House Speaker Mike Johnson challenged Pope Leo XIV’s understanding of Christian scripture on Tuesday...
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Motherfucker if you're going to spar with somebody over the Bible, you should probably pick somebody a little less knowledgeable then the fucking pontiff. It doesn't matter if your Catholic or not, that guy's got rank on you.
So excommunicate him. I'd buy popcorn to watch that fight.
Johnson isn't Catholic though, right? I mean, he could technically do it, but I think it would be shit-stirring. That's pretty anti-papal.
On the other hand, er haven't had a proper holy war involving the Vatican in a long, long time.
Excommunicate him!
Johnson is Southern Baptist. That's like Baptist but with extra racism sciencism and craziness
Imagine a cult. Now, imagine inside that cult another cult. And finally, inside that cult, imagine a group so crazy that the cult's cult said, "maybe you should go start a cult, we won't stop you as long as you leave us alone."
And believe it or not, that double-cult's cult often spawns cults that manage to actually get labeled as cults by governing entities.
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JD Vance is a Catholic convert.
Neither has an excuse to ignore the Bible, but Vance is doubly on the hook for his conversion of choice.
Idk about Johnson I think he might be protestant, seems evangelical to me, but a lot of these hardcore republicans fundamentalists are catholic.
The American Catholic Hierarchy is very very conservative, even as the Vatican is now progressive. It's an odd dynamic, the Catholics are very much in a struggle between, I don't want to say good, between less bad and more evil.
Johnson is part of the New Apostolic Reformation and is therefor “Baptist”
These people legitimately tried to go to the top of Mount Everest to kill Mary Magdalene, the “queen of ice” to bring Jesus to the Middle East, amongst other things.
Fucking nuts. I bet Johnson doesn't believe either, that he's just cynically going along for his own benefit, and playing the sheep.
Nah I’m pretty sure he’s a true believer. The basically believe with their “seven mountain mandate” that if they control the seven “mountains” (media, government, education, economy, religion, celebration, and family) they can bring about the rapture and the return of Jesus. After the apocalypse and all that.
Oh Jesus Christ that's right I recall reading something about that seven mountains last year. They aren't far off from that either. The return of angry jesus, not that woke new testament jesus, angry jesus promises to drown the world in lake so of blood and fire. That's not hyperbole either that's like verbatim these guys are fucking nuts.
Are baptists evangelicals? I think they are technically different but functionally kind of the same, or can be. They are 25% of the republican base in any case. That is why the president can seemingly do little wrong. They appreciate the degeneration to bring on said rapture and end of the world, which somehow is something they want to happen.
Me personally I oppose drowning the world in blood and fire.
That's crazy.
The theology of "burn it all down so God can destroy the bad ones and we good ones can get our reward from God" is childish, selfish and lazy. No wonder it's so popular compared to doing the kind of hard work Jesus did.
Protestant is a blanket term for the religions that broke away from the Catholic church after Martin Luther did his crazy tour of nailing shit to posts creating the Lutherans, and of course, the Anglicans broke away from the teachings of Cathol because their fat English king wanted divorces. Evangelicals are a whole other bag of crazy, but fall under the Protestant moniker. There are also the Bapists, the Methodists, the Stupidists and the Iamalwaysrightists.
When I was growing up, I went to Catholic school. It wasn't this fucking exclusionary. Hell, we had a gay nun who embraced science so fully and taught us what it meant to truly think for ourselves.
Thankfully, though, Catholic school made me realize that I'm a fucking atheist and the only thing that matters to me are how well people get treated and whether we are getting the basic necessities to live.
Yeah I read a bit about some of them, wish I still had the book The Reformation by William and Ariel Durant. I recall the anabaptists that often would have a little revolution in their town, establish like a communist type state with it's own government and church, they might lock the old leaders in one of those big like bird cage and put them up top over the gates to the city, pretty crazy stuff. The authorities obviously would come through and re-establish "order" after a bit. That was in the 16th century or so.
But it got bloody in the 30 years war in the late 1600s, drawing in almost all the powers of europe at one point or another. All for religion. Central Europe was particularly devastated.
Wait what? I thought the majority of them are evangelicals? Catholics are now around 20%. With almost 50% being protestant and evangelicals.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religious-landscape-study/party-affiliation/rep-lean-rep/
The majority of the crazy shit that's happening now is from the evangelical side, Catholics weren't much better but they at least didn't seem to go full on nazi like.
Biden was the 2nd Catholic to hold office, the other was Kennedy...both Democrats.
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Unfortunately, like so many of the batshit American right, he's a Baptist, so you might say the Pope has no jurisdiction here!
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If you feel driven to pick apart Johnson’s absurd claims, remember this quote by Satre, and that “anti-Semites” can replaced with any and all bigotry.
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
I feel like you could also put ‘fascists’ in place of ‘anti-Semites’ in this quote without losing meaning.
Yes, because he means fascists, sartre was a mid 20th century french philosopher
I felt maybe it was a potato/potato so thank you.
They say he reads the bible to the twinks before murdering them and burying them under his house.
Many people say. More and more.
He eats them up ... Ass first
The guy that goes to bat for a pedophile rapist every day has something to say about Christ's teachings?
3rd in line to the Presidency, famous for admitting he and his son talk to one another about their porn and masterbation habits, argues with the Pope about the bible.
American Christian applause
These American Christians really have a bug up their ass about the pope's understanding of Christianity. Surely a politician is a bigger expert on the topic than the fucking pope
I mean Mike Johnson does work for the saviour after all. Of course he knows more about the teachings of god.
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It’s weird when anyone quotes Leviticus (or any Old Testament verse) in the context of it directly applying to Christianity.
That’s not the text (or philosophy) Christians are asked to use by Christ. Think of it as a wild and lascivious prologue that’s supposed to prove Jesus was Christ. The prequel so to speak.
Note: am an atheist but considered a life in the church a long, long time ago.
Yeah. You vibe with the OT but not so much with the NT?
That's fine. Just be Jewish.
most published Bibles combine the two so I'm not surprised people get confused
Especially with how big the old testament is in comparison to the new testament
Two good pope's in a row.
Two "less than awful" popes in a row.
So just out of curiosity, is the Pope still allowed to excommunicate blasphemers?
It depends on if Jackass Johnson is Catholic or not.
Lay person challenges a Christian scholar, elected by other senior Christian scholars. Mind you, these same morons routinely do the same with PhD level scientists.
One of the more comical lines is "“America is the most benevolent nation in the world—by far."
And I thought it was bad when people tried to tell me how to do my job....
He references some "romans 13" verse and cherry-picks the hell out of it to shoe-horn his narrative.
Someone edit video of him and give him a growing Pinocchio nose.
Luke 6:31
I don't believe in heaven, but, if it exists, they won't be invited
Matthew 25:40
What you do to 🇲🇽Jesús, you do to ✝️Jesus
Finally Michael knows something and has an opinion about something and it’s this.
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