What does Speaker Johnson truly covet?
By Dave Read, Lenox, MA, Feb. 5, 2025 – There is myriad textual material believed by untold masses to have been dictated from the superhuman realm, to be taken as law sourced to the core and cause of all creation – whether or not God is the name ascribed to the law giver.
As every infant is born in wonder, with instinct but without intelligence, every person will either become author of their personal story, or will shape their life to fit within a story told by parents and the elders.
Despite laboratories and libraries rife with evidence that we are stardust, that every person living and dead is made of matter created by an explosion a long long time ago, some people prefer to measure life by the poetry of scripture, rather than by the instruments of science.
There is a dinosaur fossil on display at the school founded by Jerry Falwell, Liberty University, that is identified as being 2,000-3,000 years old, even though science dates the age of dinosaurs to have been at least 65,000,000 years ago.
That puts science in conflict with the owners of the school founded in response to the same 1971 Powell Memo that begat the Heritage Foundation, who use the poetry of the Old Testament as a scientific tool to measure the universe.
Imagine a stroll from Coney Island to the Golden Gate
I stumbled upon a video recently wherein evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins does the math to illustrate the errancy of the illiberal instructors of Liberty U. When transposed from temporal duration to linear distance, if those Christian scientists were asked not how long ago did dinosaurs roam the earth but how far San Francisco is from New York City, they would tell you the city by the bay is twenty-seven feet from the big apple.
At least they no longer believe the earth is flat, nor that it is the center of the universe, around which the sun, moon, and stars rotate. As assuring as it is to know Speaker Johnson knows how to navigate cellular space, it is as shocking to know he installed an app on it to document the lusty thoughts of himself and his son.
Although I’m not sure the relevance, the Speaker’s admission reminds us of the time President Carter used an interview with Playboy magazine to confess to virtual adultery.
Perhaps the Speaker is as covetous as he is horny, his eyes fixed not on his heavenly master’s throne, but on the one occupied by his mortal master from Yonkers?