Rick Santorum tells Ave Maria University students they are "warriors for God"

Looks like the religious culture wars are heating up since Sarah Palin was nominated as VP. Pardon me if I entertain the thought that this has been planned for a long time. The battle for the heart and soul of America truly is underway.

From Right Wing Watch:

Santorum Hails Ave Maria’s Religious Warriors

I find this speech chilling.



Ave Maria is a self-sustaining city in Southwest Florida.



It looked like this in 2007.


Construction Photo, circa Jan. 2007
http://goodspeedupdate.com/?p=2081

It looks like this today.


Picture courtesy of Aesthetic Grounds

Rick Santorum "hailed the right-wing school for producing class after class of warriors for God who are desperately needed in order to win the “spiritual war” that is threatening to destroy America."

Too many believe that.

I seem to remember it was the founder of Domino's Pizza that started this place.

Since hubby and I learned about how he is, we find it hard to get Domino's Pizza anymore.

There's a place in LA named Joe Peeps. Really good New York pizza, yum! They used to put their pizzas in a box that read "This is not a domino." It was pretty funny at that time.

That's the rule for eating Domino's pizza.

:)

:D

is from Baton Rouge. His father had an affair with a woman he worked with and dumped his wife for her, but they all put on a hyper-religious facade and are "community leaders." The kid didn't fall far from the tree and is pretty much a scumbag too. And he's not very bright, hence attending a 4th tier law school.

What an ass hole he is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorum_(sexual_neologism)

"We're on a mission for God!"

We were in college together ages ago. He's going to make a good priest, though we just plain can't talk politics anymore. That said, he still always errs on the side of mercy. They haven't entirely corrupted him.

He had to take some classes to prepare for seminary, as his first degree didn't meet all the requirements, and then he had to take some time off for health reasons.

A good priest is someone who does it out of love, not out of a need for power. He's doing it for love, and he's a good man.

school to me. They would never associate themselves with Santorum. Sounds like some weird fringe cult.

Opus Dei are the worker bees and KOM are the elite of the same gang.

I don't consider these people to be mainstream catholics. They're a fringe cult that like money and power and use it to promote their right-wing reactionary agenda.

deification for the Virgin Mary thus squaring
the Trinity.

If that happens they'll have to change the
nativity story a bit and poor Joseph is
out of the picture even as a bystander.

The fifth prophesy is the really scary one and it partially explains their promotion of the latest Crusade.

Has it been revealed?

http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/May/may14txt.htm

And now the Fifth Prophecy: Following are the exact words of Bernadette: "Your Holiness, the Virgin has told me that when the 20th century passes away, with it will pass away the Age of Science. A new Age of Faith will dawn around the world. Proof will come at last that it was Our Lord Who created the world and man, and this will be the beginning of the end for the scientists, in whom the people will cease to believe. Millions will return to Christ, and as the numbers of believers swell, the power of the Church will grow as never before. Also causing many to turn their backs on science will be the arrogance of physicians who use their knowledge to create an abomination. These doctors will find the means to combine the essence of a man and the essence of a beast. The people will know in their hearts that this is wrong, but they will be powerless to stop the spawning of such monsters. In the end they will hunt scientists down as ravening wolves are hunted. On the eve of the year 2000, a final clash between the followers of Mohammed and the Christian nations of the world will take place. A furious battle will be waged in which 5,650,451 soldiers are killed and a bomb of great power will fall on a city in Persia. But in the fullness of time, the sign of the cross will prevail and all of Islam will be forced to convert to Christianity. There will follow a century of peace and joy as all the nations of the earth lay down their swords and shields. Great prosperity will follow as the Lord showers His blessings down upon the faithful. No family on earth will know poverty or hunger. One person in ten will be granted by God the power to heal and they will cast out all sicknesses from those who seek their aid. Many will rejoice at these miracles. The 21st Century will come to be known as the Second Golden Age of Mankind."

When he was in the Senate this shit was just plain sad.

BTW: That's going to be a lonely school unless they really have a line to god on real estate sales.

:rofl: Transsubstantiate that!

no condoms in the stores, and no contraceptives in the pharmacy

It'll be a cult soon enough, the death of the Catholic Church and the birth of a new Crusades...is it in hurricane territory at least?

Oh yeah, it gets worse.



Nearest I can tell, as soon as they take out those Muslims and a few Democratic leaders, they're going after their non-Catholic allies. It might be interesting to watch if there's anyone left watching.

21st Century Crusades. "Stop the World! I wanna get off!"

edit: oh for heaven's sake, I forgot the link from the article: http://www.thebulletin.us/site/index.cfm?newsid=20110512&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=8

blech, btw, just blech :puke:

Not with the hatred and targeting of groups. Never. It is sad and it is scary.

I wonder if this is was what the "red baiting" crap of McCarthyism felt like at the time?

It's just mind boggling.

We all heard of Joe McCarthy, but the hearings were not as much in our face as the right wing extremists are now. Not everyone had TV then with good reception, and we usually saw snippets of the hearings in the movie news in the theaters. Oops, giving my age away.

Not as prominently displayed for viewing as the extremists are now.

bitch please.

thank god my uncle, who IS a catholic priest, is a cool guy, not a nutjob. the sign outside his church, and i really needed to photo this, last month was "harvest the fruits of god's love, not religious nuts" or something to that effect.

having him in my family sure got me out of a lot of trouble in school.... "i'm sorry sister, my dad's busy. is it okay if my dad's brother, the father, comes instead?" :D

only time in my life i felt sorry for the nuns that taught me (outside of math and history... but those are another story)

Help!!!!!

Was the horseshoe shape intentional irony?

