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Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 08:42 PM Dec 2012

Mike Huckabee says removing God from schools is to blame for shooting

Source: http://now.msn.com/huckabee-blames-school-shooting

As the nation mourns and asks how could something like the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting happen, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has an idea: It's because God is absent from our schools. While speaking with Fox New's Neil Cavuto, Huckabee answered the question, "How could God let this happen?" by saying, "We've systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools have become a place for carnage because we've made it a place where we don't want to talk about eternity, life, responsibility, accountability?" Huckabee's words quickly made him a trending topic on Twitter, with some users applauding his comments, while others said his statement lacked empathy.


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Every bit as despicable as Robertson and Falwell's comments post-9/11.
Expect FOX to make this supposed "Christian" apologize a week from never.

Meanwhile, the gun lobby accuses everyone else of "politicizing" the shooting.

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Mike Huckabee says removing God from schools is to blame for shooting (Original Post) Adenoid_Hynkel Dec 2012 OP
Now that is some weak sauce... Kalidurga Dec 2012 #1
you don't have to follow the christian god, there are so many other to choose from incl none nt msongs Dec 2012 #4
What's your point? tabasco Dec 2012 #9
Or to prove a point made by Mike Huckabee. dchill Dec 2012 #8
What a jerk lsewpershad Dec 2012 #83
I feel exactly the same way theHandpuppet Dec 2012 #95
Oh, for God's sake! He punishes innocents because he's pissed about being ignored by others? SharonAnn Dec 2012 #108
Translation: "Don't forget me! I'm still an attention whore!" struggle4progress Dec 2012 #2
+1 Auggie Dec 2012 #5
We can thank God.... ProudToBeBlueInRhody Dec 2012 #3
STFU. Idiot. blackspade Dec 2012 #6
Supercilious Morality Huckster. dchill Dec 2012 #7
fuck your god, huckabee frylock Dec 2012 #10
His god has nothing to do with this Flatpicker Dec 2012 #61
Is that the same "God" who Politicalboi Dec 2012 #11
Future serial killer. srichardson Dec 2012 #29
Fuckabee and Junior are both insane lbrtbell Dec 2012 #52
This was my first thought too. What a sick and twisted family. n/t UtahLib Dec 2012 #54
Where Was G-d in Churches and Parochial Schools marias23 Dec 2012 #99
Shows how devoid of ideas and intelligence is the shithead. nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2012 #12
Let's see what removing Huckabee from television would do. nolabear Dec 2012 #13
RW hypocrites like Huckabee are much more the cause because of the putrid public policy indepat Dec 2012 #14
An all-knowing and ubiquitous god who allows or causes mass slaughter of children ... Arugula Latte Dec 2012 #26
FU mike huckabee you sick bastard kimbutgar Dec 2012 #15
It is obvious that the voice of reason... liberalmuse Dec 2012 #16
OK Mikey. Then how do you explain this one? eringer Dec 2012 #17
okay, how about those who kill children in the name of god? newspeak Dec 2012 #33
They worshiped the catholic Jesus so it don't count. Tabasco_Dave Dec 2012 #92
Mike Huckabee is an idiot. nclib Dec 2012 #18
What about the Wisconsin shooting? svip Dec 2012 #19
it heaven05 Dec 2012 #28
Fyckabee, Suckabee, Schmuckabee!!!!! You better damn well hope there ain't no hell!!!!!! LongTomH Dec 2012 #20
suckabee is right on target! good one! SemperEadem Dec 2012 #53
S...T...F...U! SoapBox Dec 2012 #21
How about we just get rid of guns DPalmCoast519 Dec 2012 #22
i agree biohazard9550 Dec 2012 #114
The sick fuck. srichardson Dec 2012 #23
Only heaven05 Dec 2012 #31
Fuck you, fucking profiteering hack BeyondGeography Dec 2012 #24
Onehandle says not using Reagan's corpse as a urinal is to blame for shooting. nt onehandle Dec 2012 #25
and God says newspeak Dec 2012 #37
Your god is indeed omnipotent.. awoke_in_2003 Dec 2012 #89
God is per se omnipresent and can not be removed from anywhere. arely staircase Dec 2012 #27
Huckabee atreides1 Dec 2012 #30
think thats a good name for Mike PatrynXX Dec 2012 #38
What a sick piece of garbage he is. UtahLib Dec 2012 #32
Probably would work. PatrynXX Dec 2012 #36
He's not following my God. or if he is he's totally ignoring Jesus PatrynXX Dec 2012 #34
The long history of school violence mainstreetonce Dec 2012 #35
