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2016 Postmortem

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Fri Feb 17, 2012, 08:17 PM Feb 2012

Santorum: Satan is Systematically Destroying America (audio link, transcript) [View all]

Santorum: Satan is Systematically Destroying America
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-satan-systematically-destroying-america

excerpt:

This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war. This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country - the United States of America. If you were Satan, who would you attack in this day and age? There is no one else to go after other than the United States and that has been the case now for almost two hundred years, once America's preeminence was sown by our great Founding Fathers...

And so what we saw this domino effect, once the colleges fell and those who were being education in our institutions, the next was the church. 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. So they attacked mainline Protestantism, they attacked the Church, and what better way to go after smart people who also believe they’re pious to use both vanity and pride to also go after the Church.

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Audio below Tx4obama Feb 2012 #1
he's nuts. DesertFlower Feb 2012 #2
beyond nuts flakey_foont Feb 2012 #4
wonder if he saw the movie DesertFlower Feb 2012 #6
Well, let's see, who do we know who just loves the Republican Party? Denninmi Feb 2012 #3
Exactly. Maybe Dana Carvey will consider doing NAO Feb 2012 #5
hey Rick, calling Protestantism Satanic provis99 Feb 2012 #7
I think he was referring to the "liberal" wing of Protestants represented by the mainstream historic Douglas Carpenter Feb 2012 #13
fundamentalists think they are the mainline church, provis99 Feb 2012 #25
Rick's favorite Restaurant Redstate Bluegirl Feb 2012 #8
If Satan truly wanted to destroy America he would join the republican mysuzuki2 Feb 2012 #9
Santorum = sanitarium Rosa Luxemburg Feb 2012 #10
Rupert Murdoch Ebadlun Feb 2012 #11
in hardline fundamentalist Protestant circles this would not be an unusual belief Douglas Carpenter Feb 2012 #12
And how large a voting block do we think hardline fundamentalist Protestants represent? renie408 Feb 2012 #19
about 40% believe in the literal Adam and Eve story - I would surmise that at least half of those Douglas Carpenter Feb 2012 #20
Its easy to answer poll questions. It's HARD to actually be a hard core fundamentalist. renie408 Feb 2012 #21
oh I agree that in final analysis he will scare even most Evangelicals Douglas Carpenter Feb 2012 #22
the type of fundamentalism I was raised as NAO Feb 2012 #24
Oh bullshit. He doesn't even MENTION Ralph Reed. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #14
Dang you mean Satan isn't Ralph's nickname? whistler162 Feb 2012 #16
I used to simply refer to him as "the Anti-Christ". There are too many of those to count. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #23
In God We Trust GeorgeGist Feb 2012 #15
The sad part is tfrey1225 Feb 2012 #17
this is the kind of shit we have to keep quiet until after Romney is out. grantcart Feb 2012 #18
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