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Farrakhan Claims CT Shooting Massacre Could Be a Lesson From God: ‘Chickens Coming Home to Roost’

Dec. 21, 2012 1:28pm Billy Hallowell

On Friday, just one week after unimaginable tragedy struck Sandy Hook Elementary School, Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan released a statement commenting about the horror that befall 20 small children and six adults (in addition to the shooter and his mother). But rather than maintaining a somber and non-political tone, the fiery faith leader used the violent incident to make a political statement, noting that the event may be a God-inspired lesson to America.

Farrakhan’s commentary begins by highlighting how “terrible” the situation is, as the Nation of Islam leader claims that “every life has a purpose” and that innocence was lost last week — all statements that most Americans would agree with. However, he quickly departs from this inclusive tone, asking “what ‘lesson’” should be learned in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre.

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The Minister Louis Farrakhan (Photo Credit: AP)

That’s when he delves full-throttle into a political analysis, while quoting scripture to essentially claim that the U.S. has brought this horror upon itself. In the statement, Farrakhan connects the deaths as a result of military drone action in the Middle East and Africa to Adam Lanza’s murderous killings in Connecticut. Additionally, he essentially questions whether this latest event — one that the nation is still struggling to process — is God’s revenge upon America.

Taking a page from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright (the two are friends) he notes that Sandy Hook may be an incident that showcases “chickens coming home to roost.” Read this portion of his shocking statement, below:

And hopefully, the president of the United States, sending drones into Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and other places, killing men, women and children—and the word says “collateral damage,” and we go on killing… Could it be that these precious lives lost, and the pain that it has caused every one of us who shares the pain of those parents, and those loved ones who lost those precious children and the lives of the teachers who taught them…

Could it be that God wants us to see that until you can feel the pain and suffering of others that has been inflicted upon them on the basis of a lie, and America’s reach for the resources of that area of the world? Then maybe you will understand that this may be “chickens coming home to roost.” “For as thou hast done”—the Book says: “So shall it be done unto you.”

Read the statement in its entirety here.

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Uechi
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:33pm
What a profoundly evil perverse man he is and no representative of a real religion. I look forward to the day his lips are sealed permently by God.

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- oldguy49
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:37pm
  lot of dim chickens roosting in chicago also…………………..
  
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- apexmoon
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:38pm
  Why do we still give this guy the time of day and post his rants in the media.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 3:11pm
  Apexmoon, because he’s divisive. Those seeking change must divide. Look at the Obama administration.
  
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- AmericanFightingMan1
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 5:25pm
  Frankly, I want more of Farahkan. The more we see of him, the more we see of evil. And the more awake we are to those who follow him. For mistake not, his people will kill your’s in a heartbeat.
  
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- monitor
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 5:51pm
  This conman will know it when the chickens come home to roost.
  
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- Opinionmonger
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 6:37pm
  A well, at least we know now which god hates children, don’t we ?
  
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- Marine25
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 7:17pm
  Huckabee, Robertson, Gingrich all said the same thing, and now this idiot. Christians have their fair share of nutjobs, don’t they?
  
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- Concernd4USA
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 8:46pm
  This man will be one of the tools Obama uses to create even more division in Chicago.
  
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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 10:06pm
  Marine25. That does not fit the narrative. It’s only evil when the left does it.
  
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- RETIREDOLDGUY
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 12:18am
  Unfortunately there are many lips that should be sealed. Instead of those children, it would have been better to silence a whole slew of these so called religious leaders along with many in the media and almost 100 percent of our federal politicians.
  
  We’d be so much better off with the kids killed alive and these others with their lips sealed.
  
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- fixer
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 2:25am
  i’d like to see somebody put a bullet in his forehead,let his chickens come home to roost
  
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- RIGHT_WHERE_IT_HURTS
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:56am
  His chickens came home to roost at Jonestown. Have some punch, Louie.
  
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- Quester55
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 8:12am
  Don’t let this LIAR deceive you so easily , The False god he worships is the Muslim idol Allah!!!
  
