In America, what you really want is a president whose agenda is based on Christian theology.
A devout Roman Catholic who has risen to the top of Republican polls in recent days, Santorum said the Obama administration had failed to prevent gas prices rising and was using “political science” in the debate about climate change.
Obama’s agenda is “not about you. It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your jobs. It’s about some phony ideal. Some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology,” Santorum told supporters of the conservative Tea Party movement at a Columbus hotel.
I know Rick Santorum is right because the author of the Declaration of Independence and our third president wrote the following to our second president:
It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one . . . But this constitutes the craft, the power and the profit of the priests. Sweep away their gossamer fabrics of factitious religion, and they would catch no more flies. We should all then, like the Quakers, live without an order of priests, moralize for ourselves, follow the oracle of conscience, and say nothing about what no man can understand, nor therefore believe. – Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Adams (1813)
I believe Thomas Jefferson was a patriot and one of the most influential and important of our Founding Fathers. I also believe he would have less than zero use for Rick Santorum and his gossamer fabrics of factitious religion.