During a visit last week to Liberty University, the late Jerry Falwell’s Christian “madrasa” in Virginia, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, the former Baptist preacher and Arkansas governor, told a convocation that his recent surge in polls in Iowa is God’s handiwork, according Falwell’s son Jonathan:
Without irony, apparently, Huckabee also “… identified the ‘fanatic religious zealotry’ of Islamo-fascism as a ‘real threat’ that must be confronted to protect the American way of life.”
Mr. Huckabee … said that Divine providence was responsible for his recent surge in the polls in Iowa, as he noted that he is the candidate with much less capital firepower than his rivals. Despite his fundraising shortfall, his message seems to be resonating with voters.
Without irony, apparently, Huckabee also “… identified the ‘fanatic religious zealotry’ of Islamo-fascism as a ‘real threat’ that must be confronted to protect the American way of life.”
Many political observers believe that the “fanatic religious zealotry” of Christian nationalists like Huckabee, the late Falwell and Pat Robertson, the multimillionaire African diamond miner and television broadcaster, and their followers who advocate replacing the U.S. government with a bible-based theocratic system similar to Islamic Sharia law, are a far greater threat to American democracy than Third World terror groups.
At Liberty, Huckabee also spoke in favor of outlawing abortion and against gay civil rights.
H/t: Mark Karlin at BuzzFlash.com
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It must really piss liberals off to know that America still respects God and His Word.
America was built on the principles of God’s Word…and you idiots think we need to get rid of it.
When Paul said of folks in the latter days, “professing themselves wise, they became fools”, I think he had folks like you in mind.
America wouldn’t EXIST apart from God’s providence!
This is an extremely stupid article. If believing in the hand of God in your life or the life of a country is the same as promoting democracy, then George Washington and Abe Lincoln were fanatical theocrats too.
It’s as though these anti-religion folks have never cracked a history book.
Oh, and not for nothing, but you’re also basing this attack on Huckabee on a secondhand paraphrasing of what Huckabee supposedly said. So not only are you ignorant about both religion and American history, but you also don’t know the first thing about responsible journalism.
Cheers!
Pudge, Jonathan Falwell, the source of Huckabee’s quotes, is probably delusional, as are most evangelicals (you’d have to be to believe that crap), but it’s odd that you’re accusing Falwell’s son of lying.
You’re wrong, however, if you believe that Washington and Lincoln ever purported, as Huckabee did, that God cared about their poll numbers. Besides, Washington was a Deist and Lincoln said he was not a Christian.
Madison: I never accused Falwell’s son of lying. Acknowledging the fact that he may not be accurately representing what Huckabee said is not calling him a liar.
For example, I never called Falwell’s son a liar, yet I am not calling you a liar for incorrectly saying that I did.
And I never implied Washington or Lincoln cared about poll numbers. They did, however, believe that God had a hand in the direction of our nation, which includes who becomes President.
And no, Washington was not a Deist. That’s a myth. Indeed, the most prominent characteristic of Deism is the belief that God does NOT have a hand in the affairs of men, and Washington’s many assertions that “Providence” had an active role in America’s direction is markedly anti-Deist.
Al-Ozarka says: “It must really piss liberals off to know that America still respects God and His Word.”
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Most Christians are liberal, you idiot. Christ, Himself, was liberal.
You know, there exists a relatively small cult of politically loud-mouthed Republican fundamentalists, like you, made up primarily of people with borderline-intellectual functioning (look it up), who are abject followers. Many of you are the off-spring of yesterday’s KKK. You’re an easy mark for simplistic, emotionally based rhetoric, and you are VERY easily led. But you simply cannot function without someone telling what to think – usually some smarmy, sociopathic, “Pastor” with a 6 month “Bible School” education.
But don’t flatter yourself… nothing you do can “really piss liberals off” (to use your words). Why? Because we view you as a joke. We laugh at you. And sometimes we even pity you. But when it comes right down to it, trailer-trash “Christians”, like you, just don’t matter enough to generate anger.
However, if some smarmy “Pastor” does manage to get you whipped up enough to create real trouble, we’ll just grab your ilk by your scruffy little necks, bitch-slap you until you piss your pants, and send you back to your rusty trailer, your dumpy, big-hair wife, your vacant kids, and your pack of scurvy dogs. And then you’ll behave, because that’s what you do… you do what you’re told.
So… Christ be with you, and have a great holiday… you pathetic little worm.
And by the way… God told me to say this.
Bob Smith:
Christ was not a liberal in today’s sense of the word, no. He was “classically liberal,” yes. But not “socially liberal,” of course not. He never expressed any belief that government should force people to provide charity to others; that government should disallow us from building houses on certain size lots; that it was acceptable to kill unborn children; that we should interpret law according to what people want it to mean, rather than what it says, and what it meant at the time it was passed; etc. That kind of liberal, Christ was not.