I say... adieu Dec 2012 #39
F'ing Scam artist trying to capitalize on tragedy. Thor_MN Dec 2012 #40
Huckabee, you are a sick bastard Heathen57 Dec 2012 #41
STFU sheshe2 Dec 2012 #42
Removing guns reteachinwi Dec 2012 #43
If god is real, how could he be removed from schools or anywhere else? mysuzuki2 Dec 2012 #44
He's so brave Liberalagogo Dec 2012 #45
Huckabee you are an unfeeling git Smilo Dec 2012 #46
Really? Then, why don't we have female shooters? Seems to me they are always mad men. juajen Dec 2012 #47
God? or state sponsored organized prayer? Garion_55 Dec 2012 #48
Funny, I didn't read that God struck down 20 children. caseymoz Dec 2012 #49
Huckabee is a real turd. Not Christian in the least. AAO Dec 2012 #50
no it's not.... SemperEadem Dec 2012 #51
His name is Fuckabee for a reason. Zoeisright Dec 2012 #55
Attributing this to characters like god or the devil shifts focus from the real issues... 4saken Dec 2012 #56
Just shut up, Huckabee. Nonhlanhla Dec 2012 #57
You insignificant piece of sh*t.... socalgal58 Dec 2012 #58
Oh, Huckabee is the LAST PERSON who should be condemning crime, alp227 Dec 2012 #60
Screw you, you piece of garbage. It was people like you believing there should be no restrictions still_one Dec 2012 #59
Crazy jackass. Blandocyte Dec 2012 #62
Didn't take long for him to capitalize on the tragedy. nt tsuki Dec 2012 #63
All the idiots are lining up together today. we can do it Dec 2012 #64
When was God part of the schools? IDIOT! Coyotl Dec 2012 #65
Do send the huckster your thoughts at this link... sanatanadharma Dec 2012 #66
Who knew Gawd was a school armed security guard? nt MADem Dec 2012 #67
I thought God was omnipresent, how could God not be in the schools. olddad56 Dec 2012 #68
Huckleberry is an idiot RoccoR5955 Dec 2012 #69
A new world record in the Leap of Logic event nt NoGOPZone Dec 2012 #70
Don't feed the troll, America /nt Ash_F Dec 2012 #71
What a sick fucking man he is TM99 Dec 2012 #72
What a sick, sick human being. OnionPatch Dec 2012 #73
So according to Huckabee, his God is a terrorist amuse bouche Dec 2012 #74
What a DUMB ASS BigDemVoter Dec 2012 #75
Mike Huckabee (R-Asshole) stopbush Dec 2012 #76
Let's get this straight, John2 Dec 2012 #77
Yet another a**hole. WinkyDink Dec 2012 #78
Well, if you know the guy, tell him to register at the office before roaming the halls again. n/t jtuck004 Dec 2012 #79
What an idiot SHRED Dec 2012 #80
This has already popped up in my Facebook feed OmahaBlueDog Dec 2012 #81
Moronic n/t Andy Stanton Dec 2012 #82
Yep HawkeyeLibkid Dec 2012 #91
It's on my FB newsfeed too. NeoConsSuck Dec 2012 #102
Considering there have been Spirochete Dec 2012 #84
But one of them was at a Unitarian church KamaAina Dec 2012 #112
Huckabee is a bluedeer71 Dec 2012 #85
No prayer in school daleo Dec 2012 #86
Seems like one weak assed God if he can be removed from school without a fight Kennah Dec 2012 #87
It's shameful that someone calling himself a man of God lies through his teeth that way. merrily Dec 2012 #88
So true HawkeyeLibkid Dec 2012 #90
I am a christian and Mike Huckabee workinclasszero Dec 2012 #93
So his god allows a bunch of children to be massacred because people don't say its name NYC Liberal Dec 2012 #94
Huckabee and his ilk have damaged Christianity for more than any atheist has ever accomplished. olegramps Dec 2012 #96
Crutches gussmith Dec 2012 #97
And the Pedophiles in Church? marias23 Dec 2012 #98
So what he's saying durablend Dec 2012 #100
How does lack of forced prayer mean you cannot talk about accountability and responsibility? OrwellwasRight Dec 2012 #101
Actually God is punishing us for letting mike huckabee ever open his mouth. Jakes Progress Dec 2012 #103
God is absent from reality........ aka-chmeee Dec 2012 #104
Mike Huckabee should know about guns. cliss Dec 2012 #105
Why? Howler Dec 2012 #106
Prayer doesn't stop bullets, you idiot! alarimer Dec 2012 #107
That's some fucked up theology. Belief in a cruel murderous God. Matariki Dec 2012 #109
Yes, let's all jump to supernatural causes. ZombieHorde Dec 2012 #110
Linking God and guns has more to do with it, if either have anything to do with it at all. n/t crim son Dec 2012 #111
He MIGHT have a point there to consider.We need more GOD in Congress. judesedit Dec 2012 #113
Huckabee is now in major CYA mode. Archae Dec 2012 #115
Removing Huck from the national discourse would be a step in the right direction. radhika Dec 2012 #116
so God is some passive aggressive prick then? lunasun Dec 2012 #117
"...don't want to talk about eternity, xxqqqzme Dec 2012 #118

