Santorum’s pastor says Protestants not “proper” Christians, blasts creationists
With statements nearly as out of the mainstream of American Evangelicalism as Obama’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, who infamously shouted “God d*mn America,” Rick Santorum’s head-pastor should have nearly as much explaining to do.
Santorum, a devout Roman Catholic, submits to the spiritual oversight of Pope Benedict XVI, the alleged “Vicar of Christ” Himself. And the Vatican leader has been less than kind to Evangelicals:
In 2007, he famously said that Protestants cannot be considered “proper” Christians, because they do not submit to his grace—the Pope: He claimed that
the branches of Christianity formed after the split with Rome at the Reformation could not be called churches “in the proper sense” because they broke with a succession of popes who dated back to St Peter.
He continued on to argue that the Roman Catholic Church is the only “true church of Christ.”
In an even more out of touch pontification, Santorum’s spiritual Father stated that creationists’ opposition to evolution is an “absurdity,” and argues, “there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution.”
The Pope added that evolution “appears as a reality that we must see and which enriches our understanding of life and being as such.”
He also repeated the UN’s global warming propaganda, claiming the earth is talking to us, therefore “obedience to the voice of the Earth is more important for our future happiness … than the desires of the moment. Our Earth is talking to us and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive.”
Since when do Christian leaders “obey” the Earth’s word instead of God’s?
Perhaps even more troubling is the Roman Catholic Church’s preference for social-welfare policies identical to Democrats and other liberals, under the guise of leftist-style Social Justice. According toCatholicVote.org, Rick Santorum has been active in many such socialistic legislative actions, often in open cooperation with the liberals:
almost every time a serious piece of antipoverty legislation surfaces in Congress, Rick Santorum is there playing a leadership role.
In the mid-1990s, he was a floor manager for welfare reform, the most successful piece of domestic legislation of the past 10 years. He then helped found the Renewal Alliance to help charitable groups with funding and parents with flextime legislation.
More recently, he has pushed through a stream of legislation to help the underprivileged, often with Democratic partners.
In addition, he’s issued a torrent of proposals, many of which have become law: efforts to fight tuberculosis; to provide assistance to orphans and vulnerable children in developing countries; to provide housing for people with AIDS; to increase funding for Social Services Block Grants and organizations like Healthy Start and the Children’s Aid Society; to finance community health centers; to combat genocide in Sudan.
I could fill this column, if not this entire page, with a list of ideas, proposals and laws Santorum has poured out over the past dozen years. It’s hard to think of another politician who has been so active and so productive on these issues.
“So go Rick, go,” says CatholicVote.org, ”This American Papist is pulling for you.”
Evangelicals drawn to Santorum after leaving Bachmann’s dwindling campaign should know what they’re getting into. It’s not evangelicalism; it’s liberalism and Social Justice no better than Obama, really.
And if you think Paul has a foreign policy problem, just imagine how complicated it gets when a man’s highest Spiritual allegiance is to the Vatican and not to the American people.
It’s one thing to say “God d**n America. It’s even worse, however, to damn it anyway while praising it in the name of God.
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Look, nothing against Catholics as people, but the Church has a long, proud history of political corruption and we would do well to stay away from that mess. Christian values need to play an important role in how we conduct ourselves, but no particular religion should be allowed to creep in. I feel as if this priest thinks that if Santorum got in office, the Church could get its foot in the door.
The evangelical Protestants are the worst. They want to launch a holy war against Catholic Christians as much as against Muslims, while at the same time having an unexplained adulterous affair with "left behind" Jewish sinners who live the worst sin of all time - the rejection of Christ the Messiah.
Ron Paul is the smartest candidate of all. He lives Chrstian principles while being guided in his politics by the Constitution.
What you've done here is no different than saying that ALL priests are homosexual pedophiles!
You OBVIOUSLY don't like Santorum, so why don't you just come out and TELL us who to vote for...and save us all the trouble of actually thinking for ourselves?
Oh, wait! You DID!!! Ron Paul. I should have known.
Joel...your mouth ain't no prayer book. And Ron Paul is a bigger idiot than you are.
Rick doesn't know his church history too well, and McDurmon isn't up on Ron Paul's foreign policy, which is as perfect and righteous as a foreign policy ever has been.
I've never heard Santorum support global warming - he's a drill here, drill now guy.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/25/rick-san...
Santorum’s pastor says Protestants not “proper” Christians, blasts creationists « Zionist Outrage
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
1 Timothy 2:4-6 (in Context) 1 Timothy 2. That one verse destroys the notion that a pope, minister or priest can mediate between God and man. Every man is his own priest before God through Christ.
The evolution thing is weird, though. Makes sense, though, as it is based on the same circular reasoning as the papal primacy argument.
But that organization is much more diverse and dysfunctional than most realize. Ascribing to papal beliefs is hardly a prerequisite, and I'm sure the RCC would be tickled pink if one of those two became president.
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