Bent Corner

Mike Huckabee last month in a post-debate interview:

I’m as strong on terror as anybody. In fact I think I’m stronger than most people because I truly understand the nature of the war that we are in with Islamofascism. These are people that want to kill us. It’s a theocratic war. And I don’t know if anybody fully understands that. I’m the only guy on that stage with a theology degree. I think I understand it really well.”

Mike Huckabee after being outed as a liar by the conservative blog Powerline:

I have a bachelor of arts in religion and a minor in communications in my undergraduate work. And then I have 46 hours on a master’s degree at Southwestern Theology Seminary. So, my degree as a theological degree is at the college level and then 46 hours toward a masters — three years of study of New Testament Greek, and then the rest of it, all in Seminary was theological studies, but my degree was actually in religion.

I’m not surprised that Huckabee was only lying when he claimed to have a theology degree. I remember when he said it and I remember thinking that it was an interesting aspect of Huckabee that set him apart from any other candidate. Most politicians are former lawyers. I was reminded of the fact that Huckabee held a theology degree when he made the derogatory comment about the Mormon faith. I thought it was strange that someone with a theology degree would be so ignorant about a major American religion.

Huckabee’s ignorance now makes more sense. He was lying about the theology degree.

Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has once again gone out of his way to say something incredibly stupid. This time it’s about the Mormon faith. In an upcoming article to be published in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Huckabee reportedly asks the question to the reporter interviewing him for the magazine. They had been discussing fellow presidential hopeful Mitt Romney who is Mormon.

Huckabee is pretending is was a simple question about something he didn’t understand taken totally out of context. I’m not buying it. Mike Huckabee should know a thing or two about the Mormon religion. He is an ordained Southern Baptist minister. He received a B.A. in theology from Ouachita Baptist University in 1975 and an M.A. in theology from Southwestern Baptist Theology Seminary in 1980. If there is one thing this man should know, it’s about religion.

The Mormon faith is a major religion in this county. Wikipedia says that there are over 6.7 million Mormons in this county. How can a man that holds two degrees in religion pretend to be so dense about another religion that he could pose such a crass and ridiculous question? He needs to treat Mormonism with as much respect as he would like others to show his own particular faith. I would think a theologian would know that.

Mike Huckabee is an idiot.