Thoreau at Unqualified Offerings brought these depressing opinion poll results to my attention. Essentially, the more of a Bible-believing regular churchgoer you are, the more likely you are to approve of torture:

53% of white mainline protestants said that torture can rarely or never be justified, while 46% said that it could sometimes or often(!) be justified. (1% weren’t sure or refused to answer.)

47% of white non-Hispanic Catholics said rarely/never; 51% said sometimes/often. (2% not sure/no answer.)

33% of white evangelicals said rarely/never; 62% percent said sometimes/often. (5% not sure/no answer.)

The religiously unaffiliated come off best, with 55% saying that torture is rarely or never justified.

And further, the more frequently a respondent attended church, the more likely they were to approve of torture.

Not only does torture cut against the grain of the moral witness of Jesus, but our willingness to support it in an attempt to save our own skins evinces a disturbing lack of trust in God.