Rick Santorum Beliefs
Rick Santorum - Beliefs
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So what exactly are Rick Santorum's beliefs? Sometimes, insights into a person's beliefs can be gained from what he says about others' beliefs. Recently, Rick Santorum declared about President Barack Obama:
"If the president says he’s a Christian, he’s a Christian." (Rick Santorum, February 18, 2012)
But in 2008, Rick Santorum expressed somewhat different beliefs about the then presidential candidate Barack Obama's religious beliefs:
"Barack Obama was asked, "What is sin?" His answer [was], "Being out of alignment with my values." So now, we have the truly first post-modern presidential candidate clearly, explicitly defining his own reality." (Rick Santorum, August 2008, Ave Maria University)
Post-modernism, which is man-centered, and Christianity, which is Christ-centered, are fundamentally contradictory sets of beliefs. President Obama cannot be both "Christian" and "post-modern", so one of the two statements above is false.
During a January 2012 radio interview, a caller suggested to Rick Santorum that the presidential race did not need a "Jesus candidate," to which Rick Santorum replied:
"We always need a Jesus candidate. I don't mean necessarily that we always need a Christian, but we need someone who believes in something more than themselves." (Rick Santorum, January 5, 2012)
A "Jesus candidate" would be a born-again Christian whose lord is Jesus Christ, not simply "someone who believes in something more than themselves," which would include Muslim Jihadists, Mormons and even Satanists.
Speaking of Jihadists, in a 2007 article penned after Mitt Romney's speech on the Mormon cult, Rick Santorum stated:
"I'm more concerned about losing our children to jihadis or a materialistic culture than losing them to Mormonism." (Rick Santorum, The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 20, 2007)
Christian children martyred by "jihadis" go to heaven, while children who die as Mormons go to hell (see Mormon cult). Jesus said:
"And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, fear Him!" - Luke 12:4-5
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12. Do you believe Jesus died on the cross and then rose from the dead?
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13. Do you believe Jesus ascended to heaven?
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14. Do you believe Jesus will return someday?
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15. Do you believe in the existence of both heaven and hell?
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16. By what criteria do you believe people go to heaven or hell?
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17. How would you characterize the original & current relationship between Jesus and Satan?
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18. Do you believe that Islam at its foundation is a religion of peace?
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19. How many books in the Bible do you believe are inspired by God and inerrant?
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20. Which Bible verse(s) is/are particularly dear to you and why?
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