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Archae

(46,327 posts) Tue Apr 21, 2015, 12:59 PM Apr 2015

What the hell is a "secular theocracy?"

Doesn't make sense, then again, this is Sanctimonious Santorum...

Rick Santorum: Obama Established A Secular Theocracy

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Tuesday, 4/21/2015 12:20 pm

Rick Santorum appeared on Tony Perkins’s “Washington Watch” radio show yesterday to discuss national security threats from ISIS and Iran, but Perkins eventually moved the discussion to the “domestic threats” to the country: namely, gay marriage.

Perkins thanked Santorum for working with the Family Research Council on creating a short film about the dangers of marriage equality, which will be shown in participating churches on the Sunday before the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges.

Santorum told Perkins that, for the first time ever in U.S. history, religious liberty is under assault from a new secular theocratic system:

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-santorum-obama-established-secular-theocracy

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What the hell is a "secular theocracy?" (Original Post) Archae Apr 2015 OP

Something he made up... TreasonousBastard Apr 2015 #1

One of the new talking points. It goes along with the idea that people who understand that science Erich Bloodaxe BSN Apr 2015 #2

interesting how their opinions have the weight of almighty god behind them unblock Apr 2015 #4

An oxymoron Kelvin Mace Apr 2015 #3

It's dog whistle talk. Jackpine Radical Apr 2015 #5

It's briefly defined as "bull shit" MineralMan Apr 2015 #6

Santorum's projecting. Trillo Apr 2015 #7

The State of Utah For Freddie Apr 2015 #8

Oh, that's just down the hall from "Militant Apathy." Eleanors38 Apr 2015 #9

A theocrat's imagination. mmonk Apr 2015 #10

It makes perfect sense to the talibornagain hootinholler Apr 2015 #11

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

1. Something he made up...

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 01:01 PM

Apr 2015

or maybe it's like UU's.

Or Scientologists.

Anyway, I wish these guys would just STFU.

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)

2. One of the new talking points. It goes along with the idea that people who understand that science

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 01:03 PM

Apr 2015

is a real thing are actually just 'believers' in 'science as a religion', and thus delegitimatizing science as being based on logic and reasoning, and pretending it's just 'opinions' that people 'believe in'.

unblock

(52,227 posts)

4. interesting how their opinions have the weight of almighty god behind them

Reply to Erich Bloodaxe BSN (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 01:06 PM

Apr 2015

while anyone who disagrees with them is merely expressing a belief.

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)

3. An oxymoron

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 01:05 PM

Apr 2015

like "religious rationalist".

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

5. It's dog whistle talk.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 01:08 PM

Apr 2015

I think it means that Obama has put human concerns above God's will (i.e. has made a religion of secularism). Because of his fundie orientation, he may think "theocracy" is synonymous with "religion" or something.

Anyway, that's how I took it.

MineralMan

(146,308 posts)

6. It's briefly defined as "bull shit"

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 01:09 PM

Apr 2015

Trillo

(9,154 posts)

7. Santorum's projecting.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 01:15 PM

Apr 2015

I would presume a secular theocracy is something similar to a christian nation, a "set of secular laws based on religious texts," but which asserts that there is no religious basis.