Last Thursday I wrote in dismay: "The MAGA Cult white supremacist Christian Nationalism coup attempt continues". And now I am afraid that the capture of the Speaker of the House by Mike Johnson is even worse than I had realized.
Frank Schaeffer reveals Mike Johnson's commitments and beliefs. Schaeffer is a man who was a prominent leader in the Christian Evangelical movement and split away from them decades ago and is dedicated to warning against them ever since. I came across this Substack video of his yesterday (It Has to be Said - Substack) and it is deeply alarming. Unfortunately, it is video only and not a transcript. About 20 minutes. He outlines who Mike Johnson, new House Speaker, is. It is terrible.
Mike Johnson in not just an Evangelical Christian. He is not just a MAGA Cultist. He is not just a white supremacist. He has been indoctrinated into the Christian version of the Islamic Taliban - Christian Reconstructionism. Here are some of his beliefs, which are based on the harshest parts of the Old Testament and apparently ignore Jesus and the New Testament:
- Execute gay men and women
- Execute prostitutes
- Execute adulterers
- Outlaw abortion
- Outlaw the pill
- Outlaw all sex outside of marriage
- Outlaw divorce
- Re-establish slavery
- Whites are superior to all the inferior races of color
These folks have been deeply inculcated in a biblical extremist view that goes back to the horrors of hundreds of years ago. The belief system is Christian Reconstructionism (Theonomy) - a mandate that the country needs to be ruled by Old Testament biblical "law". A key founder of the cult was Rousas Rushdoony.
And they are not joking. It is a deeply believed and fully funded attempt to make white Christian extremist men rule the country and the world according to the most radical Old Testament bigotries.
Schaefer's father was Francis Schaeffer, who was apparently a founder of the Evangelical movement to overtake the U.S. government and rule by the harshest Old Testament interpretations. His warnings are from inside the movement and show what is underneath the reassuring soft peddling of these radical beliefs by those in office.
And one of them is now the Speaker of the House of Representatives. And, it seems to me, that at least one of the Supreme Court Justices, Amy Coney Barrett is one of them as well.
Now we know.
