“I believe it is a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. And that’s what we need to do, is to amend the Constitution so that it fits God’s standards.” This quotation from Huckabee is perhaps the craziest and most frightening thing any candidate for president has ever said in public. Change the Constitution so that it fits God’s standards? And which exact God do you mean, Mr. Huckabee? Your God? Because I believe in my heart of hearts that we believe in two very different versions of God. I’m happy with the Constitution just as it is… And my God is happy with it, too! Furthermore, the founding fathers, who are often misquoted these days, wrote the Constitution the way they did on purpose; the idea was to separate church and state, not merge them. To all those who run around saying that American is a Christian nation founded on Christian ideals and morals, you are 100% incorrect. The founding fathers were almost all Deists. They believed in a God who set the universe in motion, and then stepped out of the way. Most of them had some rather tough words about organized religion and its place in society and government. Here are some thoughts from Jefferson about the God that Mr. Huckabee would change the Constitution to appease.
“The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg . . . . Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.” Thomas Jefferson.
Jefferson also commented that the God of the Old Testament was, “a being of terrific character — cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust.” He spared no love for Jesus either, “The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.”
Does this sound like a man who built a nation on Christianity?
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