finally: 'every human life is sacred'
"When torture is employed by a state, that act communicates to the world and to one's own people that human lives are not sacred, that they are not reflections of the Creator, that they are expendable, exploitable, and disposable, and that their intrinsic value can be overridden by utilitarian arguments that trump that value. These are claims that no one who confesses Christ as Lord can accept."
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We renounce the use of torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment by any branch of our government (or any other government)-- even in the current circumstances of a war between the United States and various radical terrorist groups.
We call for the extension of basic human rights and procedural protections to all persons held in United States custody now or in the future, wherever and by whomever they are held.
We call for every agency of the United States government to join with the United States military and to state publicly its commitment to the terms of the Geneva Convention related to the treatment of prisoners, especially Common Article 3.
We call for the legislative or judicial reversal of those executive and legislative provisions that violate the moral and legal standards articulated in this declaration.
-- Excerpts from "An Evangelical Declaration Against Torture: Protecting Human Rights in An Age of Terror," released March 11, 2007, by the National Association of Evangelicals
the press release has some interest as well
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We renounce the use of torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment by any branch of our government (or any other government)-- even in the current circumstances of a war between the United States and various radical terrorist groups.
We call for the extension of basic human rights and procedural protections to all persons held in United States custody now or in the future, wherever and by whomever they are held.
We call for every agency of the United States government to join with the United States military and to state publicly its commitment to the terms of the Geneva Convention related to the treatment of prisoners, especially Common Article 3.
We call for the legislative or judicial reversal of those executive and legislative provisions that violate the moral and legal standards articulated in this declaration.
-- Excerpts from "An Evangelical Declaration Against Torture: Protecting Human Rights in An Age of Terror," released March 11, 2007, by the National Association of Evangelicals
the press release has some interest as well
posted by The Toneman at 1:00 PM
3 Comments:
Seems all your blog post comments are something someone else has said.
What do you say?
by the way life only is.....
As to its sacred-ness..!!
look around
life is death
and death brings forth life
only man is out of step
acceptance or change
held back by the masses?
or moved forward to a place we will call home..!!
>that human lives are not sacred, that they are not reflections of the Creator, that they are expendable, exploitable, and disposable
But dude.. these things are all absolutely true. There is no creator therefore we are not reflections of one. Empirical evidence proves that humans are expendable, exploitable, and disposable.
A better argument against torture is simply that it is deplorable. Why appeal to the supernatural?
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