Do they support Christian values or torture?
well, that one's easily resolved -- torture
is the central christian value. i crudely summarize william empson's statement of the case:
jesus was tortured to death in expiation of human sin, this act of torture was the most important event in the history of the world, and if you don't acknowledge it,
your undying soul will be tortured. it's unclear why the christian god was gratified by his son's torture, and really the whole thing stinks of some primtive religion of human sacrifice -- so the church came up with the doctrine of the trinity, in light of which it turns out that the christian god tortured
himself to death -- and then tortured people for denying it