Quote of the Day - Bob Felton on Santorum's Ignorance of History and the Truth

I posted yesterday about the lunacy that Rick Santorum spouted at Ave Maria University - an ultra far right Catholic institution - and his claims the Satan is undermining America. Among the bathshitery stated by Santorum was the claim that the concept of equality comes from the Judea-Christian heritage of the United States. The hubris and untruth of the statement was too much for my blogger friend Bob Felton who had this analysis:

“Where,” Rick Santorum rhetorically asks, “do you think this concept of equality comes from? It doesn’t come from Islam. It doesn’t come from the East and Eastern religions. It comes from the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”

That smug ‘question’ is the exemplar for what is so irritating about Santorum; it betrays ignorance of his religion’s teachings, ignorance of his religion’s history, that he is a man who repeats whatever self-aggrandizing nonsense he is told by the Holy Men without any interruption for mental processing.

According to the Inerrant Bible, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is a sociopath who favors genocide (Numbers), child sacrifice (Judges), summary execution of homosexuals (Leviticus), summary execution of adulterers (Leviticus), slavery (Genesis to Revelation), and theft and other dishonesties against those who aren’t your co-religionists (Genesis).

The concept of equality did not come from the Bible. Christian piety ruled the West for more than 1000-years and nobody ever heard a word about equality — except for clergy, I mean, who were more equal than everybody else.

Equality, as we use the word nowadays, is descended from the Enlightenment idea of natural rights, and that was a reaction against the miseries inflicted by Christian governance.

Make no mistake. Santorum is dangerous and is George W. Bush multiplied ten fold.