Santorum Suggests Obama Is A ‘Phony’ Christian

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/02/19/428642/santorum-obama-phony-christian/

Santorum Suggests Obama Is A ‘Phony’ Christian

By Alex Seitz-Wald on Feb 19, 2012 at 9:45 am


Fresh off of excommunicating 45 million American protestants in a speech that resurfaced this week, Santorum singled out President Obama for theological scrutiny yesterday, saying the commander in chief believes in “some phony theology.” ABC News reports:

The “president’s agenda” is “not about you,” he said. “It’s not about you. It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your job.

“It’s about some phony ideal, some phony theology,” Santorum said to applause from the crowd. “Oh, not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology, but no less a theology.” [...]

Although Santorum criticizes the president daily on the campaign trail, this is the first time he has used this rhetoric or said the president has a “different theology.”

In a statement, Santorum’s campaign said the candidate was not actually talking about Obama’s religion but rather his belief in secularism, adding, “The President says he’s a Christian and Rick believes that and has even said so publicly many times.”

Santorum appears to be on a mission to be a one-man Council of Trent, the 16th Century Catholic ecumenical council that defined Protestants as heretics. In a 2008 speech rediscovered this week, Santorum said Mainline Protestants — about 45 million Presbyterians, Lutherans, Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Methodists and others — are “gone from the world of Christianity as I see it.”

As conservative Presbyterian blogger John Schroeder wrote, Santorum’s “truly intolerant comments concerning Obama pretty well disqualify him from holding office. It is simply not the president’s job to be judging whose theology is correct and whose is not.”

[notadmblnd]

1. Takes one to know one, ricky

[Itchinjim]

2. Obama might be a ‘Phony’ Christian, but Ricky is a...

genuine asshole.

[gopiscrap]

3. Don't you know

Santorum is the Latin word for Taliban...ask little Ricky he's a Cathofascist!!!

[treestar]

4. So maybe we should water board those who don't believe exactly why Ricky does?

Talk about going back to the 15th century. Off with their heads and burn them at the stake.

[grantcart]

5. which would apply to virtually all of Protestants and most educated Catholics

Santorum's Christology is based on the sophisticated "Jesus loves me, this I know, because the Bible tells me so".

As someone who has read the Bible in Hebrew and Greek Rick Santorum has no idea what is in the Bible but believes in a very superficial mythology that he has been spoon fed.

Virgin Birth Rick, really? Do you really think that is what the Bible is saying? Take another look Rick.

[DCBob]

6. He we go again.. its starting to sound like the Sarah Palin "hate rallys" back in 2008.

Such "good" memories.

[livetohike]

7. Ricky "Inquisitor" Santorum

Jaw dropping ignorant, even to this Pennsylvanian who is used to his insanity.

[Zorro]

8. Little PRicky has a close relationship with Opus Dei

although he apparently claims he's not a member.

He's probably not a member only because he's not into self-flagellation and other forms of mortification; he's one to much prefer flagellating others instead.

[Brettongarcia]

9. In its own charter, Opus Dei says membership is secret

Though lots of priests on conservative Catholic EWTN - one of Santorum's biggest followers - have confessed membership

[babylonsister]

10. I don't know if you saw this-he might be...

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/125111797