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Related: About this forumMike Huckabee's 2016 Themes? God In Textbooks And Attacks On Judges
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/mike-huckabee-s-2016-themes-god-textbooks-and-attacks-judgesSUBMITTED BY Peter Montgomery on Monday, 6/23/2014 12:28 pm
Part of the Christian-nation lineup at this weekends Faith and Freedom Coalition Road to Majority conference was former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a right-wing media figure and former (and likely future) presidential candidate.
Huckabee said that he and his wife recently went to China to celebrate their 40th anniversary. He said he hadnt been earlier because he doesnt like the Chinese government citing piracy and dumping but, oddly, not Chinas repression of dissent and religious freedom.
He praised the flowering of entrepreneurship in China, saying the country is becoming more like America used to be and America is becoming more like China used to be. Huckabee compared NSA spying to Chinese control over Internet access. And more absurdly, he equated the Chinese governments erasure from history of the massacre of protesters at Tiananmen Square with what he said was our countrys treatment of the role of God in Americas founding.
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safeinOhio
(32,461 posts)If you really want to follow Jesus, sell everything you own and give the $5 million to the poor. Until then, don't be preaching to me.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)What else would you expect?
Perhaps we can find common ground and allow some gray areas of history to be covered by his god, to make real history more acceptable. You know, like you think we should do with science to make it more palatable to religious believers.
So in that regard, since we don't know who fired the first shot of the American Revolution, and in all likelihood never will, should we just say that Huckabee's god did it?
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)on a taxpayer funded book tour.
Blue Owl
(49,737 posts)Htom Sirveaux
(1,242 posts)If they had wanted to amend the constitution to overturn that decision and reject the idea that the Supreme Court is the final official interpreter of the meaning of the constitution, they could have. He also forgets that the founders knew what it meant to have an established religion. The Thirty Years War had just happened the previous century, and it was born out of Catholic-Protestant rivalry. Making every election about religious supremacy is still a recipe for endless civil war, as in the case of Iraq today.
But most of all, he ignores that this isn't the 19th century and that "civil religion" can't be justified as a bland, non-sectarian uniting force when the U.S. is a far more religiously-diverse country today.