The surprising success of Mike Huckabee in the Republican primaries forced pundits to confront the power of the Republican Party's base of evangelical Christians and produced a variety of explanations. Mike Huckabee believes that the explanation is simple: God wants him to do well. Many political, social, and religious leaders around the world and throughout history have claimed a divine mandate for their actions, policies, or agenda. In most cases, there is significant resistance from the people -- this is what makes having a divine mandate so necessary. It's harder for people to resist authoritarian leaders who claim to have God on their side.
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In my mind, he is not a very patriotic American, because by his own words he places an imaginary Deity above the US constitution. Watch this video clip. IN HIS OWN WORDS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D08Dq_iNMRk
^ Yeah, Ron.
Quoting ‘Mikey’:
“There’s only one explanation for it, and it’s not a human one. It’s the same power that helped a little boy with two fish and five loaves feed a crowd of 5,000 people and that’s the only way that our campaign could be doing what it’s doing.”
(feign sneezing whilst saying: “horse-sh*t”)
“Sorry Mike…(NOT!)…if you are that intellectually “challenged” to actually swallow, “whole cloth”, that crap, IMO, you’re a serious danger to our secular, democratic, way of life. To have actually advocated the rewriting of the American Constitution to suit the delusional, totally irrational, beliefs in the existance of the demonstrably outrageous…Biblically AND ‘Quranically’ (Scripturally?) vicious…Abrahamic notion of a god, makes you one of the most obnoxious of choices for ANY position of power in our government.”
Another example, I’d say (for the nth time), of the somewhat recent atheist ‘mantra’(?):
“Religion poisons EVERYTHING”.
Of course, one only needs to check the daily examples in World News to find myriad other examples which back up that sentiment.
Zama, zama…
Perhaps god was working through Mike Huckabee when, in 2000, the then-Arkansas Gov commuted the life sentence of Maurice Clemmons, nine years before Clemmons could come to Seattle and murder 4 police officers in cold blood. Way to go, god.
Just like North Carolina’s constitution Huckabee fails to establish what god he is refering to.
I would like to take a wild guess at it, but would it just so happen to be his god? How ironic would that be? That the constitution and laws be based on his god’s will and rules. How about this country having a Supreme Leader just like Iran and that no one has any rights. For example if someone wants to vote for someone and the Supreme Leader doesn’t like that person then guess what, your vote doesn’t count.
Or for another example if you want to believe in
some deity or not, you still don’t have any rights,
so again you have someone telling you how to live
your life and who or what you have to believe in.
Is this the kind of country Huckabee wants the United
States to be? Perhaps then religious organizations
can start to pay back all the taxes with intrest
that they so much enjoyed over the past years if
they want to do away with the seperation of church
and state. If this country becomes one that is
based on any superstitious dogma, then I will refuse
to support it by paying taxes and move to some other
country that does respect me by giving me certain
rights that are respected. I refuse to be anyone’s slave, and that includes someone’s so called god.
I’m praying for y’all.
BSR
(5) BSR says:
I’m praying for y’all.
BSR
Thank you
You know what the really scary part is? Mike Huckabee often sounds like the voice of reason in the “republican” party these days.
Yikes!
And, Pat Buchannan!!!!
PS- A good friend of mine, a complete heathen like myself, worse actually is a first cousin of Pat Buchannan and I’m begging him to let me come to his funeral. Not that I’m hoping he dies, but when the time comes. We KNOW we would have an “interesting” time.