Just for fun, here’s the classic “you’re gonna need a bigger boat” clips from Jaws.
Messiah Mike isn’t a trending hashtage on X, but perhaps it should be. I am doing my bit here. The new Speaker believes he’s on a mission from God. He might actually approve of being called Messiah Mike.
We are learning a lot about the new Pope of the House, Mike Johnson, and his beliefs about God, Country, and I suppose next we’ll discover some wierd conviction about apple pie (read article).
The following story about his Noah’s Ark belief led me to write this blog :
He also is in something called a covenant marriage, a “thing” apparently unique to Louisiana which suggests that the mere marriage vows which the godly promise to God, to love, honor, and cherish in sickness and in health until death which hetereosexual couples say aren’t good enough. The new Speaker is is in a ‘covenant marriage,’ a religiously-influenced legal agreement that makes it hard to get a divorce (read article from Buinsess Insider).
Under Louisiana state law, couples sign a document in which they agree to seek marital counseling before getting a divorce. Additionally, couples can only get divorced on a limited set of grounds, including for adultery, if one partner committed a felony or faces imprisonment, or physical or sexual abuse.
This Godly goober may have thought the toughest tasks he’d have to deal with in his first month would be dealing with a government shutdown and George Santos being charged with 10 addtional crimes.
Now I wonder if he’s heavy duty into prayer asking for Divine guidance on how to deal with questions about whether to push for gun legislation in view of the Maine shooting. So far all we’ve had from him when asked about this is what Joe Scarboro just called a “cowardly copout” on Morning Joe. When asked, he said the problem is the human heart, not gun control (article).
“At the end of the day, the problem is the human heart. It’s not guns. It’s not the weapons. At the end of the day, we have to protect the right of the citizens to protect themselves, and that’s the Second Amendment. And that’s why our party stands so strongly for that… This is not the time to be talking about legislation. We’re in the middle of that crisis right now.”
Consider this revelation: ‘Lunatic’ Speaker Mike Johnson blasted for tying mass shootings to teaching evolution (RawStory).
Of course by now we know that Johnson was the main mover and shaker when it came to trying to keep Donald Trump in power. We also have seen so many images of Trump the warrior in phallic flags like this:
And then there’s the conflation of God, guns, and for good measure, guts:
As for Trump, who had the final say as to who the new Speaker would be, I wonder whether he knew that he wasn’t merely ordaining someone what was super-ultra-MAGA, but was also giving the Speaker’s gavel (and Papal ferula – scroll over or click) to a religious zealot who believed that Noah’s Ark was real and that men like him shouldn’t trade their wives in for newer models (who used to be models) like cars they can trade in when they have too many miles on them.
Assume for the sake of argument that one beleives in Noah’s Ark, and many do, does this mean they also believe in the Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis. Consider why God decided to flood the earth:
Ten generations after the creation of Adam, God saw that the earth was corrupt and filled with violence, and he decided to destroy what he had created. But God found one righteous man, Noah, and to him he confided his intention: “I am about to bring on the Flood … to eliminate everywhere all flesh in which there is the breath of life … .”
Wikipedia decribes this as follows:
(It) is a Hebrew flood myth.[1] It tells of God’s decision to return the universe to its pre-creation state of watery chaos and remake it through the microcosm of Noah’s ark.[2]
The Book of Genesis was probably composed around the 5th century BCE,[3] although some scholars believe that Primeval history (chapters 1–11), including the flood narrative, may have been composed and added as late as the 3rd century BCE.[4] It draws on two sources, called the Priestly source and the non-Priestly or Yahwist,[5] and although many of its details are contradictory,[6] the story forms a unified whole.[7]
A global flood as described in this myth is inconsistent with the physical findings of geology, archeology, paleontology, and the global distribution of species.[8][9][10] A branch of creationismknown as flood geology is a pseudoscientific attempt to argue that such a global flood actually occurred.[11] Some Christians have preferred to interpret the narrative as describing a local flood, instead of a global event.[12]
God decided that Earth was corrupt and filled with violence.
Can any objective person not look at what humans have wrought on the planet and not see their handiwork as corrupt and violent?
If there’s a God with the power that people like Mike Johnson believes Him to possess he’s going to need a much bigger ark than the one He instructed Noah to build to reboot the planet. It will have to be better designed and bigger than this still unnamed cruise ship which is currently being built (read story).
Related article from Politico Magazine:
‘He (Mike Johnson) Seems to Be Saying His Commitment Is to Minority Rule’
Here’s the archive. It includes all the posts since I moved my blogs to WordPress.
And thern there’s this:
Mike Johnson once agreed to speak at ‘Kill the Gays’ pastor’s conference
Excerpt:
He’s now the most powerful elected Republican in the nation, second in line to the presidency, and the third most-powerful elected official, but just five years ago Mike Johnson was a freshman U.S. Rep. from Louisiana who had made a name for himself as an attorney fighting for far-right Christian causes.
In 2018, U.S. Rep. Johnson was scheduled to deliver the keynote speech at a Bible conference hosted by infamous “Kill the Gays” Pastor Kevin Swanson.
Swanson, who supported Uganda’s “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” that called for LGBTQ people to be executed or face life in prison, made headlines in 2015 for saying gay people should be put to death.
This is Pastor Swanson:
‘Kill the Gays’ Pastor Suggests Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Is Demonically Possessed and ‘Needs Jesus’
By Kyle Mantyla – Right Wing Watch
December 17, 2019 at 06:09 PM ET
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