We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we've systematically removed God from our schools.Like so many, I am reeling from what happened in Newtown, Connecticut, today. I can hardly put two thoughts together, but as a Christian, I just have to respond to the statement Mike Huckabee made today.
—Mike Huckabee
Mr. Huckabee, if your God can be so easily removed from the public schools, or from anywhere, then you're doing it wrong.
If your God wasn't right there, feeling every shudder of terror and grief at Sandy Hook Elementary School this morning, then you're doing it wrong. Seriously.
This horror did not happen because the people of this nation do not believe as you do. Or as I do. Harsh, vindictive indifference to human suffering is not God's way. The Good News is that, in the midst of all the questions and all the anguish, God is with us. God suffers with us. Always.
Bidden or unbidden, God is present.
—Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
