Posted on 12/10/2007 8:09:56 AM PST by JRochelle
Government may have dropped the ball in modern American society, but religion dropped it first, Gov. Mike Huckabee told Southern Baptist pastors Sunday night. "The reason we have so much government is because we have so much broken humanity," he said. "And the reason we have so much broken humanity is because sin reigns in the hearts and lives of human beings instead of the Savior." Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, addressed his contemporaries at the two-day Pastors' Conference, which continues today. The three-day Southern Baptist Convention begins Tuesday here in the heartland of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the city in which the Mormons have their world headquarters. Huckabee told the pastors gathered in the Salt Palace Convention Center that while the March 1, 1997, tornadoes which struck Arkansas were tragic, at least the devastation could be clearly seen from a helicopter. In contrast, he said, the catalysts for the nation's recent school shootings -- including the one March 24 near Jonesboro that left four students and a teacher dead and 10 others wounded -- were harder to see but were driven by "the winds of spiritual change in a nation that has forgotten its God."
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Don’t feed the troll.
That’s too bad. He is exactly right.
We are lost from God. Our founders...nearly all of whom were Christian and all of whom believed in God would be appalled by what we tolerate in our culture today.
Shame Huckster is so soft on immigration and race baits at every opportunity like a Yankee freeper (some) and is a believer in the nanny state.
Were he right on all that I’d support him...he talks good and is pretty sharp and driven.
But alas, he’s a good works Christian....which is part of the problem.
...with all due respect.
Yes - unfortunately it seems that if you express a Christian world view your political chances are slim to none. John Adams believed that the US constitution would only work for a moral and religious people. Now we are not moral and only superficially religious. We take money from the industrious and give to the lazy, allow infanticide on demand and yet protest vehemently in defense of wildlife habitats. We send our kids to public schools that only cater for the lowest 20% and wonder why we can’t find qualified people for our most demanding jobs - instead we bring them in from around the globe (China). We need a revival of religious morality and a revival of common sense. God help us.
he did in that case...
Maybe President DUNCAN HUNTER can put him in some position where he would be a natural fit. Such as managing Faith Based Initiatives in the Hunter White House.
What I see is a very persuasive, heartfelt article correctly determining the lack of superego controls in the general populance is a spiritual not a temporal matter. That he was speaking to pastors meant he relied on the tried and true rhetoric of faith.
Why anyone would dismiss his candidacy as a religious nut spewing nonsense escapes me.
That said, I am not a Huckabee booster but I surely can see why many are.
“With opinions like this, Huckabee is doomed.”
We’re about to find out, aren’t we?
I couldn’t disagree more. This will further strengthen his position in Iowa and South Carolina.
...and those Super Tuesday states of Tennesse and Alabama and Georgia...
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