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This surprises me....NOT!
I've held for years that secular people are more inherently moral that the religious. If you're a born-again Christian, part of the reason you do good works is because you're afraid of going to Hell. You're being bribed with Heaven to be a nice person. If you're an atheist, you have no such incentive. You do good works because you feel it's the right thing to do. Good for its own sake is morally superior to good for self-interest.
So it surprises me not at all that Christians are more likely to feel that torturing another human being is acceptable. I wonder how they feel about torturing other Christians?