House Speaker Mike Johnson challenged Pope Leo XIV’s understanding of Christian scripture on Tuesday...
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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
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.
I mean Mike Johnson does work for the saviour after all. Of course he knows more about the teachings of god.
/s
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
The guy that goes to bat for a pedophile rapist every day has something to say about Christ's teachings?
Two good pope's in a row.
Two "less than awful" popes in a row.
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.
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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.
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
Yeah. You vibe with the OT but not so much with the NT?
That's fine. Just be Jewish.
He references some "romans 13" verse and cherry-picks the hell out of it to shoe-horn his narrative.
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."
So just out of curiosity, is the Pope still allowed to excommunicate blasphemers?
It depends on if Jackass Johnson is Catholic or not.
pfft, god is woke, I knew it.
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.
Someone edit video of him and give him a growing Pinocchio nose.
And I thought it was bad when people tried to tell me how to do my job....
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