snake oil once again

Today, at a meeting in New Hampshire, Rick Santorum heard from a mother whose child at the age of five was diagnosed with cancer. Mr. Santorum had just finished explaining to the audience that the market should be responsible for the price of health insurance, and many times it is the poor decisions by people with their life style who most need health insurance. And he continued if those people managed their lives better, they wouldn't need as much health insurance and demand the price be lowered to accommodate all their illnesses and poor decisions.

The mother a bit appalled by the curt and sharp response said, she had done everything right during her pregnancy, provided her child with the proper nutrition and yet at 5 her child has cancer. Mr. Jesus speaks to me Santorum and only I understand his values responded in his usual patronizing tone said, but so many people try to undermine the system who have the same disease as your child. It is unfortunate he has it but no way no how should the cost of health insurance be lowered unless the market demands it. And then Mr. Santorum dismissed the lady asking for more questions.

I am not a Christian, but in my life have had and currently have friends and a partner who are and is Christian. I have learned many lessons from my Christian friends and have looked at answers to life's questions through their eyes and with their philosophy. I taught in a Catholic school befriending the Mother Superior and many of the Sisters and learned why they love Jesus, and what his love can do. And to the person, I have never been told that Jesus does not like you if you are poor, sick, homeless, unemployed. I have never heard from any of the many people I know who believe in Christianity that Jesus is anything but hope and inspiration.

And now we have a candidate who is loud and proud about his belief in Jesus, yet the man he describes sound like he dwells in some kind of human conceived hell rather than heaven. Rick Santorum is a sad case of humanity who uses Jesus as a shill to try to impress others who think by the mere mention of the name of Jesus, somehow, someway Santorum has been called by God to run for president.

And somehow those who insist they are more God like or God loved are full of hate, bias, and bigotry. They say they are Christians but seem to be the furthest distance from what Christianity stands for. And sadder than all of that the gullible, the lemming, the loser, the ignorant let those who shout Gods name louder than the crowd rule the crowd.

When will the smart, the real, the hones inherit the world? Rick Santorum you are the worst of snake oil salesmen to walk this Earth, shame on you and shame on all of those who believe you know God.