"warriors"? Yeah. Riiight. :eyes:

156 men, 218 women ... 317 non-Hispanic white, 6 blacks

They don't do battle except with the soul. :eyes:

Pretty pathetic.

what a sanctimonious piece of shit :puke:

I've told my parents about this and it's either Papa John's or Pizza Hut if we have to get the fast food pizza now a days.

This is total crap. :grr: :puke:

they are all damn liars..

This country was NOT founded upon religion, Yes, the first colonies were religious nutters, but that was not when this country was established. It was established after the drafting of the Constitution, which last I checked, makes no mention to ANY religion or gawd. I think Santorum and his ilk are the father of lies, that deceitful fucking pig bastard.

What those people want to see, is American fall. Their end times bullshit is not at all possible without intervention and their meddling into Government affairs. Religion is evil.

They don't care if it is true. Just saying it was founded as a Christian nation gets them all fired up.

Truth no longer matters in this country since our media became corporate.

He's allegedly omnipotent. Shouldn't he be able to solve his own problems?

I was raised in the Southern Baptist Church. When I was a little girl that song excited me because it made me feel important.

Maybe that is how they rally people to attack now. It never used to be this ugly between the religious and those who were not so much so.

McCain on purpose ignited this battle again. Palin is being used.

Only your side is the only one fighting it along "spiritual" lines.

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while Santoram cried after Bob Casey destroyed him in 2006

It looks to me like someone is putting their words in the mouth of a celestial being
that they know full well isn't going to come to his own defense.

In other words, "I AM THE WORD OF GOD. I KNOW IT BECAUSE I SAID SO." How many times
have people rationalized atrocities they have committed over the centuries wit THAT one?

How are you doing? I saw your post about your meeting with Helen Thomas. That was special. She is special.

I am feeling a little worn out to tell you the truth. I met with Helen at her home
in DC ten days ago. Since then, I was running back and forth between Washington and
Northern Virginia for a day (Monday was a holiday, I was told, not that I had any
of it!), then up to New Jersey and New York City for two days, then back to the Rheinland
(landed in Düsseldorf), then Monday down to Bavaria, backup to the Rheinland Monday night,
over to Brussels Tuesday, this morning down to Paris, and then back up to Brussels again,
where I am now, then all day tomorrow here in Belgium and then (I hope!!) back to the
Rheinland tomorrow night, where my wife may or may not remember who I am!! Hell, I hope
I can remember. I am getting too old for this kind of thing, I think. Even James Bond must
have been played by ten different guys by now.

Our partners here in NATO-land are positively aghast at the fact that this election is even
close (as they were in 2000). Where the choice is between a pair of candidates so very
obviously qualified to move into the job and a pair so obviously unqualified to move into
the job, to have it clouded up by all this completely ridiculous, irrelevant religious
malarkey is very frightening to them. Such things haven't held much sway in European politics
since the Spanish Civil War, and that ended in a very backward Spain in 1939. They expect
better of us. This SHOULD be an Obama landslide. This nation-patient is very ill if it
is not, and so far it looks like anything but a landslide, even if I still like our chances.

If Obama and Biden make it into the White House, they will have a lot of damage control to
set before their new Secretary of State. If it's McFailin' then we stand a good chance to be
written off as a nation for a generation. The rest of the world will come visit our National
Parks, buy our airplanes, play our rock music and watch our movies, but other than that, we
will be the biggest world has-been since the Roman Empire.

I'll give you a really foul example of that:

Saw a History Channel special on the lead-up to Hiroshima. A pilot was dropping napalm on civilian areas -- over and over again; this is before dropping the big one(s) -- and he felt kind of bad about burning all those innocent people to death.

He went to see his priest who said, "Well, if God let it happen, then it must have been His will."

I have had no use for him since he defended child abuse/molestation on "The Daily Show."

May he rot in Hell.

In fact, some were trying to talk me into going to that school, and I didn't want anything to do with it. I now feel more justified than ever in taking that stance.

:puke:

I can just imagine what this school's curriculum might look like. Any Creationism majors out there?

He did it deliberately. He knew he was losing, and he decided to go for broke. No matter what it did to the country.

I have accepted it as my God given duty to be sure every Catholic I have contact with anywhere, including at Church on Sunday as well as the parents of the kids we teach in religious education on Sunday morning, is well aware that supporting McCain/Palin is supporting anti-Catholics. Palin is a Pentacostal. They absolutely hate Catholics. And likewise, I have no use for Pentecostals or any other anti-Catholic religions. I've no doubt these Catholic kids at Ave Maria have no clue whatsoever who they are in bed with and who would cut their very throats given half a chance.

Among the institutions under spiritual attack, Sen. Santorum identified academia as the "first to fall." Our university students are being taught to "pursue no truths, or to deny the existence of truth," he said.

Seems to me that university - real university, not wingnut pizza school - is a place where people are encouraged to look for truth, rather than simply accepting what they're told. I can see why Santorum and his ilk would have a problem with that.

*smirk* "Go take that hill, soldier!"

Yes-sir!!!!

:rofl:

(I don't think God works that way; humans do though....)

Hope in his Ava Maria College near Naples, his cross is not so tall it interferes with the local airport. The 7-11 don't sell beer so remember that as you pass through.

One day, the Islamists and the Christian Righties are going to discover how much they have in common, and band together against the secularists and church/state separators. And may Whoever help us all if that happens!

free to worship as they choose. I see absolutely nothing threatening about this even though I do not support Santorum. What I see is alot of anti-Christian bigotry on DU. Being Christian does not mean being right wing. But bigotry is everywhere these days.

with being RW; and use so-called 'Christianity' to manipulate people into voting for RW-ers.

probably the vast majority of Christians, let alone Catholics.