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
1. Now that is some weak sauce...
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 08:45 PM
Dec 2012

I wouldn't follow a God that could would leave so easily or leave 20 children dead cause someone hurt his/her feelings.

theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)
95. I feel exactly the same way
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 11:23 AM
Dec 2012

Who would want to worship such a sadistic, petty, selfish and cowardly god? I don't get it.

Flatpicker

(894 posts)
61. His god has nothing to do with this
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 10:59 PM
Dec 2012

Fuck you Mike Huckabee.

If there is a Christian god, I pray he has a Christian Hell for you to roast in.
If there is nothing beyond this life, I hope that Oblivion will allow humanity to forget you ever existed.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
11. Is that the same "God" who
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 08:50 PM
Dec 2012

Taught your son to torture and kill animals? Wasn't "God" in schools back then? Wasn't "God" in his own house? Where was this "God" while his son was torturing animals?

srichardson

(81 posts)
29. Future serial killer.
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:19 PM
Dec 2012

His son tortured animals? No doubt it was God's will, those horrible animals deserved it. How dare they come into contact w a chosen ones child. Fuck Huckabee and fuck his kid.

lbrtbell

(2,389 posts)
52. Fuckabee and Junior are both insane
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:59 PM
Dec 2012

That's why Junior is doing such horrible shit. You can't come from the loins of a man that insane, without being insane too.

indepat

(20,899 posts)
14. RW hypocrites like Huckabee are much more the cause because of the putrid public policy
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 08:54 PM
Dec 2012

they espouse: besides, God is all-knowing and ubiquitous.

