Hey, Rick Santorum, Let’s Talk about a “Theology Not Based on the Bible”

Rick Santorum, an ardent Catholic, made headlines over the weekend for saying that President Obama practices “a different theology” that is “not a theology based on the Bible.”

Theologies develop, and I have no trouble with that. But Santorum obviously does, so let’s take a look at some things that are not “based on the Bible”:

• The Immaculate Conception
• The perpetual virginity of Mary
• Praying to saints
• A celibate priesthood
• Transubstantiation
• The papacy
• Twelve sacraments that bestow grace

Again, this isn’t about my quibbles with these. This is about setting up a standard that Santorum’s own church can’t meet.

And Santorum’s Sunday backtrack about radical environmentalists was laughable.

It’s interesting, isn’t it, that we get honesty when these candidates talk off-script?