Rick Santorum, American mullah: His fundamentalist views are frightening

Wait until Barry echos the President of Mexico back when Mexico ordered the Catholic Church to be subject to the State thereby starting the Cristeros War.

The Mexican "elite" were dead set on having a totally secular society and were going to do whatever it took to ram a secular society down the throats of the public. If Barry figures his election prospects are slim and he may well do a whole lot more than mandate stuff through HHS in hopes of starting the same sort of mess in this country as an excuse to postpone or ignore the election. I'm sure there's nothing he'd like better than a state religion with himself at the head of the state church. Just a thought.

I’m wondering if he was the model for the fighting minister in “The Patriot” movie several years ago (2000 w/Mel Gibson) ? The minister in the movie took off his wig and his robes, was dressed in military uniform and went out w/Ben Martin and the other men.

He said something like: “The shepherd must go with his flock; and sometimes he has to fight off the wolves!”! This might not be a direct quote from the movie, but it’s pretty close! The people were asking where he was going, and then he said that! This picture w/the text of what he said reminded me of that scene in that movie!

If religion hasn't been banished from public discussion, it may not be because Richard Cohen wanted to allow it, but because he couldn't help it.

I think that's pretty close to it. Cohen, methinks, is one of those secularized socialist Jews who are perfectly comfortable "doing lunch" with various lowercase exponents of national socialism and socialist nationalism, socialist socialism, or any other form of statist governance you can dream up, if only it pretends to be more-or-less amiable in its materialism and atheism; but become irritable and inconsolable when real Christian theists begin to act from their convictions and talk about public morality and the idea of "virtue in a republic" -- which our Framers reminded us several times, would be indispensable to keeping the forms of the Republic in operation.

Cohen would rather lounge and laze with capos and zampolit types and scoff at the Mel Gibsons of the world, and just hope his friends don't eat him up. Again.

This is what happens when one tries to force their specific religious doctrine down the throats of a Secular public.

And that is what happens when people like you quit the battlefield and leave it to the Gramscian Stalinists and their ceaseless propagation of politically-correct scientific materialism.

The Left always tries to confuse people with the idea that Christianity is just as dangerous as radical Islam. This confusion causes people to think that Christian morality is bad in the public sector because it will lead to outrageous policy—like what you see in some theistic nations in the Middle East. The fact is, atheistic, or secular thinking is religion too. The question is, does secular thinking promote a society to obey unenforceable laws? If the answer is no, then secularism is a failed system. If we examine the Judeo-Christian model, we see a successful system that has had centuries of evidence to prove that it works and offers the most freedom for its citizens. Such promotes the citizen to obey unenforceable laws which translates into a productive society.

There is good theism and there is bad theism. Most would agree that theistic Satanism is a bad theism. Secularism is also a bad theism. Of course, the theism that brought forth The Spanish Inquisition in 1478 is a favorite whipping boy for the Left. What began an effort to purge Spain of Muslimism and Judaism and restore Spain to Roman Catholicism, went to the extreme. I will not take the time to judge which theistic model is better than another. I only say that you can judge them by their fruits. It is good that we have a Biblical golden rule to use in such questions. In my humble opinion, the best theism is Christianity and the efforts to purge it from our society are just as misguided as the Spanish Inquisition.

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