Santorum for Inquisitor 2012

In the view of Rick Santorum and his ilk, the United States of America can only be a great country if it pleases God. And only Rick Santorum and other evangelical Christians like him know what pleases God. Their knowledge of what pleases God is based on statements written thousands of years ago by people unknown to us in languages few of us can speak, in certain letters and books selected among hundreds by various churches over the centuries. Truly, what knowledge could be more certain?

You might ask, for example, what did these letters and books specifically say about God's wishes for fertilized human eggs? Nothing directly, from what I have seen. God allegedly said to go forth and multiply, but did not say, "heedlessly." Does this absence of a direct statement fill Santorumites with caution on the issue of contraception? No. Their religious authorities have spoken on the matter. Despite any direct Biblical statement about it, their religious authorities have divined that contraception displeases God. To question this now is to show lack of faith in God. Lack of faith in God leads to eternal damnation. Whatever their religious authorities have declared to be God's desire on the issue must be true and is not subject to discussion, science or reason. And so it is with every social, economic and political issue about which their authorities have spoken.

This would not bother me so much if that was the end of the matter. Unfortunately, Santorumites believe that God is not pleased until every citizen of the nation is forced to do what they believe pleases God. Until every citizen does what pleases God, in their belief, the nation will suffer!

Ladies and Gentlemen, it is at this point that you and I part ways. In my view, our freedom of religion does not give your religion the freedom to stomp on my religious beliefs and impose your doctrine upon me.