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

[tennman]

http://youtu.be/JMqrcOHJZwc

If this is a duplicate, I'm sorry, it's just a video that we all need to put on Facebook, Twitter and send to our Christian friends who are pro-Santorum.

Have you seen it? Can you imagine if Romney or Paul would've said this? The media and evangelicals would be freaking.

 

[Blue]

I think this could really hurt Santorum.

 

[CJLauderdale4]

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.

As a Protestant, I understand that Santorum is trying to say that the Protestant Christian Worldview is gone from the nation, and hard to find in today's society. But as usual, he cannot communicate anything correctly, and ends up alienating the evangelicals.

 

[tennman]

As a Protestant, I understand that Santorum is trying to say that the Protestant Christian Worldview is gone from the nation, and hard to find in today's society. But as usual, he cannot communicate anything correctly, and ends up alienating the evangelicals.

Really? I didn't think that's what he meant. But I wasn't sure. Either way, I hope it bites him in the BUTT! And I also read that Romney is putting $55 Million into fighting Santorum. Thank you Romney! Hehe...

 

[Danan]

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.

"Of the 55 delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, 49 were Protestants, and three were Roman Catholics (C. Carroll, D. Carroll, and Fitzsimons)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States#Religion

"NO PART" seems to be slightly exaggerating. And I seriously hate it to be on Santorums side of an argument. ;P

 

[KEEF]

Santorum said in 2008, "Protestants are gone from the world of Christianity as I see it."

[video=youtube;JMqrcOHJZwc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JMqrcOHJZwc[/video]


DRUDGE, DRUDGE, TWEET, DRUDGE!!! GET THIS VIRAL!!

 

[hells_unicorn]

According to the Jesuits who spawned the Opus Dei semi-masonic order that Rick Santorum has associations with, Protestantism has never been a part of the world of Christianity, and amongst themselves, this view has not changed in the Vatican despite all of the window-dressing styled accommodation speeches given by the former Grand Inquisitor Josef Ratzinger, let alone the General of the Jesuit Order and the Prelate in charge of the Opus Dei whom most likely have a more direct influence on particular parish Santorum belongs to.

 

[BuddyRey]

Good find!

 

[king_nothing_]

lol, wow. That should be spread everywhere, especially in the Bible Belt states.

 

[PierzStyx]

Why should this surprise Protestants? If the Catholic Church is truly God's church, and its clear Santorum believes it is, then all Protestants are by definition heretics and apostates having abandoned God's church to build up false churches. And heretics can't be Christians even if they use Christian language. It should be obvious that Catholicism assumes Protestants aren't Christians. Of course to be fair Protestants say the same about Catholics. After all they speak of "Christians (themselves) and Catholics" as two different things. So people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

 

[jmdrake]

Why should this surprise Protestants? If the Catholic Church is truly God's church, and its clear Santorum believes it is, then all Protestants are by definition heretics and apostates having abandoned God's church to build up false churches. And heretics can't be Christians even if they use Christian language. It should be obvious that Catholicism assumes Protestants aren't Christians. Of course to be fair Protestants say the same about Catholics. After all they speak of "Christians (themselves) and Catholics" as two different things. So people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Yeah. But then Santorum turns around and asks Protestants to vote for him as a "fellow Christian".

 

[Voluntary Man]

Why should this surprise Protestants? If the Catholic Church is truly God's church, and its clear Santorum believes it is, then all Protestants are by definition heretics and apostates having abandoned God's church to build up false churches. And heretics can't be Christians even if they use Christian language. It should be obvious that Catholicism assumes Protestants aren't Christians. Of course to be fair Protestants say the same about Catholics. After all they speak of "Christians (themselves) and Catholics" as two different things. So people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

True, but Santorum hasn't quite been advertising his Catholicism, now, has he? In fact, he's been doing his best to conceal it.

The way he's been packaging himself to evangelicals, you'd think he was Billy Graham...or Mike Huckabee circa 2008.

I wouldn't be surprised if 75% of Santorum's evangelical supporters thought he was a Baptist. He's truly shameless.


Having watched the clip, though, it's nothing I haven't said myself -- from a different perspective, of course. Clearly, he's talking to a Catholic audience, and the comment is meant to denigrate Protestantism, and to compare Catholicism favorably to it; this may be what bites him in the ass. Although, from a perspective of social conservatism (e.g., positions on divorce, abortion, and homosexuality), the Catholic church IS far more conservative than mainline Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, and Presbyterian denominations; gotta give him that.

 

[Beorn]

We've been having an ongoing conversation about this here:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...Warning-quot-(attacks-mainline-Protestantism)

 

[Aratus]

i keep on saying mike huckabee is going to have to sheepdip his straying HucksArmy flock in 2016!!!

i had a feeling that rick santorum's take on the universe is uniquely his own but that he has a habit

of telling people what he thinks they want to hear. this contest has had its very memorable moments.

 

[Moo2400]

This is great. I'm gonna use this to convert all my Protestant friends who have a big hard on for Rick Santorum to Ron Paul.

Remember: Romney is Mormon, Santorum and Gingrich are Catholics, Ron Paul is the ONLY Protestant in the republican race. Protestants make up the largest group of evangelicals in this country and are a big republican voting bloc, this will matter to them.

 

[Agorism]

 

[Beorn]

He's attacking mainline Protestants. In many conservative evangelical culture warrior minds mainline=liberal because all of those denominations are either ordaining and marrying gays or currently have an internal conflict over the issue. Also, mainline churches have a historical attachment the social gospel which many conservative Christians see as a distortion of the true gospel.

Bottom line is that you can spin it if you want, but if your audience figures out what Santorum is referring to then they are unlikely to be offended and inclined to agree.

 

[jmdrake]

He's attacking mainline Protestants. In many conservative evangelical culture warrior minds mainline=liberal because all of those denominations are either ordaining and marrying gays or currently have an internal conflict over the issue. Also, mainline churches have a historical attachment the social gospel which many conservative Christians see as a distortion of the true gospel.

Bottom line is that you can spin it if you want, but if your audience figures out what Santorum is referring to then they are unlikely to be offended and inclined to agree.

If the audience are conservative members of the United Methodist and American Baptist denominations or if his audience is sensitive enough to the Catholic/Protestant divide to realize Santorum's hypocrisy on this issue they will likely be offended.

 

[tennman]

Please Digg this at http://digg.com/news/politics/santorum_said_protestants_are_gone_from_the_world_of_christianity

Every little bit to chink his armor.

 

[Sola_Fide]

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.

Yes, you are right. Right or wrong, those early religious tests were meant to keep Roman Catholics from holding office. The puritans had, just a generation before, been the direct recipients of merciless persecution by the Roman state-church. This American experiment in liberty can't be understood without a knowledge of the war between the worldviews of Calvinism and Romanism.

http://kevincraig.us/protestant.htm