“Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) pushed back Tuesday on the belief that there should be separation between church and state on the U.S., arguing that the founding fathers wanted faith to be a “big part” of government. Separation of church and state … is a misnomer. People misunderstand it,” Johnson said”
“Johnson argued that “faith, our deep religious heritage and tradition is a big part of what it means to be an American” in his comments Tuesday. He further argued that “morality” must be kept among Americans “so that we have accountability.”
“He is not the only member of Congress who has who has suggested that faith should influence the government. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) faced backlash last year after she said she believes “the church is supposed to direct the government.”
“I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk — that’s not in the Constitution,” Boebert said at the Cornerstone Christian Center in Basalt, Colo. “It was in a stinking letter and it means nothing like they say it does.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4308643-speaker-johnson-separation-of-church-state-a-misnomer/
Not surprising Johnson taught at Liberty college
Interesting since the Founders were largely Deists
You are a very sad case, Anchovies; very sad indeed ! I am an Australian - born and bred, yet I know more about your country's founding era than you (a native American) does.
In response to your bitchy post about Mike Johnson, I'll give you the bare bones to fill in, in points (1), (2) and (3) below. If you are prepared to get off your lard ass and do a little research/reading to fill in the details of these points, you will be faced with the incontrovertible fact that what Mike Johnson says is
TRUE.
(1) The
intellectual Founding Father of America was a 17th-century, English, political philosopher named John Locke. Locke was a
VERY devout Protestant Christian, and his political theory was firmly and profoundly grounded in his Christian faith. Locke is still regarded as perhaps the most brilliant of
ALL the Enlightenment thinkers.
(2) Thomas Jefferson copied the most famous passages of his
"Declaration of Independence" (1776) from John Locke's text:
"Second Treatise on Government" (London,1689). Jefferson freely admitted this, but few people know the true origin of the DOI's famous, unalienable, universal right to "life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness;" that this and most of the other core moral principles in the DOI (like the right to revolution) were taken almost word-for-word from Locke's text of 1689.
(3) The "Declaration of Independence" is a purely MORAL document. In particular, it is grounded deep in Christian Natural (moral) Law, which almost all of the American colonists accepted and embraced. The DOI - being a Christian moral document, naturally became the fertile soil from which the Constitution subsequently grew. Thus, the Constitution is very much a Christian document; Christian morality infuses its every page. It's just that lazy bastards like you don't care about their own history, and so they are largely ignorant of its pivotal, founding documents, and consequently end up on public forums like this burping forth leftist bollocks and giving those here who
have bothered to properly educate themselves about America's history, a giant pain in the buttocks..
What Speaker Mike Johnson says is 100% correct.When he points out that: "Christian faith, our deep (Christian) religious heritage and tradition
is a big part of what it means to big an American- he is absolutely correct ! The problem now, however, is that since 1965, insane, Democrat immigration policies have flooded America with foreign: heathens, pagans, Islamists and atheists. And as far as I am concerned, they - and individuals like yourself - (i.e. American worshippers of graven idols like the
"High Cockalorum Bird") should be promptly deported from the US and the Christian West, to some alternative (and distant !) settlement/s in a more suitable region of the globe (like Iran).
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