 

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)
26. An all-knowing and ubiquitous god who allows or causes mass slaughter of children ...
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:13 PM
Dec 2012

what a fucked-up deity to "worship." I'm happy I don't feel the need to perform the mental gymnastics necessary to "believe" in such a cruel, villainous being.

kimbutgar

(21,163 posts)
15. FU mike huckabee you sick bastard
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 08:55 PM
Dec 2012

Guns not god is the reason these poor souls were killed today . The party you support, the hate cable program you appear on, is a big reason we have seen an uptick in these gun violence acts of mayhem. Your party and the NRA won 't let us pass laws or spend money on mental health. FU you big jackass

liberalmuse

(18,672 posts)
16. It is obvious that the voice of reason...
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 08:59 PM
Dec 2012

has completely deserted one Mike Huckabee. Fuck you very much, sir. You stupid, insipid throwback from a time far before the Bronze Age.

eringer

(460 posts)
17. OK Mikey. Then how do you explain this one?
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 08:59 PM
Dec 2012

The St. Pius X High School shooting was a school shooting that occurred on October 27, 1975 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The gunman, Robert Poulin, an 18-year-old St. Pius student, opened fire on his classmates with a shotgun, killing one and wounding five before killing himself. Poulin had raped and stabbed 17-year old Kim Rabot to death prior to the incident. A book entitled Rape of a Normal Mind was written about the incident.
Care to withdraw your accusations now or would you rather opt for a "quiet" 24 hour period (per NRA requirements) first?

newspeak

(4,847 posts)
33. okay, how about those who kill children in the name of god?
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:27 PM
Dec 2012

woman pushes her daughters off of building in SLC because god told her to, a woman drowns her children because god told her to, two brothers kill a woman and children because she wasn't adhering to their god's laws. and I can go on and on. so huckabee, maybe you should think before opening your mouth (if you can think).

Tabasco_Dave

(1,259 posts)
92. They worshiped the catholic Jesus so it don't count.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 04:21 AM
Dec 2012

Seriously, that's how evangelical christians think.

svip

(22 posts)
19. What about the Wisconsin shooting?
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:03 PM
Dec 2012

Or does the Sheikh Temple not count because they need to pray to the Christian God?

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
28. it
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:18 PM
Dec 2012

counts not one iota less than this one. Innocent HUMAN BEINGS were murdered. That's all that will count in the coming nationwide debate. Trayvon Martin was/is a victim of gun violence also. Counts not one iota less that the Sikh Temple murders or this one today. The gun madness must stop.

LongTomH

(8,636 posts)
20. Fyckabee, Suckabee, Schmuckabee!!!!! You better damn well hope there ain't no hell!!!!!!
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:04 PM
Dec 2012

Cause, I think God is gonna have a big problem with you using his name like this!!!!!

DPalmCoast519

(19 posts)
22. How about we just get rid of guns
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:10 PM
Dec 2012

We are the most violent country in the world. How about we just get rid of guns. It is time. We have a culture of insanity and it is no longer safe to have the general population armed.

srichardson

(81 posts)
23. The sick fuck.
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:11 PM
Dec 2012

And this is why I CANNOT bring myself to step foot into a church again. Hope he loses his too long 15 minutes of fame over this dribble.

Edit to add: The only people keeping God out of schools are those that bitch about it. And, to those who think legally carrying a gun on school property wouldve stopped this are ignorant. Even if someone had been in possession of a weapon at this school, they would not have had the time to stop this. Unless the 5 yr olds had carried the weapon. Which is just moronic to suggest. Even if the teacher had a gun, it was her son. Would she have used it? Besides the fact he would have shot her first. Fuckingmorons.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
31. Only
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:23 PM
Dec 2012

people like Huckshit wants to force people to pray to a God. I would be willing to bet that some people killed today had a personal God they prayed to. So God was in that school according to the hucksters criteria and other god is out of schools fools explaining why this happened.

newspeak

(4,847 posts)
37. and God says
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:31 PM
Dec 2012

"QUIT BLAMING ME FOR YOUR IGNORANT, HEINOUS ACTS, AND WOULD IT HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE IF MY NAME WAS MENTIONED? NOPE, I DIDN'T THINK SO!"

