House Speaker Mike Johnson challenged Pope Leo XIV’s understanding of Christian scripture on Tuesday, part of an ongoing feud between Republicans and Catholic leaders over their respective interpretations of what the Bible says about treating immigrants.
“Sovereign borders are biblical and good and right, and they’re just … it’s not because we hate the people on the outside, it’s because we love the people on the inside,” [Johnson said](https://x.com/atrupar/status/2018770570708447310?s=20) during a press conference on Capitol Hill. “We should love our neighbors ourselves as individuals, but as a civil authority, the government has to maintain the law.”
“And that is biblical, and it’s right, and it’s just,” he added.
Yeah, I’m going to have to go with the Pope over some creepy little dude who takes his daughters to “purity balls.”
localistand on
From what we know, only one of these has a beat-off phone tracker app that connects their porn viewing data with their son.
lucent54 on
If only we knew what Jesus said about it….
pile_of_fish on
This still doesnt annoy me as much as jd, who claims to be a catholic, trying to argue doctrine with the pope…
PastorNTraining on
Is Mike Johnson the final “my ignorance is better than your education” boss?
Thats the freakin’ Pope Mikey, he’s kinda a big deal and ministers to 1.4 BILLION Catholics. He holds several degrees IN theology, writes on Christian belief daily and probably has a damn good spiritual practice.
And you Mikey have your child monitor your porn…sit the F down.
twirlingmypubes on
I teach a class on this. Trump voters say the exact same thing Johnson does. They don’t even try to use exegesis, they just layer their own cult beliefs on everything and call it good
Edit: “sovereign borders” are a recent political construct.
BeowulfShaeffer on
To borrow from Reagan, if you’re defending [ on matters of faith from the _Pope_], you are losing.
Blackthorn79 on
This is the ugly side of the protestant reformation. Dan Carlin did a series about a town that went to hell when the common man decided that they could interpret the word of God better than the church.
DocShocker on
… and a bunch of smooth brains are probably just *loving* it.
Mysterious_Floor_868 on
What have things come to when the head of the Catholic church sounds like a raving progressive by comparison?
OptimusSublime on
Did he spar with him over his porn habits too?
Freedom-Lover-4564 on
Mike Johnson is a false teacher and will be cast aside.
HallucinogenicFish on
There is no “sparring” with the Pope. He knocks you out cold just by giving you the side-eye.
downtoearth47 on
Take the word of a guy who washes the feet of the poor, who speak for the children of the less or take a guy who does not do his job, is gayer than a three dollar bill and would watch his own son under dress in front of him just so he can see if the kid touched him self. Yep as this atheist will tell you I will go with the foot guy all day.
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Imagine the ego you have to have to think you can ‘out bible’ the Pope. I’m neither Catholic, bor really much of a Christian these days (considering what the majority of them seem to think that means). But even I would not be so full of Sh1t to think I know the bible better than the guy siting in Saint Peter’s chair.
I think Mikey’s just maga-mad that the Pope is a Blues Brother.
dmanjrxx on
Mike Johnson would spar with his God if he had to defend Trump. A lap dog and it’s Master will always have a strong bond
RiseStock on
I read it as mike Tyson at first
TheGravespawn on
Mike, you absolute shitheel. You’re making me side with the Catholic church, and it’s not even 7 am yet.
I hope a horse kicks you in the dick.
r_301_f on
Do these people really think Jesus is up there in heaven looking down like, “hell yeah bro, teargas those kids. Thats my favorite shit”
slo1111 on
Only the Cult of Personality would position ICE detainment center in Dallas not turning on the heat so the humans chatter their teeth in misery as Godly.
Hey Johnson kid. Can you add a spank bank watch on your dad’s phone for the wails of the children coming over the walls in the south Texas internment camp?
Photog1981 on
Evangelicals think Catholics don’t really follow the Bible, they think they’re the true authority when it comes to the text. So, of course Johnson thinks he has a better grasp on the Gospels than the Pope.
seasonsbloom on
There are no Christian Republicans.
astrozombie2012 on
When you’re arguing with the pope over human rights I’d say it’s a good sign you’re an awful person.
Freddy-Borden on
Supposed devout Christian shades the Pope for not licking Trumps boots as well as American Evangelicals
DoctorSchwifty on
Mike just talk about the things you are an expert at like your masturbation app.
Plastic-Pension7263 on
From their stupid book
Leviticus 19:33–34
When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
Numbers 15:14-16
The community is to have the same rules for you and for the foreigner residing among you; this is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the Lord: The same laws and regulations will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing among you.
Zechariah 7:9-12
This is what the Lord Almighty said: “Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.”
But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and covered their ears. They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the Lord Almighty was very angry.
