Some of Rick Santorum's advisers are frustrated and angry that reporters are focusing more on their candidate's statements about Satan than on his positions on the issues. Here in Arizona Tuesday, Santorum faced repeated questioning about portions of a 2008 speech at a Catholic university in Florida in which he said, "Satan is attacking the great institutions of America."
Much hilarity ensued amongst the secular Statists when Santorum's statement about Satan was brought to light.
The Santorum team recently punched back, stating that according to a 2007 Gallup poll, 70 percent of us believe in The Devil and 69 percent of us believe in hell. This put Santorum's statement in the middle of the American mainstream.
You can look it up. 70 percent of us believe that God created a being that rebelled against him, and that this Evil One sometimes tempts us into doing bad things, causes crops to perish, created Cash For Clunkers, the Texas Department of Transportation, and the stimulus package.
I'm on the State Libertarian Executive Platform Committee this year, and I'm going to try to get an anti-Satanic influence plank added to this year's statement.
Satan doesn't do this crap.
We do it.
If there is an evil being who is in rebellion against God, we need to stop blaming him for our actions and our votes. Who needs Satan when we have the electorate?
Agreed? Good.
Sorry for the digression.
In addition to believing in Satan, 37% of us believe that houses can be haunted, 21% of us believe in witches, and 25% of us believe in Astrology.
As of February 23rd, 2012, 45% of us believe that Barack Obama is doing a good job.
24% of us believe that extraterrestrial beings have visited earth.
44% of us believe that the auto bailout was a good thing.
21% believe that we can communicate with the dead.
As of February 23rd, 2012, 45% of us believe that Barack Obama is doing a good job.
47% of Americans believe that the rich should be giving Washington more money to waste.
29% of American League baseball fans say that the New York Yankees are their favorite team.
Here's a quaint one: 32% of Americans still believe that Global Warming will be a threat to themselves or their way of life within their lifetimes.
As of February 23rd, 2012, 45% of us believe that Barack Obama is doing a good job.
42% of us don't want to repeal ObamaCare.
26% of Americans believe in Clairvoyance, the ability to see the past or predict the future.
As of February 23rd, 2012, 45% of us believe that Barack Obama is doing a good job.
I thought that all of those facts were interesting.
Much hilarity ensued amongst the secular Statists when Santorum's statement about Satan was brought to light.
The Santorum team recently punched back, stating that according to a 2007 Gallup poll, 70 percent of us believe in The Devil and 69 percent of us believe in hell. This put Santorum's statement in the middle of the American mainstream.
You can look it up. 70 percent of us believe that God created a being that rebelled against him, and that this Evil One sometimes tempts us into doing bad things, causes crops to perish, created Cash For Clunkers, the Texas Department of Transportation, and the stimulus package.
I'm on the State Libertarian Executive Platform Committee this year, and I'm going to try to get an anti-Satanic influence plank added to this year's statement.
Satan doesn't do this crap.
We do it.
If there is an evil being who is in rebellion against God, we need to stop blaming him for our actions and our votes. Who needs Satan when we have the electorate?
Agreed? Good.
Sorry for the digression.
In addition to believing in Satan, 37% of us believe that houses can be haunted, 21% of us believe in witches, and 25% of us believe in Astrology.
As of February 23rd, 2012, 45% of us believe that Barack Obama is doing a good job.
24% of us believe that extraterrestrial beings have visited earth.
44% of us believe that the auto bailout was a good thing.
21% believe that we can communicate with the dead.
As of February 23rd, 2012, 45% of us believe that Barack Obama is doing a good job.
47% of Americans believe that the rich should be giving Washington more money to waste.
29% of American League baseball fans say that the New York Yankees are their favorite team.
Here's a quaint one: 32% of Americans still believe that Global Warming will be a threat to themselves or their way of life within their lifetimes.
As of February 23rd, 2012, 45% of us believe that Barack Obama is doing a good job.
42% of us don't want to repeal ObamaCare.
26% of Americans believe in Clairvoyance, the ability to see the past or predict the future.
As of February 23rd, 2012, 45% of us believe that Barack Obama is doing a good job.
I thought that all of those facts were interesting.
3 comments:
Nice to see that the tide is changing on the whole anthropogenic/natural occurrence of global warming. Interested that they did not use the term "climate change".
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One of the quaintest things about (in particular) American Christianity is that (and I'm looking at the "arm-wrestling with Satan" pic as a good example) the Christ figure is universally portrayed as a handsome, flawlessly white Caucasian with beautiful shiny hair and a neat, well-kempt beard.
Which isn't really the sort of expected phenotype for the Middle East, is it?
We're not immune to the same thing here in the UK, of course; but my overwhelming impression is that images of Christ and his mother have got more north-European than ever over the past 10 years or so.
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