Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

"Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it." – Arapaho Proverb

Rick "man on dog" Santorum strongly disagrees with this concept of "environmental stewardship":

Environmental stewardship refers to responsible use and protection of the natural environment through conservation and sustainable practices. Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) championed a land ethic "dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it." According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, environmental stewardship is the responsibility for environmental quality shared by all those whose actions affect the environment.

Santorum's views on the environment are shaped by his views on religion. Religion and Environment:

What role does religion play in shaping our attitude towards the natural world? One answer was proposed in 1967 by UCLA History Professor Lynn White, Jr., who wrote an article entitled, "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis" (Science 155(3767):1203-1207, 1967). In this article, he said that the Western world's attitudes towards nature were shaped by the Judeo-Christian tradition. This tradition, White wrote, involved the concept of a world created solely for the benefit of man: "God planned all [of creation] explicitly for man's benefit and rule: no item in the physical creation had any purpose save to serve man's purposes." Along with this, Western Christianity separated humans from nature. In older religious traditions, humans were seen as part of nature, rather than the ruler of nature.

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Christianity "not only established a dualism of man and nature but also insisted that it is God's will that man exploit nature for his proper ends" . . . [White] proposed that Christianity, and Western civilization as a whole, held a view of nature that separated humans from the rest of the natural world, and encouraged exploitation of it for our own ends.

Which leads Rick Santorum to question President Obama's Christian faith because he does not subscribe to this concept of dualism of man and nature, and the exploitation of the Earth's resources for man's own purposes. Santorum is indirectly attacking millions of Americans who also do not subscribe to his views. Santorum: Obama 'world view' wrongly places Earth above man :

Rick Santorum on Sunday condemned what he called President Obama's world view that "elevates the Earth above man". . .

A day after telling an Ohio audience that Obama's agenda is based on "some phony theology, not a theology based on the Bible," the GOP presidential candidate said he wasn't criticizing the president's Christianity.

Oh yes, he is. And he is questioning the faith of millions of other Americans as well.