Evangelical Columnist Reminds 'MAGA Mike Johnson' Of A Key Biblical Virtue

[Jilly_in_VA]

New York Times opinion columnist David French accused House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) of forgoing the biblical value of honesty despite claiming last month the Bible dictates his entire worldview.

In a column published in the Times on Sunday, French, who describes himself as “a Never Trump evangelical conservative,” pointed to Johnson’s leadership of a legal effort behind former President Donald Trump’s bid to overturn the 2020 election.

“There is a reason that effort is called the Big Lie. It was one of the most comprehensively and transparently dishonest political movements in American history. And Johnson was in the middle of it,” French wrote.

The Bible does not contain guidance on immigration or foreign policy, French wrote, “but it does condemn dishonesty, it does condemn cruelty, and if there is a clear theme that echoes throughout its pages, it’s one that ‘MAGA Mike Johnson’ and his legion of evangelical supporters should take to heart: The ends do not justify the means.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-johnson-bible-david-french_n_6548fa08e4b01b2585849271

Actually, the Bible does say something about immigrants, though: You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. Leviticus 19:34 These Talibangelicals just love to cherry-pick

[Ocelot II]

1. Direct link to the full column, no paywall:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/opinion/maga-mike-johnson-christianity.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8Uw.j-A4.8DLc8B1JTe2B&smid=url-share

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Love this. Nail the religious hypocrites for their cherry picking of biblical verses.

[Blue Owl]

3. Totally! It is exactly that -- cherrypicking....

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Most of them are buffet Christians

Sad to say.

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. Thank you. I live among the Bible believing Baptists

and other even more Fundamentalist groups and they are not all awful people. They have just been immersed in all that stuff from the day they were born. Some are just really nice people and some aren't.

My experience has been that men may be a lot more rightwing than the women.

[Jilly_in_VA]

6. I live among Bible believing Mennonites

They are a whole lot different. Conservative, yes, but welcoming to strangers, anyway.

[Elessar Zappa]

5. They like to pick and choose which parts of the Bible they follow.

And they twist those verses too.

[nuxvomica]

7. To me, lying is the most obvious red flag

People who lie can't be trusted. Period. End of story. Lying is never the worst of their sins but it's a handy signature of corruption. Even the Bible says something about a good tree doesn't bear bad fruit and a bad tree doesn't bear good fruit. Lying is bad fruit and it's the surest way to identify a bad tree.

[Windicator]

8. Republicans use the Bible as a "beard"

They pretend they love it in public,
then piss all over it in private.

[lindysalsagal]

9. It's about time! False witness is one of the big 10!

[dickthegrouch]

10. Thou shalt not kill is a rather big one, too. /nt

[BOSSHOG]

12. THE BIBLICAL VALUE OF HONESTY

One zealot instructing another zealot about honesty. When you can morph your instruction book into anything you want it to be honesty is irrelevant, regardless of what Republican you support.

I honestly do understand Mr French. If you are an evangelical conservative you are on par with Johnson on the problem scale.