Rick Santorum Calls Out Obama’s Phony Theology

The political-media establishment indulged in an orgy of public cringing over Rick Santorum’s “phony theology” comment.  The men and women of elite media have made quite the spectacle of sanctimonious indignation on behalf of President Obama’s Christian faith.  As is often the case their politically correct fury is based on misinterpretation of a word taken out of context.  Here’s what Santorum said in context, with the words the media pounced on in red:

…the price of fuel now – this summer we may be looking at $5 per gallon.  Why? Because this President systematically is doing everything he can to raise the price of energy in this country.  He’s shutting down all sorts of opportunities for us to drill for oil.  He’s now trying to infuse not environmental science when it comes to drilling wells in Pennsylvania, North Dakota and other places that use hydraulic fracking he’s trying to do again what he did with global warming.  Instead of using climate science he uses political science.  And political science in this case is suggesting that a technology that has been successfully used to drill hundreds of thousands of oil and gas wells in this country, all of a sudden is now a dangerous technology.  Why? Because it leads to lower energy prices.  That’s the danger of this technology.  It doesn’t fit his pattern of trying to drive down consumption, trying to drive up the cost of your transportation to accomplish his political science goal of reducing carbon dioxide.

It’s not about you, its not about your quality of life, it’s not about your job.  It’s about some phony ideal, some phony theology – oh not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology.  The Pesident knows that , within five years Mexico is going to go from exporting 1.5 million barrels of oil to the united Sates to being  a net importer of oil.  And he knows that the north slope of Alaska which used to produce 2 million barrels of a day and is now down to half a million a day…

Santorum finished up by reminding the audience that the President has blocked construction of a pipeline that would bring Canadian oil to American refineries.

This is obviously a critique of energy policy and the conclusion that Santorum was saying something about Barack Obama’s personal religious faith is absurd.  But his point is valid.  The Leftist Environmental/Climate Change movement is clearly more of a theology than a science.  Leaders like Al Gore demand that we believe, in faith, what they have not and can not prove:

• that climate catastrophe looms if global energy consumption is not reduced to levels not seen since the 18th century;
• that only a massive international bureaucracy, a Super-EPA with the power to control every human on the planet can prevent unimaginable horrors;
• that every unpleasant weather event, from drought, to flood, to hurricane, to heat wave, to blizzard is the result of “weather on steroids” caused by human energy consumption.

The climate change political movement demands that it’s conclusions, from computer models that purport to predict the complex interaction of forces that influence the earth’s climate, are to be accepted on faith.  Whenever anyone questions their conclusions they become enraged and insist that there can be no debate, that unlike any other scientific endeavor the study of earth’s climate has reached it’s conclusion, that there can be no further discoveries or insights.  Ever.

Rick Santorum has not, as was reported today on Fox News, “backtracked,” and he should not.  He has called it like it is.  Obama’s energy policies – not his personal religious beliefs – are indeed based on “a phony ideal, a phony theology.”