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Christians, in plurality, tend to fall into the anti-EIT camp and are very skeptical about the program. Dr. David Gushee, a Christian ethicist and historian, wrote an article for Christianity Today entitled, “5 Reasons Torture is always wrong.” In this article, Gushee lays out five reasons why the Bible does not complement torture, specifically EITs. He begins with the argument that “torture violates the dignity of the human being.” Gushee cites Genesis 1:26-28 where all men are “created in the image of God” and when society tortures other human beings, they are hurting the handiwork and prized possession of God. Secondly, Gushee argues that “torture mistreats the vulnerable and violates the demands for justice.” In this argument, Gushee compares a prisoner to an orphan and contends that Christians are not to take advantage of the widow or the orphan. He then goes on to argue that “authorizing torture trusts government too much,” however his argument implies that the government is all bad and does not pursue actions in accordance with the will of God. Gushee wraps up his position by writing that “torture dehumanizes the torturer” and “torture erodes the character of the nation that tortures.” While many of his arguments make hasty generalizations and do not reflect proper biblical exegesis consistent with the expectations of Christian scholar, his point about human dignity is a worthy argument that supports the bulk of the anti-EIT point of view. If Jesus calls us to love…

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This reason is the techniques used in torture. They have been argued to be inhumane and ineffective. As explained in an internet article: “The methods used included: stress positions, mock executions, solitary confinement, hooding, and other forms of sensory deprivation, removal of ‘comfort items’, forced nudity, forced grooming, taking advantage of the detainees fears (dogs), exposure to cold weather or water and allowing an interrogator to use a wet towel and dripping water to induce the…

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the environment around them while others may be experimenting, wondering how much a body can take. Without all the information, it is hard to make a concrete decision, specifically when it comes to children being used as torture objects. Barbarians in the modern day do not see torture as immoral, or they do not care. They want what they want and will not stop until they receive what they perceive is rightfully theirs. To this day, even the United States still uses torturing methods to gather…

base it on a legal rule to prove that torture is wrong, because the action is wrong in essence. The prohibition of torture is universally accepted as a peremptory norm of international law (ius cogens) and it is very well safeguarded. The Convention against Torture (CAT), for example, states that ‘‘No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.’’…