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
89. Your god is indeed omnipotent..
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 04:06 AM
Dec 2012

Oh wait, he cannot stop mass murders of children or stop you from putting words in his mouth.

arely staircase

(12,482 posts)
27. God is per se omnipresent and can not be removed from anywhere.
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:14 PM
Dec 2012

If it can be removed, it isn't god at all.

probably just your idea of how ptive audience school children should be led in a gevornment sponsored christian prayer.

that is what you want back in schools, not god, who never left.

PatrynXX

(5,668 posts)
38. think thats a good name for Mike
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:31 PM
Dec 2012

Xtian. or godtian. certainly not Christian. Not sure he knows who the savior was/is. The devil is at work here. The devil likely knows the Bible more than Mike does.

UtahLib

(3,179 posts)
32. What a sick piece of garbage he is.
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:25 PM
Dec 2012

I hope there comes a day when God becomes so tired of schmucks like Huckabee presuming to speak for him that he finally zaps him and all his sick buddies straight to hell where they belong.

PatrynXX

(5,668 posts)
36. Probably would work.
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:30 PM
Dec 2012

God doesn't play politics. Jesus might. But not the way the Right thinks. Mike here hasn't read the New Book it would seem. X_X

For all I know he read the book that supposedly came before the Old book with Lilith. if one believes in that particular book (via True Blood) I hardly know much about it. It's all in the Vatican archives..

PatrynXX

(5,668 posts)
34. He's not following my God. or if he is he's totally ignoring Jesus
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:28 PM
Dec 2012

Seriously these so called Christians are what what are they named after? Jesus Christ. Mike and his ilk are Jewish Orthodox wannabe's. Not Christians so ignore them.. Jesus would not force his name down peoples throat. Mike here would be one of those who would hang Jesus from a Cross. Violent man that guy is. In order for him to say this , that would mean that each and every one of those killed did not go to Church. or believe in Christ. Hence ignore him. He's nothing. A piece of shit on the ground shouting at something he knows nothing about. He believes in the god of Money.

mainstreetonce

(4,178 posts)
35. The long history of school violence
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:30 PM
Dec 2012

After Columbine I read about the history of school violence . It goes all the way back to the one room colonial school houses. When the bible was read every day and children were led in group prayer,there were incidents of students bringing rifles to school and shooting teachers or other students.

 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
40. F'ing Scam artist trying to capitalize on tragedy.
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:32 PM
Dec 2012

Trying to recruit more sheep by using this tragedy is beyond despicable. What an asshole.

Heathen57

(573 posts)
41. Huckabee, you are a sick bastard
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:32 PM
Dec 2012

blaming the victims (5-10 year old children) because you can't go into a school and force your version of a god onto innocent minds.

Kids that want to pray can easily do so legally. You just can't force my child to pray to your god, and that is enough to cause your god to cause a shooting of innocent children.

You and your cohorts are a bunch of sick fucks and should keep these opinions to those who agree with you.

sheshe2

(83,793 posts)
42. STFU
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:38 PM
Dec 2012

Yeah Huck we took God out of schools...While you and your other F**KING GOP buddies Rammed God into our political system!!!

See how well that has worked out for us!

 

Liberalagogo

(1,770 posts)
45. He's so brave
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:49 PM
Dec 2012

Spewing this shit within the protection of False Noise. The asswipe doesn't have the balls to say this kind of hateful crap right now outside his bubble where his ass would be thoroughly kicked.

Smilo

(1,944 posts)
46. Huckabee you are an unfeeling git
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:49 PM
Dec 2012

I was expecting Robertson to make this asinine and disingenuous tirade.

