I"ll just drop this here without comment

[AverageOldGuy]

[displacedvermoter]

1. But does he speak in tongues and hate gay men and women?

[Vinca]

14. And snakes. He's got to love snakes.

[walkingman]

2. Speaker Johnson is an example of the ignorance and hypocrisy that permeates the white evangelical church..

[OMGWTF]

22. You forgot arrogance -- they are steeped in it.

[travelingthrulife]

54. Yes, their arrogance is what gets me. They know nothing about their own religion

and bible yet they consider themselves experts on everything.

[PJMcK]

31. The evangelical church

Their adherents are in for the shock of their lives when they die.

[mwmisses4289]

3. Whatever mj is, christian ain't one of them!

[dlilafae]

4. Aog, Cool meme/factoid

I was just listening to the MeidasTouch podcast and they were referencing the same...

[Joinfortmill]

5. Johnson is a Lemming.

[Figarosmom]

6. I doubt johnson has the brain cells

To understand the irony.

[Aviation Pro]

7. Micro Penis Mike Johnson

Lifts his head up from servicing the child raping bag 'o fuck's taint long enough to say something stupid.

That's Micro Penis Mike Johnson.

[cachukis]

8. Do remember, Augustine also opined that sex was

only for procreation.

[Wednesdays]

12. Somehow, that makes Mike Johnson right?

I don't get the connection.

[cachukis]

17. Oh, not at all. Just that using prominent theologians

is a tricky business, for all of them.

[GenThePerservering]

19. This isn't about procreation

it's about Johnson's ignorance of the augustinian concept of 'just war.'

[cachukis]

30. Did Jesus speak of a just war?

[Ray Bruns]

9. Mike Johnson ladies and gentlemen.

[Mblaze]

11. Trump is training them to do that

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But they are a little long in the tooth and you can't teach an old scrotum new tricks.

[BComplex]

37. Someone please tell me that we're running a great democrat against him for this seat

in November!!!????
Please

[Mblaze]

10. I'm not sure that Jesus Christ

Would understand the Just War Doctrine. I can hear him now saying, "What did I just tell you"?

Martin Luther King Jr. was in a just war and followed the directives of Jesus by being non-violent. It worked. Do you think that it would have worked if he had been violent?

[PatrickforB]

39. Ah, the Civil Rights movement was in fact just, but that is not what 'just war' is referring to.

In the Just War theory, Christians are justified in going to war if the enemy has conducted an unprovoked attack. So, using that definition, we can look back on history and find very few 'just' wars.

Most of the time, when we speak of wars fought under the auspices of religion, it has been a bunch of people who are so very, very certain their religious dogma is correct and everyone else's is wrong that they are willing to kill those who disagree. Often in millions. Examples of that include the wars in Europe over the doctrine of transubstantiation - these happy little conflicts killed 12 million people over forty years.

We also have the crusades, where we had to get a bunch of people together and retake the Holy Land. We can also add the genocide of the Conquistadores against the Aztecs, Maya, Inca and other central and south American civilizations, and the north American genocide against the indiginous tribes on that continent. Millions died.

In fact, try as I might, there are only a few wars we could consider 'just.' In the twentieth century, the Second World War was just because the Axis countries were invading other countries right and left, and Japan attacked us at Pearl Harbor. Of course, there is the nagging little fact that our oil embargo against the Japanese Empire had a causal relationship with the attack at Pearl Harbor. Still, all things considered, we were justified in facing off against the Axis and it took 60 million lives to get rid of Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo and the rest of the fascists.

And Korea - the forgotten war counts. North Korea invaded South Korea and that was unprovoked. China and the USSR treated it as a proxy war, backing N. Korea, and we let an international coalition to preserve the independence of S. Korea. But we did not fight to win because of the nuclear threat.

'Nam was fought by our kids at the behest of the Military Industrial Complex, which arguably took over this country with the assassination of JFK and the MIC crazies convincing LBJ to send 500,000 of our people over there. They wanted to increase PROFITS from arms production and sales. Wall Street roared! In the meantime, America lost 58,000 people and 3.2 million Vietnamese were killed. We had an anti-war movement and riots that nearly tore the republic apart. But Wall Street and the MIC did GREAT! They sold our government $158 billion in death toys, which would amount to nearly a trillion USD now.

The forever wars were fought as a result of a terrorist act that created a shadow war against an invisible enemy. This war could have been won...economically, but never militarily. Unjust.

And this war in Iran? Unjust.

[Mblaze]

42. Thanks

I do understand the concept of a Just War even though my comparison might not reflect the original intention (although it has all of the requisite criteria except for being declared by a competent authority). After all, slavery was still prevalent when Augustine et. al. and civil rights were in question back then as well.

I believe the non-violent revolt against the Raj by Gandhi is another great example of a "war" that Jesus would approve.

[PatrickforB]

44. Yes, Mahatma Gandhi - those were righteous movements. And I do agree with you. n/t

[blubunyip]

49. "death toys"

need to be used. Let's see, who would Jesus bomb?

I think Jesus believed we could and should get beyond mass killings.

One day.

[LeftinOH]

13. Mike is an evangelical American Xtian. They have no use for Catholics.

It's odd that so many conservative Catholics don't understand the level of contempt that the religious right holds for them.

[Wiz Imp]

38. Actually, they have no use for Jesus.

[The Wizard]

45. I've heard Christian nationalists call Catholics

Mary worshipers .

