Peter Steinfels, the NY Times religion reporter, points out what no one talked about on the campaign trail: Torture. He uses the October issue of Princeton Theological Seminary’s Theology Today as his point of reference — high religious opinion which has not made its way down to the pulpits of America.
“We deny that we are torturing, or we deny that our prisoners are really prisoners, or when pushed to the wall, we remind one another of how evil the enemy is and how much worse other countries or ideologies are.”
“We give every evidence of the kind of self-deception so characteristic of the descent into sin.”