Former Arkansas Governor (and more-than-one-time Republican
Presidential nominee wannabe) Mike Huckabee on last Friday’s school shooting tragedy in Newtown, CT:
"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?"
Law enforcement has released few details on the alleged gunman, but Huckabee suggested that the separation of church and state may have spurred his rampage.
"[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."
And the so-called
backtracking:
Speaking on Fox News on Monday, Huckabee clarified that he didn't believe an increased religious presence at Sandy Hook could actually have directly prevented that particular shooting from taking place.
“I’m not suggesting by any stretch that if we had prayer in schools regularly as we once did that this wouldn’t have happened, because you can't have that kind of cause and effect,” said Huckabee. "But we’ve created an atmosphere in this country where the only time you want to invoke God’s name is after the tragedy.”
I only understand
2nd amendment rights in a purely intellectual light. The thought of being anywhere near a gun,
makes me shiver. And I only understand
the concept of god, as a purely intellectual concept – I was religious studies
minor in my youth.
So while the spiritual side of me is trying to understand god coming into a classroom and
stopping a shooting, the intellect can only see a bunch of folks trying to co-opt headlines for the purposes of pushing their version of religion, on me.
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