[Martin68]

15. MAGAts are morons.

[FakeNoose]

16. Saint Augustine, AKA Augustine of Hippo

Wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo

He's not only a Saint in the Roman Catholic church, but also recognized in the Lutheran, Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Christian churches as a saintly and highly-educated leader of the early Christians.

Wikipedia tells the interesting story of his life. The reason this is pertinent is that Pope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) decided at a young age to study for the priesthood and eventually join the order of Augustinians.

[haele]

29. Also, I doubt Augustine was as pale as he is in the Wiki picture

He was born in Algeria. While it's a Mediterranean country, it's a Southern Mediterranean Country...
The guy in the pic looks like he came from Cologne or maybe Brussels...

[3catwoman3]

20. Mike Johnson makes my skin crawl.

[BComplex]

36. Oh mine, too! What a slimy weasel!

Where do the republicans even find these total sick-in-the-head-and-don't-know-it creeps?

[OhioBack2Blue]

46. They train them just like Mossad, CIA or FSB...

...no I'm not kidding...they are playing the long game against us. We are way behind.

[displacedvermoter]

43. As I said last week

Even Jim "Jacket Free" Jordan isn't as skeavy as Johnson

[calimary]

48. You're not alone. Not by a long shot!

[CaptainTruth]

21. They're ignorant liars. We see it every day.

[twodogsbarking]

23. Johnson is now in charge of "blessing the bombs".

You need more good bombs becuause of all the bad bombs. I wish this was sarcasm.

[BidenRocks]

24. Dear Pope Leo,

I am humbled by your restraint. It takes a truly special person to deal with the world today.

If it were up to me, I would be excommunicating a lot of people for their comments detrimental to the safety of the citizens of this planet. You have seen the fat, cigar chomping jerk who told you to stay in your lane?

I would be a smiting and giving the Knights Templar a job. On background, they were as corrupt as chump and were disbanded. Not Opus Dei either. More Hollywood.

Bottom line is, the time to turn the other cheek has passed. These cretins have no respect for anything beside money and power.

Can't you issue a Catholic Fatwah or something to rally the true believers?

That would be a "Just War".

[ColoringFool]

25. Mike Johnson Doesn't Understand Something Called "Illegal....

Invasion and War Crime."

[pansypoo53219]

26. speaker elf on a shelf is a jeebus follower. taint the same.

[Jilly_in_VA]

28. elf on the shelf?

I LOVE IT! Sure wouldn't want him watching me or my kids at Christmas, though! Dirty minded little shit.

[Jilly_in_VA]

27. Martin Luther was an Augustinian too

I dare Little Mikey to debate Pope Leo---or any good Lutheran pastor, for that matter. (Preferably Elca--I think Nadia Bolz-Weber would tear him to shreds--but I think a good Missouri Synod pastor could eat him alive too.) I doubt the little putz is much of a debater on theological matters.

[Metaphorical]

32. I'm not a big fan of Augustine

He architected many of the more egregious and problematic beliefs of the time into the emerging Christian Church; however, in this particular case (and the notion of what constitutes a Just War) he's well reasoned. The Jesuits and Augustinian orders are also fairly well aligned in their notion that logical soundness, even more than faith, is important in establishing the authority of the church. This contrasts with the Dominicans who tend to be more focused on orthodoxy of belief.

Mike Johnson, on the other hand, is simply Trump's lapdog at this point, and I suspect would be hard pressed to debate his way out of a wet paper bag.

[Jilly_in_VA]

35. I'm not a big fan of Augustine either

although he does have his moments. I'm even less a fan of his mother Monica, who I consider the ultimate stage mother. but I won't go there. I'll just say that how she ever got to be a saint is way beyond me. Aug, well, okay, though he's not my favorite. I'm more of either a Jesuit or Maybe even an Ignatian vis a vis my spirituality...except I'm Orthodox.

[GiqueCee]

33. Power mad...

... and chickenshit are character traits that do not play well together. Combine those with the Dunning-Kruger Effect on steroids and you get... well, Mike Johnson.
"Moses" Mike is in so far over his head that he doesn't even know which way is up. But if he presumes to lecture Pope Bob on theology, he'll find out where down is when his face hits the mat with a resounding splat.

[BidenRocks]

34. Explain this one Mikey!

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Psalm 137.9, which reads, "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock,"

No abortion, just infanticide!

Let's not get into Leviticus. Pres. Bartlett did that one so well!

[3catwoman3]

50. One of the best scenes in the whole 7 seasons.

And the one in the first season when he tells Mary Marsh and the other two to, “Get your fat asses out of my White House.”

[BidenRocks]

52. I was working at Warner Bros. at the time.

I spent a lot of time on the empty set, in the White House.
It was the most impressive TV set since it was 'real'.
All the talent was especially friendly. John Spencer would see you outside a stage and say hello.
I don't watch any tv dramas now.

[3catwoman3]

53. How exciting that must have been. What did you do there?

I recently binge re-watched all 7 seasons. Not too long after that, Timothy Busfield was arrested. If he ends up being found guilty, I will have to fast forward thru all his scenes.

I confess to not being a huge fan of the First Lady character. Too shrill for me.

[Dave Bowman]

40. That poster boy for The Dunning-Kruger effect knows better, of course.

[ShazzieB]

41. Bazinga!

[BurnDoubt]

47. YEP!!!!

[returnee]

51. That's what happens...

…when you are uneducated, talk out of your ass, and use your so-called religion to self-aggrandize.