And anyway, the type of Christianity you want in school is akin to the Taliban and Islam.

juajen

(8,515 posts)
47. Really? Then, why don't we have female shooters? Seems to me they are always mad men.
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:52 PM
Dec 2012

Usually at the most important female in their lives. When will this be addressed as strictly a male problem. A female murderer is rare, though certainly not unheard of; but, the majority of killers in this country are men with no place to put their "gun".

caseymoz

(5,763 posts)
49. Funny, I didn't read that God struck down 20 children.
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:58 PM
Dec 2012

No, that would be the Old Testament where God does that. The news here was that a hellbent nutcase with a gun committed the crime.

It seems God is innocent of this one Huck, so try not to divert the argument to something completely irrelevant.

SemperEadem

(8,053 posts)
51. no it's not....
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:59 PM
Dec 2012

gutting mental health resources is the root of this problem. Clearly, this man had issues which culminated in him taking human life today... and against children who never did anything to him.

god has nothing to do with it. Anyone can access god at anytime they choose--it does not have to be done in a school.

If you want god in your school, then pay to send your kid to a religious school. Period. My parents paid to send me to a catholic school for 12 year, not that the religiosity stuck, but they sacrificed the extras for themselves back in those days to do that.

4saken

(152 posts)
56. Attributing this to characters like god or the devil shifts focus from the real issues...
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 10:09 PM
Dec 2012

When you believe you understand the cause completely, and to fix it you just pray a little more or "give yourself to Jesus", you become unlikely to take evidence based action towards really addressing, and reducing the chances of things like this happening.

Making them read an ambiguous primitive scripture rather than texts on ethics and sociology. Creating more churches rather than less divisive community centers. Pushing Biblical ideals rather than modern neurology and psychology. Paying for Bible classes and chaplains rather than publicly funding mental health facilities.

socalgal58

(19 posts)
58. You insignificant piece of sh*t....
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 10:30 PM
Dec 2012

So "god's" absence caused this? Wow, what a great "god" to get his panties in a wad over being left out of our schools and thereby let 20 innocent babies and 6 brave teachers, die. Yeah, that's the kind of "god" I want to worship. Not. Ass-clown.

alp227

(32,034 posts)
60. Oh, Huckabee is the LAST PERSON who should be condemning crime,
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 10:42 PM
Dec 2012

given his controversial clemencies to two prisoners who would go on to murder after their freedom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Huckabee#Clemency_controversies

As governor, Huckabee commuted and accepted recommendations for pardon for twice as many sentences as his three predecessors combined; in total: 1,033 prisoners.[67] Twelve of those had previously been convicted of murder.[68] Huckabee’s pardons and commutations became an issue during the 2008 Republican Primary, with most of the controversy focusing on Wayne Dumond.[69][70] Huckabee's handling of clemency petitions received national attention in November 2009 with the case of Maurice Clemmons. Clemmons had committed burglary without a weapon, and his 60-year sentence was commuted by Huckabee to 47 years, making him eligible for parole if approved by the parole board. The prosecuting attorney of Pulaski County, Arkansas vehemently objected to the commutation. As factors in his decision, Huckabee cited the unusually long sentence of 108 years for Clemmons, who was 17 at the time, that Clemmons had already served 11 years of jail time, the unanimous decision by the bipartisan state pardon board in Clemmons's favor, and the original trial judge's support for clemency. When Clemmons received the 60-year sentence, he already was serving 48 years on five felony convictions and facing up to 95 more years on charges of robbery, theft and possessing a handgun on school property.[71][72] After his release in 2000 Clemmons was arrested a number of times for multiple offenses including child molestation and aggravated assault, but was released after prosecutors declined to file charges. On November 29, 2009, four police officers were murdered in Lakewood, Washington, and Clemmons was named by witnesses as the only suspect. After a two-day manhunt that spanned several cities in the Puget Sound region, the armed Clemmons was shot and killed by a Seattle Police Department officer in south Seattle after refusing police orders to stop charging the officer.[73]

still_one

(92,229 posts)
59. Screw you, you piece of garbage. It was people like you believing there should be no restrictions
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 10:42 PM
Dec 2012

On guns.

we can do it

(12,189 posts)
64. All the idiots are lining up together today.
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:10 PM
Dec 2012

If that's the way god is, I say fuck him....if you don't step in to help little kids then you pretty much suck.