Exodus 22:21
“Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt”
Deuteronomy 10:17-19
For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.
Deuteronomy 24:17-18
Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.
Deuteronomy 27:19
“Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.”
Proverbs 31:8-9
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Psalm 82:3–4
“Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”
Job 29:15-17
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger. I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made them drop their prey from their teeth.
Jeremiah 22:3
This is what the Lord says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Malachi 3:5
“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, who deprive the foreigners among you of justice, and who do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.
Leviticus 19:9-10
When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 14:28-29
At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year’s produce and store it in your towns, so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Ezekiel 47:21-23
“You are to distribute this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel. You are to allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners residing among you and who have children. You are to consider them as native-born Israelites; along with you they are to be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. In whatever tribe a foreigner resides, there you are to give them their inheritance,” declares the Sovereign Lord.
Micah 2:1-3
Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.
Therefore, the Lord says:
“I am planning disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.”
Jeremiah 7:3-7
This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place. Do not trust in deceptive words and say, “This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord!” If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever.
Romans 13:9–10
“The commandments, ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not covet,’ and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”
Matthew 25:35-36, 40
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.
Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.
Matthew 5:7
“Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.”
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
1 John 2:9
“Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness.”
TheMoorNextDoor on
Christian Nationalism does this, that’s why it should be deemed a terrorist organization. Their own believes and radical theories are preached to masses woven with scripture it’s arguably one of the most damaging things this country has continuously endured for over half a century now.
Sean_theLeprachaun on
The pope shouldn’t waste time talking to a heretic.
MrFunktasticc on
Im reminded of the South Park Easter Bunny episode where Jesus is trying to talk sense to the American Cardinal (?). The guy has ninjas and at some point says, of Jesus and Kyle, “get these *Jews* out of my sight.” Still hits the mark today.
monopulse on
CINO Christian In Name Only
enissophobic on
it’d be so funny if the pope excommunicated the entirety of the US Government. let’s see the stupid fucks try to buy their way into heaven afterwards.
jar45 on
Obviously the Catholic Church isn’t innocent either but calling yourself religious then choosing Donald Trump’s message of hate over the Pope’s messages literally just regurgitating the lessons of Jesus is crazy.
Thus says the LORD: Do what is right and just. Rescue the victims from the hand of their oppressors. Do not wrong or oppress the resident alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.- Jeremiah 22:3
FishermanExpensive on
if you find yourself debating the pope, you’ve already lost.
CharacterCompany7224 on
Why would we believe anything from the fake Christian who’s defending a literal child rapist.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson challenged Pope Leo XIV’s understanding of Christian scripture on Tuesday, part of an ongoing feud between Republicans and Catholic leaders over their respective interpretations of what the Bible says about treating immigrants.
“Sovereign borders are biblical and good and right, and they’re just … it’s not because we hate the people on the outside, it’s because we love the people on the inside,” [Johnson said](https://x.com/atrupar/status/2018770570708447310?s=20) during a press conference on Capitol Hill. “We should love our neighbors ourselves as individuals, but as a civil authority, the government has to maintain the law.”
“And that is biblical, and it’s right, and it’s just,” he added.
Full story: [https://www.notus.org/republicans/mike-johnson-spars-with-pope-leo-xiv-christian-bible-scripture-immigrants-border](https://www.notus.org/republicans/mike-johnson-spars-with-pope-leo-xiv-christian-bible-scripture-immigrants-border)
He’s the pope Mike
Yeah, I’m going to have to go with the Pope over some creepy little dude who takes his daughters to “purity balls.”
From what we know, only one of these has a beat-off phone tracker app that connects their porn viewing data with their son.
If only we knew what Jesus said about it….
This still doesnt annoy me as much as jd, who claims to be a catholic, trying to argue doctrine with the pope…
Is Mike Johnson the final “my ignorance is better than your education” boss?
Thats the freakin’ Pope Mikey, he’s kinda a big deal and ministers to 1.4 BILLION Catholics. He holds several degrees IN theology, writes on Christian belief daily and probably has a damn good spiritual practice.
And you Mikey have your child monitor your porn…sit the F down.
I teach a class on this. Trump voters say the exact same thing Johnson does. They don’t even try to use exegesis, they just layer their own cult beliefs on everything and call it good
Edit: “sovereign borders” are a recent political construct.
To borrow from Reagan, if you’re defending [ on matters of faith from the _Pope_], you are losing.
This is the ugly side of the protestant reformation. Dan Carlin did a series about a town that went to hell when the common man decided that they could interpret the word of God better than the church.
… and a bunch of smooth brains are probably just *loving* it.
What have things come to when the head of the Catholic church sounds like a raving progressive by comparison?
Did he spar with him over his porn habits too?
