Rush Limbaugh and others have skewered any conservative credentials Mike Huckabee has pretended to hold. Selwyn Duke, American Thinker, examines the Huckster’s religious bona fides, or lack thereof same:
Belief can be a great thing, of course. Our Founding Fathers’ unprecedented respect for liberty was born of their Christian belief that rights were bestowed by the divine king and not worldly ones. Mother Teresa’s Christian beliefs inspired her to toil tirelessly to aid the destitute and dying in India. But whereas the founders kept charity out of government and Teresa kept government out of charity, Huck conflates the two in a disastrous mix of bad theology and bad political science. Perverting Christianity’s message and violating 2000 years of its tradition, he believes it is his Christian mandate to do good works through government.
Duke seems to give Huckabee credit for sincere, if muddled, beliefs. I will not go that far. Huckabee uses his religiousity as cover. I believe there is no basis for using Christian belief to give away other people’s money.
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