“I’ll tell you a secret, since media is not here. Thank you for not allowing the media in. Look, I’m a Southern Baptist, I don’t wanna get too spooky on you, But, you know, the Lord speaks to your heart.

“The Lord began to wake me up, through this three-week process, in the middle of night to speak to me. The Lord impressed upon my heart a few weeks before this happened that something was going to occur.

“And the Lord very specifically told me in my prayers to prepare, but to wait. At the time, I assumed the Lord was going to choose a new Moses and thank you, Lord, you’re going to allow me to be Aaron to Moses.

“I had this sense that we were going to come to a Red Sea moment in our Republican conference and in the county at large. God had been speaking to me about this, and the Lord told me very clearly to prepare and be ready.

“Ultimately 13 people ran for the post. And the Lord kept telling me to, ‘Wait, wait, wait.’ So I waited, I waited. And then at the end the Lord said, ‘Now step forward.’

“Me? I’m supposed to be Aaron. ‘No,’ the Lord said, ‘Step forward.’” – Mike Johnson, speaking last night to the far-right National Association of Christian Lawmakers.

This man is a true believer. True believers do not compromise anything that goes against what they believe their religion tells them. This man is far more dangerous than Donald Trump, who is simply a grifter and was in it for himself. This guy thinks the gods have ordained him. Anybody who stands against him is going against God, in his own mind.

  • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    14
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    I wonder what he means by this. You know he’s never read a bible in his life. What does he think Moses represents to the average American?

    • Birdie@thelemmy.club
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      1 year ago

      He absolutely has read his Bible. He has said the Bible is his worldview. He believes that his interpretation of the Bible is the only correct interpretation and he will never compromise on that, because he is a “true believer”.

      Moses spoke directly to God and told everyone else what God had said…and Johnson seems to follow that pattern exactly. He thinks God raised him up to “part the sea” between the Biblical Republic sect from the more middle of the road Republicans and of course from the sinful Democrats. He truly wants to use his beliefs to reform our society; he is a religious zealot.

      That has made him much more dangerous to the US than Trump.

    • vortic@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Honestly, if anyone in congress has read the bible, it is Mike Johnson. The lessons that he took from it are abhorrent, but he’s not faking his Christian beliefs like most Republican politicians. He truly believes what he’s saying and that’s why he’s so scary.