By Selwyn Duke

As with George Washington before him, new House Speaker Mike Johnson could be seen not long ago on bended knee, in his case on the House floor, praying for divine guidance. It reflects a dedication to and openness about his faith that has attracted much, and varied, attention. The New York Times wrote late last month that Johnson has “aligned himself with a newer cohort of conservative Christianity that some describe as Christian nationalism,” while a more recent American Thinker title states that the speaker’s faith “Calls Us to Greater Integrity.” It’s a pseudo-elite-vs.-street dichotomy that’s predictable today: The quintessential establishment outlet the Times carries the secularist banner while the revolutionary media supports a faith whose deposit of Truth is (when considered in its entirety), in most every time and place, revolutionary.

But what is the Truth? Should Johnson’s Christianity be feared or revered, suppressed or buttressed, flouted or touted?

Perhaps this matter can be made clear by understanding a simple truth, one most shocking to moderns’ ears: All just law has a basis in what we call “religion”….

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