just a bit on politics

I don't get into politics too much myself, never had much of a desire... but my copy of Rolling Stone showed up at the house yesterday (I have no idea where they are coming from, I have never ordered a subscription to the liberal news monthly that guises itself as a music paper) and there was a cover article about Mike Huckabee, the right-wing nut job.

I am not a huge fan of Huckabee... his fiscal policies are about as bad as our current "republican" president. In other words - TAXES = GOOD! I am not a big fan of that outlook... yet this blog will be more about the reporter's view of Huckabee's Christianity.

I will lay out few of the great quotes from this article.

"Huckabee is also something else: full-blown nuts, a Christian goofball of the highest order. He believes the Earth may be only 6,000 years old, angrily rejects the evidence that human beings evolved from "primates" and thinks America wouldn't need so much Mexican labor if we allowed every aborted ­fetus to grow up and enter the workforce. To top it off, Huckabee also left behind a record of ethical missteps in the swamp of ­Arkansas politics that make White­water seem like a jaywalking ticket."

"Huckabee at most times is gentle and self-deprecating in his public address, but when he talks about religion, he gets weirdly combative and obnoxious, often drifting into outright offensiveness. At one appearance, Huckabee — who's been known to make fart jokes in front of the state legislature — said he would oppose gay marriage "until Moses comes down with two stone tablets from Brokeback Mountain saying he's changed the rules." And he recently scored a rare offend trifecta, simultaneously pissing off immigrants, Jews and the pro-choice crowd when he ludicrously claimed that a "holocaust" of abortions had ­artificially created a demand for Mexican labor."

"Because for all his political waffling in other areas — Huckabee has flip-flopped on a host of earthly political issues, from taxes to local control of school boards — he leaves absolutely no doubt about his commitment to religious wackohood. George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush administration was more cynical than messianic. But it doesn't take much exposure to Huckabee to see that this former understudy of a Texas televangelist is deadly serious about the God thing. On the trail, Huckabee is most animated when he's talking about religious issues. In the first Republican debate in New Hampshire, Huckabee, apparently unaware that human beings are primates, responded to a question about evolution by saying, "If anybody wants to believe that they are the descendants of a primate, they are certainly welcome to do it."

"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 does not article does not give a very good moral picture of Huckabee. He seems to have a loose hand with other people's money. Yet, it is the utter disdain for basic Christian beliefs that scares me. Jesus is the way to heaven. The only way. This is basic Christian thought. God's creation of the world, also typical.

Is anyone else surprised at how hated people can be because of their beliefs? The world talks so much about relativism and being open to other people's beliefs. Yet, when it comes to Christianity, there is no forgiveness for opposing beliefs. Truth is ABSOLUTE! The world hates this idea, because it is exclusive to one view.

The lesson here - live the truth, don't just talk it. Huckabee's problem is that he talks big, but does not live it. Don't fall into this trap. I have done that too many times and it kills your testimony. People do not laugh at Billy Graham, because he lives it. People may hate what Jerry Falwell said, but they could not point to infidelity in his life. Living well is the best form of evangelism.

find the whole story at http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/17324246/matt_taibbi_on_mike_huckabee_our_favorite_rightwing_nut_job
Warning: There is some cursing on the site. A lot of it is simply moronic, trite, and downright offensive to a Christian audience. Yet, it is "nice" to know what the world thinks about us and our beliefs.