Huck invokes Christ in new TV ad

What is wrong here is society thinks to be a public figure or politican you have to worship a god? Why? To kiss all the ##### of christians and baptists so they will support you? All you need is a platform and an idea and some word of mouth. Maybe we do need an atheist running this country, just so we can get out troops home and actually protecting THIS COUNTRY for a change. Huck, get off this bandwagon and tell us what you will do for the average American. I support your tax idea and that is one topic we need to get a grip on. The others are Social Security, Education, Big Business running America and not the people that pay their salary. Get off the soapbox presidential hopefuls. We want real issues solved, not fearing that if you worship an mythicalk figure.

I can't believe all these people that are in complete denial. Take a drive or a walk. Look around. It's Christmas!If you are not Christian then simply don't celebrate it. If you can accept the idea of peace and goodwill, hey, have a Merry Christ-mas!

Huckster, this just in..........Christ is DEAD! Has been for a long long time with no possibility of resurrection

This year I will participate in a caucus for the first time in my fifty some years.

I will participate because of the candidates religion.

Who will I stand for? McCain. Romney. Guliani. ANYONE but Huckabee. I have had too much experience with Southern Baptists lazy thinking, hipocritical tantrums, judgements and insults to EVER trust one of their 'ordained' ministers.

Example? I attended the local southern baptist college, where attendance at chapel was mandatory. I attended, and kept my thoughts to myself. A speaker (another ordained sb minister) said "Don't criticize people who go out an bomb abortion clinics. They are doing what God leads them to do...." I was the only one who thought the statement was objectionable...(actually, it was insane, but I won't go there...)

I could go on and on and on.
This Christmas ad is just a taste of the Southern Baptist world view. Soon we will hear Mr Huck demand tollerance for his beleifs while casting aspersions on Mr Guiliani and Romney. (In sb gestalt neither are 'christian' and they are both going to hell.)

Who is infamously quoted as saying,

"Jesus Was too Smart to Ever Run for Public Office."

Apparently, this person has elected to preach, but not practice.

Separation of church and state is vital.

Back once again for a history lesson. What schools did some of you attend? Most of our founding fathers, esp. the biggies (Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Paine, Franklin, etc.) were self-proclaimed Deists. Deists believed some type of being created the universe, but then left it alone and no longer impacts it. This being (God, Providence and Creator were the most widely used terms) left all the knowledge man would need in nature. In fact, organized religions were not trusted by Deist, and this God placed its true knowledge in Nature. They also most definetly did not believe Christ was divine. These men were greatly influenced by French Romantics, esp. Rousseau. So basically, there were Christians involved forming our Constitution (there is no doubt) but the big Founding Fathers we all celebrate most certainly we not Christians. It's very easy to find the material online or in in-depth history books. Key word things like "deism" and "founding fathers".

Separation of church and state....wait, what? There are a lot of other candidates who are religious, Huckabee has managed to cheapen religion by using it as a political tool to advance his candidacy.

This ad made my skin crawl. There is something really evil lurking in this man. Scarey guy. A real low-budget snake oil salesman like Bill. A record FULL of unethical behavior, greed, and stupidity. Prediction: he's going down.

givemeabreak: The founding fathers might very well have been Christians but the Constitution they wrote put the wall of separation between church and state in it and that is what counts today. I personally think that's a good thing and overturning it would lead to theoracy, the goal of many Christians in America.

Sandra, I agree with you. When it comes to God and Satan, anybody can say anything in the sense that no proof need be provided and can be expected to. About the Bible, that's something else. The last 150 years of scientific discoveries have provided ample proof of how man came about, that Adam and Eve in the garden is just a nice little fairy tale. The last 10 years have also accumulated evidence that another Deluge is happening from climate change brought on by greenhouse gases. Didn't the Bible say no more Flood?

If Christian ideals don't mean anything, it is because people don't know what they are. If people knew what Christian ideals are, they would be better able to understand and values mean nothing to those who have no values. People with no values have no dependability. Huck stands for honest values for the good of all men and there is nothing wrong with that.

Huckabee is playing the "Jesus card" a little to much. I am a Christian, and don't mind someone with faith, but he is going a little far. And I don't know how Christian he really is. He has now been caught twice running smear campaigns against his opponents. Not too ethical to me. I don't trust him.

Some breaking news from Ron Paul on Slick Hucks ad....."Asked about Republican rival Mike Huckabee's Christmas-themed ad, which we wrote about yesterday and has attracted attention in part because of the image of a cross that many see hovering over Huckabee's shoulder, GOP presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul said this morning on FOX & Friends that: "It reminds me of what Sinclair Lewis once said. He says, 'when fascism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross.' Now I don't know whether that's a fair assessment or not, but you wonder about using a cross, like he is the only Christian or implying that subtly. So, I don't think I would ever use anything like that." (Fox has put video from some of the interview here. To see Paul talking about the Huckabee ad, though, you need to check this clip at YouTube.) Paul's linking of Huckabee's ad to fascism is certainly an attention-getter."...........Yeah !

There is reason to believe Christianity is true. There is no reason to believe that rocks and trees can do anything for us.

I've quotes this before, but it's worth repeating: Woody Allen had best when he said, "If Jesus ever came back and saw what was being done in His name, He would never stop throwing up." Huckabee would make anyone godly nauseous.

This is amazing! A few weeks ago Huckleberry is whining about how he is more discriminated against than Romney is, and then he decides to rub his Christian beliefs in our faces with two adds (christian leader & christmas)! This guy is the ultimate panderer, and the new republican flip-flopper.

Get REAL, you are correct. December 25th is the day that was selected for Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus. The fact that it is not the EXACT day of Jesus' birth is not the point. Just like other days in which we celebrate: (1) Martin Luther King Day is celebrated on the third Monday in January, not his exact birthdate, Jan 15; President's Day is celebrated on the third Monday in February (we used to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's birthday on the exact day, Feb 12; and George Washington's birthday on the exact day, Feb 22); Columbus Day, here in the U.S., is celebrated on the second Monday in October (we used to celebrate Columbus' landing in the New World on the exact day, Oct 12); and Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November (the exact date of the Pilgrims and Indians feasting is not known, but is reported to have actually been in October).

I always thought Rick Warren was the Uberpastor of the New World Order Church,looks like I was wrong, it's Huckabee!

As you believe it is so.

How would one truly know that Mike Huckabee is using Jesus as a political gain? How would one truly know that Mike Huckabee believes what he says about Jesus? Judge a man by his fruits and not by his words alone.