Pastor Dennis Terry of Greenwell Springs Baptist Church

Rick Santorum was introduce by this lovely man. For those you can't or won't watch the video I will give you a short overview. Basically the man speaking is one Pastor Dennis Terry of  Greenwell Springs Baptist Church. It starts out with him ranting about how he doesn't care what the 'liberals say' and reaches back to the myth that America was founded as a Christian nation.

Sigh... I have heard this myth countless times. As a student of history and politics I would like to point out some facts. 

It is not remotely true to say that America was founded as a Christian nation. America is a federal constitutional republic. In reality America was founded with Enlightenment principles and a healthy respect for the Roman Republic. United States Constitution defines the system of Government that runs America. Guess what, it makes no appeal to any God or Gods even Jesus is overlooked. The Constitution goes out of its way even to point out in the 1st Amendment that:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech"

What I fail to understand how the founders went out of their way to make that point and yet this Pastor fails to find it. 

But come on everyone knows that and it doesn't matter. Because America was founded by all those Puritans and Pilgrims that came over. Is that not proof that America was founded by Christian and based on their ideology?

Again no. 

It should be pointed out that driving force was like with all things money:

"England's success at colonizing what would become the United States was due in large part to its use of charter companies... prosperity resulted from trapping and trading in furs. In addition, fishing."

Moreover: "Economic considerations were undoubtedly the most effective in promoting colonization."

So there is that myth debunked. Oh yes Christian came over in very small number compared to other migrations: "From 1630 through 1640 approximately 20,000 colonists came to New England. Much less than the number of English citizens who emigrated to Ireland and the Caribbean during this time."

But again that is not point. What matters is that America has a holy heroic past that needs to be reclaimed. A past that will led to a brighter future.

Okay that covers the first 10 seconds of the clip.

Next the Pastor calls out to the "God of the of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. There is only one God and his name is Jesus!" I kid you not. That guy claims that Jews worshiped Jesus. I suppose he is referring to Acts 3:13: "The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. You handed him over to be killed, and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go." But that passage tends to have a dark history of getting Jews killed for killing Jesus.

And everyone stands up and starts clapping. It should be noted just how old the crowd is. 

Then the man goes to say just how hard it is as Christian. Because everyone is saying that you can't voice your beliefs publicly. Christians only make up the majority of Americans and only hold just about every public office local, state, and federal. 

Only in America can the majority with all the power and numbers still claim to be persecuted. It is silly you can pray anywhere you want to whatever you want. A Christian can talk to anyone about their faith.

But hey whatever Christians are  persecuted cause "students are not allowed to lead the audience over the loudspeaker in student-written prayers at football games" now all you can do never mind that "legally, you have the right to voluntarily pray with your teammates as long as you are not leading the audience in a scheduled event. However, school officials, coaches, etc. can not lead the prayer or make participation mandatory. You are free to pray at sporting events either aloud or in private and others may join you."

The utter horror.

Around 58 seconds he tells everyone that has a problem with America to get out. Doesn't that mean that he should because he is  persecuted and wants Rick Santorum elected to fix the problems with America. I mean he just pointed out problems with America like 15 seconds ago in the video. So if he wants to leave that would be great. He does sound kind of like a dick.    

So lets get to 1:10 into this video. Here we find the Pastor saying the following:

"We don't worship Buddha, Muhammad, we don't worship Allah. We worship God, we worship God!"

I suppose he is speaking to those in the Christian Church he is in. So I guess he is just trying to be helpful pointing out what they don't believe. Which makes sense. But then again he does seem to have a hard time understand other peoples faiths.

Because no one worships  Buddha, Muhammad. But hey I called him a dick before he could just be trying to be help. So I guess he is making a good point as to the fact that Buddhist don't worship Buddha and that Muslims don't worship Muhammad.

It is confusing that he says we don't worship Allah. Because in Arabic Allah, the word means simply "the God". But hey maybe he is a secret Atheist or something. 

Part two coming later