SANTORUM: A few questions

Dear Mr. Santorum: Tangible platforms aside, as a registered voter in Idaho I need you to do something for me so that I can fully appreciate your convictions as a candidate. I want you to prove, without a reasonable doubt, to me that God exists. I know this is asking a lot, but don’t you think it’s asking a lot for people like me who have never had any heavenly intervention, to assume that an elusive, omniscient entity (somewhat like Santa Claus) has given us what are, you would have us believe, unsecured rights? I find the concept hard to grasp.

If an entity so powerful as to bring our known universe into being gave us rights, wouldn’t it somewhat nullify God’s power, if not his existence, if those said rights could be taken away and then reinstated by mortal men, by our government? Wouldn’t it make them government-given rights? I only say this because I haven’t seen any intervention on God’s part to take away or reinstate the rights he is credited with handing out. I have, on the other hand, seen intervention on the government’s part to take away and reinstate rights.

I would not enthusiastically throw my vote to a candidate who uses his dogmatic views as leverage against his opponents. By the way I assume you’re not a doctor because life begins long before conception. I’ll assume you mean personhood. Your statements on the subject seem to suggest you have a somewhat tentative grasp on the argument.

ZANE GRAHAM

Coeur d’Alene