Just this weekend, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said that President Barack Obama 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, a devout Roman Catholic, ought to know a lot about the Bible. Anyone who is a self-professed "devout" follower of any religion ought to know a lot about their specific religious text. So I am going to break down how an American agenda would look being based on the Bible.
Because the main messages of the Old and New testaments are radically different from each other, I will speak mainly of the teachings of the New Testament — because most Christians I know, when confronted about the atrocities in the Old Testament, quickly claim to only follow the New Testament. Of course, when it comes to gay rights, oppression is just as quickly cherry-picked out of the Old Testament for their justification.
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