Mike Johnson and his allies tried to defend his extremist views. It didn’t go well.

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Opinion | Mike Johnson and his allies tried to defend his extremist views. It didn’t go well.
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“It’s a central premise of the Bible that God invented civil government,” Johnson told Olohan, who added that, “like many Americans of faith, Johnson sees government as a ‘design of God’ and ‘a gift to mankind in a fallen society.’

These people are literally insane.

God's explicit stance on government is "obey your government, pay your taxes". At no point does the Bible establish a government.

Your first mistake was thinking they've ever read the thing.