Faithful see ‘a man of God,’ but Santorum scares me

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/brown/11405400-452/faithful-see-a-man-of-god-but-santorum-scares-me.html

By MARK BROWN [e-mail] March 20, 2012 3:40AM

Larry Piper said he made the drive Monday to Dixon, boyhood home of Ronald Reagan, for the chance to look into the eyes of Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum — to make sure that he is the man he thought he was.

Piper, a factory worker from nearby Amboy who also made a point of noting he is Catholic, came away satisfied.

“A man of God,” Piper proclaimed after listening to Santorum deliver a half-hour speech along the Rock River in front of a statue of the young “Dutch” on horseback.

Santorum’s words matched the symbols — laying claim as the rightful heir to the GOP conservative icon and therefore the logical choice of Illinois Republicans in today’s primary over front-runner Mitt Romney.

[Taverner]

1. "Man of God" has to be the three scariest words in the world...

[elleng]

2. Damn right,

unless its the Pope, the Rabbi, the Pastor, the Mullah, etc etc etc.

GET THEE AWAY FROM OUR WHITE HOUSE!!!

[hifiguy]

6. + a googolplex! nt

[Lint Head]

3. Santorum is an ignorant and dangerous man.

[Enrique]

4. I see man on dog

which scares me.

[appleannie1]

5. Jesus actually warned in Matthew that people would come claiming to be Christian while doing the

work of Satan and that "Many will be fooled". Santorum has that same glassy eyed look that Hitler and others of their ilk have. People that totally believe that somehow they are 'chosen' and have some 'God given right to power'.

[longship]

7. Oops! Godwin's Law

But I enthusiastically applaud your argument. In spite of Godwin, maybe to spite Godwin, there are times when history instructs.

My Santayana trumps Godwin:

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

—Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense, Scribner's, 1905, p. 284

Here's another, possibly more prescient one:

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

—Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense, Scribner's, 1905, p. 13

[PA Democrat]

8. Santorum isn't a "man OF God'; he's a man who thinks he IS God.

At the very least, he should have gone into the priesthood and tried to become pope. But noooo..... he wants to be THE moral authority for ALL Americans, not just those who choose to follow his brand of "christianity."

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9. In Santorum? We see what Jesus warned about: a "false prophet"; a religious "hypocrite."

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For example?

Ricky often claims to follow the Catholic Church, and with it, to oppose "abortion." In fact, that's one of his core positions and issues.

Yet, though allegedly he and his wife oppose abortion? Santorum's wife Karen herself, as recently reported in the Daily Mail, lived with an abortion doctor, for many, many years.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087812/Rick-Santorums-wife-Karen-love-affair-abortion-doctor.html

Then more recently? His wife recently assured us women have nothing to fear from Ricky in the matter of contraception.

So what should real Christians and Catholics say or think, about Rick Santorum and his alleged faith?

We should say this: Jesus warned us that the religious conservatives of his own time - the Pharisees - were "hypocrites." And indeed they are. To this very day.