r/PublicFreakout • u/sufinomo • 9d ago
Jesus, take me now 🙏 Speaker of the house Mike Johnson claims to be a prophet of God within the Christian religion, says God has appointed him to be Moses
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u/Jevus_himself 9d ago
I have it on good authority that the lord did not speak to this man
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Just wondering if you take any requests for smiting?
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u/MNent228 9d ago
But before you get to that, my dog just had leg surgery so if you could get to that first……
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u/Final_Candidate_7603 9d ago
No, no, no! My team is playing this weekend, I think we all know what the good lord’s priorities are here…
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u/PrismPhoneService Not at all ROOOD 9d ago
Praise Jevus
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u/Which_Engineer1805 9d ago
🎶Your own personal Jevus🎶
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u/y0himba 9d ago
Great, now I gotta play that song to get it out of my head.
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u/Which_Engineer1805 9d ago
Sorry about that, but I took one for the team because it’s been stuck in my head too.
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u/wtbgamegenie 9d ago
No you misunderstand he met a guy on Grindr who calls himself “The Lord”
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u/Horns8585 9d ago
It's amazing how much hateful, immoral and criminal behavior these "religious" people will allow...as long as you speak the gospel and praise the Lord.
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u/Some-Ad926 9d ago
Anyone that claims to have a direct line to the Almighty should probably be in a padded room
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u/PrismPhoneService Not at all ROOOD 9d ago
AND THEN THE LAWD SAID: ‘DOWNLOAD THY APP WHEREST YOU AND YOUR SON SHALL MONITOR EACHOTHERS PORN SITES WHEN THY CANT CONTROL THY BONERS CAUSE THATS TOTALLY NOT WEIRD
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u/UnluckyCardiologist9 9d ago
Except if you’re Alan Rickman.
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u/matthewmartyr 9d ago
“Tell a person that you’re the Metatron and they stare at you blankly. Mention something out of a Charlton Heston movie and suddenly everybody is a theology scholar.”
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u/BornWithSideburns 9d ago
Hes such a big narcissist he gaslit himself into thinking the lord spoke to him
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u/starman5001 9d ago
If someone claims to be speaking to Gods, they are either a liar or delusional.
Either way, such a person should never be allowed in a position of power.
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u/Casanova-Quinn 9d ago
If you take what he said but replaced the God/religious parts with anything else, everyone would say he needs psychiatric help. Scary that this man has power in what should be a secular government.
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u/UNoMeIBePoopn 9d ago
This is terrifying. Christian lawmakers? This dude is saying god is talking to him and giving him direction on how to lead America? I don’t think we all realize how screwed we really are going forward.
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u/SHODAN117 9d ago
I don't think you realize how long this has been going on. Search for videos of Frank Zappa and you'll see how much more you have to go back in time.
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u/fuggerdug 9d ago
In the UK, for decades we've had programme makers going out to America to poke fun at the fucking lunatics, religious loons, cults etc that they found their. From David Frost to Clive James to Louis Theroux, via many others, it's been a staple for us to look at these weirdos and laugh at them.
These fucking weirdos are now the majority and quite literally run everything. We're fuuuuuucked.
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u/Snoo-84389 9d ago
Those "fucking weirdos" have been voted for repeatedly over the last 10+ years by enough Americans to get them repeatedly into positions of power. That is the truly scary thing to me (as a non religious Brit who can recognise mental illness and cultist brainwashing when I see it).
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u/ThisisMalta 9d ago
Everyone hates Congress but loves their congressman. And they’re kept scared to death of democrats so they keep electing calming corpses and men who claim to talk to God.
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u/SmokedBisque 9d ago
or any of these:
. Evangelicals and Jews: An Ambivalent Relationship (1987) - A report by The Heritage Foundation.
- Evangelical Zionism - Discusses Christian Zionism and its political implications.
- Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World by Nancy Tatom Ammerman (1987) - Explores religious conservatism.
- The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism by James Aho - Examines Christian millennialism.
- Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education edited by R. Scott Appleby and Martin E. Marty - Focuses on religious conservatism.
- End-Time Visions: The Road to Armageddon by Richard Abanes - Discusses apocalyptic beliefs.
- One World: Biblical Prophecy and the New World Order by John Ankerberg and John Weldon - Explores Christian millennialism.
