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39072 Re: Santorum claims that you can either be a liberal or a Christian, but NOT both...
   [b]What Bible Is Santorum Reading?[/b] by Mike Lux 02/21/2012... 		oldCADuser   FFFT   22 Feb 2012
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Santorum claims that you can either be a liberal or a Christian, but NOT both...

By: oldCADuser in FFFT
Wed, 22 Feb 12 2:24 AM
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Rick Santorum Questioned Obama's Faith In 2008, Said There's No Such Thing As A Liberal Christian

02/21/2012

In stark contrast to comments made earlier this week, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum addressed the issue of now-President Barack Obama's Christian faith in a 2008 interview with the Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life, Buzzfeed reported Tuesday.

When asked if he believed Obama is a "sincere liberal Christian," the former Pennsylvania senator said he didn't believe that sort of ideology exists, and that Obama's church, United Church of Christ in Chicago, had "abandoned Christendom" and used a non-literal interpretation of the Bible.

"I don't think there is such a thing," he said of Obama as a liberal Christian. "To take what is plainly written and say that 'I don't agree with that, therefore I don't have to pay attention to it,' means you're not what you say you are. You're a liberal something, but you're not a Christian."... 

For the full article, go to:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/rick-santorum-obama-christianity_n_1291645.html

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I'm not sure WHAT 'Catholic' church Santorum belongs to, but in my lifelong experience I can't recall ever hearing anyone preach from the pulpit during Mass that anyone should take the Bible literally. It's impossible since it's full of contradictions and passages and stories which are acknowledges up front as being metaphorical, or at best, parables. In fact, Jesus himself was one of the biggest users of parables and metaphors as anyone in the Bible and when challenged with the way he preached he defended it as the way a teacher must put things so that the student understands what the real heart of the lesson was. The message is more important than the words that were used. That's the problem with literalists, they often overlook the message when they get hung up over the meaning of some word which was written by simple men thousands of years ago in a language that is all but forgotten and which has since been translated multiple times into the vernacular of the day over the course of the next thousand or so years. And we now say that if you don't accept every word in the copy of the Bible that you hold in your hand exactly as it is now printed, that somehow this makes you a non-Christian... Please, give me a break... 


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