Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested on Wednesday that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was tied to godlessness in contemporary American society.
Speaking to Brian Thomas of radio station 55KRC, Gingrich reflected on Friday’s shooting in Newtown, Connecticut which claimed the lives of 20 first-graders and six adults.
“When you have an anti-religious, secular bureaucracy and secular judiciary, seeking to drive God out of public life, something fills the vacuum,” Gingrich said. “I don’t know that going from communion to playing war games, in which you practice killing people is necessarily an improvement.”
Contributed – Huffington Post
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Hi Marva, Thanks for participating in this discussion. We do value your opinion. It would be great if you could let us know your explanation as to why you believe a lack of prayer does not have anything to do with what happened?
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I do not believe a lack of prayer has anything to do with what happened.
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Gingrich is not the first high-profile Republican to invoke godlessness as a possible root cause in the wake of the tragic shooting. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee (R) caught heat for saying the crime was no surprise because America has “systematically removed God” from public schools.
Huckabee later sought to clarify his remarks, saying he did not believe increased prayer in school would have stopped the shooting from occurring. “I’m not suggesting by any stretch that if we had prayer in schools regularly as we once did that this wouldn’t have happened, because you can’t have that kind of cause and effect,” he said. “But we’ve created an atmosphere in this country where the only time you want to invoke God’s name is after the tragedy.”
Contributed: The Huffington Post
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Thanks for reading and for sharing your thoughts. I believe a lack of love is responsible for many of the problems which now plague society.. If we chose to play the blame game we need to look at the source,guns is the real cause not a lack of prayer.
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