Huckleberry: "I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ" (1998).

[jefferson_dem]

This, from June 8, 1998 - - -

Huckabee: U.S. gave up on religion
School shootings were wake-up call, he says
LINDA S. CAILLOUET
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE

SALT LAKE CITY -- Government may have dropped the ball in modern American society, but religion dropped it first, Gov. Mike Huckabee told Southern Baptist pastors Sunday night.

"The reason we have so much government is because we have so much broken humanity," he said. "And the reason we have so much broken humanity is because sin reigns in the hearts and lives of human beings instead of the Savior."

Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, addressed his contemporaries at the two-day Pastors' Conference, which continues today. The three-day Southern Baptist Convention begins Tuesday here in the heartland of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the city in which the Mormons have their world headquarters.

Huckabee told the pastors gathered in the Salt Palace Convention Center that while the March 1, 1997, tornadoes which struck Arkansas were tragic, at least the devastation could be clearly seen from a helicopter. In contrast, he said, the catalysts for the nation's recent school shootings -- including the one March 24 near Jonesboro that left four students and a teacher dead and 10 others wounded -- were harder to see but were driven by "the winds of spiritual change in a nation that has forgotten its God."

"Government knows it does not have the answer, but it's arrogant and acts as though it does," Huckabee said. "Church does have the answer but will cowardly deny that it does and wonder when the world will be changed."

The shootings were just one more wake-up call to the nation, he said.
"I fear we will turn and hit the snooze button one more time and lose this great republic of ours."

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"I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives."

He compared his entry into politics to "getting inside the dragon's belly," adding, "There's not one thing we can do in those marbled halls and domed capitols that can equal what's done when Jesus touches the lives of a sinner."

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"I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ."

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http://www.ardemgaz.com/prev/jonesboro/afhuckabee08.asp

[babylonsister]

1. Be VERY afraid! nt

[graywarrior]

2. What sort of questions do alarms clocks ask that we need to answer?

[robbedvoter]

4. I dunno....I just throw a pillow at mine - it's the phone I answer...But what do I know?

:shrug:

[Red Zelda]

3. Church has the answer?

to what? bake sales?

[Evergreen Emerald]

5. that happened to me just the other day:

"hello God? Is that you?"

"No, Mom it's the microwave. Your soup is done. Stop watching CNN."

[sarge43]

6. Of course, that's presupposing Christ wants anything to do with this nation.

He does have standards.

[maddiejoan]

7. Probably thinks --

Jews hit the snooze.

[saltpoint]

8. The alarm clock and the first century C.E. are kind of a fun mix.

I'm fairly sure they used dawnlight and roosters back then. Not positive though.

That Reverend Mike. He's a character, ain't he?

[TwilightGardener]

9. So he entered politics expressly to bring religion into government. Any screaming

red alarms going off inside anybody else's head? This man must be stopped.

[Vickers]

10. Dear Mr. Huckabee,

In reference to your recent statement about taking this nation back for Christ, please show me in the Constitution where it mentions Christ.

Love,

Vickers

[ecstatic]

11. I wish that in a debate, a mod would ask: Why is a theocracy OK in America,

but not in Iran? Why do you insist on blurring the line between church and state?

[Onlooker]

12. This thread should be recommended. Very, very scary.

"The reason we have so much government is because we have so much broken humanity," he said. "And the reason we have so much broken humanity is because sin reigns in the hearts and lives of human beings instead of the Savior."

With that kind of talk about the Savior, he won't be president of all the people.

"I'm often asked why taxes are so high and government is so big. It's because the faith we have in local churches has become so small. If we'd been doing what we should have -- giving a dime from every dollar to help the widows, the orphans and the poor -- we now wouldn't be giving nearly 50 cents of every dollar to a government that's doing ... what we should have been doing all along."

In other words, for only 10 cents on the dollar, the church can take care of the elderly, the poor and their children, the disabled, the vets, etc.

"I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives."

Very scary.