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I don’t know what kind of Christian Republican Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson is, but he’s unlike any I have ever known.

What kind of Christian plays politics with the lives of babies and children born into a war-torn country the way Johnson is currently doing?

At this very moment the military of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is sending deadly missile strikes into Ukrainian civilian population centers around the country.

The day I began working on this blog a Russian ballistic missile landed on homes in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa, followed by a second missile that targeted the first responders to the first attack.

This barbaric, inhumane cruel act killed at least 16 people. Strikes like this have been indiscriminately killing babies, children, parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, the handicapped, the hospitalized, anyone and everyone in the area of these strikes since Putin invaded Ukraine two years ago.

This is what evil looks like in the modern world, but apparently not to Mike Johnson.

He is refusing to allow a vote on a Biden supported bill passed by the Senate that will continue the additional military aid critical to Ukraine’s survival. 

This is the same Mike Johnson who insists he is a Christian man called by God to be Speaker of the House, but is choosing to listen to Donald Trump instead of God in regard to helping Ukraine.  

The same Mike Johnson who claims to be pro-life as long as it works in Donald Trump’s favor.

You see, Trump hates Ukrainian President Zelenski because he refused to help him slander President Biden before the 2020 election and so he is more than happy to see Putin exacting these inhumane attacks on Ukraine. But here is the most morally despicable part. Mike Johnson is facilitating this alliance of evil between Trump and Putin.

After spending a life-time in ministry, I thought I had seen it all, but I have never seen anything that compares with the grotesque example of religious hypocrisy we see in Mike Johnson. What he is doing should disgust and anger every American who actually cares about life. 

It would be bad enough if he was doing what he was doing simple as a Republican politician, but Johnson wants everyone to believe he is God’s messenger in the lineage of Moses himself.

Apparently, Johnson doesn’t really know what the Bible he says shapes his world view actually says. If he did he might think twice about ignoring the words, “What does the Lord require of you, O man, but to do justice, be devoted to kindness, and to be humble” (Micah 6:8).

That’s what devotion to God and treating your neighbors in the way you would want them to treat you means, but not if you are more devoted to political expediency than religious faithfulness.

If Johnson wants to join the other Republicans who have lost their integrity, have no self-respect, and genuflect when Donald Trump issues his edicts of expectations, fine, go ahead, but in the name of common decency he should stop taking God’s name in vain by describing himself as a Christian.

There is nothing even remotely Christian in his failure to put the survival of the Ukrainian people before any fealty he has for Donald Trump.  

Mothers and fathers are burying their babies, children, and other relatives who Vladimir Putin is killing and all Johnson can do is stand in front of reporters and defiantly declare that he will not be rushed into an aid package for Ukraine.

“Rushed.” My God, what kind of man says that the day before the Russians bombed a Ukrainian hospital? Is he that morally depraved?

“No aid without a border bill,” he once said, referring to his insistence that dealing with the problem of immigration at the southern border be a requisite to helping Ukraine, only to turn around and reject the by-partisan bill that was negotiated by conservative Republican Oklahoma Senator James Langford as not being enough.

Has he no integrity at all?

It is not often that you can draw a straight-line connecting the machinations of Congress with whether or not people live or die, but the aid package to Ukraine is one of them. It is literally a life-line to a people who were attacked by brutal dictator who has killed every Russian dissident who dared to challenge his leadership. U.S. military aid to the Ukrainian military (as well as other NATO countries that are helping) will determine whether the Ukrainian people remain free. 

But Mike Johnson is too afraid to offend Donald Trump who may be the most morally corrupt man on the planet to let the bill be voted on. That Johnson considers himself a Christian turns his cowardice into a stunning example of religious hypocrisy that is having unimaginable consequences in Ukraine.

I recently saw a meme that said, “Women should not have to die for Mike Johnson’s religious beliefs.” I would add, and Ukraine women (and their families) should not have to die for Mike Johnson’s religious hypocrisy.