omnes rerum santorum

Ed Kilgore has a nice little piece of analysis on his blog at Washington Monthly concerning the exotically archaic worldview of this week's Republican front-runner, and how he sees American history as a contest between the True Christians and the followers of Lucifer, and how the ranks of disciples of the Evil One now include most academics and mainline Protestants.

Seriously. For reals. Neither Kilgore nor I are making this up.

And it means, among other things, that said Devil is exercising his infernal control via the policies of that noted former academic and mainline Protestant, the President of the United States. Much of what Santorum has to say about current events is heavily colored by this “worldview,” most notably the belief that the president and his devilish supporters are laboring to wipe out “true” Christianity by forcing its staunch defenders, from the U.S. Conference of Bishops to innocent job-creators, to become complicit in such idolatrous practices as the slaughter of zygotes and the worship of the false idols of reproductive rights and the Environmental Earth-Goddess.

This goes way beyond just wishing that women would stop acting like lust-crazed sluts who are always attempting to thwart God's will by using artificial means to prevent His sperm from coupling with His eggs, which are inconveniently housed within the corrupted bodies of those round-heeled floozies. Rerum Santorum issues from an anti-secular, anti-American, good-versus-evil dichotomy as dangerous as it is outdated, and it's past time for our corporate media to sit up and take notice. Their doing so would be in their own interests as well as the people's.