What's Wrong With This Picture?

A recent poll by Public Agenda finds that the more often Americans go to church, the more supportive they are of the war in Iraq. It found that frequent church-goers are far more likely to support the "War on Terror" and believe the U.S. is accomplishing its goals in Iraq.

The poll found that people who never attend church are much more likely to believe the war is damaging the country's international relations and that the war is costing too much money and too many lives.

This seems backward to me. I'd presume the poll is skewed that way because of the large number of fundamentalist Christians within the U.S. church-going population. I thought Jesus was the Prince of Peace. As Ben Mack has said "Who would Jesus bomb? Nobody. I don't remember him killing anybody in The Bible". Or did Howard Campbell say that? Doesn't really matter. The point is made.

I posit that the more you think for yourself, the more likely you are to believe the war has been/is an ongoing disaster. It follows from the poll results that generally, organized religions (among many other organizations) don't encourage people to think for themselves. They're much easier to control that way.