The Connecticut shooting is a tragedy, no doubt. Thankfully in tragedy there can be hope; lessons that can set us on a better path for the future. Unfortunately in tragedy there can also be evil people who leverage that tragedy to try to push their crazy agenda. See exhibit one, Mike Huckabee, who tries to convince us that the reason that God didn't save the children was because society no longer teaches religion in schools.
What bamboozles me is that so many people see this video and comment on it talking about what a wonderful person Huckabee is. How nice of him to note that God let children be brutally murdered to teach a lesson to a bunch of adults far away. Because, obviously, God couldn't just blast those adults with lightning, or open up a hole in the ground to swallow them up, or just send an avenging angel down to chop them... despite the fact that he did this regularly in the Bible.
I have no respect for God in any of their various incarnations but the God that flounders around trying to teach lessons to bad people who aren't of the correct religion (or even those who think that people should be allowed to have their own religion, however mistaken) by enabling mass murderers is unthinkable. That is the kind of being you love and trust to run the universe and be your personal saviour? I can't say whether that version of God is more incompetent or cruel but they certainly don't lack for either trait.
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