Faithful more likely to back torture?

A Pew Research Center poll indicates that regular churchgoers are more likely than nonreligious Americans to support the torture of terrorist suspects.

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So, why would this be?  Is it a sort of "let God sort 'em out" attitude?  Or simply that regular churchgoers in America tend to be politically conservative?  Or is it that when an American Christian thinks about a terrorism suspect, he imagines an Arab in a turban, and thinks God's love doesn't apply?  I'm not sure.  But I do think it's evidence that the connection between Christian faith and compassionate behavior may, in fact, be an inverse relationship.