I read the news today, oh boy

The headline on Drudge this morning: 

SANTORUM'S SATAN WARNING.

Drudge dangled the bait, and I bit. It was a Drudge exclusive. Here is what he reported (in it's entirety).  (As an aside, this is NOT a commentary on Santorum's politics but on his assessment of the theological temperature of our country.):

Tue Feb 21 2012 09:27:20 ET "Satan has his sights on the United States of America!" Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has declared.
"Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition."

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The former senator from Pennsylvania warned in 2008 how politics and government are falling to Satan.

"This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country - the United States of America. If you were Satan, who would you attack in this day and age?"

"He attacks all of us and he attacks all of our institutions."

Santorum made the provocative comments to students at Ave Maria University in Florida.
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The White House contender described how Satan is even taking hold of some religions.

"We look at the shape of mainline Protestantism in this country and it is in shambles, it is gone from the world of Christianity as I see it."

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Provocative comments?  To Drudge, this is radical. Through a biblical lens, though, Santorum's comments are spot on. One of us is way off base. 
We've entered a time in America where living and breathing your relationship with Jesus Christ and living the Bible as the truth of God that it claims to be (Psalm 119:160, Proverbs 30:5) leaves you in conflict with the culture and more and more so with the government. The media, and even Drudge who many believe leans conservative, think it's abhorrent to speak with such religious flourishes when in our country's nascency, if you look back at the speeches of the presidents of our first hundred years, such discourse was normal.


We scoff at the religious oppression of Iran and Saudi Arabia, but is the oppression that comes at the hand of secular and atheistic America any better?

Be ready, Christian. It's getting toasty in here. 


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NOTE:  After writing this post, I came across these verses from Peter, friend of Christ, called to be an apostle.

• 1 Peter 2:21  - For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.
• 1 Peter 4:13-14 - But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
• 1 Peter 4:16 - Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.
• 1 Peter 4:19 - Therefore let those who suffer according to God's will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.

Get up for it, saints!