An off-topic post
So remember when Mike Huckabee was telling everyone that the reason he won Iowa was because God influenced the race?
So now that he lost the nomination, can any of you invisible sky fairy God believers explain to me why the almighty Lord would endorse him to win a state but not the entire country? That bearded white man surely does work in mysterious ways.
I mean, it certainly couldn’t be that believers are full of it when they try to predict what their imaginary friend wants or desires on every issue ranging from paper or plastic to whether to put the toilet seat down after flushing.
Let’s see if any members of the press actually ask Huckabee about this in the coming days. Because the media just loves to point out inane contradictions made in the name of faith.
“Because the media just loves to point out inane contradictions made in the name of faith.”
It’s too bad that’s sarcasm. If only it were actually the case…
I suppose I’ll play Devil’s advocate (hah!). It’s not that hard to “predict” what one’s deity wants, because it’s the same things the individual wants. You choose paper or plastic because you feel it’s the right thing to do, and you can use God (or whatever) to morally anchor yourself, or to gain the proper perspective on what a good person ought to do. There’s no harm in doing this, because atheists do it too, even if they call it a “conscience”. Mike Huckabee thought he should run for president because he had an agenda he felt was right for this country (I would hope the same applies to all the other candidates). The fact that he attributes this sense of what’s right to a higher power shouldn’t be such a big deal. It’s when a leader imposes their religious moralities on others that don’t necessarily share those beliefs that it becomes worthy of complaint (and sure, ridicule, if that floats your boat).
If there is an omnipowerful omnipresent omniscient being presiding over the Universe, I’m sure we mere mortals would be utterly incapable of comprehending why it does what it does. Huckabee, as a fellow mortal, probably just misinterpreted this god’s wishes with his Iowa win. Maybe he won that state and not the country as some kind of personal journey. Even though the presidency isn’t in the cards, he’s had an influence on this race. There’s a good chance he’s brought a lot of like-minded Bible-thumpers to the polls and pushed his evolution-hating agenda hard enough that the Republican party focuses on some aspects of it. There’s value in running for president even if there’s no way of winning (if there wasn’t, there wouldn’t be a Green party), so maybe Huckabee was pleasing his god just by running.
You may continue your Christ-bashing.
The answer is simple. It’s because the lord works in mysterious ways.
The greatest cop out ever conceived.
God has simply forsaken Pastor Gov. Mike Huckabee. It happens all the time. God even forsaken His own Son, Abraham, the entire Israeli Natiion, etc and so forth and so on. What atheists don’t know and can never understand is that God uses forsaken as an Instrument of Righteous Justice.
In my opinion, God made a good call on this one. Pastor Gov. Mike Huckabee was weak on Immigration Reform, weak on a strong Border Wall program, weak on Islamofascism, and weak on the Homosexual Agenda. He was only strong on evolution and that alone is not enough. God needs a man of Great Strength to run His Dominion now and after 2012, which is why God’s candidate is Rep. Tom Tancredo.
ps. It rains a lot in Georgia now. All the time. God has clearly answered Dr. Gov. Sonny Perdue’s prayers.
On a similar note, I’m always mildly annoyed when some natural disaster survivor says something like “We’re just grateful that the good Lord was watching over us and saved us from the tornado.” I want to shake those people by the lapels and shout at them, “But since you believe your god is omnipotent, he’s the one who created the tornado in the first place!” Not that they’d respect the logic, that is.