I don't think Santorum was trying to say that liberalism is a "theology" although Democrats are twisting what he said to mean that.
But Liberalism is a "religion" of sorts.
RIGHT.. its a "religion of sort" but not a "theology"... please Jen, someone who claims to be an English teacher should know better.
The "superior being" to them is GOVERNMENT, as you said. Government replaces God as the giver of everything that sustains life.
Want some oats with all that straw? Gee lets make shite up about others and then pretend that this is the truth..
The Communists of the USSR necessarily banned religion in which The Creator was worshiped since their government was supposed to be the Sustainer of life and the Creator of life was secondary.
You know Jen, I lost 2 family members to the Soviets, and another two spent a large part of their lives in the Gulag. My mother and father both were on Stalin's death lists.
Your ignorance - your outright, know nothing, stupid ignorance (and I'm willing to take an infraction here because you are just so way over the line) of what the USSR was and was not about - is so ludicrous that you really need to be ashamed of yourself.
The notion that "we are headed down that road" is so insulting and noxious. Particularly since under CONSERVATIVES LIKE YOU, the USA instituted policies that are indistinguishable from what My grandfather went through
- Accused of being an "danger to the state" because of whom he was associated with
- Detained
- "harshly interrogated"
- Tried by a military tribunal that reported to the Head of State
- where his "defense" atty was ALSO appointed by and reported to the Head of State
- where 'evidence' garnered from his "harsh interrogation" was used
- where secret evidence he was not allowed to see was used
- where he was not allowed to directly question the witnesses against him
- Where he was convicted of being a 'danger to the nation' - and was sentenced to be held until he was "no longer a danger to the nation"
- after which he was remanded into custody
- and died while continuing to be "harshly interrogated"
For a CONSERVATIVE - who supported and advocated THOSE POLICIES to be done by the US GOVERNMENT to now turn around and accuse "liberals" like me of "heading us down the road to the USSR"
is simply something for you to be deeply deeply deeply ashamed of.
It is stupid
It is ignorant
It is a lie
It refuses to take personal responsibility for the collective blood on YOUR HANDS
and it ignores what the USSR really was about.
Shame on you.