Where does Rick Santorum get his wild ideas? Well, maybe from Christian Zionist, dominionist, Texas megachurch, megamillionaire, Pastor John Haggee whose Christians United for Israel (CUFI) conferences Santorum has attended in 2007 and spoken at in 2008.
Watch this 2007 Max Blumenthal video of Pastor John Hagee's annual Christians United for Israel (CUFI) conference where Christian Zionists mix with Jewish Zionists.
At 6:15 you'll see Senator Joe Lieberman introduce his friend, former Senator Rick Santorum who's in the audience partying with dominionists and rapture groupies.
Santorum went to Hagees 2008 CUFI conference also. In fact he was listed as a speaker.
Christians United for Israel’s 2008 Washington-Israel Summit featured addresses from Pastor John Hagee, Dennis Prager, Congressman Elliot Engel (D-NY), William Kristol, Congressman Mike Pence (R-IN), Gary Bauer, Senator Rick Santorum, Daniel Pipes, Frank Gaffney, Clifford May, and many more experts on Israel and the Middle East. Randy Travis performed a special concert and sang at the National Anthem at the Night to Honor Israel.
John Hagee hates President Obama and calls him a dictator.
Even mild mannered Jon Meacham couldn't help but notice Rick Santorum's dominionism leaking out.
"...I accept the fact that the President’s a Christian,” Santorum said. “I just said that when you have a worldview that elevates the earth above man and says that, you know, we can’t take those resources because we’re going to harm the earth by things that frankly are just not scientifically proven, like for example that politicization of the whole global-warming debate, this is just all an attempt to theocentralize power, to give more power to the government.”
So far, so good: the rhetoric is overheated, yes, but fairly routine. Then Santorum added: “I’m talking about the belief that man should be in charge of the earth and should have dominion over it and should be good stewards of it.”
Here Santorum heads into treacherous territory. The allusion to “dominion” evokes Genesis 1:28, in which the Lord blessed Adam and Eve and told them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”
This is the language of what’s known as “dominionist theology,” the worldview that Christians have a divine mandate to control or at the very least influence earthly government and culture. Rick Perry’s rise cast light on the dominionists’ theology and ambitions last year; Santorum’s now the last man standing who could serve as a plausible vehicle for culturally and politically conservative Christians uncomfortable with both Obama and Mitt Romney.