Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, in his first remarks after being elected Wednesday afternoon, told Members of Congress that “Scripture” and “the Bible” are clear that they have been “ordained” by God.

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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    Imagine if religious fundamentalism wasn’t acceptable for a statesman. What a crazy modern world we could be living in.

    Although I guess in the case of the US, the country was founded out of religious fundamentalism in its entirely, and from a clean slate. Much more difficult to untangle it.

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      Unless my history lessons are evading me, your country was founded by deists running from fundamentalists.

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        Yes the USA was founded by deists, after the fundamentalists had settled the frontier land. It’s both basically.