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- burnteye86
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 8:17am
  APEXMOON, To expose him. The MSM protects all of obummers friends like him and Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers,etc.
  
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- KURT1010
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 12:35pm
  Everyone that hates AMERICA , should travel back to there HOME country ( Africa) and try to turn that country around. Also , the spanish speaking people need to go back where they came from , come here legally and LEARN to speak English ! Help the country you came from !!!!!
  
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- Locked
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 1:00pm
  @Marine25
  
  I know, right? It has nothing to do with “whose side” the speakers are on; we need to call them out no matter which side they’re on.
  
  It’s like how people kept supporting Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock after their views were revealed. Why? “Because they’re on our side!” Well then, maybe we should have kicked them the heck out and chosen better people for “our side” instead!
  
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THX-1138
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:33pm
He’s right. He’s just clueless as to why….

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- TADTAD
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:41pm
  Yes. He is right. Liberalism/Marxim is why. Fool.
  
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raderby
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:32pm
oh, so rev wright got the term from Louie? Or did Louie borrow it?

Whatever- both are A wholes and are dangerous

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Frogdaddy
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:29pm
Is that the only line that is taught at the hate filled liberation theological social justice schools? “The Chickens have come home to roost”.

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Acena
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:24pm
Ah yes the great muslim alien prophet .
Ever get your reparations ,mr my parents were really immigrants ?
Ever get your own state so blacks can live in splendor away from evil whites ?
That muhammad spaceship come back for you yet ?
And how are your ARMED army – the Fruits of Islam doing ? Still playing police in Chicago ?

What a vile piece of garbage and waste of carbon.

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jessieH
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:24pm
Calypso Louie strikes again. I guess plagerism is ok, when it comes to socialists.

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moosebeeusa
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:22pm
God does not have anything to do with these shootings. People in the culture we have developed are addicted to evil doings. God is sad. Satin is smiling.

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Larry E
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:20pm
Of course Calypso Louie who never advocates violence knows all about this sort of thing. Why anyone gives this overstuffed moron any attention escapes me. He’s like the nasty little kid who just needs to be ignored totally, after having a good spanking maybe.

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temple62
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:17pm
Is that some special **** oil Farry-Conman uses or did the chickens roost on his head?

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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:24pm
  BLAZE!!! I know you think you have to keep quoting this insane, anti-American Farrahkahn or however you spell that hysteric’s name…but DO YOU HAVE TO PUT HIS FACE ON YOUR HEADLINES so we
  have to see it? I don’t give a royal damn what this man or any of his followers say/said/will say. Do I have to be subjected to his hate-filled mug too?
  
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Dismayed Veteran
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:07pm
Why is a muslim quoting scripture?

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- Tom70
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:15pm
  They quote scripture because they are able to twist it to their advantage. This fool is just parroting the agenda of Islam. You might want to see this for another side of violence what the Islam is teaching in our schools.
  http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid949801312001?bckey=AQ%7E%7E%2cAAAACEco_Vk%7E%2c9bOat4XcfB_88ri1a3UMdKnLpH9aM8Fv&bclid=0&bctid=1271237687001
  
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- chips1
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:45pm
  He’s just trying to egg us on.
  
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- Quester55
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 10:36am
  +Have anyone of you watched the Latest Movie that EXPOSES The TRUTH or 98% Anyway, About the Birth & INVENTION of ISLAM ? It’s Very Informative & is sure to Stick a Blade up OBAMA’S **** real soon.
  The reason I bring it up, is because in one chapter, the story shows the reason WHY MUSLIMS use the Words of the Holy Bible & the TORAH To Support their Demonic Messages!
  Mohammad was Taught to use Great Sounding Words to Sway The Weak minded over to his FALSE RELIGION, In Just the Same Manor that SATAN used GOD’S Word, to Tempt EVE, to SIN!!
  
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AZ Walt
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:06pm
If Screwy Luis thinks the United States is such a terrible country, then why is he and his followers still living in the US? Same for the Rev Wright, etc.

