Rick Santorum is the Antichrist (by anon)

Oh Holy God!!  We must be in the last days, the last days before the four horsemen, Armageddon, the harlot, and the lake of fire!  The “antichrist” has finally made his appearance that begins the sequence of our own destruction.  Alas, the Book of Revelation warned that the antichrist will come to unify the people, but in reality he’s the people’s undoing.  Alas, his name is “Rick Santorum.”

Seriously, I can hardly believe that Santorum is enjoying as much support as he is.  I’m not sure if people actually realize just how dangerous this man is if many of his ideas and ideology (really “theology”) are enacted.  I might be joking a little calling him the antichrist, but he’s really not far off the mark.  These are some of his positions:

1.  No more prenatal testing.  Why?  Because it leads to many abortions, especially the abortions of fetuses with genetic disorders and other maladies.

2.  No more abortions, period.  It doesn’t matter if the woman was raped or if it was incest.  That baby is going to be born.

3.  No more public education.  That’s right.  If Santorum has his way, the government would not invest in education anymore.  His reasoning is that public education is failing, so let’s pull the plug on it and have families teach their own kids.  Let homeschooling reign!  Who else can better educate their young than the young’s own parents, right?

4.  Obama isn’t Biblical enough.  Obama follows some weird, “phony” theology concerning the environment and other issues, instead of holding onto sound Biblical ideals and principles (interpreted in Santorum’s Evangelical way).

5.  Homosexuality is the primary cause for the troubles America finds itself in right now.  Homosexuality deteriorates the family unit, which is the key to America’s success (nevermind that most couples get divorced anyway).

What do all these mean if enacted?  It means the end of America.  Put the pieces together.  Points 1 and 2 mean that we would have a spike in births (especially if it is linked with the current debate on contraception).  Our population numbers would increase a bit.  Having the same number of resources with an increase in population means increased need – and increased need means increased prices.  If more babies are born and more babies are born with birth defects, parents will have to pay more for care and medical treatment.  Concerning point 3, if we now have to homeschool, at least one parent will have to stay home (and Santorum has motioned towards the woman.  Welcome back 1950’s!) thereby cutting down on a family’s income, and the quality of the education will decrease because most parents are not trained in all the school subjects to the degree that they are currently taught in our public schools.

So, first conclusion: our upcoming generations will be larger and dumber.

Second conclusion: the average family will make far less than they make now.

On points 4 and 5 (as well as back to 1, 2, and 3), Santorum’s own religious views are so grossly intertwined with his campaign that even a number of religious institutions are denouncing it (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/religion-politics_n_1291624.html?ref=religion-and-politics).  But Santorum is unapologetic about his faith and the role he uses it in his campaign.  Make no mistake, he believes he is running as God’s man (talk about hubris…).  This means that if you are a non-Christian or a Christian of a different stripe than Santorum, he doesn’t care about you.  He would be a president for Evangelical Christians and not much else.  As someone else quipped, Santorum is running for “pastor-in-chief,” ignoring the diversity of the American landscape in terms of religious and cultural pluralism.

Third conclusion: President Santorum would not care about the majority of Americans.

Put these three conclusions together and they spell disaster.  We would have an America that is growing in population, but getting dumber and vastly poorer, with a president that would only really care about his own like-minded folks.  For those not in the know, this is how poverty-stricken, failing nations come into existence.

What scares me most is not that I think Santorum would ever get elected even if he did get the GOP nomination, but that there are so many dumbasses who actually like this guy.  He should have been the first to go from the field of GOP contenders way back in early fall.  Rick Santorum is the antichrist.