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So this is the alternative history they want to write eh?
Clown, it was called the “Enlightenment Age” for a reason, people started breaking the chains of organized religion. Yes they were Christians, but they knew enough to not trust religion as a form of government.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the material world are some of the founding principles, not “death, misery and suffering but maybe get lucky choosing the right god and you’ll be rewarded with eternal paradise…”
If they founded the country on the Bible, we’d live in a theocracy with no elections and no opposition parties.
I don’t want to be that guy, but in fairness, ol’ boy didn’t actually say “biblical republic” (He just wheeled out the old “constitutional Republic” bit).
Doesn’t make this any better, but I want to be sure we criticize with facts.
Amen
Why is it that every time a dumbass steps down from being speaker, you guys manage to find an even bigger wanker? It’s kinda impressive, honestly.
Pump the bilge pump, get bilge water.
Christians always try to re-history the world in their favor. They are the most dishonest hypocritical fascists.
Then again, they stole most of what their religion allegedly stands for.White Taliban gonna Taliban
Y’all quaeda
When he won the spot he said “good to see our democracy working” or something like that. Fucking shameless lunatic
This is literally frightening to read that any American politician would think this. I don’t see how any moderate R could support this train of thought.
There’s no such thing as a moderate R. They voted for Johnson.
Lots of them think it. The more frightening aspect is the willingness to say it out loud.
Remember when Cheetoh-Man said things out loud and they loved him for it. Eight years later, they feel emboldened to do all kinds of shit that wouldn’t have been on the radar back then. We’re in trouble.
Moderate R are an endangered and disappearing species. And even if you find one, you’d be safe to assume they’re “moderate” rather than moderate.
Do they even exist? Bacon voted for Johnson.
Separation of church and state is both the first amendment and a clause in article six of the constitution:
First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
article six
no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
Thomas Jefferson’s use of the words “separation of church and state” was to explain the purpose of the first amendment specifically but the actual legal text of the constitution is worded broadly enough to cover not only separation of church and state but separation of mosque/synagogue/ect and state rather than singling out Christianity.
This guy is a fuck
Is this real?
Yes. He’s a former ADF lawyer, proper Christian nutjob. They say things like this. They believe this.
Bloody hell what a nightmare
I’ve really been in a tail spin over it. It is fucking bad.
They believe they need to “save” the rest of us from ourselves. Their (his) world view (2 people from the presidency) is pure hubris. Johnson thinks he knows better than everyone else. He’s “ordained by god.” Its revolting.
“The Bible is very clear that God is the one that raises up those in authority,” he said. “He raised up each of you, all of us. And I believe that God has ordained and allowed each one of us to be brought here for this specific moment.” -Johnson when he accepted the Speakership.
Good of him to accept that Joe Biden has been ordained by God! Surely now he will pay the proper respects and fall in line.
Also
, for fuck’s sake!- BigMacHole ( @BigMacHole@lemm.ee ) 11•1 year ago
It’s a good thing a bunch of 6 year old children weren’t murdered! Otherwise Republicans would have to pretend to care about the Constitution again!
Mike Johnson, the banalityest of evil.
How is this banal? Seems like he’s doing a lot more than just trying to succeed in his career.
He got the job because he was so boring, no one hated him enough to block him. Now he’s going to let his hate flag fly.
Thomas Jefferson isn’t real, ya’ll.
I can’t wait for my first chance to ask someone the following:
“I have three questions: 1. What does ‘Democracy’ mean? 2. What does ‘Republic’ mean? 3. What is your point?”