Thus spake Mike Huckabee, evangelical Christian, Baptist minister, and ambassador to Israel. Also a fervent supporter of Netanyahu. Also a believer in the importance of Israel to the Second Coming of Christ after an apocalyptic struggle in the Holy Land.
Great. Just the guy we need to work toward peace and justice in the Middle East.
But, leaving that major inappropriateness aside, I am also annoyed by Huckabee's assertion that if there is nothing beyond this life, attempts at living morally are meaningless.
What's wrong with behaving like a moral, caring person without the carrot of Heaven or the stick of Hell? Is that a meaningless life, Mike?
As I see it, in government, evangelicals and those who count on an afterlife are a danger to a here and now society. What do they care about the health of the planet or, indeed, the suffering of its inhabitants--it's all going to be sorted in the Hereafter.
They will truckle to one of the most un-Christ-like of men in hopes of bringing about a return of the original and gather in prayer to celebrate the passage of a bill designed to harm many of the least of us. They empower masked thugs who snatch up perceived foreigners willy-nilly. And they conveniently manage not to demand to see the full Epstein files. Rather than listen to the victims, they question, in secret, one of the abusers and reward her with an illegal transfer to a "country club" facility.
Where's that moral code Huckabee talked about?
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The situation in Gaza is being condemned by prominent Israelis as well as European nations. It appalls me to see some American Jews brush aside the hellish starvation and destruction as all the fault of Hamas, with Netanyahu bearing no blame. Netanyahu's goal is to empty Gaza of Palestinians, then turn the place over to trump for development as a resort. He and trump are both criminals who shouldn't even be holding political office.
Hear hear. When I was an evangelical, I still possessed some intelligence and common sense. They really don’t have to be like this. In fact, it’s quite a corruption of Christianity IMO.
Exactly.
If they're so Christian, why doesn't it occur to them there's a Judgment Day when they will have to face a stern and angry deity whose son, presumably reflecting his wishes, preached kindness to all? I suspect these "Christians" will find themselves facing an eternity in that same dire corner of the afterlife as Hamas. And good riddance.
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