Santorum - Droopy in a Sweater Vest?
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 9:13 pm
Recent remarks by Rick Santorum compared Obama's values to a theology different than those found in the Bible.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/18/santorum-obama-leads-with-a-different-theology/?hpt=hp_t3
Here is a quote he gave to explain the underlying ideas of his early comment -
"You can call it a theology, you can call it a moral code, you can call it a world view,” he said. “They want to impose [that] on everybody else while they insist and complain that somehow or another people of Judeo Christian faith are intolerant of their new moral code.”
The question this raises, to me anyway, is what this moral code might actually be that Santorum is so opposed to? And more to the point, is he defining Christianity in a very narrow manner?
Specific to Obama, he is quoted in another news source as explaining the problem has to do with his environmental policies -
"I accept the fact that the president’s a Christian," he said. "I just said that when you have a worldview that elevates the Earth above man, and says that, you know, we can't take those resources because we’re going to harm the Earth by things that frankly are just not scientifically proven, like for example that politicization of the whole global warming debate, this is just all an attempt to centralize power, to give more power to the government."
Interesting.
Where it leads me, as a non-Christian independent, is even further away from Santorum's political views. I would love, LOVE, to hear a conservative supporter of this type of thinking explain to me how empowering corporations and removing government oversight is less of a "centralizing of power" than the boogeyman Santorum portrays in his statement above to scare freedom-loving voters into the nets.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/18/santorum-obama-leads-with-a-different-theology/?hpt=hp_t3
Here is a quote he gave to explain the underlying ideas of his early comment -
"You can call it a theology, you can call it a moral code, you can call it a world view,” he said. “They want to impose [that] on everybody else while they insist and complain that somehow or another people of Judeo Christian faith are intolerant of their new moral code.”
The question this raises, to me anyway, is what this moral code might actually be that Santorum is so opposed to? And more to the point, is he defining Christianity in a very narrow manner?
Specific to Obama, he is quoted in another news source as explaining the problem has to do with his environmental policies -
"I accept the fact that the president’s a Christian," he said. "I just said that when you have a worldview that elevates the Earth above man, and says that, you know, we can't take those resources because we’re going to harm the Earth by things that frankly are just not scientifically proven, like for example that politicization of the whole global warming debate, this is just all an attempt to centralize power, to give more power to the government."
Interesting.
Where it leads me, as a non-Christian independent, is even further away from Santorum's political views. I would love, LOVE, to hear a conservative supporter of this type of thinking explain to me how empowering corporations and removing government oversight is less of a "centralizing of power" than the boogeyman Santorum portrays in his statement above to scare freedom-loving voters into the nets.