In the moments before he was to face a vote on becoming speaker of the House this week, Representative Mike Johnson posted a photograph on social media of the inscription carved into marble atop the chamber’s rostrum: “In God We Trust.”
That inscription of course should not be there.
His colleagues celebrated his candidacy by circulating an image of him on bended knee praying for divine guidance with other lawmakers on the House floor.
That’s just downright revolting. “I believe in a magic daddy in the sky so I’m better than you.”
And in his first speech from the chamber as speaker, Mr. Johnson cast his ascendance to the position second in line to the presidency in religious terms, saying, “I believe God has ordained and allowed each one of us to be brought here for this specific moment.”
Which being interpreted is: Daddy God put me here.
Very humble and meek.
Mr. Johnson, a mild-mannered conservative Republican from Louisiana whose elevation to the speakership on Wednesday followed weeks of chaos, is known for placing his evangelical Christianity at the center of his political life and policy positions. Now, as the most powerful Republican in Washington, he is in a position to inject it squarely into the national political discourse, where he has argued for years that it belongs.
That is, he wants to impose theocracy on us.
Mr. Johnson also played a leading role in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and has expressed skepticism about some definitions of the separation of church and state, placing himself in a newer cohort of conservative Christianity that aligns more closely with former President Donald J. Trump and that some describe as Christian nationalism.
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In remarks to a Louisiana congregation in 2016, Mr. Johnson linked school shootings to no-fault divorce laws (he is in a covenant marriage with his wife, which makes divorce more difficult), “radical feminism” and legal abortion.
School shootings are the fault of radical feminists. I’d like to see a map of that journey.
In lectures to student groups he addresses across the country, Mr. Johnson has lamented: “There’s no transcendent principles anymore. There’s no eternal judge. There’s no absolute standards of right and wrong. All this is exactly the opposite of the way we were founded as a country.”
It is a viewpoint fervently embraced by much of the hard-right Republican base, which reveres Mr. Trump and identifies with his frequent claims of being persecuted, aggrieved and looked down upon by liberal elites.
Ok again I’m going to need a map of the route from absolute standards of right and wrong to revering Donald Trump. A really large-scale detailed map with no blurry bits or Miracle Street.
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So if Gawd appoints our political leaders, why the opposition to Joe Biden? Are they class king the Debbil is more powerful than their tribal sky genie?
Disgusting to think that somehow Donald Trump is their messiah.
So he’s going to make it a national priority to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, right?
Oh, not that kind of Christianity. I’m sorry, I misunderstood. He’s a disciple of Supply Side Jesus.
Apparently the cause of all the shootings is not guns, but “the human heart”. Alexandra Petri has a pretty good takedown of that.
This guy is a ‘fundamentalist’ Christian; I thought he must be when I read this post and sure enough, a quick search on the web turns up this article, which tells us, inter alia, that ‘Johnson believes in a literal reading of the Book of Genesis’. Here’s the Authorised/King James version of parts of chapters two and three:
Radical feminism directly challenges male hegemony. From a ‘fundamentalist’, that is Biblical literalist, perspective, this is a rejection of the law of God, as ordained from the beginning in the Garden of Eden. This is why to fundies like Johnson it is one more piece of evidence of moral and social breakdown.
Women are weaker than men and therefore need guns for self defence.
Women are less cautious than men, therefore guns are not secured.
RadFemWomen emasculate men who then lash out with any available weapon. See what they made men do?
When men call for gun control, women cry “NO. We need our guns for defence”.
When male legislators try to rein in the NRA, women deny their votes, take over the NRA and turn it into a RadFem Domestic Terrorist Group.
Yeah. I haven’t seen that, either.
There is only one country on Earth that has a problem with this type of mass shooting. The answers are staring it in the face and it’s too dumb to notice. It only took a single such event in Aus for us to collectively say “Never again” and make sure the right laws were put in place.
e pluribus unum
I wish we could go back to that.
Omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, yet he can’t find two people hidden behind a tree? How anybody can give the Bible any credence, let alone take it literally, is so far beyond my ken.
The other day I saw a cartoon on Facebook pointing out how funny it is to see paintings of Adam and Eve with navels. Someone in the comments complained that people are always making fun of Christianity, but you can’t criticize Judaism.
I mean, I suppose there aren’t many Jews who take the creation myth seriously, but, um, who wrote Genesis?
@7 Hahahahahahahahahaha