Mike Huckabee: A Clear and Present Danger

For those who may think I'm anti-religion because I try to point out the lies, hypocrisy and abject meanness and hate that are the predominant attributes of conservative Christianity, Bob Felton at Civil Commotion cuts the Christianists even less slack than I do. And generally rightly so. Like me, he sees the Christianists as a threat to America's constitutional form of government which was formed on Enlightenment principles, not Christianity. Indeed, should the Christianist like Mike Huckabee ever succeed in taking over the government - that is their true objective - the regime that would arise would be no less extreme than that of the Taliban at its height in Afghanistan. People need to really listen to what these Christianists are saying and not be fooled by the disingenuous efforts to hide behind patriotism and Americana images. In a post today, Bob looks at recent statements made by Huckabee that ought to scare the living Hell out of gays, Jews, non-Christians and anyone who doesn't want to live under a 12th century style theocracy. Here are highlights from Bob's post:
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Mike Huckabee, Holy Man and likely presidential candidate, shows his colors — and they ain’t the good ol’ Red, White, and Blue.
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I just wish that every single young person in America would be able to be under his tutelage and understand something about who we really are as a nation.
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I almost wish that there would be, like, a simultaneous telecast, and all Americans would be forced — forced at gunpoint no less — to listen to every David Barton message, and I think our country would be better for it. I wish it’d happen.
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David Barton is a copiously documented liar who teaches that America was founded as a Christian Nation, to glorify God, et cetera, et cetera.
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Huckabee is the same man, recall, who once complained that the Constitution needs to be brought into alignment with the Bible.
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You’ll never convince the Southern Baptists who are Huckabee’s natural constituency, or any of those other disaffected who think America’s big problem is a nigra moozlim in the White House, but these remarks bespeak a deeply anti-American outlook. This should surprise no one, for Christianity’s demand for “an allegiance that exceeds any earthly commitment” — on pain of eternal torment — precludes absolutely the Enlightenment ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.