{"id":21323,"date":"2013-02-04T02:27:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T05:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=21323"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:53:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:53:52","slug":"huckabee-and-the-christian-response-to-an-ungodly-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/04\/huckabee-and-the-christian-response-to-an-ungodly-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Huckabee and the Christian Response to an Ungodly World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arkansas Governor and Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee was recently invited to deliver the convocation at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberty.edu\/\">Liberty University<\/a>.\u00a0 He spoke on the state of the culture in America &#8212; and noted the state of the world wasn&#8217;t merely because ungodly people have said &#8220;yes&#8221; to ungodly things, but also because Christians have not stood up to say <em>no<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Godly people have failed to say no to the ungodly things.\u00a0 Culture is moving away from godly values that it is almost unrecognizable from what it once was.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He issued a challenge to live out loud for Christ:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Are you willing to be hated?\u00a0 Are you willing to be despised? Are you willing to take the kind of stand that will not make you popular?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This continues a <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/15\/huckabee-urges-christians-to-engage-culture\/\">long-running theme<\/a> for Huckabee.\u00a0 Just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/on-air\/huckabee\/transcript\/huckabee-039we-have-sin-problem039\">last month he similarly addressed<\/a> the relationship between culture and faith [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What we have is a sin problem. And since <strong>we&#8217;ve ordered God out <\/strong>of our schools and communities; <strong>the military and public conversations<\/strong>, you know, we really shouldn&#8217;t act so surprised when all hell breaks loose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nJnE6YWXsh0\">half-hour convocation<\/a> is worth the listen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallfont\">As noted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/huckabee-at-liberty-university-are-you-willing-to-be-despised-for-your-beliefs-89272\/\">the Christian Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arkansas Governor and Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee was recently invited to deliver the convocation at Liberty University.\u00a0 He spoke on the state of the culture in America &#8212; and noted the state of the world wasn&#8217;t merely because ungodly people have said &#8220;yes&#8221; to ungodly things, but also because Christians have not stood up to say no: Godly people [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,2526,267,2,10,171],"class_list":["post-21323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-christian","tag-liberty-university","tag-mike-huckabee","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}