess stuff pretty quickly, so death could be avoided in most cases. The lambs must be protected. If we know a bad terr'ist knows something about harming the lambs then I think, yes, let's go ahead and crucify.
See where we're headed? What fun.
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