Speaker Mike Johnson and his ilk represents, IMO, the very thing the drafters and signers of the Constitution and Bill of Rights intentionally wanted to avoid. That is, that the consensus of all of the drafters, signers and the People was that the Constitutional rules governing the United States should not favor any, or no, religion. The People were granted the rights to choose their own religious courses, or not. Johnson’s actions are the very definition of sedition, and possibly treason, and he and his ilk should be treated accordingly.
My comments about religion in government is based on my belief that the American Constitutional experiment is not and never was intended to be religion centric. If my statement is contrary to any of my Christian friends and acquaintances, or any politician’s beliefs, or anyone who who believes Johnson is correct, or who intends to pursue Christianity or the Bible as the guiding principles for America, you are also guilty of the same charges.
Instead of forcing your “Christian” will on America by law or fiat, you should individually and collectively elect to emigrate to any country who shares your beliefs because secession is not part of the Constitution as amended and America is not a religious Taliban style nation. Of course, you could also back away from your religious imposition efforts and enjoy the Constitutional freedoms enjoyed by all Americans.
As I said in another comment: Mike Johnson is not a “puppy”. He is a pervert looking for a way to hide his “ demons”.
Don’t let him hide them behind our Constitution and or your beliefs!
Keep them to himself and go home where he can believe whatever he chooses, because…… we have “Separation of Church and State” and “Freedom of Religion”!
For those who need or want further information concerning “Separation of Church and State “… the writers knew that Religion needed to be protected from the control of an overly dictator government. We have that separation to save your “Choice”!👏🏻🎶🤗🙏🏻👍🦋
I really appreciate this great effort to synthesize how all the Mike Johnson's came to be. It seems to me to be the utmost in chutzpah to "realize" that god is talking to *you*, and that it's your way or the highway (meaning legalized discrimination).
I had a professor of Jungian Psychology (which we'll get into in Part Deux of this!) who talked about fundamentalism in two really brilliant ways: First, the core emotion that generates fundamentalism is DOUBT. The person who's attracted to fundamentalism is afraid of the universe, afraid of God, afraid of death, afraid of love. But mostly they are ARE AFRAID THEY ARE WRONG and will suffer for it, maybe eternally. So their desperate tactic is that they will MAKE YOU AGREE and they will pass laws to shut you up, to illegalize any region but their own, and they will PUNISH dissent. This is up to and including killing you for it. And the point at which this gets REALLY dangerous is the point at which COLLECTIVE IDENTITY is created at a national or large tribal level. This is the point at which Islamic caliphates and the Holy See invented hundreds of years of Crusades in which 1.7 million people died--massacred. And this drive to be right and to be safe means that you as a person can be HARVESTED in the quest to get on God's good side--even if that means killing you as the Infidel or the one possessed by or doing the will of the Devil--which presumably will make the Crusader God's favorite. And collective identity does something else: it DESTROYS PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY because if you kill in the name of God and the Body of Christ--or Allah and the Ummah, the Dar-al-Islam--then you by definition have no culpability in what you've done because you've done it on God's command or for the good of the tribe or to bring about the Second Coming, or whatever it is that you tell yourself. This is dangerous stuff. The psychology underlying this problem is very, very intricate and hard to understand. But I feel it's worth trying to explain because some people will get it and will try to be able to argue rationally about what is going on. The EXPOSURE of this psychology has great power. Because once you see this stuff clearly, you can't unsee, and you will be able to stand with people trying to preserve their freedoms in the strongest, and hopefully the most compassionate, ways possible. And lot of this problem stems from the fact that projected onto God is all this stuff that is basically dark shadow content from the HUMAN psyche, not God (the Self). It is projected fear and violence. There a spectacular book called *God: a Biography* by Jack Miles. Won a Pulitzer in the 1990s and has been continuously in print for 30 years. Empowering.
School Districts (including my own) are embattled by militantly Christian fundamentalists, who are stirred up and recruited by politically ambitious pastors. As a Jew, I scratch my head at all the ANGRY people at school board meetings trying to stuff their fundamentalisms down my throat. It is so obviously fueled by anger, which is probably fueled by fear (plus the political hacks who hope to piggyback onto Fox News). I wonder where gentle Christians have gone. The Jesus-led compassionates who feed the hungry, cloth the naked, provide housing for the homeless. I don't, I truly don't, understand where these angry "Christians" come from.
I don't blame you. It makes me angry, too--and it's dangerous. Whenever people at the extreme edge get mainstream power (conservative or liberal) it's a bad idea. I miss my grandmother.