I suggest he and his followers move to Zimbabway or perhpas, Cuba or Hati. Then they could claim that they are living in a just and rightous country.

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Remember_Benghazi
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:04pm
If God is one to kill innocent children as a form of punishment and divine blackmail, then I am happy to say I wouldn’t worship Him if He made His existence known to us. Is this a being worthy of unquestionable praise and worship? If He uses death and tragedy to “encourage” belief, then He is not wholly good. I wouldn’t want an eternal life paid for with the blood of innocents. That would be a horrible thing to believe, much less desire.

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- AmericanFightingMan1
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 5:36pm
  It is reasonable to ask this question, but one should also realize that we are not “all-knowing” and so are not in a position to judge God’s motives (that is, if you believe in God).
  
  For example, if we know or understand less than .000001 % of all there is to know, it may be that what God has in store, despite these occurrences, is beyond our ability to understand.
  
  I believe in God, if for no other reason than the fact that science had ZERO explanation for the existence of the soul. Most people believe in the soul (or personality). When we go to a funeral and see our loved one in the box, it is not them. It is their earthly shell. Their soul is gone. But to where?
  
  I believe with God. No more pain. No more sickness. Etc. Is it true? I don’t really know, but that is what I believe.
  
  To have contempt for God after this horrible shooting is really the epitome of arrogance, since to have that opinion, you have to assume you are all-knowing, and my guess is that you know you are not.
  
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- mlite9
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 9:26pm
  This man neither knows nor understands God, for if he did, he would not say the things he does. But his pretense sure does pay for a lot of bow ties.
  
  REMEMBER_
  Eternal life is indeed paid for with the blood of innocents – one sacrifice was provided for all. It would be an even more terrible thing to believe that the blood of the guilty would suffice.
  
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momrules
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:01pm
Does anyone remember the 15 schoolgirls forced back into their burning school by the Muslims religious police because they were not wearing their hijabs? They died too, burned to death.

Perhaps Farrakhan should focus on cleaning up his own religion or otherwise be quiet. This is truly a hideous man.

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- TPartyXpress
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:41pm
  You can’t clean up the sewer that is Islam.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 3:05pm
  I expected to see him on that story where the guy said “I don’t care if a bunch of white kids got killed.”
  Didn’t he say something about killing a bunch of ******* babies? If any one of us had said that, we would be in jail for terroristic threatening.
  
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Cavallo
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:57pm
Crazy syphilitic old Marxists are likely to make crazy syphilitic Marxist statements.

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- Spitfire1938
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:13pm
  That may be true, but don’t forget… ‘these ‘HERO’s’ control our Nation!
  
  Soon their ‘words’ will be ‘Actions’….
  
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Charbet
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:57pm
He is an evil, vile ‘little man’.

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cloudsofwar
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:52pm
why does the media give screwie louie a stage? who cares what he thinks?

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:57pm
  Because he is divisive. Fracture a society, and it becomes easier to change that society. How many times do people have to see this before they understand?
  
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Hoax And Chains
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:50pm
Farrakhan is a flippin moron. As I recall, he is the one believed to have murdered, or called for the murder, of Malcom X after Malcom started pulling away from Farrakhan’s violent idea of their “Nation of Islam”. I hope someday, Mr Farrakhan’s chickens come home to roost. What a piece of trash.

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kaydeebeau
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:46pm
or perhaps it is an illustration of the hypocrisy of the leftists who scream about gun control in the wake of the evil committed by Adam Lanza but turn a blind eye to the children murdered every day in the hallowed halls of planned parentohood.

Mind you this is only speculation on my part – since God’s ways are not our ways and we in our limited finite selves cannot comprehend the infinite God. I do know that when we ignore the Truth and the correct and best way for living – evil runs amock.

