WaPo reports on Huckabee Step[ping] Back Into the Pulpit at Evangelical Church in N.H. wherein he said, among other things,

“When we become believers, it’s as if we have signed up to be part of God’s Army, to be soldiers for Christ,” Huckabee told the enthusiastic audience.

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“When you give yourself to Christ, some relationships have to go,” he said. “It’s no longer your life; you’ve signed it over.”

Likening service to God to service in the military, Huckabee said “there is suffering in the conditioning for battle” and “you obey the orders.”

While Huckabee’s evangelical background is obviously a plus with some voting blocs within the GOP base, as I have argued before, I think that it will eventually come to harm his chances at the nomination, and even if he manages the nomination, would severely hamper him in the general election.

While the above-cited words will be familiar to many who attend conservative protestant churches, they will sound disturbing to many in the general population. Indeed, even evangelicals who might be more than willing to accept such formulations within the confines of a church service are likely uncomfortable with the idea of a President who sees himself as getting direct orders (or votes) from God.

h/t: Sullivan