The Freedom From Religion Foundation is raising alarm over a disturbing communication from U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee to President Trump.
Huckabee reportedly has asked the president to “hear from heaven and that voice [of God]” as he manages America’s response to the escalating Israel-Iran war. On Tuesday, Trump posted a text he received from Huckabee to Truth Social:
Mr. President,
God spared you in Butler, PA to be the most consequential President in a century — maybe ever. The decisions on your shoulders I would not want to be made by anyone else.
You have many voices speaking to you Sir, but there is only ONE voice that matters. HIS voice.
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No President in my lifetime has been in a position like yours. Not since Truman in 1945. I don’t reach out to persuade you. Only to encourage you.
I believe you will hear from heaven and that voice is far more important than mine or ANYONE else’s.
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You did not seek this moment. This moment sought YOU!
This is a profoundly irresponsible and theocratic appeal from someone tasked with representing U.S. interests abroad. However, it’s perhaps not surprising.
Huckabee, former Arkansas governor and current Christian nationalist ideologue, was appointed by Trump as U.S. ambassador to Israel in a move FFRF previously condemned as “a disaster of biblical proportions.” His latest appeal to divine guidance in matters of war only underscores how dangerous his appointment continues to be.
Even more troubling is Huckabee’s comparison of Trump to President Truman, suggesting Trump is in a similar position to the one Truman faced in 1945 when he decided to drop atomic bombs on Japan. This chilling reference raises the specter that Huckabee sees nuclear escalation in religious terms — as a divinely guided necessity rather than a last-resort geopolitical decision. The invocation of Truman’s role as a precedent implies that Huckabee is not merely asking for prayerful reflection but calling for faith-based justification of catastrophic violence.
“Mike Huckabee is not a diplomat — he’s an End Times fanatic who views international affairs through the lens of biblical prophecy, not national security or human rights,” says FFRF Co-President Dan Barker. “Calling on Trump to listen to the ‘voice of God’ as a full-blown war looms is not just absurd — it’s terrifying.”
Huckabee’s fervent Christian Zionism is rooted in the belief that modern Israel fulfills Old Testament prophecy, and that the region’s geopolitical conflicts are paving the way for the Second Coming of Jesus. This extremist ideology has nothing to do with protecting Israeli or Palestinian lives, and everything to do with accelerating a so-called “End Times” scenario.
Huckabee has repeatedly rejected the two-state solution, referring to the occupied Palestinian territories by biblical names such as “Judea and Samaria” and denying the existence of the Palestinian people altogether. He has led evangelical tours through Israel that frame the region not as a diverse and conflict-ridden reality, but as a holy stage set for the apocalypse.
During his political career, Huckabee has frequently used his platform to promote a theocratic vision of America. He once infamously sent out a fundraising letter from the governor’s office lamenting the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s court victories, saying: “I’m afraid of them.” FFRF remains proud of that track record and stands even more firmly today in defense of secular domestic and foreign policy.
The First Amendment was intended to keep religious zealotry out of government — and that includes international relations. Supernatural voices should guide no nation, and certainly not in matters of war and peace. The American people deserve a foreign policy grounded in reason, human rights and long-term stability — not biblical fantasies about holy wars and divine retribution.
FFRF urges the U.S. government and international community to reject religiously motivated warmongering and to recommit to rational, secular and humane approaches to diplomacy in the Middle East.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting the constitutional principle of separation between state and church and educating the public on matters of nontheism. With more than 42,000 members, FFRF advocates for freethinkers’ rights across the globe. For more information, visit ffrf.org.
