Former Arkansas Governor (and outrageous bring-religion-into-politics superman) Mike Huckabee is continuing in the Republican tradition of exploiting Christianity, faith, and fear to motivate people to vote for the Republican party.
This round the Huckabee Commercial: will your vote “stand the test of fire?” (commercial is embedded below)
This is probably even worse poli-religious fear mongering than the infamous Chuck Norris “a thousand years of darkness” because of Huckabee’s status in politics (and Fox “News”).
All we can hope is that at some point people will start to wake up at how shameful it is that they are using a warped interpretation of selective faith-based marketing to grab political power and money.
What the extreme right does now is well beyond the point where religious leaders need to start asking themselves if they are happy manipulating their congregations for money and political power of politicians. It’s well beyond the point where people who vote Republican predominantly for religious, pro-life reasons are comfortable with the mountain of other policies that go AGAINST religious teachings but are part of the Republican Party package. Democrats don’t like abortion, either, we just also believe in personal rights and freedom as a universal right, not one that can be overridden by politicians on selective issues. For that reason you can’t treat it as a black and white issue in a two-party political system. A political party that goes to the extremes as much as has the Republican Party has to blatantly exploit faith is obscene.
I’m fairly certain Jesus would not be happy with all the self-declared apostles who are using religion as a tool to literally manipulate faithful people to the ends of getting more power and more money for themselves.
Because Mike Huckabee should be embarrassed, and because he should also be asking himself if the way he uses and manipulates faith to sell more books might not pass “the test of fire”…. this commercial gets the best worst vote for today. Huckabee, in my book, the way you wield faith as a marketing tool…. it’s going to be pretty hot where you’ll be going.
