Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, in his first remarks after being elected Wednesday afternoon, told Members of Congress that “Scripture” and “the Bible” are clear that they have been “ordained” by God.
And here I thought it was pretty clear that the basis for his authority is the constitution, not in scripture.
If you express grandiose delusions you should be sitting in a psychiatric chair. Not a senate chair.
Yeah this blows my mind. If you wouldn’t allow a paranoid schizophrenic to hold office, why are you allowing people who think the earth is 6000 years old and dinosaurs aren’t real?
Constant brainwashing and decades of undermining public education.
Well, fortunately he’s only a House Rep.
FFS you’re a grown-ass man!
slaps a pile of Bronze Age parables about tribal conflicts on the far side of the Mediterranean that have gone through a dozen different iterative translations
Its all crystal clear. Jesus said The American Constitution prohibits dressing outside your birth-certificate assigned gender.
What is the difference between this guy and a Taliban officer?
I don’t care how much he enjoys talking about his favorite fairy tale novel, congress is not a book club.
Oh, but that’s totally different! You see, their holy book is just a bunch of heathenish drivel, whereas our holy book is the one and only god given truth! How do I know? It says so right here in my holy book!
Dude really pulled the “divine right” card huh?
The French invented a wonderful device to cure sufferers of the divine right delusion:
Leaders claiming divinity leave the proletariat no choice but to demand proof
Fuck your religion. Keep that shit out of politics please.
Lmao, God has nothing to do with those guys💀
god isn’t a good guy. he’s a villain. they can have him.
If you are talking about olympic gods, sure
yahweh’s murder count is well over 2 million. he’s pretty much the god of murder.
Who am I to judge, right?
Nah, just the Abrahmic god that decided to flood the world and kill nearly everyone on it innocent or not.
I mean, Noah warned them, so yea-
Hey you’re gonna die, it’s on you now wink
Not what he said
To be clear there is no god. Also to be clear the stories you have about your god describe a poorly written villain who even if it were real, again it isn’t, deserves nothing from humanity except contempt.
Your opinion, your opinion, yeah
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.
Barry Goldwater
Also relevant:
Daily reminder that Clinton was a Goldwater Girl. She’s never been anything but a class traitor.
Down voted by milquetoast libs
I believe that Scripture, the Bible is very clear that God is the one that raises up those in authority.
I’m not sure which would be worse: that he didn’t think this claim through to its logical conclusion, or that he did and didn’t see the problem.
Right? How many mass-murdering psychopaths has God raised up in authority? What an idiot.
I believe that if God gives power to certain individuals, so too can he take it away. Many systems, positions and meanings in society such as caste, authority and regulation are temporary or exist based on a certain set of justifications with a certain set of rules and boundaries. Humanity would be best to learn or perhaps be reminded that there are certain responsibilities that come with leadership, one of those is to lead by example rather than to justify their leadership by an imaginary authority alone.
For example, if we imagine a God as a being of supernatural capabilities, awareness and intelligence, well beyond our understanding, who allows us to live our lives with a certain degree of freedom, would it not be unreasonable to believe that all our current circumstances, everything from our freedom, the truth of certain issues, down to the very matter of this universe itself as it stands is a gift?
Just my two cents
