Santorum, who is Catholic, said that the separation of church and state had “disastrous consequences,” including “the privatization of faith” and a tradition of separating faith and politics began, which he called, “A lie.”
And he went back 1,000 years to paint an archaic picture of Islam:
The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical,”
And that is what the perception is by the American left who hates Christendom. They hate Christendom. They hate Western civilization at the core. That's the problem.
It gets worse. Santorum also said:
What I'm talking about is onward American soldiers. What we're talking about are core American values. ‘All men are created equal' — that's a Christian value, but it's an American value. It's become part of our national religion, if you will.
The point I was trying to make was that the national faith, the national ideal, is rooted in the Christian ideal — in the Judeo-Christian concept of the person.
The concept that all men are created equal is often attributed to Thomas Jefferson. However, Thomas Hobbes proposed an early variant of equality among men in his treatise The Leviathan.
This is not a biblical concept. Parents could kill their children in biblical times and slavery was permitted. There were few concepts of human equality among the ancient civilizations.
Separation of church and state is rooted in colonial history. Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli makes this abundantly clear.
Santorum is a political troglodyte.
source: Wikipedia and http://www.thepajamapundit.com/2011/03/rick-santorum-is-idiot.html
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