"My own view is that the American conservative movement's embrace or defense of torture was the moment its intellectual collapse became irrecoverable… And watching the intellectual dishonesty of the right on this issue in the last few years has been a watershed for me. It has been, in my judgment, one long, awful surrender of truth to power."
"The person who authorized all the abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib, the man who gave the green light to the abuses in that prison, is the president of the United States, George W. Bush… there is no longer any reasonable factual debate about this (hence the near total silence of the Republican right), and the Senate report finally holds the president responsible in bipartisan fashion."
Jonathan Stegall is a web designer and emergent / emerging follower of Jesus currently living in Atlanta, seeking to abide in the creative tension between theology, spirituality, design, and justice.