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He cited, as supposed evidence, the decline of national church attendance and the rise of LGBTQ youth — the fact, Johnson lamented, that “one-in-four high school students identifies as something other than straight.”
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And the depraved in the US are - tada! - Republican voters. God, feel free to purge.
Love it or leave it, Mikey
God reveals himself to be real.
Smites the religious nutjobs that promote hate.
Does not elaborate.
No need to elaborate. If you read what Jesus said, it’s pretty fucking obvious that religious nutjobs promoting hate are exactly who Jesus disliked, and would call Pharisees.
Christianity in the Republican Party didn’t just destroy Republicans. It also enabled the rise of evangelicals who have driven away everyone else from churches. A corrupt bargain where (hopefully) they all get what they fucking deserve.
Your imaginary friend is mad, oh noes.
He’s so mad he’s going to continue to do nothing at all.
Church used to feast with their people like 120 days out of the year.
Now pastors buy jet planes and mock those that didn’t help them do it.
Make churches a place people want to share their lives and they will. otherwise we get enough teaching from how the profits look from here.
I’m Jewish and thus not an expert on Jesus, but from what I know if Biblical Jesus were to appear in the US today, the only reason he’d enter one of these churches would be to flip over some tables.
Progress is God punishing conservatives for being evil.
Bunch of fucktards.
I cannot believe how every day more insane shit comes out about him. Lying about his finances, homophobia/transphobia, it just keeps going
idk why Republicans are so upset at him, he seems to be their natural leader.
He did the thing you can’t do anymore, negotiate with “the enemy”
But maybe God told him to do it. Checkmate.
Still not crazy enough. They want to burn it all down now
They should get serious then. There’s almost always a George Carlin quote ready:
And you won’t see a lot of these pro-life people dousing themselves in kerosene and lighting themselves on fire. You know, morally committed religious people in South Vietnam knew how to stage a god damn demonstration, didn’t they? They knew how to put on a fucking protest. Light yourself on FIRE! Come on, you moral crusaders, let’s see a little smoke.
“Let’s see some smoke” is such a great line
“No not like that.”
I can help, though. I have matches.
If I had to invent a strawman to epitomize everything wrong with Republicans, it would not be as abhorrent as Mike Johnson because he’s fucked up in ways I haven’t even thought about.
I have to admit “Republican without a bank account” and “shares lack of porn activity with son” were not on my GOP bingo card.
“lack of”
ikr? I keep wondering when we’ll find out they both have secret porn devices.
I wonder if we could get a FOIA request on his office computer’s browsing activity.
Anybody volunteering to actually look at his porn searches? I’m a coward.
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… he’s fucked up in ways I haven’t even thought about.
because… you’re fairly normal. normal people don’t think like he does. Even modestly fucked up people don’t think like he does.
Maybe I missed something or maybe it’s just that I was raised evangelical but I haven’t been shocked by anything that’s come out about him. He’s pretty garden variety as far as beliefs they espouse, not that that makes them or him less horrible I’m just surprised others are surprised
It’s not that I’m surprised he has extreme views/beliefs. It’s just that most evangelicals know it’s time to tamp down the rhetoric when they get to that point.
In any case, I’m mostly just enjoying mocking the fuck out of him.
It’s entirely possible the demographics here on Lemmy lack solid representation from the cluster he hails from (specific religious groups, say… deep south out in the country babtists as an example, but I do not mean this to represent the majority of Christians there, because it most certainly does not). If you’ve spent time with these populations, little of his behavior is surprising (the bank account one is, though…).
Nah, even that doesn’t surprise me.
I was talking to a local preacher here the other day and I listened to him complain for a bit and I said, “Well, yeah. All we can do is obey the laws of the land bud.” as a kind of little jab.
His reply, “I obey just laws. I ain’t gonna go out and get gay married because it’s legal. I also ain’t handing over every dime they want from me so they can give all the local junkies free dope at the clinic. The lord don’t want me doing that. The lord wants me to obey and support just and holy laws.”
They take what they want from it and leave the rest haha.
Yet he probably completely ignores Trump’s repeated infidelity, abuse of contractors working for him, lying about everything under the sun, etc, and will still cast his vote for the “law and order president.” It’s all just willful ignorance bullshit, every bit of it.
Don’t forget his close association with child molesters/rapists.
Praze ba jeebuz
I mean… did you he wouldn’t have homophobia and transphobia?
Or maybe more people are thinking for themselves and not buying in to the BS.
