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Post by Fredo on Feb 26, 2012 17:24:09 GMT -5
That just proves that he was an extremist in 2008. The guys a wannabe Christian taliban. Extremist? Show me a single Christian who doesn't believe in Satan. am I an extremist? I believe in Satan so I must be. I get that you don't share the same beliefs. However, that doesn't make the rest of us extremists. You're not out there proclaiming that Satan is stalking America. We've got lots of folks on here who profess Christianity but none of them go on about it like Santorum. I freely admit that I have a bias against chest thumping Christian types. They tend to be the more dishonest of the people I encounter. I live in the South, which means I pass 30 churches on the way to anywhere and I deal with Christians day in and day out without difficulty. It's the ones who go around shouting about it and couching every decision in those terms that spook me. They're usually just waiting for an opportunity to impose their nonsense upon the unsuspecting.
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Post by duke on Feb 27, 2012 10:28:00 GMT -5
Christian religion is really not [modified to add] that bad. It is the people that attempt to hide they dishonest dealings in a cloak of membership association because they know that too many church goers and promoters of one sect or another are so blinded by 'faith' that they refuse to question any motives of another member.
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Post by vimeiro on Feb 27, 2012 10:33:01 GMT -5
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Post by duke on Feb 27, 2012 11:03:40 GMT -5
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There is a religious resurgence of religion worldwide after several years of decline. I think you will find that the popularity of religion is in inverse proportion to the level of prosperity vs poverty. Religion offers hope to the poverty stricken. A false hope. But hope just the same.
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Post by vimeiro on Feb 27, 2012 11:33:19 GMT -5
[/url] Religion offers hope to the poverty stricken. A false hope. But hope just the same. [/quote] I think that Santorum has appeal well beyond the "poverty stricken", though. Those kinds of STRONG numbers in Tennessee suggest support across the socioeconomic spectrum of the ideological right-wing.
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Post by duke on Feb 27, 2012 12:45:15 GMT -5
Identify what you perceive to Santorum's Tennessee appeal, please.
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Post by vimeiro on Feb 27, 2012 13:12:36 GMT -5
Identify what you perceive to Santorum's Tennessee appeal, please. I think that he resonates with elements of the right wing that are anxious about shifting cultural status, economic uncertainty, and the sometimes harsh realities of modern American life. I also think that he draws heavily on people who feel insecure and marginalized, playing to their resentments - e.g., the claim that going to college is some kind of "elitist brainwashing" activity. It's barking nonsense, but there are a lot of people who are willing to swallow it because Santorum is adept at feeding into the narrative of self-victimization. That narrative is powerful in parts of America - including large swathes of the states comprising the former Confederacy.
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Post by duke on Feb 27, 2012 19:38:50 GMT -5
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Post by vimeiro on Feb 27, 2012 20:16:25 GMT -5
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Post by duke on Feb 29, 2012 9:58:56 GMT -5
Santorum's misfire on Obama, colleges and religion Fact Checker|Glenn Kessler 'President Obama said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob! There are good, decent men and women who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to test that aren't taught by some liberal college professor trying to indoctrinate them. Oh I understand why he wants you to go to college. He wants to remake you in his image. I want to create jobs so people can remake their children into their image, not his.' feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=7e21a2cc6b8b194cebc94e41b996bf9c
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Post by duke on Mar 3, 2012 19:05:58 GMT -5
Our pal James Carter digs this up from a speech given by Republican frontrunner Rick Santorum back in 2003: All the rights in the Constitution, which are individually based rights, according to our founders were not there for the individual's gain, but the reason we established those rights was for the common good. The right to privacy is not the right to a common good. It's a me-centered right, that obviously started in the sexual revolution with contraception and obviously quickly evolved to abortion, and now has found its way into the marriage debate. And all those acts that were self-giving acts, self-sacrificing acts, have been polluted by this right to privacy. www.pogowasright.org/?p=27259
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Post by duke on Mar 5, 2012 9:04:09 GMT -5
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Post by Fredo on Mar 5, 2012 11:07:16 GMT -5
I could have gone a very long time without that knowledge.
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Post by vimeiro on Mar 7, 2012 0:37:55 GMT -5
Big, giant win for Rick in Tennessee tonight.
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