Rick Santorum

In full damage control mode later, Santorum told reporters ”If the president says he’s a Christian, he’s a Christian.” but “he is imposing his values on the Christian church. He can categorize those values anyway he wants. I’m not going to.”  Realizing that earlier, he did do that which he said he’d not do, when he said the President subscribes to a “different theology” in the first place, Santorum backpedaled even further Sunday on Face the Nation, saying “I was talking about the radical environmentalists” when called on his earlier remarks. What “radical environmentalists”?

OH WAIT!!  We get it now.  President Barack Obama is a Christian who is both imposing his values of a “to be named later” theology on Christianity AND is a group (yes, a group..”more than one”…environmentalists is plural) of “radical environmentalists” to boot.  Neat trick that, being able to replicate yourself to form a group.  All 007 like and stuff.  Bet they don’t advertise that in the White House brochure.  Totally rad, man.  As in radical.

With that said, how about we take a look at what qualifies as “theology” to Mr. Santorum?.  In his world, he says “We are stewards of the world” but not in service to the Earth and “Man is the objective.”   Before we touch on the actually meaning of the word “steward“, we would be remiss if we didn’t point out what he’s really talking about when he says “man is the objective”.  He’s getting that from Gen. 1:26-28 of the Old Testament we thinks, specifically where God tells Adam and Eve to “”Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth”   Two key words of that passage form the crux of Mr. Santorum’s mindset;  Subdue and Dominion.  Or, to put it another way, I’m going to Heaven anyway, so why not trash the place?  The heathens will clean it up.