A real gem - Huckabee says wives should submit to husbands
January 15, 2008
Mike Huckabee, card carrying misogynist, says that wives should submit to their husbands. He says that women should do this because the Bible says to do so.
Well, the Bible also says to kill people from other faiths (Deuteronomy, Chap 17:2-3, 5). So, is Huckabee going to kill everyone who isn’t a Christian too?
Is he going to just pick and choose what he wants to see as “truth” from the Bible?
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Now there are a lot of instances in the Old Testament that are contrary to what is in the New Testament. Now I’m not saying that it doesn’t say that wives should submit to their husbands, although I don’t know that it does, but I am saying that believers in the New Testament would condemn any killing, i.e. Deuteronomy. (See: I Corinthians 13:4-8)
comment by Pa — January 15, 2008 @ 4:36 pm
Most people do just that (pick and choose). I suppose that is one of the differences between what might be called a “Churchist” and a true follower of Jesus.
comment by Brian — January 15, 2008 @ 5:48 pm
Pa, the passage about submission is Ephesians 5:22 reads, “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.”
However, this is entirely irrelevant because I was talking about Huckabee and his political ideology and not so much about Christianity and religion as many people have drastically different perspectives. Huckabee claims to believe in the New Testament (he says he is a Christian).
I think Brian is right though, “Churchists” tend to pick whatever is most convenient for whatever view they wish to hold. I actually had a conversation about this with my Mom recently - we discussed how many Republicans invoke the name of Jesus but never do anything to help people who are less fortunate and seem to have hatred towards anyone who is not just like them (read: Christian, white, upper/middle class, white collar, etc).
My point, however, was really that Mike Huckabee seems to have a strong desire to bring his religion into his politics. I am wondering what rights he might take away or what legislation he might try to get passed that would harm human rights, women’s rights, etc. He is of the same ilk as many Churchists are - they take the Bible in a total literal sense and use it as a justification for their hatred and intolerance of people who are different than they are.
comment by Katy — January 15, 2008 @ 7:03 pm
Remember, too, where Huckabee was when he made the comment…South Carolina, maybe not the heart, but certainly the buckle of the Bible Belt. He’s courting the Christian conservatives of the state, and that kind of rhetoric plays well with them there.
comment by Pa — January 18, 2008 @ 8:19 pm
I know where he said it - he was also a pastor in a Southern Baptist church before he went into politics. Having lived in the South and visited a large number of Southern Baptists churches throughout the South East, I would have to say that his rhetoric is exactly the same stuff I heard growing up in the South. They aren’t exactly like you Californians there!
Off topic but - South Carolina (at least the coastal areas), Savannah (Georgia) and Louisiana are all well known for voodoo practices (but you know that - you read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil!) Interestingly enough, those areas all have high concentrations of Southern Baptists - go figure.
Huckabee is not really a viable candidate anyway. He does not have the proper financial backing to win the presidential race and he doesn’t appeal to anyone other than evangelicals.
Just my two cents…
comment by katy — January 19, 2008 @ 12:37 am
C’mon, he’s a good guy.
Katy, you’ll make an exception and abort him, right?
comment by Uncle Seifer — January 25, 2008 @ 11:54 am
Seifer, Mike Huckabee is just another inbred hick from the backwoods of Arkansas that got together a few dollars to go fight people like me. The South is full of people like him so it is nothing new to me.
He’s such a “good guy” that he’s probably out hunting gay people or shooting welfare mothers as we speak…
comment by Katy — January 25, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
Hehe yeah I was kidding, I know he’s insane. Anyone dictating with the Bible is.
People like you? Rational?
comment by Uncle Seifer — January 26, 2008 @ 9:17 am