Yep. That’s why the Obamacare bill was rushed in a hush hush fashion. Mandatory abortions.
Whereas Santorum stands for the freedom to choose life and does not want to control you.
Only if you don’t want one. Otherwise, you can’t have one.
Moved Elections --> the Pit.
First, a common mistake about ND: their True God is football.
Second, he probably thinks they’re godless hotbeds of liberal thought, differing from him (at least) on evolution, immigration, the environment, social welfare, etc.
Well hey, at least he’s apparently willing to admit that money does heavily influence election results! :rolleyes:
I know this is just a joke, but strangely enough, Santorum mostly attended public school, except for one year in a Roman Catholic high school. One freaking year. Where you’d think he’d have learned that Catholicism isn’t anti-science. (Evolution, environmentalism, etc)
He also went to PennState. (Make your own Sandusky joke there)
Mmmm, no, that would be crude and disgusting. ** Vinn**y can have that one.
My *guess *- it’s pure speculation - is that he sees the Crusades as a reaction to Islam conquering regions by force. Islamic forces took Spain by force, and did battle with Charles “the hammer” in France. Sort of Christianity’s home turf. So in an early ‘war on terror,’ crusaders took the fight to the terrorists.
It’s a comforting narrative if your ancestors were crusaders.
Except the first crusade came four centuries later. And on the opposite side of the world. That’s like saying Germany invading Alsace in WW1 was not, in fact, German aggression but striking back at Henri II.
What’s a few hundred years in the Dark Ages?
Like I said, speculation. But I wouldn’t be at all surprised, if pressed, Santorum’s explanation for the Crusades was some flavor of “curbing Islamic aggression.”
On the Catholic priest sex abuse scandals in Boston:
Undoubtedly. Jerusalem was taken by Islamic forces and had to be taken back for Christendom. So, clearly, “they” started it. A quick glance at wiki will make it clear how many theories there are for why the First Crusade got off the ground - not a few of which cite Islamic aggression in the preceding years.
Unsurprisingly, Santorum godwinizes his anti-Obama rhetoric:
So, a little old Chinese man and a little old Jewish man are sitting at a park bench, the Chinese man is feeding pigeons, when the old Jewish man squints at him and then suddenly whacks him across the knees with his cane.
“Owww! Goddamit! What did you do that for?”
“That was for Pearl Harbor!”
“You dumb ass! I’m Chinese, it was the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor!”
“Chinese, Japanese, Burmese, what difference does it make?”
The old Chinese picks up his cane, and whacks the old Jew across the knees and yells:
“That’s for sinking the Titanic!”
“You stupid putz! An iceberg sank the Titanic!”
“Iceberg, Weissberg, Goldberg…what difference does it make?”
has anyone ever seen Santorum and Starving Artist in the same room together? I mean the similarities in reasoning are startling; blame the evil lib’rals for everything wrong in society.
To be quite candid, I’m not comfortable with the use, in contemporary discourse (particularly contemporary political discourse) of the word “Christendom” itself. It bears too many connotations of countries having “official” religions, and terms such as “blasphemy” having legal meaning in the civil and criminal codes.
It’s probably just my personal baggage.
Santorum really should pump the breaks on all the Christian talk. It’s not going to take the evangelicals long before they realize he ain’t a real Christian, with all that Pope loving, Mary worshipping, and funny Latin talking them Catholics do.
Rick: What IS this frothy mix of fecal matter and cum sliding out of your bunghole, sir?
Mr. Santorum Y U NO LIKE POPE?
About the same as a few hundred years in the modern age, give or take a year or two to adjust for inflation ;).