Santorum: There's no such thing as a liberal Christian

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81. Jesus gave two commandments.

Love God with all your heart.
Love your neighbor as you love yourself.

Everything else flows from that.

Jesus used some very vivid language in his sermons. He did so in order to demonstrate the importance of a person's relationship with God. If your friends or your family or your property comes in the way of that relationship, you are to choose God instead. No one believes Jesus taught people to hate their families - not the conservatives, not the liberals, not the athiests. (Jesus also said to pluck your eyes out of your head if they cause you to sin. No one takes that literally, either).

I believe, and I have heard President Obama echo this thought as well, that one of the central teachings of the Bible stems from Cain's question to God, "Am I my brother's keeper?" Cain was responding to God's question of "Where is Abel?". God knew that Cain had killed him in a fit of jealousy.

But the answer is "Yes". We are our brothers' keepers. That is what we are supposed to be. That is the sum of all the teachings of Christ as well as much of the teachings of the Old Testament prophets.

Oh, and Jesus wasn't a peeping Tom, but he was really good friends with one.