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
65. When was God part of the schools? IDIOT!
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:13 PM
Dec 2012

Public schools benefit from Constitutional protection from his and all the other gods people invent.

olddad56

(5,732 posts)
68. I thought God was omnipresent, how could God not be in the schools.
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:30 PM
Dec 2012

Mike is more about teaching people to fear God, and less about learning love through a personal relationship with God. Mick Huckabee's fear based religious God is a sham, but God in the true spiritual sense is about pure love.

Mike Huckabee's fear based god has no place in our culture, let alone our schools Mike Huckabee is in the same class with Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh.

 

TM99

(8,352 posts)
72. What a sick fucking man he is
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:46 PM
Dec 2012

I am not shocked by any of this. I am not surprised that so many were killed today. It is becoming the norm.

I am a gun-owner. I was taught by both my father and grandfather as a boy how to use and care for a gun. I hunted with them as I grew up.

When I hear grown men express their rage and helplessness by blaming others for not believing in their god, all I can feel is deeply saddened.

The rage and helplessness that welled up in me today brought me to tears. I allowed myself to cry. I called my sister and spoke to my nephew who is the age of some of these children. I left the NRA a few months ago but had remained on a few email lists. Today, I removed myself from those.

What a horribly tragic day.

OnionPatch

(6,169 posts)
73. What a sick, sick human being.
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:48 PM
Dec 2012

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As if any God worth his weight in spit would take some sort of jealous revenge on a room full of innocent children. How twisted and bizarro. I can't believe he was anywhere close to the presidency of the United States. It just shows how far off their rockers the right has gone.

And aside from the obvious....WTF.....can't these right-wing evangelicals instill their Christian values in their kids without depending on the government to do it for them in our public schools? Do their kids not know how to pray silently? Does their God abandon them if someone doesn't lead them out loud in prayer every few hours?

amuse bouche

(3,657 posts)
74. So according to Huckabee, his God is a terrorist
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:56 PM
Dec 2012

that targets children, when public schools refrain from worshiping him.

How disgusting

 

John2

(2,730 posts)
77. Let's get this straight,
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 12:34 AM
Dec 2012

this man does not speak for God. He does not even know the kids or teachers that lost their lives today in that school or what religion their parents follow. That is why I say he does not speak one iota for God. To suggest that 5-10 year old kids were un godly or something and that is why this happened to them is dispicable. Yet he says nothing about those that push their rethoric and profit off weapons that kill, exposes his hypocrasy. And you know what led me to speak out? It came from my conscious, which I believe God pushed me to say. And I don't even profess to be religious!

NeoConsSuck

(2,544 posts)
102. It's on my FB newsfeed too.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:03 PM
Dec 2012

Just got into a battle with one of my FB friends who posted it. Let's look at the absence of God, evil, mental illness, everything but the elephant in the room: There are 88 guns for every 100 people in this country.

Spirochete

(5,264 posts)
84. Considering there have been
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:37 AM
Dec 2012

about 18 church shootings in the last 11 years, I'm not too sure that dog will hunt, Huckleberry.

daleo

(21,317 posts)
86. No prayer in school
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 03:10 AM
Dec 2012

So God slaughters children in revenge during a God-snit. That's how I read Huckabee's statement.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
88. It's shameful that someone calling himself a man of God lies through his teeth that way.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 04:02 AM
Dec 2012

God has not been removed from schools.

Students are free to have religious clubs and many do.

The only thing that is gone is the government forcing its God (you know, the "one" God who is in the Old Testament and the New Testament--even though the two are startlingly different) down the throat of people who want their own God.

