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Title: Does Rick Santorum have a Satan problem?
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URL Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politi ... -Santorum-have-a-Satan-problem
Published: Feb 21, 2012
Author: l
Post Date: 2012-02-21 18:10:27 by PSUSA2
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Views: 291
Comments: 15
Does Rick Santorum have a Satan problem? Specifically, is it a political negative for him that the Drudge Report all day Tuesday has highlighted a story about a 2008 speech he gave at Ave Maria University in Florida in which he said America is under assault by Satan? “Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that [have] so deeply rooted in the American tradition,” Mr. Santorum said in that 2008 speech. Audio excerpts from the speech indicate that Santorum said Satan had successfully subverted academia first, followed by mainline Protestantism, which he said is “in shambles,” and then the culture. Politics came last. “The body politic held up pretty well until the last couple of decades,” he said in the speech. RECOMMENDED: Rick Santorum: Top 7 culture war moments As to whether this hurts Santorum’s electability, we’ll just note that lots of people were making fun of this Tuesday on Twitter. We suspect, however, that they’re people who were not going to vote for Santorum in the first place. On the other end of the spectrum, his committed supporters may shrug off the references. Because he was speaking in a religious context, he was using religious language, and “Satan” as a metaphor for lots of things is a pretty common usage from pulpits of a Sunday. Will swing voters, or new fans of Santorum whose attachment is not deeply rooted, be put off? That’s the real question. Furthermore, the fact that this speech is surfacing now, at such a crucial moment in the campaign, should trouble Santorum’s advisers. Where did it come from? The most likely prospect would be from the camp of an opponent who has the money to do opposition research and needs to slow Santorum’s rise. You can supply your own names there – we don’t have to. If his opponents have this, they may have other stuff, too. Santorum is recent days has already spent a lot of time explaining what he meant when he referred to President Obama’s “phony theology.”
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#1. To: All (#0)
Join the winning side! We have cookies, you know. And devils food cake!
If the cake's got that yummy whipped icing, count me in.
And sprinkles too! It never ceases to amaze me how weak their 'god' is. It's just one defeat after another. Everything is just one huge FUBAR fiasco. But, I believed that crap too at one time.
#8. To: PSUSA2 (#5)
He saw you coming. "Their very scoffing shall confirm the truth of the prediction." "There will be scoffers in the last days, under the gospel, men who make light of sin, and mock at salvation by Jesus Christ. One very principal article of our faith refers to what only has a promise to rest upon, and scoffers will attack it till our Lord is come. They will not believe that he will come. Because they see no changes, therefore they fear not God, Ps 55:19. What he never has done, they fancy he never can do, or never will do."
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestAudio excerpts from the speech indicate that Santorum said Satan had successfully subverted academia first, followed by mainline Protestantism, which he said is “in shambles,” and then the culture. Politics came last.
#4. To: PSUSA2 (#1)
Join the winning side! We have cookies, you know. And devils food cake!
#5. To: Esso (#4)
Replies to Comment # 5. It never ceases to amaze me how weak their 'god' is. It's just one defeat after another. Everything is just one huge FUBAR fiasco.
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