Rick Santorum Ayatollah Rick warns America of the danger of rock concerts, the NBA, and Protestantism

[Agorism]

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In a 2008 speech at Ave Maria University, Rick Santorum, a devout Catholic, warned about the dangers of “the NBA” and “rock concerts,” but also said that while Protestants founded America, mainline Protestantism is in such “shambles” that “it is gone from the world of Christianity as I see it”:

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. [...]
Whether its sensuality of vanity of the famous in America, they are peacocks on display and they have taken their poor behavior and made it fashionable. The corruption of culture, the corruption of manners, the corruption of decency is now on display whether it’s the NBA or whether it’s a rock concert or whether it’s on a movie set.
-Santorum

Mainline Protestantism is one of the oldest and most common religious families in America. Generally considered to be non-evangelical, non-Catholic Christians, including Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Methodists, northern Baptists, most Lutherans, Presbyterians, and other denominations, they represent about 45 million Americans. Making up about 16 percent of the electorate, they’re pretty evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats.
But in his speech, first flagged by Right Wing Watch, Santorum basically says these millions of Christian-Americans are not real Christians. At a time when Santorum and his party are grasping at straws to claim the Obama administration is waging war on Christianity, it seems that it was the candidate himself who declared war on one of the biggest groups of American Christians four years ago.
Meanwhile, the rest of Santorum’s speech dwells on his now-typical hyper-Puritanical warnings about “Satin,” and the dangers of “sensuality,” “rock concerts,” and “the NBA” that sound like they were plagiarized from Dana Carvey’s Church Lady skits on SNL.

 

[eduardo89]

Kind of agree with him on the non-mainline Protestant part. They're the fundamentalist Zionist Christians.

 

[GraniteHills]

Meanwhile, the rest of Santorum’s speech dwells on his now-typical hyper-Puritanical warnings about “Satin,”

The silky bedspread linen that Rick wants banned because it causes people to do icky, immoral things?

 

[LBennett76]

Wonder what he considers Southern Baptists as since they weren't included in that list. (I'm Southern Baptist.)

 

[trey4sports]

i wonder if Ayatollah Rick would allow dancing in America?

 

[Demigod]

Kind of agree with him on the non-mainline Protestant part. They're the fundamentalist Zionist Christians.

The Catholic church on the other hand is a fraudulent/corporation/bank/children abusing institution/war machine and I don't see anyone complaining

 

[playboymommy]

i wonder if Ayatollah Rick would allow dancing in America?

Dancing wasn't permitted in the religion I grew up in. Neither was drinking, smoking, gambling, or card playing. Perhaps that's why my father detests Ron Paul so and supports Rick. They worked in the rotary club together. They like to control people.

The Catholic church on the other hand is a fraudulent/corporation/bank/children abusing institution/war machine and I don't see anyone complaining

Have you seen the documentary Deliver Us from Evil?

 

[unknown]

LOL @ Ayatollah Rick.

Whered that come from?

 

[Agorism]

What exactly is a rotary club

 

[LisaNY]

LOL @ Ayatollah Rick.

Whered that come from?

Tom Dilorenzo

http://www.24hgold.com/english/contributor.aspx?article=3800514004G10020&contributor=Tom+DiLorenzo

 

[playboymommy]

What exactly is a rotary club

This.

 

[AngryCanadian]

Rick Santorum is finished this is a direct attack on our liberties and the GOP and NeoCons thought Ron Paul was crazy well now i wonder what they would say about Rick santorum?

 

[Feeding the Abscess]

Rick Santorum is finished this is a direct attack on our liberties and the GOP and NeoCons thought Ron Paul was crazy well now i wonder what they would say about Rick santorum?

We don't have to wonder.

Bill Kristol is already supporting Santorum.

 

[rockerrockstar]

Another good reason not to vote for Rick. I go to many concerts and watch a lot of movies. This guy seems to be one of the crazy people that would make strict laws so we can't have any fun.

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Ayatollah Rick

Let's keep calling him that. Worked so well for Grayson:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWdyf9eSkqQ

 

[Cabal]

Oh fuck off already, Rick. I'm so sick of hearing this douchebag's self-righteous, sanctimonious, perpetual regurgitation of nonsensical shit.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Is this a real quote (this time)? There was a spoof article about Santorum last week:

For the past week, Santorum has been using his campaign to take aim at an issue he feels to be the single most dangerous force in America today: Satanism in heavy metal. “If you listen to the radio today, many of these brand new, so-called heavy metal music bands like Black Sabbath, Venom, The WASP and Iron Maiden use satanic imagery to corrupt the minds of young people,” announced Santorum at a 10,000 dollar a plate sock-hop in Valdosta, Georgia on Thursday.
...
In the past, Santorum has accused heavy metal of being the cause of some of the worst crimes in American history including the attempt on the life of Ronald Reagan in 1981, 9/11 and the passage of Obama’s Health Care Bill. He stepped up his rhetoric in a speech on Wednesday when he implied that heavy metal is the cause of many forms of mental illness as well as lactose intolerance.

http://tyrannyoftradition.com/2012/02/10/rick-santorum-declares-war-on-heavy-metal/

 

[heavenlyboy34]

“If you listen to the radio today, many of these brand new, so-called heavy metal music bands like Black Sabbath, Venom, The WASP and Iron Maiden use satanic imagery to corrupt the minds of young people,” announced Santorum at a 10,000 dollar a plate sock-hop in Valdosta, Georgia on Thursday.

WTF? Those bands are all 30-40 years old. There's nothing "brand new" or "so-called" about them.

In response to Santorum’s metal onslaught, Mitt Romney officially denounced his earlier position of “tolerance towards all fans of extreme music”. This, in spite of the fact that GWAR played his inauguration as governor of Massachusetts back in 2003.

LOLZ!!!

 

[azxd]

Rick Santorum is finished this is a direct attack on our liberties and the GOP and NeoCons thought Ron Paul was crazy well now i wonder what they would say about Rick santorum?

He will be worshipped, and we will be expected to join the Party, or be considered Potential Terrorists by said Party.

 

[azxd]

Another good reason not to vote for Rick. I go to many concerts and watch a lot of movies. This guy seems to be one of the crazy people that would make strict laws so we can't have any fun.

Someone should turn Ted Nugent loose on him