Not The Onion

11441 readers

2286 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

kescusay

1021

'Scripture is very clear': New House Speaker tells Congress God has 'ordained' them (www.alternet.org)

submitted 9 months ago by seaQueue to c/nottheonion

328 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, in his first remarks after being elected Wednesday afternoon, told Members of Congress that “Scripture” and “the Bible” are clear that they have been “ordained” by God.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] BeautifulMind 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

And here I thought it was pretty clear that the basis for his authority is the constitution, not in scripture.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

In the country where kids have to pledge allegiance to "one Nation under God" in school?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In the country where the constitution says there shall be no official state religion.

[–] jarfil 5 points 9 months ago

No official state religion... under God.

[–] macrocephalic 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When a conservative talks about God, just remember that money is his god.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

God is just a picture of that same conservative, with a beard and sitting in a cloud.

[–] bemenaker 3 points 9 months ago

Do any schools still do that? I guess maybe in the south. Ohio stopped doing it a long time ago.