Why Republicans Scare Me

Rick Santorum

Rick Santorum, what can I say for this useless, walking, talking, waste of human flesh? I know what I would like to say. But! Not here, and most certainly not now. The presidential candidate decided he would announce to the world that he believes a baby produced by rape is a gift from his god. I would like to just say that it has taken me three days to figure out how to tackle this essay without coming off as a pompous prick. There is really no way around it, and honestly I need to embrace my apparent true nature as such. I do not think this may be much of a persuasive essay to most of you who are Republican or Christian or perhaps sadly, both. I want to give you my thoughts on why this man’s statement is so ineptly ignorant and one sidedness  fits into almost every fallacy definition. If I were president, after Santorum made this statement, I would have personally ordered him deported to Iran.

In an interview with Piers Morgan on CNN on January 20, 2012, Rick Santorum was asked how he could take such a callous position on rape or incest victims by essentially forcing these women by law to give birth to these babies. Rick Santorum said, "I believe and I think that the right approach is to accept this horribly created, in the sense of rape, but nevertheless, in a very broken way, a gift of human life, and accept what God is giving to you." What exactly, are we as a nation, supposed to say to that? He goes on to say that this issue is, "not a matter of religious values". Just in case you missed the last line of the last quote… here it is again. It said, “accept what God is giving to you." So in our fallacy definition, this idiot committed, “either or reasoning”. He is trying to force his opinion of abortion down our throats by way of his Roman Catholic belief system. Because of his religious affiliation, he feels as a nation should have to follow that belief. Even though he is pro-death penalty, he is also anti-abortion. Is being an oxymoron a fallacy? Rick Santorum is also “slanting” fallacy, by constantly suppressing the fact that he is pro-death penalty. When the subject comes up of abortion, he relies on all life is precious… unless you are in prison and found guilty by a jury of your peers.

This brings us to yet another fallacy, “over reliance on authority”. Over reliance of authority is used a lot on this Earth. Not only by politicians but by religious leaders and their minions, but also Rick Santorum likes to use the fact that all life is precious and uses his misguided religion to bring it home that his beliefs are correct. Rick Santorum likes to play the “all life is precious” card a lot. But he fails to mention that his god is one of the worst tyrants that supposedly exists on this Earth. If we should base our belief as a nation on the issue of abortion on the Holy Bible, the supposed written word of YHWH (God), then the flood story is proof that God is pro-choice. God aborted every living thing on this Earth because a few thousand humans were being disobedient in his eyes. Is this not a fallacy of “slippery slope”? Did God not commit murder in Rick Santorum’s eyes? Did God commit another fallacy in the flood story, “stereo typing”? God just automatically wipes the Earth clean of 99.9% of animal life including hominids just because of a few bad apples by his innate command. The Abrahamic God’s myth essentially creates us sick and commands us to be well. So if we do wrong, by the beliefs of many Christian fundamentalists, God aborts life all the time. So, how precious is life to this god really?

In the matters of abortion, all matters should lie in the health of the decision making woman. Not some sadistic ignorant politician with a theistic agenda. I think that if Rick Santorum wants to push his twisted ideals on to people with his ancient archaic belief system, he should move somewhere that embraces such fallacies, Iran.

If this man is elected president of these United States of America, I will not be ‘guilty by association” for being a United States citizen. I refuse to live under someone who relies on “over-reliance on authority” by “slanting” his real feelings because he feels his theology is “either or reasoning”. His theology affects his policies by way of “stereo typing” us as if we are all Roman Catholics. His head is somewhere other than in its natural evolutionary position due to his theistic ideology is constantly “begging the question”.

And now a word from this man’s lovely, holy, infallible, omniscient, and omnipotent, morally righteous book a gift to all of mankind… God’s spoken word passed to man. The Holy Bible.

"Happy shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against

the rock!" (Psalms 137:9)

 "The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled

against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be

dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open." (Hosea 13:16)

"Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is

joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their

houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished." (Isaiah 13:15,16)

"Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they

shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare

children." (Isaiah 13:18)