Mike Huckabee at CPAC: America must “repent” before it receives god’s “fiery judgment”

[DonViejo]

The former presidential candidate fears America has forgotten its spiritual and historical “midwife”

ELIAS ISQUITH

Mike Huckabee’s Friday morning speech at CPAC wasn’t so much a speech as a recitation of bumper sticker-size conservative slogans and Fox News inspired zingers.

But before he started mailing in quips about Benghazi and condemnations of the “criminal” IRS, the former Southern Baptist minister made sure to warn America of the Sodom and Gomorrah it could one day become.

“I know there’s a god, and I know this nation would not exist without him as the midwife of its birth,” Huckabee told the near-capacity crowd of conservative activists. “And I know that if this nation forgets god, god will have every right to forget us.”

After sharing a joke about how god should “apologize” to Sodom and Gomorrah if he decides not to strike down America for its wickedness, Huckabee spoke of his “hope” that the U.S. would “repent before we ever have to receive his fiery judgment.”

In Huckabee’s telling, a god who destroyed America would be doing nothing more than dismantling something he himself had once built. “There is no other way to explain [American] history,” Huckabee said, referring to god’s guiding hand.

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[CJCRANE]

1. Um...wouldn't that have been called "anti-American"

in the not-so-distant past?

[mindem]

2. What an idiot.

I'm sure that the repukes think God will appoint them as the ones to dole out His judgment. These people are out of their minds.

[skepticscott]

3. I wish someone had asked him

whether he considered 9/11 to be god's "fiery judgement".

[cbayer]

4. God as midwife? Now there's an image I wish I had never been presented.

I hope to hear less and less from him in the coming years.