Among the many gifts the Sky Troll has bestowed upon us such as disease, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, drought, and starvation, we can add conception resulting from rape. At least according to Rick "kiss-the-stillborn-baby, man-on-dog-sex" Santorum.
I didn't think that your God would see things the way Santorum's God does in this situation. But this is exactly the problem. Whose God is God? Whose God rules?
I think that the problem, Tak, is not "whose God is God?" God is God, if you are talking about the Christian God. However, what I meant by my comment (and probably what leads to a lot of confusion in a lot of discussions) is that the comment means "Santorum is interpreting God to fit his perception of reality," not the reality of his faith or any other faith. He is supposed to be Catholic, yes? He does not espouse any beliefs that appears to be a Catholic belief that I understand . . .
The man is nothing but a facade. If he truly understood the faith he's suppose to embrace he wouldn't spout off nonsense. It's true--the Catholic faith preaches against homosexuality--but his comments are pretty well outside mainstream Catholic understanding. Outside the understanding of the Opus Dei? That, I don't know.
Opus Dei. I'd almost forgotten about them. What's worrying to me is not so much how this person or that interprets God but how far they go in attempting to foist that interpretation on to society through the power of the state. All the Republican faction candidates with the possible exception of Paul play up their relationship with God and seem quite ready to impose their version of God's rule book on the rest of us, and their supporters expect this and applaud them for it. The Democratic faction does it too of course. Claiming God for your own is kind of a staple of American politics.
One should never forget the Opus Dei when discussing conservative Catholics. The OD are not the whacked out nutjobs that the media or that Hollywood would have you believe, but they are far from mainstream. It's not too far a leap to assume that Santorum at least identifies with them, since he was in attendance at one, if not more OD-related events. Despite saying that, I honestly believe that the candidates, with the exception of Paul, will forget God the minute they've been sworn in. They are playing to the people who were once referred to as "The Moral Majority." Once they've served the candidate's purpose, the candidate will drop any and all of semblance of adhering to anyone's rule book or moral code--until it's time for re-election. It's a sad story, but no different than any politician on either side of the aisle using and dropping any population that gets them into office.
