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Santorum: All non-Catholics aren't Christians anymore - 2/19/2012 12:00:39 PM

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Santorum: Satan is Systematically Destroying America
The Religious Bigotry Of Rick Santorum

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...back in 2008, while a senior fellow of the neoconservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, we got a glimpse of what it is that is so churning under Rick Santorum's public face. In a speech, he quietly explained to students at Ave Maria University, in Naples, Florida that Satan, the "Father of Lies", is destroying America. Part of Satan's effort, according to Santorum, has been to so transform the mainline Protestant churches in America - that they are no longer even Christian.

This may come as a surprise to the 45 million people of the member communions of the National Council of Churches, such as The Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ and the Presbyterian Church (USA). But Santorum's view that the mainline churches have gone the way of Satan is unambiguous - as is his suggestion that his own Catholic Church remains Satan free.

From the transcript of his speech at Ave Maria University:

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Now you'd say, `wait, the Catholic Church'? No.

We all know that this country was founded on a Judeo-Christian ethic but the Judeo-Christian ethic was a Protestant Judeo-Christian ethic, sure the Catholics had some influence, but this was a Protestant country and the Protestant ethic, mainstream, mainline Protestantism, and of course we look at the shape of mainline Protestantism in this country and it is in shambles, it is gone from the world of Christianity as I see it.

I cannot recall any major pol challenging the legitimacy of anyone's religious traditions in the U.S. - let alone demonize some of the central religious traditions in the history of the country. This is of a piece with the far right attacks on Muslims, atheists and Jews - and should be denounced in the same terms.

This is what religious bigotry looks like.

I am reminded of the Southern Baptist Convention preacher who told my father that he could not join his Southern Baptist Convention church without first publically admitting his "sin" of being an ordained American Baptist Convention minister.

It appears that, in Santorum's eyes, all non-Roman Catholics are in the thrall of Satan and only Roman Catholics are truly Christian. Or that he sincerely believes that I, a follower of Jesus Christ for over 45 years but non-denominational, am as much, or as little, a Christian as our frequent Forum contributors who are atheists.

(Actually, I would prefer their company to Rick Santorum's company.

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