Rick Santorum Santorum Says Protestants 'Gone from the world of Christianity'

[otherone]

He is completely wrong.
Catholics had NO PART in the forming of the nation.

You probably should have googled "Maryland" before making such a silly comment.

 

[Southron]

What in the world is a Protestant Judeo-Christian ethic?

 

[Danan]

What in the world is a Protestant Judeo-Christian ethic?

If it's the base of Santorums morality: probably killing Moslems and intimidate gay people.

 

[opinionatedfool]

I put in on my facebook. Spread this around.

 

[BlackTerrel]

He said "mainline Protestantism". That is a difference. For instance the Church I was raised in is not considered "mainline" even though it is Protestant.

These guys are a minority of Protestants:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainline_Protestant

 

[LibertyEagle]

Personally, I'd rather get him for his implication in his ads that he was in the military, when he clearly was not. <--- This is the kind of thing that will royally piss off older conservatives.

 

[hells_unicorn]

He is completely wrong.
Catholics had NO PART in the forming of the nation.
IN FACT, Catholics were initially NOT ALLOWED to hold an office in most States because they took and oath to the Pope, and the original Protestants in America were still living per the original Westminster Confession of Faith, which cited that the Pope was the anti-christ. Of course, ALL Protestant faiths that still use the Westminster Confession do not believe in this.

This is not 100% accurate, though it is closer to the truth than anything Santorum has uttered. The so-called states/colonies not allowing RC office holders excludes both Pennsylvania and Maryland, the former of which produced 2 signers of the U.S. Constitution in Thomas Fitzsimmons (who also represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress) and Daniel Carroll, whose cousin Charles Carroll of Carrollton was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and also invested the most capital of any of the founders into the Revolutionary War. Charles Carroll was also a major supporter of George Washington's presidency.

Bear in mind, the Carroll family and Fitzsimmons were of Irish extract and at that time the country still had a strongly Augustinian tendency to it so they were closer theologically to Calvin and Knox than most of the ones that came over during the potato famine when the country had been pretty well overrun by Jesuit theologians. Furthermore, unlike Santorum and most other Southern and Eastern European Romanists, the Irish that were here during the colonial period had a much stronger cultural affinity with the Protestant majority that was primarily English and Scots-Irish, so I don't fully see your statements as out of line, though your history on the whole was wanting on the subject of Catholics not have a say in the founding of this country, though their say was very limited next to the roles of the likes of the Adams family and Patrick Henry.

Believe me when I say this, as an Old Catholic who would be branded a heretic because of my strongly Augustinian/Jansenist theology and enjoy religious liberty primarily because of Calvinist and Lutheran resistors of Rome's authoritarian heresy, I have no problem with anyone admonishing Santorum for his idiotic rantings, especially given that the modern brand of Catholicism that he represents in the Opus Dei is tailored specifically for the purpose of destroying Protestantism and encouraging subservience to arbitrary papal power.

 

[Sola_Fide]

This is not 100% accurate, though it is closer to the truth than anything Santorum has uttered. The so-called states/colonies not allowing RC office holders excludes both Pennsylvania and Maryland, the former of which produced 2 signers of the U.S. Constitution in Thomas Fitzsimmons (who also represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress) and Daniel Carroll, whose cousin Charles Carroll of Carrollton was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and also invested the most capital of any of the founders into the Revolutionary War. Charles Carroll was also a major supporter of George Washington's presidency.

Bear in mind, the Carroll family and Fitzsimmons were of Irish extract and at that time the country still had a strongly Augustinian tendency to it so they were closer theologically to Calvin and Knox than most of the ones that came over during the potato famine when the country had been pretty well overrun by Jesuit theologians. Furthermore, unlike Santorum and most other Southern and Eastern European Romanists, the Irish that were here during the colonial period had a much stronger cultural affinity with the Protestant majority that was primarily English and Scots-Irish, so I don't fully see your statements as out of line, though your history on the whole was wanting on the subject of Catholics not have a say in the founding of this country, though their say was very limited next to the roles of the likes of the Adams family and Patrick Henry.

Believe me when I say this, as an Old Catholic who would be branded a heretic because of my strongly Augustinian/Jansenist theology and enjoy religious liberty primarily because of Calvinist and Lutheran resistors of Rome's authoritarian heresy, I have no problem with anyone admonishing Santorum for his idiotic rantings, especially given that the modern brand of Catholicism that he represents in the Opus Dei is tailored specifically for the purpose of destroying Protestantism and encouraging subservience to arbitrary papal power.

Good post.

 

[SpiritOf1776_J4]

This is not 100% accurate, though it is closer to the truth than anything Santorum has uttered. The so-called states/colonies not allowing RC office holders excludes both Pennsylvania and Maryland, the former of which produced 2 signers of the U.S. Constitution in Thomas Fitzsimmons (who also represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress) and Daniel Carroll, whose cousin Charles Carroll of Carrollton was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and also invested the most capital of any of the founders into the Revolutionary War. Charles Carroll was also a major supporter of George Washington's presidency.

Bear in mind, the Carroll family and Fitzsimmons were of Irish extract and at that time the country still had a strongly Augustinian tendency to it so they were closer theologically to Calvin and Knox than most of the ones that came over during the potato famine when the country had been pretty well overrun by Jesuit theologians. Furthermore, unlike Santorum and most other Southern and Eastern European Romanists, the Irish that were here during the colonial period had a much stronger cultural affinity with the Protestant majority that was primarily English and Scots-Irish, so I don't fully see your statements as out of line, though your history on the whole was wanting on the subject of Catholics not have a say in the founding of this country, though their say was very limited next to the roles of the likes of the Adams family and Patrick Henry.

Believe me when I say this, as an Old Catholic who would be branded a heretic because of my strongly Augustinian/Jansenist theology and enjoy religious liberty primarily because of Calvinist and Lutheran resistors of Rome's authoritarian heresy, I have no problem with anyone admonishing Santorum for his idiotic rantings, especially given that the modern brand of Catholicism that he represents in the Opus Dei is tailored specifically for the purpose of destroying Protestantism and encouraging subservience to arbitrary papal power.

Looks well said, but my research had led me to believe that Charles Carrol was the only catholic that signed the Declaration of Independence. This should be compared to Samuel Adams speech made before the signing of the Declaration, which was about popery and the divine rights of kings, and how we were ending it. Obviously, none of the signers had any problems with this, they were for it. Contrawise, 7-8 of the signers were at the time or had been professional ministers, and many more had training to be such or were raised in clergy family.

There is more to religion and history and our founding then meets the eye. Remember, the whole royal / serf system of europe was primary based as a religious system.

 

[freeforall]

And I also read that Romney is putting $55 Million into fighting Santorum. Thank you Romney! Hehe...

OH!!! I just realized why the campaign is waiting to take out Romney last! /light bulb