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Hucksters theology degree? Now says ain’t necessarily so

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59222
 
Huckabee’s
theology degree? Now says ain’t necessarily so
Campaign admits candidate doesn’t have claimed religious credential


Posted: December 14, 2007
7:20 p.m. Eastern

© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee
Republican
presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told the Christian Broadcasting Network he
had a theology
degree, he told voters in Iowa he had a theology degree, he repeated the claim
in last month’s CNN YouTube debate … but, his campaign now says, it was not
true.
Huckabee’s claim began unraveling following his offhanded comment about
Mormonism in a New York Times interview last weekend.
Reporter Zev Chafets wrote: “I asked Huckabee, who describes himself as
the only Republican candidate with a degree in theology, if he considered
Mormonism a cult or a religion. ‘I think it’s a religion,’ he said. ‘I really
don’t know much about it.’
“I was about to jot down this piece of boilerplate when Huckabee surprised
me with a question of his own: ‘Don’t Mormons,’ he asked in an innocent voice,
‘believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?'”
In the interview, Huckabee’s account of his education made no mention of his
having earned a theology degree.
Chafets wrote: “If young Mike Huckabee was ever rebellious or difficult,
there’s no record of it. He preached his first sermon as a teenager, married
his high-school sweetheart and went off to Ouachita
Baptist University in Arkadelphia. There he majored in speech and
communications, worked at a radio station and earned his B.A. in a little more
than two years. He spent a year at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in
Fort Worth, Tex., before dropping out to work for the televangelist James
Robison, who bought him his first decent wardrobe and showed him how to use
television.”
While Huckabee apologized personally to fellow candidate and Mormon Mitt Romney
for his remarks, Chafets’ characterization of the former Arkansas governor and
ordained Baptist pastor as a seminary dropout who did not seem well-versed in
comparative religion, drew the attention of political bloggers.
National
Review’s Jim Geraghty cited Huckabee’s claimed theology degree
when criticizing the candidate for telling CNN’s Wolf Blitzer he had been
trying to avoid talking about the subject with Chafets but the reporter was
“comparably well-schooled on comparative religions.”
“I’m going to call horsepuckey on Huckabee’s claim that a New York Times
reporter knew more about comparative religions than [a] guy with a theology
degree,” Geraghty wrote.
That prompted Joe Carter, Huckabee’s research director, to respond
to Geraghty by e-mail.

Jim,

Governor Huckabee doesn’t have a
theology degree. He only spent a year in seminary.

Also, it’s not surprising that he
doesn’t know much about the specific beliefs of the LDS church. There aren’t a
lot of LDS members in Arkansas; they comprise just .007 percent [sic] of the
population (about 20,000 out of 2,810,872 people). Most Southern evangelicals
don’t have much exposure to that particular religion. Even in seminary you’re
not likely to study the LDS faith unless you take a class on apologetics.

Joe

Carter
made a math error – 0.7 percent of Arkansas’ residents are members of the
Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints.
Today, following a news conference announcing that former Reagan confidante, Ed
Rollins, has become Huckabee’s national campaign manager, the candidate was
asked about a PowerlineBlog
story that he did not have the theology degree he had claimed.
“I have a Bachelor
of Arts in religion and a minor in communications in my undergraduate
work,” Huckabee answered. “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.”
Speaking in Iowa in October, Huckabee
told a sympathetic crowd, “Anytime you have been a person who was
identified as a pastor and you’ve got a seminary education
and theology degree, people tend to worry about you.”
In November, while appearing on the Christian
Broadcasting Network, Huckabee said, “People look at my record and say
that I’m as strong on immigration, 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. And know the threat of it is absolutely overwhelming to us.”
Last month, during the CNN
YouTube debate, Huckabee responded to a question to the candidates about
their belief in the Bible: “Sure. I believe the Bible is exactly what it
is. It’s the word of revelation to us from God himself. … And as the only
person here on the stage with a theology degree, there are parts of it I don’t
fully comprehend and understand, because the Bible is a revelation of an
infinite god, and no finite person is ever going to fully understand it. If
they do, their god is too small.”

God Bless Am er ic a!





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