A lot of conservatives have criticized Eric Holder for naming a prosecutor to investigate alleged torture by CIA operatives and other agents of the United States Government.  I find Christian support for torture especially interesting.

Richmond of course has a few radio stations broadcasting religious-themed programming.  One of these, an American Family Radio Network affiliate, airs an afternoon drive-time talk show called Nothing But Truth, hosted by a true whack-job named Crane Durham.  Mr. Durham also writes a blog called Maximum Crane, but posts perhaps even less often than I.

Mr. Crane is unabashadly Christian, as you can see if you click on his bio.  But on Monday he fervently supported the torture of human beings–he does not see a moral problem with beating a man to death with a flashlight, pretending to execute him, threatening to rape his wife and daughters, or the actual drowning of another of God’s creatures in order to get information from him.  He justifies these acts by expressing a fear of death.

I clearly see the moral and ethical problems with the intentional infliction of physical, mental, and emotional pain on others for our own purposes, however important.  Yet I am an atheist, who does not consider human beings made in God’s image.  Nevertheless, I see the inherent dignity and value in all human life, unlike the Christian torture apologist.

So much for objective moral truth.