{"id":4255,"date":"2005-05-20T12:43:42","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T16:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4255.html"},"modified":"2005-05-20T12:43:42","modified_gmt":"2005-05-20T16:43:42","slug":"well-it-is-a-pretty-long-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/well-it-is-a-pretty-long-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, it is a pretty long book"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times Sunday Magazine will run a cover feature Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum this week, which will offer all kinds of interesting thoughts and perspectives, including a quote from a former Senate aide who calls the senator “a Catholic missionary who happens to be in the Senate” and the fact that some of Santorum’s Hispanic constituents greet him as a “holy man.”<\/p>\n

He is, however, a religious person who isn’t into reading long books. Even when the book is Santorum’s Holy Scripture.<\/p>\n

“I’ve never read the Bible cover to cover; maybe I should have,” Santorum said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed, as Taegan Goddard noted<\/a>, Santorum goes on to explain that he’s “not a reader of scripture” and instead “reads magazines and journals offering commentary on religion.”<\/p>\n

To be fair, this is probably more common that a lot of people, even devout theists, would care to admit. For that matter, I strongly believe that whether Santorum reads his Bible or not is entirely his business.<\/p>\n

I nevertheless find it a little odd that a senator, who frequently offers his religious perspective on political issues, has shaped his entire life, worldview, and governing philosophy on a book he hasn’t read<\/i>.<\/p>\n

It’s one thing to accept the idea that Scripture offers believers a guide on how best to lead one’s life. It’s another thing to accept that belief while relying on magazines<\/em> to tell you what Scripture says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times Sunday Magazine will run a cover feature Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum this week, which will offer all kinds of interesting thoughts and perspectives, including a quote from a former Senate aide who calls the senator “a Catholic missionary who happens to be in the Senate” and the fact that some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}