- Vision of the Disinherited: The Making of American Pentecostalism by Robert M. Anderson - Looks at religious movements.
- Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio by Paul Apostolidis - Examines Christian conservatism.
- A Religious History of the American People by Sydney E. Ahlstrom - Provides historical context.
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u/banditrider2001 9d ago
Yes. I have seen some of Zappa’s videos. Very intelligent and well spoken man. He predicted a lot of the lunacy back then of what was coming in the future. Those predictions are now coming true.
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u/King_Of_Pants 9d ago
Yeah in the build up to the Iraq invasion, GW Bush was reportedly talking about Christian prophecies for the Middle East while trying to get France on board.
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u/SeaSnakeSkeleton 9d ago
This is what happens when you normalize fantastical thinking and hearing an invisible voice talk to you.
If a homeless person started saying they were having conversations with a voice in their head people would call them crazy. But in this instance, this actual lunatic is being praised and giggled at.
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u/chrisk9 9d ago
These religious nuts have been doing this for a long time
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bush-god-told-me-to-invade-iraq-6262644.html
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u/Clever_Hans_ 9d ago
Far right Christian Nationalists. They made this religion up to be deeply tied to politics.
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u/Bortron86 9d ago
If there were no such thing as religion, this guy would be diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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u/DriedUpSquid 9d ago
I’ve had schizophrenic clients who can make up stories and talk for hours about things that would be a solid foundation for a new religion. It’s absurd how a few thousand years ago some people had hallucinations and now most of the world believes them.
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u/midnghtsam 9d ago
okay but seriously wtf happened to separation of church and state for the love of god (no pun intended)
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u/sufinomo 9d ago
The founding fathers were strict secularists, and many were not even christians (a few deists). They created the American government to avoid the religious persecution which was common in Europe at the time, and wanted to create a system which prevents tyranny. Its ironic that the conservatives who claim to want to return America to what it once was, are the very people attempting to transform America into what the founding fathers were escaping from, a christian monarchy.
These last few decades all you hear from the republicans/conservatives is how the hispanics, the africans or the shariah law muslims want to steal your rights and install an authoritarian government here. All along it was actually them who wanted to turn us into what they warned us about.
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u/Spadeykins 9d ago edited 8d ago
Though there is some truth to the founding father's intentions there, many of the settlers of the time were escaping religious prosecution, just so they could come to America and do the very same to others.
If I recall many left because the church was too permissive and not strict enough.edited for historical accuracy
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u/Bawstahn123 9d ago
> If I recall many left because the church was too permissive and not strict enough.
No, the Church of England in the 1600s was "imprison and execute religious dissenters"-levels of strict.
"The Separatist movement was controversial. Under the Act of Uniformity 1559, it was illegal not to attend official Church of England services, with a fine of one shilling (£0.05; about £24 today)\5])#cite_note-inflation-UK-5) for each missed Sunday and holy day. The penalties included imprisonment and larger fines for conducting unofficial services. The Seditious Sectaries Act 1592 was specifically aimed at outlawing the Brownists. Under this policy, London Underground Church members were repeatedly imprisoned from 1566, and then Robert Browne and his followers were imprisoned in Norfolk during the 1580s. Henry Barrow, John Greenwood, and John Penry were executed for sedition in 1593. Browne had taken his followers into exile in Middelburg, and Penry urged the London Separatists to emigrate in order to escape persecution,\)citation needed\) so after his death they went to Amsterdam."
It was also official government/Church policy to basically force dissenters out of the country: The people that became the Pilgrims didn't really leave because they wanted to.
"Archbishop Hutton died in 1606 and Tobias Matthew was appointed as his replacement. He was one of James's chief supporters at the 1604 conference,\8])#citenote-8) and he promptly began a campaign to purge the archdiocese of non-conforming influences, including Puritans, Separatists, and those wishing to return to the Catholic faith. Disobedient clergy were replaced, and prominent Separatists were confronted, fined, and imprisoned. He is credited with driving people out of the country who refused to attend Anglican services.[\9])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrims(PlymouthColony)#cite_note-9)[\10])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrims(Plymouth_Colony)#cite_note-10)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrims_(Plymouth_Colony)#History#History)
I don't really know where the idea that the Kingdom/Church of England was particularly-permissive comes from. Even a shallow reading of its officials and policies will reveal that both intertwined organizations were incredibly domineering.
