Mike Huckabee knows why that guy shot 20 children and 6 adults in that school. It’s because atheism.
“We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools,” Huckabee said on Fox News, discussing the murder spree that took the lives of 20 children and 6 adults in Newtown, CT that morning. “Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?”
“[W]e’ve made it a place where we don’t want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability — that we’re not just going to have be accountable to the police if they catch us, but one day we stand before, you know, a holy God in judgment,” Huckabee said. “If we don’t believe that, then we don’t fear that.”
He said those suffering from a crisis from faith should look to God in the community’s response to the violence. But he added that “Maybe we ought to let [God] in on the front end and we wouldn’t have to call him to show up when it’s all said and done at the back end.”
Oh really? Is that right? Well speaking of front end, what about your pal God? What’s God doing on the front end? Why didn’t God make that guy decide to train for a marathon instead? Why don’t you blame the shit God instead of blaming the victims? You callous theocratic piece of shit.
God’s passive aggressive. He didn’t kill those babies. He just let them be killed, because we didn’t kiss his ass enough.
Huckabee’s right, you know. Back when there was forced prayer in schools, nobody ever committed atrocities.
Mike Huckabee is as sick as Eric Hovind. They just couldn’t resist the opportunity to try and score personal theological points on the back of someone else’s tragedy.
And of course politicians are right up there for people you think of when you hear the word accountability….
Seems less like an “atheism” problem than a “crazy nutters with guns” problem.
From what I’ve seen, you could make all US public schools 100% god-free zones and American children would, on average, still be thoroughly drenched in god. They probably passed billboards telling them about him every day on the way to school. They probably heard sports stars and actors they worshiped talk about him and thank him for their gifts and success. They probably heard their politicians local, state and national proclaim his greatness and their desire to serve him.
And all that is before any of them step through the doors of a church.
Probably all the kids in all the school shootings in US history got plenty of god in their upbringing. All the perpetrators too.
And yet too many of them still grow up to commit mass slaughter, and too many never get to grow up at all.
Most European kids grow up with a fraction of the exposure to god that Americans get, and we have far fewer mass shootings and killing sprees. Still too many, but far fewer.
The US does not have a “not enough god” problem. In this context it probably doesn’t have a “too much god” problem either. Whatever effect religion may have on these events is statistically irrelevant when you consider one other factor…
The US has a WAAAAAY too many f***ing guns problem.
Huckabee’s god is supposed to be omnipotent and omniscient. If he didn’t want the shooting to occur then he could have zapped the shooters while they were still in their car.
Look at the face of Mike Huckabee, listen to his voice, and confront walking, talking evil incarnate.
So what’s Mikey’s God doing about the godless Australian children in their godless Australian schools under the care of a godless Prime Minister? Or all the other places with no god/s involved in their schools for that matter.
Maybe this is yet another case of bad aim.
I hate people who use tragedies like this to push their partisan agendas