Once again, given the way the loudest of the Talibangelicals brands Christianity as a hate-mongering bigot fest, it is no surprise that our nation’s young are turning away from religion. And hey, they aren’t alone. It sure the hell can’t be easy to be Muslim either, with Osama et al screaming death on one side and the GOP wanting to torture, deport, or kill you on the other.

Peace? Love? Brotherhood? Sure, you can find these things in a religious community, but you’ll have to look harder than you used to.

According to a recent Pew poll, 54 percent of Talibangelicals support torture.

Turns out that so-called Christians have no problems torturing people. I would further surmise that they probably get wood even thinking about using thumbscrews on a Muslim.

I’m not theologian but I am damned sure Jesus Christ would reject these idiots immediately. Then again, seeing as these are the same folks who watched the snuff film known as “The Passion of the Christ” about a dozen times or more, he probably already knew they were deranged.

To be fair, non-evangelicals mostly did not support torture for any reason. Too bad their voices aren’t heard in our national discourse.

And you wonder why I avoid going to church.

A quick discourse on how religious conservatives twisted their religion to beg for GOP support and lost anyway.

You almost want to feel bad for them except that they’ve created terrorist acts and soured people like me on organized religion. Plus, look at all the lives they’ve taken by chanting for bombing anyone they didn’t agree with.

And THAT, my friends, is why we have separation of Church and State.