And just for those who are bent upon pouncing – the Bible describes the right way to do things as well as illustrating the results of going the wrong way – (hint – the topics that most atheists chose to raise as reasons not to pay attention to the Bible are actually warnings as to what not to do )

Never mind – this is mostly rhetorical on my part (I’ll leave it to the lefties to look up the concept of rhetorical)

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progressiveslayer
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:46pm
Farrakhan is just as vile as that old nut job that runs the westboro cult,two peas in a pod. Amerika is plagued with vermin like Louie,he spews his vile speech which is protected and he has that right but people don’t have to listen to his BS. He makes millions in spewing his racist BS and idiots eagerly lap it up and using that massacre like that is disgusting.

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 4:02pm
  Couldn’t agree more SLAYER… and coming from a POS like Louie that’s advocated that certain persons play God & contribute to murder just further proves the psycho phony that he is.
  
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- katzkiner
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 4:44pm
  Billions
  
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mrunner
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:46pm
What a vile excuse of a man. The fact that there are people that are warped enough to follow him as a leader, make it clear that there are enough warped and ignorant people to re-elect the communist.

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SpartanPride
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:45pm
Troubled individual, hard to believe anyone takes him seriously

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The_Jerk
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:40pm
Okay, let’s play his game. The shooting of Trayvon Martin, “Could Be a Lesson From God: ‘Chickens Coming Home to Roost’”

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- nhawk
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 4:54pm
  Exactly. And the 200,000 killed in Indonesia during the 2004 Tsunami, must have been divine retribution for the islamic atrocities committed against non muslims there in 1998.
  
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moreteaplease
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:38pm
Ferrycon knows nothing of God. If he did then he wouldn’t be going around regurgitating his hate-filled cud!

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:49pm
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25_s2ehViUQ
  
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lynda1276
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:35pm
i wish one of those chickens would fly in your mouth and shut you up!

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- RightUnite
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:09pm
  Yeah, and choke him to death!
  
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Locked
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:33pm
It was disgusting when Huckabee said it, and it’s disgusting when Farrakhan says the same. Sick, sick men using dead children as a chance to get in the spotlight and make themselves feel important.

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- TeresaJ
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:41pm
  Huckabee was flat out right, as he usually is.
  
  This preacher, however, I do not agree with. I feel bad for any person that loses their lives, but I know that war is war.
  
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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:47pm
  So reading and listening comprehension isn’t one of your “gifts”? What Huckabee said bears no resemblance to this…..
  
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- Locked
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:00pm
  @Kaydeebeau
  
  Huckabee: “These shootings happen because we turn our back on God and don’t allow teachers to lead prayer in public schools.”
  
  Farrakhan: “These shootings happen because we turn our back on God in the world and need to feel the pain we’ve inflicted upon others.”
  
  No, they’re pretty equivalent. The difference is you like Huckabee and his message and don’t like Farrakhan and his. The fact that they’re both using the same argument (“These children deserved to die because of our disrespect toward God”) is entirely lost upon you. I don’t like either; they both are using a tragedy and the deaths of children to hog the spotlight and guide their own agenda.
  
  Hope you can see it clearly some day.
  
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- TeresaJ
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:28pm
  @ Locked.
  
  No. You miss Huckabee’s point. What he was saying is that when you take God and morality out of school, you get citizens with no morality.
  
  This preacher is saying we are being punished for taking lives, like the firstborn of Egypt for killing the boy children of Israel. Completely different.
  
  Direct quote from Huckabee’s facebook page on the subject, condensed for length:
  
  “A specific act of violence is rarely the result of a specific single act of a culture that prompts it. In other words, I would never say that simply taking prayer and Bible reading from our institutions or silencing Christmas carols is the direct cause of a mass murder…. But the cause and effect we see in the dramatic changes of what our children are capable of is a part of a cultural shift from a God-centered culture to a self-centered culture… We dismiss the notion of natural law and the notion that there are moral absolutes and seemed amazed when some kids make it their own morality to kill innocent children…And we don’t teach them there is a Creator God who sets immutable rules, a God who is knowable, and to whom we are ultimately responsible…
  
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- TeresaJ
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:29pm
  (Huckabee continued)
  
  when that world view was the foundation of our nation’s social contract, we got in trouble at school for talking in class, chewing gum, pulling a girl’s pigtails, or slouching in our school desks. We took guns to school, but they were in the gun racks of our trucks and we used them to hunt before and after school. It never occurred to us to use them to murder our teachers and fellow students… when we as a nation feared God, we didn’t fear that a 20 year old with a high power rifle would gun down our children in their schools.”
  
