“It’s clear, we’re heading for something and it seems sooner than ever now. The prophecies do say that Israel will be attacked from all sides, which seems like that’s happening now. And then it says that the Great Bear of the North and the great army from the East will also attack. “And I think …

I’ve got news for you, crackpot. The rapture already happened and you, the self-righteous, have been left behind with us, the great unbelieving. Let that sink in.

  • spaceghoti@lemmy.oneMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/19/mike-johnson-legal-filings-00127832

    So while Johnson’s legal career reflects decades of arguing for free speech and free expression of religion, it has consistently been for the same religion — and not evidently in furtherance of an even-handed legal principle that would protect all religions equally (in addition to the right to reject religion altogether). Johnson’s theory, summed up, appears to be what might be dubbed, “the First Amendment for me but not for thee.” As he has described it in his own words, “the founders wanted to protect the church from the encroaching state, not the other way around.”

    But only when that church is Christian.

    I repeat: you are not paying attention.