12-15-2012, 12:40 PM
I don't agree with Huckabee's statement, but I'm not surprised by it.
This tragedy is getting a hell of a lot of coverage, so it's ripe for advocates to attempt to use it to advance their causes.
-We'll see advocates for gun control contending that if Lanza hadn't had access to weapons (not confirmed, but likely to have been legally owned by his family), this may never have happened.
-We'll see advocates from the opposite camp claiming that if schools or teachers had guns or defensive measures in place that this may never have happened.
-We'll see Atheists using the incident as proof that there is no God; God would surely never allow this to happen.
-We'll see religious politicians like Huckabee contending that had God been taught in schools, maybe Adam Lanza wouldn't have become a spree killer of kids.
-If it turns out that Lanza did play a lot of violent video games or watched/listened to violent entertainment, we'll hear from advocates for more censorship that those influences drove Lanza to murder.
Whether or not some of these points are valid (wholly or partially) IDK, but we're gonna read and hear about them; that's the advocates' mission - use the exposure to advance their causes/beliefs.
Personally, I think if there is a God, he/she/it is not a physical presence that can be driven off of school grounds just because religion isn't taught there. And, for all I know, Adam Lanza was raised to believe in and worship God. In any case, I don't think that God not being taught in schools has any connection to this senseless horror. JMO.
This tragedy is getting a hell of a lot of coverage, so it's ripe for advocates to attempt to use it to advance their causes.
-We'll see advocates for gun control contending that if Lanza hadn't had access to weapons (not confirmed, but likely to have been legally owned by his family), this may never have happened.
-We'll see advocates from the opposite camp claiming that if schools or teachers had guns or defensive measures in place that this may never have happened.
-We'll see Atheists using the incident as proof that there is no God; God would surely never allow this to happen.
-We'll see religious politicians like Huckabee contending that had God been taught in schools, maybe Adam Lanza wouldn't have become a spree killer of kids.
-If it turns out that Lanza did play a lot of violent video games or watched/listened to violent entertainment, we'll hear from advocates for more censorship that those influences drove Lanza to murder.
Whether or not some of these points are valid (wholly or partially) IDK, but we're gonna read and hear about them; that's the advocates' mission - use the exposure to advance their causes/beliefs.
Personally, I think if there is a God, he/she/it is not a physical presence that can be driven off of school grounds just because religion isn't taught there. And, for all I know, Adam Lanza was raised to believe in and worship God. In any case, I don't think that God not being taught in schools has any connection to this senseless horror. JMO.