but it's not like voodoo stuff!

[piranha]

so i am watching "the colbert report" with rick santorum, who has transmogrified from presidential candidate to movie producer. the movie is "the christmas candle". in it apparently an angel comes to a town every 25 years and blesses a candle. the candle is given to a family in need, and they're instructed to light it and to say a prayer over it. and then a miracle happens on christmas eve.

when colbert called the candle "miraculous", santorum was quick to point out that no, it wasn't the candle that was miraculous, but the prayer. "it's not like voodoo stuff, you know, it's a real prayer," says santorum.

the irony, it slays me. it's not like voodoo stuff, *snrk*.

Comments

[sara]

I like how the other 24 years God apparently doesn't give a shit about anyone.

[jesse_the_k]

d'you think Santorum even considered that Colbert is a genuine candle-lighting RC?

[eagle]

It's quite possible that's exactly what Santorum intended to reference when he said the prayer was magical and not the candle. That strikes this former Protestant as exactly the sort of facile, snide comment about the supposed Catholic focus on things instead of on prayer and God that was common among Protestants dissing Catholics among each other.

ETA: Ah, no, Santorum is himself Catholic. So much for that theory!

[jesse_the_k]

And thats why he's the frothy fellow we love to hate.