What's wrong with religion is that it has always enabled people like... [View all]

[MarkCharles]

Santorum to misuse it, to the detriment of large portions of society, and against the interest of intellectual, humanistic, secular ways to solve human problems.

"Santorum says Obama agenda not "based on Bible"

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum challenged President Barack Obama's Christian beliefs on Saturday, saying White House policies were motivated by a "different theology."

A devout Roman Catholic who has risen to the top of Republican polls in recent days, Santorum said the Obama administration had failed to prevent gas prices rising and was using "political science" in the debate about climate change.

Obama's agenda is "not about you. It's not about your quality of life. It's not about your jobs. It's about some phony ideal. Some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology," Santorum told supporters of the conservative Tea Party movement at a Columbus hotel.

When asked about the statement at a news conference later, Santorum said, "If the president says he's a Christian, he's a Christian."

But Santorum did not back down from the assertion that Obama's values run against those of Christianity.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/18/us-usa-campaign-santorum-idUSTRE81H0M220120218

People like Santorum offer more and more convincing evidence that thoughts along solely religious lines only add to the problems humans face as they attempt to live together on this planet. If 9/11/2001 didn't convince religious believers that religious thinking was fraught with more problems than solutions, Rick Santorum gives us yet another example, and he talks only within terms of one religious faith, Christianity. If Christians thought only Muslims were mistaken when Muslims used their religious beliefs to justify their inhumanity to others, here's a home-baked American Christian example that religious thought is hardly adequate to handle the problems our nation and our world faces today, and may actually be an example of adding more the to problem than offering any type of solution.