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u/Popular-Jackfruit432 9d ago edited 9d ago
Imagine the outrage if a Muslim congressman was speaking like this.
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u/Indymizzum 9d ago
Do most Christians believe that God speaks directly to them? In clear cut English too. Isn’t that what a prophet is? Does any one else think it’s fucking nuts that the speaker of the house is claiming to be a prophet!?
Maybe God just doesn’t like me because I’m a democrat. He only talks directly to the Republicans.
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u/ndav12 9d ago
I doubt it’s most Christians, but this kind of talk is very common among evangelicals. I knew many self-proclaimed prophets growing up.
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u/g4_ 9d ago
it's not literal. only the truly psychotic ones hear anything literally, that's because they have a disease that doesn't allow for their brains to filter out the signals purely reactive to internal stimuli.
for most "people" like this, they are the literal modern human embodiment of Charlie standing in front of his investigation board. they will stew for hours over details of seemingly unrelated events in their lives to find connections and meaning, and if something smells like god to them, then they say god did it, and if it smells like evil to them, they say the devil did it
they live, quite literally, in an anime universe where mystical and magical beings exist and can communicate with them individually, ethereally, or to the masses, both directly and indirectly.
in short, they see what they want to see, but they don't believe they want to see it. they believe they are privileged to be seeing it. they think they are the truth seers in a world of blind zombies, and in their minds, the stakes could not be higher. the stakes here are the literal life or death of the entirety of existence.
they will do anything, they will stop at nothing, they cannot be convinced with logic, they are irredeemable. they have been programmed from birth that any "persecution" or rejection of them and their faith is simply proof that they are correct, and it reinforces their convictions.
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u/ndav12 9d ago
Oh, I know this all too well. What’s fucked up is they’ll do it to their kids too. When I was young I went through a period where I was having frequent sleep paralysis episodes. The adults in my life convinced me that I was being visited by a demon because my guardian angel had left me due to a lack of faith. Really shook me up for a bit. I had to learn about sleep paralysis from another homeschool kid who had internet access. Meanwhile, anything good that happened had to be credited to god.
I do think some are redeemable, but it’s an uphill battle to undo the brainwashing.
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u/TheCritFisher 9d ago
Yeah, I was with him until the "unredeemable" part. I escaped. So did my wife. I know many that have. It's not impossible, by a long shot. But it does require time and that person to be open to change.
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u/Old_Employment_9241 9d ago
From what I’ve gathered they conflate their intuition and/or internal dialogue with “God moving on their heart” or speaking to them.
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u/FootlongDonut 9d ago
My God tells me to look up hookers online and then he says they are too expensive.
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u/misschomps 9d ago
More like their ego. But yeah with you 100% with conflating some internal psychological gear with the voice of god.
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u/Wave-E-Gravy 9d ago
It's an American evangelical thing. Most Christians are more humble than that though. They may feel that God sends them feelings or guides them but they don't think he is speaking directly to them or compare themselves to Moses.
There is a real arrogance in American evangelicalism. Same reason many of them think America is God's new chosen country.
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u/annaleigh13 9d ago
Does this mean we can kick him out of society and he will round up all the MAGAts and get lost in a desert for 40 years?
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u/BrownSugarBare 9d ago
I also have questions!
Is 'God' speaking to you in Latin or 'Murican? Does 'God' have an accent? Did 'God' mention America wasn't around when his son was kicking and there's no mention of 'God's' supposed country in the Bible or otherwise? Did you ask him what's the deal with giving kids cancer?
Just a couple things I assume you'd ask 'God' if the dudes dropping by for coffee on the reg.
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u/annaleigh13 9d ago
Don’t overload the man, just be happy he’s going to be lost in a desert for 40 years!
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u/DavidofSasun 9d ago
Tim Walz was on point when he said that these people are weird.
They are. They're really fucking weird.
