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

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Unless my history lessons are evading me, your country was founded by deists running from fundamentalists.

[–] jarfil 42 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Fundamentalists running from people not letting them be as fundamentalist as they wanted.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Some of them, especially during the colonies founding, and especially up north. Jefferson, for example, was a deist though, which believes God (the one from the Bible) exists, but he doesn't interact with anything.

[–] orrk 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

only some of the people were fundamentalists running from people who didn't let them be fundamentalist, they also had a great many wars with the government because of it

[–] paintbucketholder 1 points 9 months ago

Anabaptists had an end-time cult, took over cities, instituted religious law, legalized polygamy for their leaders, and publicly beheaded their opponents. They were basically the ISIS of their day.

[–] Eldritch 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You're both right. Though the diests tended to be the ones more in the government itself. We had our fair share of fundamentalists to fundamental for back home.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

The sad part is that your constitution was considered groundbreaking for the time and some say it influenced the french revolution.

[–] RaoulDook 6 points 9 months ago

Yes the USA was founded by deists, after the fundamentalists had settled the frontier land. It's both basically.