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Huckabee: Charleston shooting is proof of ‘evil’ in the world

by Mark Hensch - 06/21/15 7:00 AM ET

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Sunday said a mass shooting in South Carolina earlier this week is evidence that evil and sin exist in the universe.

His remarks follow an attack that left nine dead at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., on Wednesday.

“This 21-year-old man – obviously a racist by his own admission – sitting through a prayer and Bible study before standing up and murdering nine people, it really does remind us that we live in a world where there is evil,” Huckabee said of Dylann Storm Roof, the alleged gunman behind the massacre.

{mosads}“I know it is not politically correct or certainly not in vogue to speak of things such as evil or sin, but John, there really is no other explanation for such heinous acts,” he told host John Catsimatidis on AM 970’s “The Cats Roundtable” in New York.

Huckabee, a 2016 Republican White House candidate, added that the shooting undermines people’s faith in the safety of their own churches.

“I think the heartbreak for what happened in Charleston was that it happened in a church, in a sanctuary, a place where people go for refuge, to be safe, to escape the horrors of the world and to find God,” the former Baptist minister said.

“It’s a place normally where Earth meets heaven,” Huckabee said. “Wednesday night, it was a place where Earth met hell.”

A website reportedly operated by Roof was discovered on Saturday morning.

http://digital-stage.thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/245639-charleston-shooting-suspects-website-emerges-reports

It contains pictures of Roof, always alone, engaged in activities with racist or violent undertones.

It also features a document explaining an unknown author’s racist viewpoints and implies future activities in Charleston.

“I chose Charleston because it is the [most] historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country,” the author writes, avoiding further comment on what their choice means.

“We have no skinheads, no KKK, no one doing anything but talking about it on the Internet,” the passage continues. “Well, someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.”

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