That’s not to say he is “conservative” either. The only way in which Christ was “liberal” is in the same sense that all true conservatives are: a strong belief in civil liberty, in justice, in protection of rights.
I doubt you are capable of being reasoned with, though, because you apparently believe the best way to beat your opponent in an argument is to make ad hominem attacks against them, claiming your own intellectual and emotional superiority.
I have a hard time seeing how someone who so quickly resorts to such argument tactics can claim any high ground at all.
Pudge says: “I have a hard time seeing how someone who so quickly resorts to such argument tactics can claim any high ground at all.”
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Oh stop your whining.
And please understand that liberal Christians generally aren’t too interested in the “reasoning” of cultish GW/Falwell-bots. We listen to reason… we just don’t listen to idiots.
Falwell. Robertson. Falafel O’Reilly. Richard Roberts. Jimmy Bakker. Jimmy Swaggart. Ted Haggard. Just about every conservative politician alive today.
The backward, twisted, greedy, theocratic, politicized, faux Christian ideology promoted by all of these phony charlatans (and slurped up by their doltish followers) has been completely discredited. Only the worst of the knuckle-draggers still stand by it.
“High ground”, he says…
Pfft.
Jesus preached against hatred so he could not be a conservative by today’s standards. He would be appalled that rightwing Christianity has become a haven of hatred. Talk about money-changers in the temple — Christianists raise hundreds of millions of dollars every year by advocating homophobia, for example. They hate brown-skinned people, women, scientists — on and on and on.
Ask yourself: If Jesus came back today, would he fly with Pat Robertson in his private jet to Africa to tour his diamond mines or would he visit AIDS clinics, feed the homeless and comfort the abused?
“Most Christians are liberal, you idiot. Christ, Himself, was liberal.”
Complete and total distortion.
I am a liberal, dumbass! Most Republicans are liberals, Dumbass. The difference in modern liberalism and modern conservatism, however, is that modern liberalism chooses to forge ahead into unknown territory without any thought of protecting the good that we have accomplished through steady, responsible progress. The modern conservative movement, like it has since Teddy, has bee the responsible progressive party…responsible for great gains accomplished under heavy scrutiny.
Jesus may have been a liberal, but he hated the sinful lifestyles that modern liberalism promotes. Jesus may have been a liberal but he loathed the philosophies that deny a Creator. Jesus may have been a liberal…but he loved people enough to tell them the the Law of Moses means something very important! Jesus may have been a liberal, but he did NOT promote sinfulness as modern liberals most CERTAINLY do.
In truth, modern liberaldom is nothing more than childishness. You get what you want regardless of the consequences…no matter whose lives are destroyed…regardless of how many poor people are kept poor by its insistence that “if it feels good, do it”. No matter how far America gets away from the truths of God’s Word..both New and OLD Testaments!
Modern conservatism is at fault for America’s condidtion because it has FAILED to check the irresponsible, juvenile behavior of the left.
A word of advice…your hippified, selective version of Jesus is not even close to what Christ is about.
Get a clue…or please…shut the hell up.
“Ask yourself: If Jesus came back today, would he fly with Pat Robertson in his private jet to Africa to tour his diamond mines or would he visit AIDS clinics, feed the homeless and comfort the abused?”
He’d be here at the invitation of Mike Huckabee and would sit comfortably beside the former Arkansas Governor…and future POTUS…on that very tour of which you speak.
Except…Huckabee would be using his Frequent-Flier cards to buy the tickets on a commercial airline.
Unlike AlGore.
Got it. Up is down. Black is white. Republicans are liberals. 2007 is 1984.
Dear Jebus: Please make Huckleberry Hound the next president of the Unites States so that through his incompetence and corruption he will finish the job Bush and Cheney have started and finally kill off the Rethuglican Party and its platform of racism, fascism and promoting evil in the world.
Hucks a religious nut who hides behind his religion. If you believe in God, go to church thats what they were built for. The guys toast anyways. He got caught in letting a rapist out on jail who then goes and kills at least 2 other women. He’s a liar.
[...] And as Christian as Huckabee claims to be he is most likely a bigger panderer… Huckabee seems to be trying to cover up that he lobbied for the release of a serial rapist and murderer (how low can you go, seriously) because the victim that was raped was a high school daughter of a major Clinton supporter. Ignorantly many Republicans (wished, hoped? I don’t know) that the rapist was only imprisoned to appease Democrats. Even though other women came forward who were raped by the same man Huckabee lobbied to release him from prison.. Once released the rapist went on to rape and murder a couple more women before he was imprisoned again. While Huckabee most likely was not thinking of future victims, he ignored past victims to please the ignorant Republican outcry. Real Republicans (or Christians) would never lobby to release a rapist from prison. So what does Huckabee do when asked to see the papers that could prove his innocence… once again for security and safety he claims nobody is allowed to see them. Huckabee is just another politician who uses God as a sideshow. [...]