When tragic events occur, religious people often say that God works in mysterious ways. They don't try to explain the tragedy, but simply say that "the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord." But pastors and theologians sometimes try to explain tragedies such as earthquakes, school shootings, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001. There was a school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012. Adam Lanza killed 20 children and 6 adult staff members before killing himself. The former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, was asked about this tragedy. He is a Southern Baptist minister. He said that God allowed the deaths at Sandy Hook Elementary School because "we have removed God from the schools." In saying that "we" have removed God from the schools, Huckabee was referring to the Supreme Court Justices of the 1960s, who ruled that prayers and Bible reading in public schools are unconstitutional. Is God still angry about Supreme Court rulings from the 1960s? Apparently so, according to Governor Huckabee. If God were logical, he would have killed or punished the Supreme Court Justices who sinned by banning prayer and Bible reading in schools. Instead Huckabee tells us, in effect, that an irrational and angry God waited patiently for 50 years and then vented his anger at the Supreme Court of the 1960s by killing the innocent children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Such is the "explanation" of Mike Huckabee. Some may say that Adam Lanza is responsible for the deaths, but from a Christian perspective an all-powerful God is responsible for the deaths. An all-powerful and loving God could have intervened to protect the adults and children from Adam Lanza, just as God intervened to protect the children of Israel from the Egyptian Pharaoh. Above is the video in which Huckabee gives his repugnant explanation of the Sandy Hook shootings.
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