Former Clinton advisor and Democrat strategist James Carville claimed in a bizarre rant on Bill Maher’s show that Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson was a bigger threat than the terrorist group Al-Qaeda.
Bill Maher also attacked Johnson, calling him a “Christian Nationalist.”
“Mike Johnson and what he believes is one of the greatest threats we have today to the United States,” Carville told Maher on Friday.
“I promise you, I know these people.”
“You’re talking about Christian nationalists,” Maher said.
“And let me tell you something: The Speaker of the House, they got probably at least two Supreme Court justices, maybe more, don’t kid yourself,” Carville said.
“People in the press have no idea who this guy is… This is a fundamental threat to the United States. It is a fundamental thing,” he added.
“They don’t believe in the Constitution. They’ll tell you that. Mike Johnson himself says what is democracy but two wolves and a lamb having lunch? That’s what they really, really believe,” he said.
“And to say, ‘Oh, come on, man. It’s just some crazy sh*t.'”
“No, no. They believe that. And they’re coming and they’ve been doing it forever.”
“They’re funded. They’re funded. They’re relentless, and, you know, they probably won’t win for a while but they might,” Carville added.
“And if they do, the whole country blows a gasket,” Carville added.
Bill Maher then went on a full frontal attack on Mike Johnson’s Christian beliefs.
“Mike thinks God personally chooses, raises up our leaders, which is a very dangerous thought because then when you lose an election you think it’s just another of God’s tricks to test your faith,” Maher said during his monologue.
“Mike says we began as a Christian nation. We didn’t. Did you miss that day in homeschool, Mike?”
“If you don’t know that the Pilgrims came here to get away from the Church of England, then you don’t know, literally, the first thing about our country.”
Maher added:
“Mike says being a Christian nation is our tradition and it’s who we are as a people. It’s not.”
“We’re the people who have a First Amendment which says ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,'” he said.
“And we have an Article Six which says ‘no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office.'”
“So I take these people at their word when they say that they think we should be Christian nationalists. But then they have to take John Adams at his word when he wrote, ‘The government of the United States of America is not in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.'”
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Earlier this month, Johnson issued a fierce response to the recent liberal attacks on his Christian faith.
“I’m not surprised by that. I mean, it comes with the territory. It doesn’t bother me at all,” he added.
“I just wish they would get to know me,” he continued.
“I’m not trying to establish Christianity as the national religion or something. That’s not what this is about at all.”
Johnson then discussed how the Bible commands us to show peace and love toward all people.
“If you truly believe in the Bible’s commands and seek to follow them, it’s impossible to be a hateful person because the greatest command in the Bible is that you love God with everything you have, and you love your neighbor as yourself,” he said.
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