04.09.09
Jesus and the torture debate
by Economist.com
Reposted from Dawkins site
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2009/04/jesus_and_torture.cfm
OVER at Beliefnet, Steven Waldman wonders why John Ashcroft, the former attorney general and a devout Christian, never made a moral argument against torture. “We have no reports of him airing the Christian case against torture”, says Mr Waldman, assuming that Mr Ashcroft made a “utilitarian calculation” in acquiescing to the policy. He bemoans the fact that “what Ashcroft never did, apparently, was ask: What Would Jesus Do?”