rick santorum is truly a sick man...'nazi religious oppression could happen in u.s....executions'

[spanone]

Santorum: Religious persecution in U.S. could escalate as high as it did under Nazi Germany

Washington (CNN) -- Former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pennsylvania, said this week that the growing threat towards American religious freedom by the government could lead to "Christian persecution," similar to how the oppression of Jews and Christians evolved over time under Nazi Germany.

Arguing that the rise of the Nazi regime happened in a stable country where it was not expected, Santorum said that a similar situation could occur in the United
States where, according to Santorum, religious liberties are "under direct assault" for the first time in history.

"Germany, prior to the Nazis getting there, was a very religious country," Santorum said in an interview with the Christian Post. "It was a Christian country. It was a very sophisticated country."

"The idea that you can have this kind of persecution take place over a period of ten years -- where you go from Christians -- Jews, obviously, but also Christians -- being not just persecuted but put to death -- was unfathomable," he said. "It was unfathomable to them that (in) a country like this, this could happen. Same thing here."

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/02/politics/rick-santorum-religious-persecution/index.html?hpt=po_c2

[Fred Sanders]

1. If by "Christian" he means "Muslim"' then I get what he means.

[napkinz]

2. we must stop persecuting Christians!

[Politicalboi]

3. Didn't the Nazi's consider themselves Chrisitans?

Senator Shit Stain better hide under his bed before the gays come for his toasters.

[blkmusclmachine]

9. Today, the Nazis call themselves "Christian Dominionists."

[TlalocW]

4. His history is pretty bad

Germany was not stable or probably very sophisticated at the time of Hitler's rise to power. It was still reeling from the repercussions of World War I. Promising to change that was part of what helped him gain power.
I'm not a historian like Rick, but Hitler was a self-proclaimed Christian as I imagine a lot of his ilk were. I also imagine that Christians were only persecuted if they helped Jews, and even so, their numbers and punishments pale in comparison to what happened to the Jews. Trying to equate Christian suffering to Jewish suffering in Nazi Germany to garner support and sympathy for your cause of not being able to hate gays openly is - at the very least - crass and opportunistic.
This is the first time religious liberties are "under direct assault" in America? I think if we looked through your various writings, we would find many other times you claimed religious liberties were under direct assault, and for sure, we could find similar claims from religious conservatives throughout the years.

TlalocW

[spanone]

5. thank you!

[Bluenorthwest]

6. Rick is a typical religious nut, they all think they are persecuted but they are most often the

persecutors. He's spent his career attacking LGBT people, but he's one under attack. Right.

[blkmusclmachine]

10. To the Buybull thumpers, its attack or be attacked. There is no middle ground of peace for these ppl

[Tom Ripley]

7. Germany was stable between the wars? He really is a dumbass, isn't he?

[niyad]

14. probably related to the idiot on the colorado state board of education who said that

the US gave up slavery voluntarily, which proves its exceptionalism.

[Tom Ripley]

16. In their world, history is written by the whiners

[msongs]

8. maybe he'd like to see all that happen nt

[Ikonoklast]

11. This guy thought he was persecuted all the time, too.

[hunter]

12. Ummm... show me some right wing Catholic "suffering" under Nazi, Spanish, or Italian fascist rule.

The only people who suffered were the "Love your neighbor as you love your own" believers.

My mom is culturally a "love your neighbor" American Wild West Catholic, maybe Jewish too, deeply embedded in Mormon territory. My dad's an artist. We had to leave Franco's Spain in the middle of the night for that. My mom made Franco's men very uncomfortable. Otherwise I liked Spain.

Fortunately all of us and our family belongings fit in our Volkswagen van and the French border guards didn't care.

The Spanish guards slept through our passage and the French border guard was disappointed that my dad, an ex-smoker, didn't have any cigarettes.

Life is strange. We were living as indigent Americans in a French public park and the locals were uncomfortable with that, so they bought us ferry tickets tickets to England. My dad repaid them just as soon as Barclay's bank retrieved his meager funds from the Spanish banks.

[Takket]

13. "stable country "

So he's saying the country is stable? His contemporaries keep telling us we are going off the rails lol.

[Dreamer Tatum]

15. Ha. There are people on DU who think the same thing.

Only that people like Santorum would be doing the killing.

[Douglas Carpenter]

17. this has been standard fundamentalist rhetoric since I was a child - which was a long time ago

2 Timothy 3:12King James Version (KJV)

12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.


Feeling persecuted is in their minds an affirmation of their salvation. Rich Santorum is simply playing on this crazy - mixed up notion. Although, it is certainly possible that he might believe it.

[malaise]

18. I disagree with you

He would undertake them for anyone who disagrees with his religious perspective.

He is one seriously sick man.