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Tuesday, May 26 2009 08:37 PM

Would Jesus torture?

My opinion piece in The Californian ("Should a 'Christian nation' renounce torture? Of course," May 10) has generated much discussion. That's good.

I confess now that I could have written the piece with one sentence: What would Jesus do?

Christians who support war, the death penalty and torture do so without Jesus. Christians without Christ. They wrest out-of-context passages from the Old Testament and distort passages from the New Testament, as Donald Rumsfeld did (e.g., Ephesians 6:11).

What would Jesus do? Who would Jesus torture?

TIM VIVIAN

Bakersfield

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