Thread by @dogemperor

@rothschildmd Something to ask Johnson (that would make a LOT of people go "WTF" but there's a *specific* reason):

Ask him who Cain's daddy was.

Yes, I am being Perfectly Serious, and yes, there is a Teachable Moment Reason why if we're going Bible Quiz with Speaker Johnson to ask this

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@rothschildmd You see:

If Johnson says "Adam", ok, so just run of the mill Christian Nationalist.

But somehow my Spidey Sense, honed over living and spending far too much of my life with New Apostolic Reformation Christian Nationalist relatives, thinks that's not how he'd answer

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@rothschildmd There are two other ways he could answer, neither of which are good.

He could actively attempt to avoid the question, which is in and of itself a tell he holds a particular belief about Cain's parentage which he also knows is Not Something He Should Mention Publicly

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@rothschildmd And the other possibility (which, well, oh gods, if he does, this is going to be a Hell of a Teachable Moment for the press) is...he goes with the answer that is a distinctive of the New Apostolic Reformation and Christian Identity and other Lanhamist-derived groups...

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@rothschildmd which, well...the Lanhamist account of the Temptation of Eve basically has Cain as *Satan's literal bastard child*, and claims that after Eve had her apple break she *literally had sex with the Serpent* and somehow got PREGNANT and had Cain nine months later.

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@rothschildmd This particular, uh, *distinctive* heterodoxy (known popularly as "Serpent Seed" theology)...well, in its original version, and in its Christian Identity version, it is *INCREDIBLY* anti-Semitic

The NAR version tones it down to "spiritual" sons of God/Satan, but still

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@rothschildmd And yes, if Johnson does in fact indicate by his answer that he thinks Cain is the result of Eve yiffing the Serpent per Lanham's Furry Erotica Bible Fanfiction, that's when you might follow up with "...and who would Adam's father be, then?"

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@rothschildmd (Yes, there's a specific reason I ask THAT, too. Pretty much all the Lanham-derived groups, including CI and the NAR, have a belief that Adam was...God's second son (after Christ), and thus all the Elect are "manifest sons of God" (this was actually the FIRST NAR branding)

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@rothschildmd And honestly if he gives any answer other than "Well, Adam didn't HAVE a father, God created him", well...congratulations, you found a member of a New Apostolic Reformation Christian Nationalist "cuckoo church" that's hijacked a Southern Baptist congregation from within!

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@rothschildmd (In this case, I should note "cuckoo" in the sense of "an actual brood parasite; one which lays their "eggs" in non-traditionally-Pentecostal churches, usually via lay ministry groups and "charismatic" worship services, and then takes over the church nest".)

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@rothschildmd (And yes, I have to note this, as this IS the religious movement that gave us about 85% or more of the core lore for QAnonsense, and quite a lot of NAR churches have latched on to QAnonsense as external confirmation of their Conspiracy Theology.

I wish I was kidding.)

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@rothschildmd And, well...ask that question, or those two, and if ol' Rep. Johnson answers like I think he will, after the reporters have picked their jaws up off the floor by hearing a sitting member of Congress spew out more guanopsychosis than the Carlsbad Caverns on a summer night...

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@rothschildmd Well, that's when we have the Teachable Moment of explaining about the NAR, and Christian Nationalism, and that they're the sister movement of a literal KKK/neo-Nazi denomination and YES that's the madness your Speaker just shat out

(You are welcome to share my writings)

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