“Politics Based on the Bible”

In a speech last week Rick Sentorum, front runner for the Republican nomination for President severely criticized President Obama, stating that his policies are not “based on the Bible”. If not basing policies on the Bible is very wrong, I assume a President basing his policies on the Bible would be a very right thing to do, and Sentorum certainly promises to do so.

If a President made policies based instead of on the Bible, the Torah, would that still be the right thing? How about the Qur-an? What about the Bhagavad-Gita or the writings of Confucius? Sentorum would argue that the Founding Fathers intended for our great Nation to be based on Christian teachings even though there is nothing to support this. There was no need to mention it in the Constitution because Christianity was assumed, and furthermore, the term“ Creator” in the Declaration of Independence really meant, not only the God of Abraham but the Christian interpretation of the God of Abraham.

We are rightly critical of the theocratic government existing in Iran and apprehensive of a
reinstatement of one in Afghanistan so let’s not go down that path and establish a theocracy here. A theocracy whether an Islamic or one that the very Orthodox Jews in Israel struggle for or one aspired to by Fundamentalist Christians here in the US, is still a theocracy and anathema to our most basic principles. I can’t see how Sentorums rhetoric can be interpreted other than a promise of a State governed on Biblical principles. Rick, that’s a theocracy! Sentorum was critical of the Government imposing its ideology on Churches during this last healthcare/contraceptive debate but apparently insists on the establishment of policies based on a religious writing by which all the people, regardless of religious preference would have to live.