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 | The Truth ABout Huckabee End of the World Comments (Posted on 12/5/07 at 11:01 a.m.)
Rex through his threads has alerted me to the latest silly attack on Huckabee. Talk about backfiring.
THis is what was said
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In an under-the-radar interview that aired on CNN Friday night (Oct. 19), conservative talk show host Glenn Beck asked Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee about current events in the Middle East. Then came the payoff question about Armageddon, and Huckabee delivered the ministerial money shot for values voters everywhere:
BECK: You're a biblical guy. You're a preacher. Do you believe we are possibly facing "End Times" scenarios with any of the events that we're seeing?
HUCKABEE: You know, every generation has thought that they were, and we could be, but we don't ever act like, "OK, this is it," so we just sit back and coast and ride it out until the end. We always act as if it could be today, but we also plan as if it could be 100,000 years from now.
While that is pretty mainstream Christianity. The Pope says that, Methodist say that, Baptist say that. Big deal. zDuring the next few weeks Catholics will be hearing about this in this their Advent readings!!! Big deal
I thought Rolling Stone has a very good interview called
Matt Taibbi on Mike Huckabee, Our Favorite Right-Wing Nut Job
Ignore the silly title but good read despite the ignorance about religious voters
LINK
quote:
HUCKABEE GAVE AN EVEN MORE DAMNING glimpse into his inner bat shite self in a recent appearance at the Prestonwood Baptist Church near Dallas, where he told audiences that Christians are sitting in the pole position of the race to Armageddon. "If you're with Jesus Christ, we know how it turns out in the final moment," he said. "I've read the last chapter in the book, and we do end up winning."
Winning? I ask Huckabee when, exactly, he thinks victory will arrive. "When I was eighteen, I thought I had it pretty well figured out," he says. "I thought the end of the world was coming at any moment." But when I ask how his views have changed, he says only that he is "less adamant now." Huckabee, with the wisdom of age, apparently believes we have at least a day or two left until the end of the world.
The troubling thing about Huckabee's God rhetoric is that a man who is glad that Christians will "win" at Armageddon must be happy about the rest of us losing. When I press him on whether he believes all non-Christians are eternally damned, Huckabee is evasive. "Being president isn't about picking who goes to heaven and who goes to hell," he says. When none other than Bill O'Reilly hammered him on the same point a day later, Huckabee conceded that "I believe Jesus is the way to heaven."
Now this just too funny. Christian belive that we have alreadywon. We won the day that Jesus rose from the tomb. Huckbaee is saying nothing radical here. Guess what Left Wing Jimmy Carter believes the same thing!!! I suspect that Bill Clinton who was raised in a Southern Baptist tradition believes the same thing.
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