Jesus Vs. Jack Bauer: Torture debate splits evangelicals

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By Eric Gorski
The Associated Press
Thursday, May 14, 2009

... “I have said before that torture is like a bone caught in our throat: We can’t swallow it, and we can’t spit it out,” said David Gushee, a professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University in Atlanta and president of Evangelicals for Human Rights. “I think we’re still there” ...

Among evangelicals, Gushee has been a leading anti-torture advocate. He led the effort to draft, in 2006, “An Evangelical Declaration Against Torture: Protecting Human Rights in an Age of Terror.” The document, which has 250 signatures, renounced torture and “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees” ...

“There is a version of Christianity in America that I think is not adequately committed to the Bible’s teachings about the sacredness of every human life, including the lives of our enemies,” Gushee said. “It’s also insufficiently committed to the peacemaking teachings of Jesus” ...

http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/features/jesus-vs-jack-bauer-605680.html

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1. The last paragraph of the OP defines the difference between Christians and Xtians. n/t