Originally, the government God even excluded Jews, but now the government has become more broadminded. There's even some pretense of including the Muslim God, though it's only a pretense.

However, fuck you if you are pagan, Buddhist, atheist, etc. because The Family, D Street and the rest want something else and you don't have enough money, clout or time to fight them.

HawkeyeLibkid

(76 posts)
90. So true
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 04:10 AM
Dec 2012

How come the mythical NRA concealed-carry heat-packing hero is never where the maniac with the legal assault rifle is?

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
93. I am a christian and Mike Huckabee
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 08:59 AM
Dec 2012

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can eat shit and die! What a filthy lyin hypocrite scumbag reich wing LIAR!

Huckabees "god" looks on in approval of the murder of 5 and 10 year old kids because of the reich wing fantasy of God being kicked out of public schools.

My Jesus said the kingdom of heaven is made up of little children. Lyin Pharisees bastards like Huck are the ones that are killing Christianity with their hate and avarice and lies!

FUCK YOU HUCK!

NYC Liberal

(20,136 posts)
94. So his god allows a bunch of children to be massacred because people don't say its name
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 09:05 AM
Dec 2012

often enough in schools?

I think that god should NOT be allowed anywhere NEAR any school.

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
96. Huckabee and his ilk have damaged Christianity for more than any atheist has ever accomplished.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 11:40 AM
Dec 2012

How many young people have been so turned off by these hypocrites that they refuse to have anything to do with religion? I personally subscribe to thinking of Thomas Jefferson who stripped his New Testament of all miracle nonsense that only served to detract from the basic teachings of Jesus that we are responsible for each other's welfare. Huckabee is only another charlatan that has bilked the undiscerning of their money to enrich themselves.

 

gussmith

(280 posts)
97. Crutches
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 12:12 PM
Dec 2012

And I say to Huckabee that if there was a god there would have been no elementary school slaughter or any other of the displays of gun violence.

OrwellwasRight

(5,170 posts)
101. How does lack of forced prayer mean you cannot talk about accountability and responsibility?
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:03 PM
Dec 2012

This man has obviously not been to a school lately. Discussions about accountability and responsibility happen all the time. Eterninty, not so much. But I am not sure how talking about eternity with a 16 year old, who thinks eternity means the time between now and summer vacation would be very effective at preventing any mass shootings. . .

Is what he is really saying that the shooter was so mad that there isn't prayer in school that he went and shot up a school? Right wing religio-fascist fucktard.

aka-chmeee

(1,132 posts)
104. God is absent from reality........
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:34 PM
Dec 2012

If such a being existed, I would have to hate him for being a capricious, evil POS.

cliss

(10,296 posts)
105. Mike Huckabee should know about guns.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:40 PM
Dec 2012

The former governor let a dangerous criminal go free in Arkansas. It was something about 'getting even with Clinton'. This criminal made a beeline to Seattle Washington and promptly shot 4 police officers at a Starbucks cafe.

Police officers. Help me out here, I've forgotten the details but one thing stand out: Huckabee is an accomplice to murder.

alarimer

(16,245 posts)
107. Prayer doesn't stop bullets, you idiot!
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:03 PM
Dec 2012

Let me get this straight:

God is an asshole who lets kids die because people don't suck up to him enough? Is that what you're saying, Mike?

Matariki

(18,775 posts)
109. That's some fucked up theology. Belief in a cruel murderous God.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:30 PM
Dec 2012

Worship me or I will cause a madman to murder your children? His idea of god is monstrous.

radhika

(1,008 posts)
116. Removing Huck from the national discourse would be a step in the right direction.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 04:54 PM
Dec 2012

My sense of god is offended by him and his colleagues on the right.

xxqqqzme

(14,887 posts)
118. "...don't want to talk about eternity,
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 03:27 AM
Dec 2012

life, responsibility, accountability?"


Learned about eternity in science; life in biology; and accountability and responsibility from my parents. God had nothing to do w/ it.

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