Posted on 02/24/2012 5:57:11 AM PST by Mangia E Statti Zitto
The wife of presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Thursday that his rise in the polls is due to God working in mysterious ways.
"I personally think this is God's will. I think He has us on a path, and I do think there's a lot more happening than what we're seeing," Karen Santorum told Glenn Beck as she and her husband sat for an interview on his Web-based show, GBTV. "Personally I mean I think Rick's a great guy, and he's really smart and everything. But I think a lot more is happening than what we can actually see."
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That comment's a few beers short of your handle. How about giving me a reason to "like" Santorum?
If someone has a link to the video or audio that would be very helpful. Often the written word can be misleading as it leaves out much of the emotion, body language and other types of subtle emphasis; which can often alter the impression one gets from the actual video or audio.
If you want to discuss Voltaire, Leibniz and the philosophy of optimism then start a thread.
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I agree...that was my point.
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Oh please...You're the one that opened with the snide remark about Santorum being a "team player." I suggested that you'd be all for people being team players if your candidate became the nominee. I suspect at that point, you'd be equally critical of people who weren't being team players.
Didn't you get the memo from the Newt supporters?
“Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times."
THAT is what makes people nervous when people start speaking of their electoral success as the will of God, not that they doubt that things unfold as God wills them to, but that the person in question might think a little much of themselves as being an instrument of God's will.
You have issued an invitation to hurt your feelings and challenge your faith, and you offer me no incentive to do so.
It is an article of faith to say that everything that happens is God’s will. In my faith that is heresy, besides being logically untenable.
I think it’d be a complete waste of my time on either grounds to argue this, and it’s been done by the likes of Voltaire, whose works were both edifying and entertaining. If you’ll start there, perhaps one day we’ll have a discussion.
Until then, I’ll have a pastrami on rye.
Exactly as expected and predicted....a little sophomoric posturing but absolutely nothing of substance.
We have a TEAm in my household, too, and I agree we definitely need a leader(s) in D.C. I just don’t see that in Santorum.
In his own admissions during the debate it appears he has more flip-flops during his years in Congress than a professional pancake maker.
I surely would rather hear Rick Perry quoting the Bible than Rick Santorum.
Makee that toasted Rye — with sauerkraut.
As a Gd fearing conservative Santo supporter, I am not thrilled that she said this. I never
Ike it when there are contests and the winner claims Gd is on his side. While Gd is omnipotent, He also lets us play things out amongst ourselves a lot. He tests us in this way, to see if we make the correct decisions. It is foolish to claim that Gd wanted this now for him, because either she means EVERYTHING is in His hands, in which case it does not bear mentioning, or she means her husband is on the side of Gd and the other guys are not, which is not very kind.
What I expected from you too, playground catcalls. You are peevish because I won’t waste my time disputing foolishness with an anonymous poster on the internet, so you crow like you made the sun come up.
Thanks, now I'm jonesing to drive into Manhattan and claw my way into a Jewish deli on a Friday night! :o)
I strongly dissagree.
It is God's will that we have free will, and that means allowing the possibility of evil. Doesn't mean he wants us to act evil.
It is God's will that man have dominion over the earth. It was not God's will that man filled earth with violence to the point that God wiped man out except for Noah and his family and started over.
Many things happen that are not God's will, but are the result of Him having given man free will and relinquished some control of governance to man.
I miss Governor Perry. Not to begrudge him to the good folks of Texas, but I hope he will run for national office again.
I figure, that since God knows whether we will reject Him or not, before He even creates us, then by creating us anyway, He must be OK with whatever we do.
I don’t believe that what we define as evil, is the same for God.
For whatever reason, He made us all capable of believing different things.
One doesn’t have to be a nancy or anti-religion to find it off that someone believe’s to know God’s will on a subject and believe that they are the agent of that will. I’m sure she didn’t intend to state that Rick was on a Blues Brother style mission from God but it seems to come off that way. Hopefully she’ll clarify.
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