Posted on 02/22/2012 9:33:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Rick Santorum has been called a latter-day Savonarola.
That’s far too grand. He’s more like a small-town mullah.
“Satan has his sights on the United States of America,” the conservative presidential candidate warned in 2008. “Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition.”
When, in heaven’s name, did sensuality become a vice? Next he’ll be banning Barry White.
Santorum is not merely engaged in a culture war, but “a spiritual war,” as he called it four years ago. “The Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country — the United States of America,” he told students at Ave Maria University in Florida. He added that mainline Protestantism in this country “is in shambles. It is gone from the world of Christianity as I see it.”
Satan strikes, a Catholic exorcist told me, when there are “soul wounds.” Santorum, who is considered “too Catholic” even by my über-Catholic brothers, clearly believes that America’s soul wounds include men and women having sex for reasons other than procreation, people involved in same-sex relationships, women using contraception or having prenatal testing, environmentalists who elevate “the Earth above man,” women working outside the home, “anachronistic” public schools, Mormonism (which he said is considered “a dangerous cult” by some Christians), and President Obama (whom he obliquely and oddly compared to Hitler and accused of having “some phony theology”).
Santorum didn’t go as far as evangelist Franklin Graham, who heinously doubted the president’s Christianity on “Morning Joe.”
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What does that make you...??
Big-city LIB-MEDIA WHORE??
No wait... Ooooopsss
We can't speak the truth about the MSM...
My bad...
Consider the idiot source......
I came for the CZT pics. Now mebbe I’ll read the witch’s article....
I thought the democrats loved mullahs?
Santorum will bring the Secular Taliban out of the closet.
So Dowd is saying that Mullah’s are bad?
If he thinks mainline Protestantism is gone from the world of Christianity he may have some major issues with evangelical voters.
Sorry to disappoint you, but in 20 years or more, Catherine is going to look like Maureen as well...
bourbon blurts the truth ... being a mullah is bad
MoDo managed to insult 2 religions in one rant, but the Catholics won’t be issuing a fatwa
Not a bad idea.
RE: If he thinks mainline Protestantism is gone from the world of Christianity he may have some major issues with evangelical voters.
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By Mainline, he is referring to the Anglicans, Methodists and Presbyterians of the USA. And he would be RIGHT.
Which denominations are SPLITTING now as a result of the ordaining of OPENLY GAY Clergy and Bishops?
Which denominations are withdrawing support from Israel and
demonizing our ally? OPENLY Backing divestment and sanctions against Israel?
It ain’t the Evangelicals who are doing it.
only if evangelicals see themselves as mainline abortion-accepting, global warmist, gay marriage loving methodists, presbyterians, lutherans, episcopalians etc (all of which are withering denominations - wonder why? Hmmm maybe Rick is right...again)
What were MoDo’s “thoughts” when BUSH was compared to Hitler? Did she not think THAT “odd”???
Millions of murdered unborn babies is not the product of “sensuality”. It is the product of a violent immorality, and at least a depraved disregard for the value of human life.
You are watching the co-ordinated and purposeful marginalization of all things Christian in American public life.
Not really. Evangelicals know that mainline protestantism is dying.
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