Mike Huckabee Is Full of It

I used to regard Mike Huckabee as somewhat less strident and hateful than his Fox News brothers and sisters.  But his recent hateful harangue after the Newtown tragedy calls that judgment into question.  He basically said "serves you right" for removing God from who knows where.

My thanks to Michael Hidalgo at Sojourners (sojo.net) to set Huckabee on his ear:

...One commentator suggested that it was precisely because God was not there that this heinous act happened. Gov. Mike Huckabee claimed we should not be surprised to see this kind of violence since we have removed God from our schools and our society. His sentiment is to say, “God is NOT here.” If that is the case, then it surely can explain the existence of pure evil that we saw displayed on Friday.

However, thinking like that of Gov. Huckabee suggests that we somehow have the power to remove God from our schools and our society. This kind of God is quite small, weak, and impotent  — one that is dictated by the mere whims of humanity. This is not the God of whom Matthew spoke.

Matthew spoke of the Almighty God fully embodied and revealed in the person of Jesus. So much so that he claimed he was Immanuel: God with us. He is here not in spite of the pain, nor did he come to explain it away. God is here in the midst of our suffering....

 Nothing much to add to that.