Mike Johnson is a false teacher and will be cast aside.
There is no “sparring” with the Pope. He knocks you out cold just by giving you the side-eye.
Take the word of a guy who washes the feet of the poor, who speak for the children of the less or take a guy who does not do his job, is gayer than a three dollar bill and would watch his own son under dress in front of him just so he can see if the kid touched him self. Yep as this atheist will tell you I will go with the foot guy all day.
Imagine the ego you have to have to think you can ‘out bible’ the Pope. I’m neither Catholic, bor really much of a Christian these days (considering what the majority of them seem to think that means). But even I would not be so full of Sh1t to think I know the bible better than the guy siting in Saint Peter’s chair.
I think Mikey’s just maga-mad that the Pope is a Blues Brother.
Mike Johnson would spar with his God if he had to defend Trump. A lap dog and it’s Master will always have a strong bond
I read it as mike Tyson at first
Mike, you absolute shitheel. You’re making me side with the Catholic church, and it’s not even 7 am yet.
I hope a horse kicks you in the dick.
Do these people really think Jesus is up there in heaven looking down like, “hell yeah bro, teargas those kids. Thats my favorite shit”
Only the Cult of Personality would position ICE detainment center in Dallas not turning on the heat so the humans chatter their teeth in misery as Godly.
Hey Johnson kid. Can you add a spank bank watch on your dad’s phone for the wails of the children coming over the walls in the south Texas internment camp?
Evangelicals think Catholics don’t really follow the Bible, they think they’re the true authority when it comes to the text. So, of course Johnson thinks he has a better grasp on the Gospels than the Pope.
There are no Christian Republicans.
When you’re arguing with the pope over human rights I’d say it’s a good sign you’re an awful person.
Supposed devout Christian shades the Pope for not licking Trumps boots as well as American Evangelicals
Mike just talk about the things you are an expert at like your masturbation app.
From their stupid book
Leviticus 19:33–34
When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
Numbers 15:14-16
The community is to have the same rules for you and for the foreigner residing among you; this is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the Lord: The same laws and regulations will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing among you.
Zechariah 7:9-12
This is what the Lord Almighty said: “Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.”
But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and covered their ears. They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the Lord Almighty was very angry.
Exodus 22:21
“Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt”
Deuteronomy 10:17-19
For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.
Deuteronomy 24:17-18
Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.
Deuteronomy 27:19
“Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.”
Proverbs 31:8-9
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Psalm 82:3–4
“Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”
Job 29:15-17
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger. I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made them drop their prey from their teeth.
Jeremiah 22:3
This is what the Lord says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Malachi 3:5
“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, who deprive the foreigners among you of justice, and who do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.
Leviticus 19:9-10
When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 14:28-29
At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year’s produce and store it in your towns, so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Ezekiel 47:21-23
“You are to distribute this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel. You are to allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners residing among you and who have children. You are to consider them as native-born Israelites; along with you they are to be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. In whatever tribe a foreigner resides, there you are to give them their inheritance,” declares the Sovereign Lord.
Micah 2:1-3
Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.
Therefore, the Lord says:
“I am planning disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.”
Jeremiah 7:3-7
This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place. Do not trust in deceptive words and say, “This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord!” If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever.
Romans 13:9–10
“The commandments, ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not covet,’ and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”
Matthew 25:35-36, 40
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.
Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.
Matthew 5:7
“Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.”
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
1 John 2:9
“Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness.”
Christian Nationalism does this, that’s why it should be deemed a terrorist organization. Their own believes and radical theories are preached to masses woven with scripture it’s arguably one of the most damaging things this country has continuously endured for over half a century now.
The pope shouldn’t waste time talking to a heretic.
Im reminded of the South Park Easter Bunny episode where Jesus is trying to talk sense to the American Cardinal (?). The guy has ninjas and at some point says, of Jesus and Kyle, “get these *Jews* out of my sight.” Still hits the mark today.
CINO Christian In Name Only
it’d be so funny if the pope excommunicated the entirety of the US Government. let’s see the stupid fucks try to buy their way into heaven afterwards.
Obviously the Catholic Church isn’t innocent either but calling yourself religious then choosing Donald Trump’s message of hate over the Pope’s messages literally just regurgitating the lessons of Jesus is crazy.
Now they will say the Pope is “woke”
Leo: “your arms are too short to box with God!”
edit:[ CM Punk ](https://youtu.be/mr8mfBRsD2s)
Thus says the LORD: Do what is right and just. Rescue the victims from the hand of their oppressors. Do not wrong or oppress the resident alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.- Jeremiah 22:3
if you find yourself debating the pope, you’ve already lost.
Why would we believe anything from the fake Christian who’s defending a literal child rapist.