Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee if responded to Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King’s called to remove all depictions of Jesus as a White man.

As Christian Headlines reported earlier this week, King asserted that statues showing Jesus as a White man are “gross form[s] of white supremacy” and called for them to be torn down.

His controversial remarks set off a firestorm of backlash from Christians.

Huckabee, who also served as a Southern Baptist minister before entering the political arena, criticized King’s comments in a Fox News interview on Wednesday.

“To say that in any way Jesus is a symbol of white anything is absurd, in part because Jesus wasn’t a white guy,” Huckabee said. “He was a Middle Easterner and probably had more olive skin than he did white skin.”

In Huckabee’s words, Shaun King’s proposal is “one of the most unbelievable things I’ve ever heard.”

 “If someone would study Jesus, they would find that he was the ultimate person who loved the unlovable, who cared for the ones that no one else cared for,” Huckabee explained.

“He cared about people who were slaves. He cared about people who were prostitutes. He stepped in the path of those who were ready to stone to death a woman caught in adultery.”

The former governor also noted that people are forgetting that America was founded on…

A bill that protects the religious expression of public school students throughout the school day and even with homework and other assignments was signed into law by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine last week.

The Ohio Student Religious Liberties Act, which passed the Senate 32-0 and the House 90-3, says public school students “may engage in religious expression before, during, and after school hours in the same manner and to the same extent” that “a student is permitted to engage in secular activities or expression before, during, and after school hours.”

Further, the new law prevents school districts from prohibiting a student from “engaging in religious expression in the completion of homework, artwork, or other written or oral assignments.” Teachers “shall not penalize or reward a student based on the religious content of a student’s work,” the law says.

“Grades and scores shall be calculated using ordinary academic standards,” the law says.

The law defines “religious expression” as:

• Prayer.
• “Religious gatherings, including but not limited to prayer groups, religious clubs, ‘see you at the pole’ gatherings, or other religious gatherings.”
• “Distribution of written materials or literature of a religious nature.”
• “Any other activity of a religious nature, including wearing symbolic clothing or expression of a religious viewpoint, provided that the activity is not obscene,…

Two high-ranking Mississippi elected officials say the Confederate battle emblem should be removed from the state flag and replaced with the words on the state seal: “In God We Trust.”

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch and state Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann made the proposal this week amid a growing controversy over the flag, which has incorporated the Confederate battle flag since 1894.

“We must look for a flag for our collective future to be flown over our collective assets,” Hosemann said in a statement. “… In my mind, our flag should bear the Seal of the Great State of Mississippi and state ‘In God We Trust.'”

My statement on changing the flag. pic.twitter.com/TZz7kfFbBa

— Delbert Hosemann (@DelbertHosemann) June 24, 2020

Fitch made similar remarks.

“It is my personal belief that it is time for us to change our state flag to reflect the love, compassion and conviction of our people,” Fitch said. “The addition of ‘In God We Trust’ from our state seal is the perfect way to demonstrate to all who we are.”

A survey released this week showed 72 percent of likely voters support changing the flag if the new design incorporates “In God We Trust.”

Meanwhile, more than 50 athletic directors and coaches from the state’s eight public universities appeared together at the state capitol Thursday to urge legislators to change the state flag and remove the Confederate…

Unable to perform in arenas due to the pandemic, some of the most well-known names in Christian music have found an alternate way to tour this summer while letting fans socially distance: singing outdoors at drive-in theaters.

TobyMac embarked on a drive-in theater tour June 25 in Watertown, Tenn., while Casting Crowns will begin its own drive-in theater tour in Fayetteville, Ark., July 15. Michael W. Smith, Steven Curtis Chapman and Mac Powell are joining together on their own drive-in-theater tour starting July 16 in Watertown.

All the concert tours involve multiple cities and are produced by Awakening Events. Tickets are sold on a per-car load basis (up to 6 people), and the concerts will comply with local COVID-19 restrictions.

The drive-in theater tours give fans a rare opportunity to watch live music during a time when most traditional arena-based tours have been canceled.

“We’re excited that we’ve developed a way for our fans to safely come together and enjoy live music again,” said Curtis Pinkerton, director of marketing for Awakening Events. “In the climate of today we need more positivity in the world, and we take great pride in being able to offer some of that positivity safely.”

Smith, in a statement, said he’s “excited about the uniqueness of the Drive-In settings.”

“I think it will be something we always remember about this time, what a…

Six out of 10 Americans disagree with the statement that “human life is sacred,” according to a new survey.

Barna Group surveyed about 2,000 people and asked about feelings on human life. “Sacred” was defined as “having unconditional, intrinsic worth.”

Of the 2,000 people, only 39 percent said they agreed with the claim that “human life is sacred.”

“A substantially larger share of the population combined to offer views such as ‘life is what you make it, but it has no absolute value’ (37 percent); ‘life does not attain its full value until we reach our highest point of evolution and expression’ (11 percent); or other, less popular points of view that concurred that life has no infinite, unconditional value,” the report said.

Of those who said they were evangelical and born-again Christians, 60 percent agreed with the statement. Of those who identified as Pentecostals, that number was 46 percent and 43 percent of Roman Catholics surveyed.

Most (69 percent) said that people are “basically good.” More than 30 years ago, the Barna survey showed that 83 percent of people believed people were “basically good.”

Dr. George Barna, the founder of Barna Group, said the survey’s findings are impacted by demonstrations happening across the U.S.

“A movement to defund police departments might make sense if people are innately good,” he explained. “People with a…

A White Black Lives Matter protester argued with both black and white police officers in Washington, D.C. this week.

A Black police officer told a white Black Lives Matter protester that “America has a sin problem” after the activist said at least one of the officers was racist.

According to Faithwire, the unnamed protester told one of the White police officers that it didn’t matter if he had a Black wife.

“That doesn’t mean that you’re not racist, sir, just because you have one Black friend or a Black wife,” she charged. “You can still be racist. It has nothing to do with your acquaintances.”

She also said she didn’t believe that the White officer was married to a Black woman.

In a video posted to Twitter, a Black police officer said they were willing to have a “conversation” with her, but that there was “no point” because she had a “one-track mind.”

“If it doesn’t fit your agenda, you don’t want to hear it,” one of the officers said.

Finally, the officer told the woman that the problem isn’t racism, but sin.

“America has a sin problem,” said the officer, seconds later referencing John 14:6. “The world has a sin problem ma’am. Jesus said ‘I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’ America and the world has a sin problem. You understand me? That’s where racism, injustice, and hate and…

Venezuelan activist and TikTok star Elizbeth Rogliani is likening the toppling of statues in American as part of the Black Lives Matter movement to the Venezuela Socialist movement.

“Why do I even worry about some silly statues coming down? Or some silly little street names changing? Why do I care? That’s because the last time I didn’t care about this I was a teenager,” Rogliani said on TikTok, citing her personal experience.

 “I have already lived through this thing when I was living in Venezuela. The statues came down … Chavez didn’t want all that history displayed and then he changed the street names, then came the [scool] curriculum, and then some movies couldn’t be shown on certain TV channels and so on and so forth,” Rogliani asserted

According to CBN News, Venezuela was one of the richest and most democratic countries in South America before being taken over by socialism.

“You guys think it can’t happen to you … I’ve heard this so many times, but always be on guard,” Rogliani cautioned. “Never believe something can’t happen to you. You need to guard your country and your society, or it will be destroyed.”

“We didn’t believe it could happen to us,” she continued. “Cubans warned us, yet it happened. And there’s clearly a lot of people wanting to destroy the US.”

Rogliani’s video has amassed over 1 million views after it was shared on Twitter, Monday. It has also…