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- Hank919
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 3:10pm
  Locked, you’re delusional.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 4:21pm
  @Teresaj
  
  “We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our school. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?”
  
  Yeah, I’m going to go with “Because we don’t allow preaching God in school, we get school shootings.” I find it ironic that in your quoted statement, you exclude almost EVERYTHING he blames the shooting on:
  
  “… it’s far more than just taking prayer or Bible reading out of the schools. It’s the fact that people sue a city so we aren’t confronted with a manger scene or a Christmas Carol. That lawsuits are filed to remove a cross that’s a memorial to fallen soldiers. Churches and Christian-owned businesses are told to surrender their values under the edict of government orders to provide tax-funded abortion pills. We carefully and intentionally stop saying things are sinful and we call them disorders. Sometimes, he even say they’re normal. And to get to where… we have to abandon bedrock moral truths, then [we] ask, “Well, where was God?” And I respond that, as I see it, we’ve escorted Him right out of our culture and we’ve marched Him off the public square, and then we express our surprise that a culture without Hm actually reflects what it’s become.”
  
  If that’s not using tragedy to promote his own views, I don’t know what is. “If you don’t do these things, little children will be shot” is his not-at-all-veiled threat. It’s too blatant to miss!
  
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- robbiehawk
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 9:30pm
  Mike Huckabee answered a question from Neil Cavuto which was “Why did God let this happen?”
  
  This was his answer – he wasn’t promoting any agenda.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 9:58pm
  @Robbie
  
  he wasn’t promoting any agenda.”
  
  Did you listen to or read his answers? YES, he was promoting an agenda. He said: “If you don’t let teachers lead prayer in public classrooms, and do not allow Nativity scenes on government-owned property, then children will be murdered because God is PISSED!”
  
  Really now. You can spin it however you want… but when you blame the death of 20 children on God… you’re always going to get answered like this. You need to look at the men behind it, and realize they have an agenda.
  
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- Improvise.Adapt.Overcome
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 10:18pm
  Locked
  
  There is an agenda, you are right. The agenda is: if you tell God to leave, he will be a gentleman and leave! He is, after all, a gentleman, and gives us all free will. This is shown in every post since the inception of the blaze and the carvings in caves. God bless you!
  
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- TeresaJ
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 10:35pm
  @ Locked
  
  First off, my quoted statement didn’t come from the same place as your quoted statement, so it can’t have the same words. However, yours only backs up my statement anyway.
  
  “If you don’t do these things, little children will get shot.” In a nutshell, that is correct. Just like if you drink and drive, there is a large chance an innocent person will get killed. Is that His fault, or the driver’s?
  
  Do you know the story of Cain and Abel? Cain got jealous of Abel, and killed him. When God asked Cain where Abel was, Cain said, “I know not, am I my brother’s keeper?” Was God responsible for Abel’s death? No, and on top of that, Cain was responsible for his brother (not just his death), and he knew it.
  
  Of course, you aren’t really getting this are you? None of this is your fault or responsibility. And that public attitude, right there, is why America is in trouble. The last place anyone ever wants to look is in the mirror. Those of us who DO look in that mirror, we have no issue understanding exactly what Mike said, because we’re not trying to shift the blame someplace else. I’m responsible, your responsible, CNN is responsible, Beck is responsible. Every American is responsible.
  
  So, this and more will continue to happen, because we do not want to take responsibility, and do what we need to do to produce moral and law abiding citizens with conscience. This is not a threat. It is a fact.
  
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