Speaker Mike Johnson and his ilk represents, IMO, the very thing the drafters and signers of the Constitution and Bill of Rights intentionally wanted to avoid. That is, that the consensus of all of the drafters, signers and the People was that the Constitutional rules governing the United States should not favor any, or no, religion. The People were granted the rights to choose their own religious courses, or not. Johnson’s actions are the very definition of sedition, and possibly treason, and he and his ilk should be treated accordingly.
My comments about religion in government is based on my belief that the American Constitutional experiment is not and never was intended to be religion centric. If my statement is contrary to any of my Christian friends and acquaintances, or any politician’s beliefs, or anyone who who believes Johnson is correct, or who intends to pursue Christianity or the Bible as the guiding principles for America, you are also guilty of the same charges.
Instead of forcing your “Christian” will on America by law or fiat, you should individually and collectively elect to emigrate to any country who shares your beliefs because secession is not part of the Constitution as amended and America is not a religious Taliban style nation. Of course, you could also back away from your religious imposition efforts and enjoy the Constitutional freedoms enjoyed by all Americans.
As I said in another comment: Mike Johnson is not a “puppy”. He is a pervert looking for a way to hide his “ demons”.
Don’t let him hide them behind our Constitution and or your beliefs!
Keep them to himself and go home where he can believe whatever he chooses, because…… we have “Separation of Church and State” and “Freedom of Religion”!
For those who need or want further information concerning “Separation of Church and State “… the writers knew that Religion needed to be protected from the control of an overly dictator government. We have that separation to save your “Choice”!👏🏻🎶🤗🙏🏻👍🦋
I really appreciate this great effort to synthesize how all the Mike Johnson's came to be. It seems to me to be the utmost in chutzpah to "realize" that god is talking to *you*, and that it's your way or the highway (meaning legalized discrimination).
Looking forward to more.
I had a professor of Jungian Psychology (which we'll get into in Part Deux of this!) who talked about fundamentalism in two really brilliant ways: First, the core emotion that generates fundamentalism is DOUBT. The person who's attracted to fundamentalism is afraid of the universe, afraid of God, afraid of death, afraid of love. But mostly they are ARE AFRAID THEY ARE WRONG and will suffer for it, maybe eternally. So their desperate tactic is that they will MAKE YOU AGREE and they will pass laws to shut you up, to illegalize any region but their own, and they will PUNISH dissent. This is up to and including killing you for it. And the point at which this gets REALLY dangerous is the point at which COLLECTIVE IDENTITY is created at a national or large tribal level. This is the point at which Islamic caliphates and the Holy See invented hundreds of years of Crusades in which 1.7 million people died--massacred. And this drive to be right and to be safe means that you as a person can be HARVESTED in the quest to get on God's good side--even if that means killing you as the Infidel or the one possessed by or doing the will of the Devil--which presumably will make the Crusader God's favorite. And collective identity does something else: it DESTROYS PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY because if you kill in the name of God and the Body of Christ--or Allah and the Ummah, the Dar-al-Islam--then you by definition have no culpability in what you've done because you've done it on God's command or for the good of the tribe or to bring about the Second Coming, or whatever it is that you tell yourself. This is dangerous stuff. The psychology underlying this problem is very, very intricate and hard to understand. But I feel it's worth trying to explain because some people will get it and will try to be able to argue rationally about what is going on. The EXPOSURE of this psychology has great power. Because once you see this stuff clearly, you can't unsee, and you will be able to stand with people trying to preserve their freedoms in the strongest, and hopefully the most compassionate, ways possible. And lot of this problem stems from the fact that projected onto God is all this stuff that is basically dark shadow content from the HUMAN psyche, not God (the Self). It is projected fear and violence. There a spectacular book called *God: a Biography* by Jack Miles. Won a Pulitzer in the 1990s and has been continuously in print for 30 years. Empowering.
School Districts (including my own) are embattled by militantly Christian fundamentalists, who are stirred up and recruited by politically ambitious pastors. As a Jew, I scratch my head at all the ANGRY people at school board meetings trying to stuff their fundamentalisms down my throat. It is so obviously fueled by anger, which is probably fueled by fear (plus the political hacks who hope to piggyback onto Fox News). I wonder where gentle Christians have gone. The Jesus-led compassionates who feed the hungry, cloth the naked, provide housing for the homeless. I don't, I truly don't, understand where these angry "Christians" come from.
I don't blame you. It makes me angry, too--and it's dangerous. Whenever people at the extreme edge get mainstream power (conservative or liberal) it's a bad idea. I miss my grandmother.
Oh me too.💕
(Forgive me, but: puke!)
Was it something I said ... ??
NO!!! It was what mike jojo said!!! (So sorry to be unclear!)
Oh, I'm so glad. I love having you around!!! I didn't want you to leave us!!!
No way would I leave! I love reading your essays!
It’s your choice!