Rick Santorum launched into a scathing attack on the left, charging during an appearance in South Carolina that the history of the Crusades has been corrupted by “the American left who hates Christendom.”
“The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical,” Santorum said in Spartanburg on Tuesday. “And that is what the perception is by the American left who hates Christendom.”
After asserting that Christianity had not shown any “aggression” to the Muslim world, the former Pennsylvania senator — who is considering a 2012 run for the White House — argued that American intervention in the Middle East helps promote “core American values.”
I have nothing to say.
Sadly, there are people who will believe that, because he said enough of the right buzzwords.
[...] HT: pjmiller [...]
yep…
Its amazing how many american politicians today have ‘suddenly’ become history experts. Its equally amazing the number of blind ‘sheep’ who agree with them.
Santorum is Catholic and if any group has distorted the history of the crusades it is the Catholic church.
The crusades were really one of the earliest expressions of dominionism. The church was trying to take back land which had been conquered by Islam. It is true that the Islamic invaders were brutal but the equally brutal methods of the crusaders cannot be condoned by any true believer.
And just so we don’t forget, the crusaders killed almost as many Jews as they did Muslims. Jews were Christ killers according to the Catholic church so it was OK
This is a big trend in the American Church…the Medieval Catholic Church was good, the Crusades were good.
Focus on the Family has had Santorum on their show and they sit and let him lead them in prayer.
They salivate at the power of the ‘church’ in the Middle Ages. They want it so badly that they’ll now call Catholics their brothers so that they can work with them to recapture it.
Murder is now noble. The Judaizing Roman Catholics are now our brothers.
They call evil good and good evil.
American Evangelicalism is apostate, a false church.