“I want to tell all my colleagues here what I told the Republicans in that room last night,” Speaker Johnson declared. “I don’t believe there are any coincidences in a manner like this. I believe that Scripture, the Bible is very clear that God is the one that raises up those in authority. He raised up each of you, all of us. And I believe that God has ordained and allowed each one of us to be brought here for this specific moment in this time. This is my belief. I believe that each one of us has a huge responsibility today, to use the gifts that God has given us to serve the extraordinary people of this great country and they deserve it.”
By that logic, hitler, Stalin, Mao, Biden, and even Bill Clinton were chosen by God Almighty
I think the point they’re missing is, The King of England was ordained by God to rule his nation and impose his beliefs on his subjects. We kind of fought a whole war way back to get away from that system.
Turns out that the canonization of Christianity which took place right after the emperor of Rome converted and put together the group to do so ended up canonizing the version of Christianity that was gung ho on a celestial dynastic monarchy paralleling and endorsing the one in Rome.
Whereas the document that had the following saying was buried in a jar because shortly after that canonization even possessing it was punishable by death:
Jesus said, “Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce .”
(As opposed to being born into reigning and holding that power indefinitely)
So which attitude was more likely endorsed by someone widely agreed to have been executed by the Roman empire? The one saying empires were great, that heaven was an empire and that whoever was in power was ordained by God? Or the one saying dynastic rule sucked and then had a parable about assassinating a powerful person?
Any person that says this, is absolutely not the type of person that would be ordained by a hypothetical God. It’s one of those “if you have to say it, it’s definitely not true”, or “Any man who must say, ‘I am the king’ is no true king” type of things.
American Christians think McDonald’s brings back the McRib because they pray for it on Facebook and that half the things on TV are messages from God and the other half from Satan
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