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Boehner: God told him Paul Ryan should run for House speaker

I think it's the height of arrogance to believe that God chooses sides in petty mortal political positioning.
 
Alyssa T. said:
Is this something that people just say, but don't really mean? Or is he really, really serious that he thinks god told him this? I don't get it. Why wouldn't god just tell Ryan to go for the job? It still doesn't make sense that god would care at all, but if he did I would think he could call up the right person and tell him.
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To be charitabe, I'm guessing that if he actually believes it, what happened is that he was having an internal monologue.....felt a strong desire to take responsibility for his party....and then decided to ascribe that to God.

But who knows? Maybe he really is nuts and hallucinated God's voice. Maybe God exists and is a moron. Maybe it's just a psychological maladaptive defense: if he fails, he can tell himself that it was God's will and not his own missteps that caused the failure.







Most likely, he's just a politician playing to the base. He picked those words because they'll resonate with people who genuinely believe that there is a being that exists in all points in both reality and unreality, all times, all untimes, all places, all unplaces, all could-have-beens and never could have beens, across a vastness so vast that infinity weeps in fear.....

.....who just so happens to care who leads a confederacy of dunces for a few years.





I suppose it's better than thinking such an entity cares who wins a high school football game. Slightly.
 
Is that god holding a credit card or a cheque book? If so I don't think he believes in the same kind of 'god' that others do.

Rather Boehner's god has a street address, a bank account, and contributes political donations.
 
So we have the libs claiming that the Republicans will complain about anything (CNBC debate) while they complain about mundane stupid stuff themselves. Who cares what God did or didn't tell John Boehner? It's only an election issue for the people that never intended on voting Republican anyway.
 
Alyssa T. said:
Election issue? No. Mental health issue, maybe.
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Belief in an interventionist supreme being is not a mental illness (I am assuming you were going in that direction).
 
Fiddytree said:
Belief in an interventionist supreme being is not a mental illness (I am assuming you were going in that direction).
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Was Jim Jones mentally ill? God told him to wipe out a score of people by drinking poison Kool-Aid.
 
Fiddytree said:
Belief in an interventionist supreme being is not a mental illness (I am assuming you were going in that direction).
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It is if you really think that being cares about the internal decisions of political parties.

I was brought up in a very religious family, so I am not bashing a belief in god. I am seriously questioning the legitimacy of anyone who tries to tell us that god is talking to them about such trivial things.
 
danarhea said:
I'm OK with what Boehner said. At least he didn't say "The Devil made me do it".
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As a Christian, I'm okay with it as well. But a lot of these republicans better stop saying that God told them to do something and its not true.
 
OrphanSlug said:
"Boehner says he told Ryan: "This isn't about what you want to do. It's about what God wants you to do. And God has told me, he wants you to" run for speaker."

Oh FFS! :doh
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Meanie! Look what you did.

 
Jack Fabulous said:
The moral of the story seems to be that it's alright to go to church and believe in God... just don't ever talk about it.
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Yeah - people seem to get really uptight about it. Look, if the big man upstairs wants to talk to Boehner about the next Speaker of the House, I say God can do whatever he wants, speak to whomever he wants and say whatever he wants. :shrug:
 
digitusmedius said:
Boehner: God told him Paul Ryan should run for House speaker | OregonLive.com

If you pardon the religious reference, Jesus Effin' Christ!!!!!. The republican party is officially certifiably drunk on 'ligion. This bible-thumping streak is now so fully ingrained in the "God's Own Party" that they drop these lines as if they sound perfectly rational. You can't distinguish these statements from those of the imams in Iran or the rest of the islamic world. Thus is the perfidious rightwing religious control of it so complete that they have no compunction to utter these things as if it's only natural to commingle religious fantasy and government. Our founders may have referred to a "creator" or even "god" in public speeches or documents on occasion but you will never find a single one of them publicly claiming that they communicated directly with a supernatural spirit. They would have been consider insane by their peers. In fact, this kind of talk was relegated only to the lunatic fringes* of politics until just the past generation or so of politicians. I'm remin*ded yet again of that famous saying, "When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and waving a cross."**

* I can think of only example where someone who talked like this actually got nominated for the presidency: The great isolationist--anti-colonialist-populist, William Jennings Bryan, by the Democrats!! He was fairly easily beaten three times by big-money republicans ('twas always and ever thus) of the late 19th and early 20th century who openly mocked his publicly invocations of religion. The only election he didn't run for between 1896 and 1908 was against Roosevelt in 1904. Roosevelt actually ran and won on many of the anti-corporate ideas that Bryan espoused.

**often attributed to Sinclair Lewis without proof. Whoever said it, nailed it.
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Really now! Why didn't god just appoint him?
 
rcart76 said:
As a Christian, I'm okay with it as well. But a lot of these republicans better stop saying that God told them to do something and its not true.
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Yeah, I think this is what's called taking god's name in vain (which is often confused with cursing using the word "god" which is not, at least in the case of the Bible god's actual name). The god of that Bible apparently takes a pretty dim view of humans who try to do its speaking for it.
 
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