That’s the rub, ain’t it. I understand that these religious world views are their reality, but more and more people are snapping out of it and coming into a more secular state, a common reality. But it is truly worrisome that there are these powerful wingnuts out there that are trying to claw us back into their reality, as if to say “you don’t know any better, I am a light of God and I will show you the path, whether you like it or not.” Motherfucke,r I don’t give a rat’s ass about your “christian” views and how I am somehow divinely mandated to oblige it because you say so. I guarantee that my morality is more Christian than yours, and that most of us just want to go about our lives in peace and not waging holy war against those who aren’t in lockstep with our views.
Fuckin A well said
Don’t even call it “their reality.” There is nothing objectively real about it.
Contrived reality, made of manufactured outrage.
Except in many countries, these guys seized power and kept it. Iran, Afghanistan… This is what’s happening in the US right now. If there’s no pushback hard, soon, I really don’t think you will still be a democracy in 10 years.
Trust me I know, and many of us are aware of the precarious situation we are in. The problem is that a significant chunk of the US are actively cheering them on and agree that the US are turning into a nation of “heretics,” and then there are probably a good 80% of the population that are successfully programmed to be triggered into hot-button topic debates that miss the big picture. I’m all for doing something, but no one can agree on what to do despite knowing something is wrong. Bread and circuses.
This is all very well said, I hadn’t replied yet and just wanted to acknowledge it.
All good man, much obliged.
I hope we can figure it out and achieve Star Trek future, it’s just curious how we’d pull ourselves out of the mess we’re currently consumed by.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Talking to pastor Jim Garlow on a broadcast of the World Prayer Network, Johnson spoke ominously of America facing a “civilizational moment.” He said, “The only question is: Is God going to allow our nation to enter a time of judgment for our collective sins?
NAR leaders embrace “dominionism,” the concept that Christians are supposed to rise and rule over “the nations,” in order to bring the globe into a biblical alignment, in preparation for the second coming of Jesus.
In 2008, he played a leading role in promoting the passage of Prop 8 — a California initiative, rooted in anti-gay bigotry that for a time outlawed same-sex marriages in the state.
And with the power of God and the global praying church behind you, you shall recover all that the enemies have stolen.” (Separately, Garlow was dismissing the ideology of the incoming Biden-Harris ticket as “anti-Christ, anti-Biblical to its core.”)
The early-morning event was attended by leading Charismatic figures like the Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn and former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, as well as more than a dozen members of Congress — including then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise.
The doleful day began with a bleat of a ram’s horn and introductory words from Garlow, who welcomed “Americans repenting for the sins of our nation.” Garlow then presented a stark warning, invoking two biblical kingdoms of Israel that he said squandered heavenly favor only to have God “take them out.” America, he suggested, was on that same path: “Present-day Americans do not consider the possibility that God could…” He stopped dramatically asking the assembly to “finish the sentence.”
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To think if this man hadn’t accepted a nomination for the speaker of the house we would have never known how wack-a-doodle the man is. So crazy he doesn’t even have a savings, checking or retirement account because he is so crazy and modest.
I just want to know where his congressional paycheck goes. Seems like a simple question for the press to ask and for him to answer.
He has been asked since he became speaker and instead of answering he talked about being a man of “modest means”. Everyone now knows he’s hiding something, and quite possibly broken the law a few times, so now we just wait. Either investigative journalism will give us the answers or a government inquiry will. Hopefully in the interim nothing bad happens.
Not just that, but who else is avoiding scrutiny by not being speaker? People missed everything about Santos until after the election, basically.
Firehose of bullshittery, complements of the GOP. It’s by design
not…everyone missed Santos. But they got Cassandra’d and nobody paid attention.
You sure? I remember journalists getting mad about the lack of local journalism that allowed him to come to power unchecked.
Separation of Church and State is just a myth right now. This is the problem right here, radicalized beliefs are dictating the governing in the country.
They believe “separation” is a misinterpretation or something.
Ssshh. They’re using their imagination.
Why does he care so much what kids identify as? its a little C R E E P Y
He certainly has been depraved, of fulfilling his dark fantasies since epstein got clocked out and the new ranch owners snuffed him, i bet.
He has to spend all his energy suppressing the urge to spank it to gay porn.
His wife is fairly concerned about how he’s been angry at his co-workers and staff lately… “This can’t be platonic or professional, or could it?”
But then again, there is probably no God so whatever.
Futurama: We are gathered here between one or more gods, or fewer…
Unfortunately, this particular god has a lot of followers who do actually exist and are very dangerous.
