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Mike Johnson: God Chose Me To Be America's "Moses" - Joe.My.God. (www.joemygod.com)

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“I’ll tell you a secret, since media is not here. Thank you for not allowing the media in. Look, I’m a Southern Baptist, I don’t wanna get too spooky on you, But, you know, the Lord speaks to your heart.

“The Lord began to wake me up, through this three-week process, in the middle of night to speak to me. The Lord impressed upon my heart a few weeks before this happened that something was going to occur.

“And the Lord very specifically told me in my prayers to prepare, but to wait. At the time, I assumed the Lord was going to choose a new Moses and thank you, Lord, you’re going to allow me to be Aaron to Moses.

“I had this sense that we were going to come to a Red Sea moment in our Republican conference and in the county at large. God had been speaking to me about this, and the Lord told me very clearly to prepare and be ready.

“Ultimately 13 people ran for the post. And the Lord kept telling me to, ‘Wait, wait, wait.’ So I waited, I waited. And then at the end the Lord said, ‘Now step forward.’

“Me? I’m supposed to be Aaron. ‘No,’ the Lord said, ‘Step forward.’” – Mike Johnson, speaking last night to the far-right National Association of Christian Lawmakers.

This man is a true believer. True believers do not compromise anything that goes against what they believe their religion tells them. This man is far more dangerous than Donald Trump, who is simply a grifter and was in it for himself. This guy thinks the gods have ordained him. Anybody who stands against him is going against God, in his own mind.

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[-] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 92 points 6 months ago

“Sometimes when I want to do something, I get really quiet, and in the stillness, I hear that voice inside of me that always says ‘Do whatever you want. It’s always justified.’”

[-] AnxiousOtter@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

That's fucking crazy. I don't mean that in a funny way, I mean that it sounds like he has schizophrenia.

[-] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 months ago

In the 5th year of his reign, Pharaoh Amenhotep IV had an epiphany— the sun god, Aten, had chosen him as his personal vessel on earth, and he, of course, changed the state religion to Atenism, and devoted his life (and drove everybody crazy) talking about the goddamned Aten all the time. (The Aten, I hope is really clear, obviously doesn’t exist, since this is like 2500 years ago and it’s not like the sun god is exacting his revenge on our planet by cooking it.)

Anyway, that asshole was erased from history because he was a legendary pain in the ass, but at least he’d grown up in a world where everyone, from the day he was born, told him he was a special prince destined to rule the world.

Where Mike fucking Johnson gets off with that level of delusion, I cannot say.

[-] Archer@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

it’s not like the sun god is exacting his revenge on our planet by cooking it

Hate to be that guy, but that is going to happen in a few billion years

[-] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

If we keep up our economic growth we will definitely have ruined our star well before it has a chance to eat us.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

There is nothing new under the sun

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