Our New Speaker Thinks the Earth is 6,000 Years Old

[Blisterfinger]

You don’t think Trump works behind the scenes? What did the Saudis expect for their $2B…, that wasn’t in the contract?

I don't know why don't you tell us what they expected?

 

[odanny]

 

[Jim H - VA USA]

Well, this is reassuring.

The new Speaker appears to believe that the Earth is 6,000 years old.

Before arriving in Washington less than a decade ago, House Speaker Mike Johnson, a deeply religious Christian, was a legal crusader associated with a fringe evangelical movement called “young Earth creationism,” based on a literal reading of the Bible’s Book of Genesis that posits the Earth is only several thousand years old.​

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In the mere hours since Johnson was elected speaker Wednesday, he hadn’t had to address his views on creationism and evolution. But his close ties to a leader of the creationist movement and his past legal work — on behalf of the Ark Encounter creationist theme park, where children can learn that dinosaurs were passengers on Noah’s Ark — seem to suggest that he’s also personally aligned with these beliefs.​

“The Ark Encounter is one way to bring people to this recognition of the truth, that what we read in the Bible are actual historical events,” Johnson said in a 2021 interview with Ark Encounter founder Ken Ham while guest-hosting the radio showof Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, an evangelical activist group.​

New House Speaker Thinks Creationist Museum Is 'Pointing People To The Truth'

An ark replica with dinosaurs "is one way to bring people to this recognition ... that what we read in the Bible are actual historical events,” Mike Johnson said.

www.huffpost.com

What actually happened:

Kentucky promised $18M in tax incentives to the company Answers in Genesis for building a tourist attraction.

Then the state tried to withdrawal its promise, on the basis that the tourist attraction was a religious ministry.

(People of all faiths are welcome and visit the attraction.)

Mike Johnson successfully sued Kentucky for its unConstitutional religious discrimination on 1st Amendment grounds.

Kentucky had agreed to pay Answers in Genesis $190,000.

Mike Johnson defended Noah's Ark attraction in Kentucky before becoming U.S. House speaker • Kentucky Lantern

New U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson successfully took Kentucky to court in 2015 to regain tax incentives for the Ark Encounter, a replica of Noah’s Ark.

kentuckylantern.com

Nice to have a Speaker who respects your right to practice as you wish, eh?

Here is a 25-minute interview with Mike Johnson on the very subject...


This is absolutely no truth to the OP's statement that he thinks the Earth is 6,000 years old.

 

[Orangecat]

The new Speaker appears to believe that the Earth is 6,000 years old.

Appears to believe?
Lol.
Even if true, what difference does it make if he does?
Will that cause him to keep adding to the debt?
Will it somehow keep him from doing his job as Speaker?

Silly children and their triggered nonsense.

 

[konradv]

I don't know why don't you tell us what they expected?

Laundering the money through different companies, until it gets to Hamas.

 

[konradv]

No, you prefer Biden's shithole where 10 million illegals have swarmed our borders in less than 3 years. And are overwhelming communities all across America and costing taxpayers who knows how many tens of billions this year, next year, and on and on. Etc., etc., etc.

Now that is a shithole.

Who’s going to pick our veggies?

 

[Blisterfinger]

Laundering the money through different companies, until it gets to Hamas.

Well that would be a lie, do you have any proof of that?

 

[Blisterfinger]

Who’s going to pick our veggies?

You should

 

[konradv]

Well that would be a lie, do you have any proof of that?

It’s as much proof as anyone has against Hunter and coming from a country that’s a traditional enemy to Israel.

 

[konradv]

You should

The country would starve.

 

[Nostra]

Who’s going to pick our veggies?

I thought you clowns were against mega corporations using cheap illegal labor.

 

[Orangecat]

Who’s going to pick our veggies?

It’s rather racist to imply that only illegal brown people pick your vegetables.

 

[konradv]

I thought you clowns were against mega corporations using cheap illegal labor.

Farmers are mega corporations? The ones you’ve thinking of use mechanized harvesting. That isn’t possible for all crops.

 

[bodecea]

Why?
If McCarthy was Bipartisan, maybe he would be worth saving

Would Republicans have saved Pelosi under those conditions?

The new Speaker will have an impossible job con-vincing women he doesn't want to con-trol their bodies...and an impossible task against anyone not a fundies kook.

 

[excalibur]

Who’s going to pick our veggies?

We need 10 million illegals to pick vegetables? They're gonna pick vegetables in NYC, DC, Chicago, etc.?

 

[Clipper]

Yes
Because it was Democrats who turned on Kevin McCarthy

And Dems gave the GOP Nuthouse of Representatives just enough rope to hang themselves by making that cretin Johnson SOTH.

Way to go shitheads!

 

[excalibur]

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But free stuff for Biden's Horde of Illegals.

 

[bodecea]

It’s rather racist to imply that only illegal brown people pick your vegetables.

 

[konradv]

We need 10 million illegals to pick vegetables? They're gonna pick vegetables in NYC, DC, Chicago, etc.?

They pick wherever the crops are.

 

[surada]

Laundering the money through different companies, until it gets to Hamas.

What are you insinuating?

Saudi Arabia has never supported Hamas. Hamas is Muslim Brotherhood.