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.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)I wouldn't follow a God that could would leave so easily or leave 20 children dead cause someone hurt his/her feelings.
msongs
(67,420 posts)tabasco
(22,974 posts)Huckabee was talking about the imaginary Christian god.
dchill
(38,505 posts)lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)Who would want to worship such a sadistic, petty, selfish and cowardly god? I don't get it.
SharonAnn
(13,776 posts)struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)Auggie
(31,174 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Mike Huckabee will never be president.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)I'll just blame it on the Huckster.
dchill
(38,505 posts)Official Representative of God on Earth. Asshole.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Flatpicker
(894 posts)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)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)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)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.
UtahLib
(3,179 posts)marias23
(379 posts)... while our kids were abused?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,011 posts)nolabear
(41,987 posts)I'm willing to give it a try.
indepat
(20,899 posts)they espouse: besides, God is all-knowing and ubiquitous.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)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)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)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)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)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)Seriously, that's how evangelical christians think.
nclib
(1,013 posts)svip
(22 posts)Or does the Sheikh Temple not count because they need to pray to the Christian God?
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)Cause, I think God is gonna have a big problem with you using his name like this!!!!!
SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Shut up! Just FUCKING shut up!
You are an "Enabler" for these killers.
DPalmCoast519
(19 posts)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.
biohazard9550
(12 posts)shame that it would be too difficult to do so
srichardson
(81 posts)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)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.
BeyondGeography
(39,375 posts)Fuck you.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)newspeak
(4,847 posts)"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)Oh wait, he cannot stop mass murders of children or stop you from putting words in his mouth.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)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.
atreides1
(16,079 posts)You are one Xtian that I wouldn't mind seeing nailed to a cross....hell I'd even buy the wood!
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)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)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)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)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)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.
adieu
(1,009 posts)Having easy access to guns is to blame for the gun violence.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Trying to recruit more sheep by using this tragedy is beyond despicable. What an asshole.
Heathen57
(573 posts)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)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!
reteachinwi
(579 posts)from sociopaths hands would be more effective.
mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)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)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)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".
Garion_55
(1,915 posts)God is everywhere or so i hear.
caseymoz
(5,763 posts)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.
AAO
(3,300 posts)SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)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.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)Fuck you to hell, Fuckabee.
4saken
(152 posts)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.
Nonhlanhla
(2,074 posts)Just shut up. You are despicable.
socalgal58
(19 posts)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)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
still_one
(92,229 posts)On guns.
Blandocyte
(1,231 posts)Go away.
tsuki
(11,994 posts)we can do it
(12,189 posts)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)Public schools benefit from Constitutional protection from his and all the other gods people invent.
sanatanadharma
(3,707 posts)...but be polite, and pointed.
http://www.mikehuckabee.com/contact-us
MADem
(135,425 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)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.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)Since when does a mythological character have anything to do with it?
NoGOPZone
(2,971 posts)Ash_F
(5,861 posts)TM99
(8,352 posts)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)Last edited Sat Dec 15, 2012, 12:48 AM - Edit history (1)
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)that targets children, when public schools refrain from worshiping him.
How disgusting
BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)He should shut the fuck up and go back to his hideous mcmansion in FL
stopbush
(24,396 posts)John2
(2,730 posts)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!
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Andy Stanton
(264 posts)HawkeyeLibkid
(76 posts)Mine too,
They'll exploit God for anything.
NeoConsSuck
(2,544 posts)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)about 18 church shootings in the last 11 years, I'm not too sure that dog will hunt, Huckleberry.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Not enough god there for Fuckabee.
bluedeer71
(15 posts)Dumbass. And a lot of people wanted this self-righteous fool to be POTUS.
daleo
(21,317 posts)So God slaughters children in revenge during a God-snit. That's how I read Huckabee's statement.
Kennah
(14,276 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)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)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)Last edited Sat Dec 15, 2012, 09:41 AM - Edit history (1)
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)often enough in schools?
I think that god should NOT be allowed anywhere NEAR any school.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)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)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.
marias23
(379 posts)Hey Mike - where was your g*d ??
durablend
(7,460 posts)"Pray the guns away" ?
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)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.
Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)aka-chmeee
(1,132 posts)If such a being existed, I would have to hate him for being a capricious, evil POS.
cliss
(10,296 posts)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.
Howler
(4,225 posts)Does God hand out bullet proof vests?
alarimer
(16,245 posts)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)Worship me or I will cause a madman to murder your children? His idea of god is monstrous.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)That is sarcasm.
crim son
(27,464 posts)judesedit
(4,439 posts)Archae
(46,337 posts)radhika
(1,008 posts)My sense of god is offended by him and his colleagues on the right.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)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.