How INSANE is Rick Santorum you ask?

[FarLeftFist]

In 2008, Sen. Rick Santorum spoke at Ave Maria University and said that Satan is destroying academia, politics, and the Protestant Church.

Santorum told the students at Ave Maria how lucky they were to be living in a time when God's Army is more needed than ever because all of the major institutions in society were under attack by Satan.

The audio of Santorum's remarks is still posted on the Ave Maria website and the bulk of his speech was dedicated to explaining how God had used him, his political career, and even the death of his son Gabriel in the fight to outlaw abortion in America.

But Santorum began his remarks by explaining to the students in attendance how every institution in America has been destroyed by Satan; from academia to politics with even the church having fallen under His sway - not the Catholic church, of course, but "mainline Protestantism" which is in such "shambles" that it is not even Christian any longer:

Link includes transcript under video: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-satan-systematically-destroying-america

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Remember, it's SATAN'S FAULT when we have a republican President but it's Obama's fault when we have a Democratic President.

[flakey_foont]

1. 3-400 years ago

He would have been burning witches and heretics.

[bowens43]

6. He's be doing it today if he could.

[izquierdista]

21. I'm not so sure

Do you think he has advanced to the point where he has really mastered the use of fire?

[csziggy]

18. He'd probably take after the Puritans and just hang them

Or torture them to death like Giles Cory - who was pressed to death.

American witch hunters didn't burn the people they accused of witchcraft - Europeans ones did.

[Ganja Ninja]

2. OK attacking "mainline Protestantism" convinces me.

He's not trying for a win but to throw the convention into an open nominating process. Nobody, not even him, can be this politically stupid.

[flakey_foont]

3. I think he is just a foil

being built up to derail Romney, because the Hidden Chiefs (and chefs) of the
Repub party are beginning to see Romney as a disaster waiting to happen, and
they want someone else. They have no intention of having Santorum as the nominee.
Once is usefulness is over, he will be dropped like a rotten peach.

[TlalocW]

5. I don't buy any of the the, "They're not really wanting to be president," arguments

That first applied to Newt and now are being thrown at Rick. The GOP has really gotten this batshit insane over the years where those two are viable candidates for the nomination. Rick has never been the smartest guy in the room, and his staff always made sure he had handlers around to help keep him from wandering too far into Nutty-Land, but every now and then he slipped his tether and really showed what he was about, and it's not any different than now - it's just he's on a national stage, and we get to see more of it. The same is true of Newt.

Among other ego-centric problems (Newt wants to avenge what was "done to him" in the 90s), both see themselves as some sort of savior of humankind. Newt is convinced that he's more intelligent and more forward-thinking than anyone else, and we need his hand to guide us in making the correct choices in the future. Rick is convinced that he's the only one capable of beating back Satan - he was taking views and making them public on subjects no other politician was - specifically how he would do away with birth control - before other repubs saw it as a potential election year wedge issue between Obama and Catholics. They've picked it up for other reasons - supposedly freedom of religion while Rick's views run "deeper," that it's a threat to society.

If you've read the C-Street Book and the Family about the cult of religious nutjobs in our government belong to, Rick is one of them. He's just not flying under the radar like maybe his colleagues would like him to, and it's because he feels this is the last chance to beat back Satan, and he's the man to do it.

TlalocW

[renie408]

7. Speech is from '08 and was given at AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY.

He probably wasn't thinking seriously about how it would play to a national audience in 2012. He really should have been, though.

[hfojvt]

16. not really

many evangelicals and fundamentalists think that most Protestant churches are not really preaching from "the Bible" and are using a liberal social gospel theology which was a mix of socialism and Christianity from the turn of the 19th century.

It's not playing to lose, because most liberal protestants, are not gonna vote for him anyway.

[PassingFair]

20. Them Episcopalians have wimmen PRIESTS!!

Obviously satanic.

[arcane1]

4. Grown men talking about the fear of Satan

this shit's embarrassing

[hifiguy]

9. Indeed it is.

It makes one wonder for the future of the human race when people this willfully stupid can be taken seriously by even 5% of the population. The god-botherers are the greatest threat to the survival of the species.

[hfojvt]

19. considering how evil the world is

most people have an easier time believing in the existence of Satan, than they do the existence of God.

[Javaman]

8. I think ass froth has been dipping into the ergot. nt

[Skidmore]

10. I'm promoting Rick from American Pope to

The Beast. Someone else can check him for the 666 mark. He's sure foolin' the frothing faithful.

[JNelson6563]

11. OMG. Our imaginary enemy.

What nonsense!

[JohnDrake]

12. Your Bias is Showing

Don't call the man insane just because he speaks consistantly with his theology. Would you call Rev. Wright insane? (possible bad example)

I personally do not, as a believer in the Christian God subscribe to this kind of talk. I view this blaming Satan thing as a way to avoid our own responsibility for the ills of our lives and the world around us. That being said, many people sincerely believe this type of talk and it does not make them insane.
You know what seems insane to me? Blowing yourself up in hopes of killing your so-called enemies. That's insane. How does removing yourself from the fight you so passionately believe in make you a winner?
As I said, I do not agree with the man and primarily because this type of ideology is usually centered around America as if other Christians around the world are of lesser importance to God.

[Quantess]

13. Santorum is nuts! But whether he needs medication for a psychiatric illness is another question.

People with real psychiatric illnesses might be offended at the comparison, also.

The important question is, do we want this person leading our nation? I really, really, emphatically, do not.

[renie408]

15. So, just because it is in accordance with his theology, it isn't crazy??

You can be crazy as a shithouse mouse and still be in accordance with your personal version of theology. In fact, some of our BEST crazy people have done what they did in the name of some version of God.

And now YOUR bias is showing. Christian psychos are fine and dandy. Muslim psychos are the REAL psychos. At least suicide bombers are putting their EVERYTHING where their mouth is.

[Swede]

14. Damn it,I was hoping to keep this for an October surprise!

[Sancho]

17. Scary...this idiot would burn you as a witch or use the bomb in a crusade...

He rationalizes his insanity as Satan?!?! I don't see anyway he would be elected.

[RBInMaine]

22. Yup, this guy's a first class looney tune, but then so is the GOP base generally.

[mnmoderatedem]

23. Where's Dana Carvey when you need him/her?

nt

[B Calm]

24. He wants to convert our current legal

system into one that requires our laws to be in agreement with religious law, not unlike what the Taliban want to do in Afghanistan.

[Quantess]

25. Totally nuts!