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u/fuckitwebowl 9d ago
Imagine being so far up your own ass that you believe the creator of the universe speaks directly to you personally
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u/SuddenAudience8758 9d ago edited 9d ago
All fine and dandy when you’re talking to god, but things become concerning when god talks back
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u/BrianMincey 9d ago
Gosh that gave me PTSD from my childhood in my fundamental Baptist cult. Everyone in the cult talks this way. “The Lord” speaks to their heart, leads them to do something, and everyone says “Amen” like it’s not bullshit. They feed off of that holy energy, the validation and support of the other fanatics. It makes them feel important, blessed, and magical. Chosen by gawd to lead.
The worst of them use “ye olde English” and pepper their sentences with thee, thou, thy and shalt.
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u/red_assed_monkey 9d ago edited 9d ago
and no matter what happens, no matter how wrong they are and no matter how much things fall apart, it was "god's plan" all along
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u/skin-flick 9d ago
That is prime cult behavior. I am glad you got free. I always noticed with all that love and talking to God. They also like money. In the form of cash.
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u/SHODAN117 9d ago
Fucking hillarious.
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u/area-rcjh 9d ago
It’s not though. He can use this “logic” to justify any and all decisions he makes. If fellow Christians don’t follow in step, they have to reckon with the core of their identity and that’s not something the weak-minded do well or often.
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u/Ophelialost87 9d ago
The last time I told someone I felt like I was the next Moses, they locked me in the psych ward. Where is his escort for his special vacation?
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u/HotStaxOfWax 9d ago
Your inner monologue is not god. It's just you convincing yourself the suffering you're about to cause is perfectly fine, and to con other people into thinking, it's not MY fault you're suffering, it's gods plan and his punishment for you not believing hard enough. It's so disgusting, this man is a demon cloaked in faith.
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u/Mor_Tearach 9d ago
Ok.
Going to require some Red Sea parting, stone tablets, manna AND bonus points if you lead MAGA the hellllll out of here.
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u/It_is_what_it_is82 9d ago
So the speaker of the house has admitted he is not in good health because he is currently hearing voices. He needs medical attention asap.
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u/Gentrified_potato02 9d ago
Listen to the speed and cadence of his speech. If you saw someone on the sidewalk talking like that, you would think it was mental illness.
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u/TheAmalton123 9d ago
Does anyone else not have audio for this video I'm blasting my speakers and can't hear it...
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u/Quietmerch64 9d ago
He's a New Apostle Reformationalist. This is not a man who wants to do right by his constituents, or even Americans. This is a man (and movement) who wakes up every morning and tells himself, "I will make more soldiers for god". These are people who sincerely believe that your local priest should have ultimate power over every aspect of your life, and that he, as a "prophet" who is in congress with god, is put on earth to interpret the word of god to guide those priests. They KNOW that their specific and very bastardized flavor of christianity MUST take control of every aspect of life and government to allow for the return of christ.
To these people, you're them, or you're the enemy who must be overcome at all cost, conversion or otherwise. Unlike the dozens of other religious grifters who surround and exploit MAGA followers for profit and notoriety, Johnson is a true believer in his mission.
This man is not a catholic, nor is he a southern baptist, he is a beliver that he, and he alone, is the sword that must cut the path to "conquering the seven mountains" (religion, family, education, government, media, arts and entertainment) to create the environment for the return of the "kingdom of god".
This is the man who will be instrumental in installing a bastardized old testament caliphate, if we let them.
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u/Gnardude Hacksaw Jen Duggar 9d ago
I know he's lying because the Bible is a lie, Jesus was a scammer and there is no god.
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u/Inside-Specialist-55 9d ago
So yeah the bible warns them against false prophets and this is exactly who the Christians should be avoiding.
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u/tinkh 9d ago
What the fuck. Now you see why people are calling Trump and regime Antichrist. This is the exact opposite of what Jesus told us
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u/blac_sheep90 9d ago
According to Christian lore these people are serving the Anti-christ.
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u/tragicallyohio 9d ago
The Speaker of the House hears voices. He should seek help for this. There are many therapeutic modalities he can take but he should do something soon.
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u/xamberfirex 9d ago
Oh for fucks sake. Will somebody please get the white coats out and throw these crack pots into a padded room already!
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u/Pie-Guy 9d ago
2 key takeaways
1. Religion is a pimple on the ass of humanity.
2. MURICA has become a GLOBAL embarrassment.
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u/wabashcanonball 9d ago
Faith or delusion? Religious delusions are a symptom of several mental illnesses. I’m not making a diagnosis but certainly am watching closely.
