I'm not interesting in fearing you or your nasty, cruel god, Mike Huckabee

Over the years I have heard a number of so-called Christians warn that their god will harm us if don’t accept their beliefs. After 9/11, Jerry Falwell claimed LGBT people, among others, were to blame for the attack because we dared to live according to our own lights rather than his which he arrogantly insisted were divinely inspired and beyond dispute. Anne Graham Lotz, Billy Graham’s daughter, warned the people of North Carolina that they had better vote for that state’s Hate On The Gays constitutional amendment or her god would hurt them. Yesterday Bryan Fischer claimed that his god allowed twenty young children to die because the school they attended didn’t teach his brand of Christianist theology. This reminds me of the film The Rapture (1991) which is about a woman who rejects God and eternity in Heaven because she has come to the realization that any god who would torture and harm people for not accepting a certain set of beliefs is not deserving of her worship. The film is a repudiation of Christianist dogma and demonstrates just how cruel and nasty the Christianist god really is. If your god would allow terrorists to fly planes into buildings and madmen to murder small children because a number of people haven’t sifted through the mystery and vagaries of life, found the Christian Bible, read it, interpreted it “correctly”, and come to believe all the supposed “right things”, then you and your god can hit the road. I don’t want to believe in a god like that. And as for Mike Huckabee’s argument that people do bad things because they have not been taught by public schools to believe his god will hold them accountable…just look at all the awful things Christians have done in the name of their religion. The idea that Christianists like Mike Huckabee are saintly and would never harm a fly because they fear their god will punish them is laughable. They merely find biblical excuses for their hate and carry out their carnage with the arrogance that their god approves of what they’re doing. Huckabee’s pursuit of a theocratic America where everyone who doesn’t agree with him will be marginalized is a case in point.