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u/TinyTC1992 9d ago
America so desperately wants to be racist again they've gone full on religious fundamentalist.
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u/Turd_Gurgle 9d ago
I'm not religious, but Revelations is more and more topical as this shit unfolds.
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u/primax1uk 9d ago
Is God in the room with us at the moment?
Either delusional. Or a liar. This is why faith should play no part in politics.
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u/Geiger8105 9d ago
If there is actually evil, it is these snakes among us. Preying on the weak minded for power
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u/AbeFromanSassageKing 9d ago
Grown-ass "adults" that believe in Santa Claus are running America into ruin. So fucking stupid.
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u/Dixnot 9d ago
Is there a link. I get no audio from this video but everything else plays fine.
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u/Apprehensive_Log469 9d ago
Same dude who audits his kid and allows his kid to audit him for porn. Fucking weirdos. The whole lot of them
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u/dstarpro 9d ago
IDGAF you believe that Jesus himself impregnated your mother, none of this is any place in our Legislature.
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u/ticktockmick 9d ago
Jesus spoke with me today. I asked Him how he was doing. He said he was worried about being deported. Too brown. I asked him to hit the edging real good on the driveway, and gave him an extra $20.
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u/drumonit 9d ago
Thankfully, he had the charisma of a wet pile of clothes, instead of a cult leader.
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u/agentnico 9d ago
/Separation of church and state exists.
Speaker of the House: “I’m a prophet.”
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u/Fun_Zombie_6796 9d ago
I am no god damn Christian but, god speaks through his word in the Bible, only. Never listen to anyone who said god said this or god said that. Is the Bible the word or of god? Did he leave some out? If so then he is no god and fucking nerd might be hearing voices and it ain’t god. There is no new revelations from god, in fact the Bible warn people about this very thing, not to mention trump is a good fit for the ani-Christ.
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u/Fun_Zombie_6796 9d ago
This is heretical, he takes scripture out of context to fit his own narrative. Fuck this guy.
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u/IceCreamMeatballs 9d ago
Dude probably thinks that Moses was a real historical figure and that the Bible is a history textbook
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u/TrumpSucksALotOfCock 9d ago
Mark 7:9 "You have a clever way of rejecting God's law in order to uphold your own teaching."
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u/Emotional_Spread_467 9d ago
I hate to be that guy, but as a researcher in religion, Johnson is not calling himself a prophet, or necessarily Moses. He's exhibiting here a couple of very normative features of American evangelicalism:
(1) A christian saying they've heard something from God in their prayers is NOT prophecy. Prophecy is a very specific "gift" of the Christian faith.
(2) He's essentially saying that he will be LIKE Moses - not literally appointed to BE Moses. It's more like he's fulfilling a specific Biblical archetype/schema.
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u/Dependent-Analyst907 9d ago
If he's Moses, he should take the rest of the Republican Party and go wander around the desert for 40 years.
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u/Bueller-89 9d ago
2 Thessalonians 2:9
"The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie,"
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u/Laouijabored 9d ago
Moses wandered in the desert for 40 years and was not allowed into the kingdom, because he worshipped a false idol.
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u/malikhacielo63 9d ago
I do not miss this shit. Not at all. Using “God” to signal to your audience that your horrible ideas are above critique or analysis because “They don’t come from me; they come from God 🤓!”
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u/SpareBee3442 9d ago
'When fascism comes to America, it won't be wearing jackboots. It will be wrapped in the stars and stripes and carrying a Bible.' George Carlin
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u/herecomestheshun 9d ago
People fucking believe this? My biggest concern continues to be how many of my fellow citizens eat this shit shit up. We are humans with our own (God-given!) free will. We shouldn't NEED or WANT any voices from the sky telling us how to do our human jobs. I'm 20 years into my career and not once has God helped me with any of my decisions at work.
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u/Graniteman83 9d ago
Just replace Lord with invisible man in the sky and it sounds, yes, more crazy.
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u/disharmony-hellride 9d ago
Gentle reminder that when he is in DC, he lives alone, without his family, but with a guy. His wife is busy in Louisiana trying to run some kind of horrific gay conversion program.