The Louisiana Republican's team previously said it returned all the money it received from a company predominantly owned by Russian nationals in 2018.

A group of Russian nationals were able to donate to newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson’s campaign in 2018 by funneling the money through a U.S. company.

The Texas-based American Ethane company previously donated tens of thousands of dollars to the campaigns of Louisiana Republicans including Johnson, who was voted by the House to replace Rep. Kevin McCarthy as Speaker on Wednesday following three weeks of GOP chaos in the lower chamber.

While American Ethane was run in 2018 by American John Houghtaling, 88 percent of the firm was owned by three Russian nationals—Konstantin Nikolaev, Mikhail Yuriev, and Andrey Kunatbaev.

  • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    93·
    1 year ago

    “defending religious freedom,[…]and biblicial values.”

    I am a Christian [agnostic]. Bruv that shit is not how anything work

      • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        Basically, the belief that there’s a lot you can’t be sure of, but you choose to believe in the core of Chrisitianity: God and Jesus as extant and important entities, to put it a bit clinically.

        Christian agnosticism Wikipedia

      • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
        32·
        1 year ago

        Gnosis and Theism aren’t mutually exclusive. Gnosis is knowing and theism is believing. Most people who claim to be atheist are “agnostic atheist”.

        Because they don’t believe in any gods but they can’t fully know for a fact there isn’t one. Though Richard Dawkins flirted with declaring himself a “gnostic atheist” many years back (not sure if he settled on it).

        An agnostic Christian would probs be someone who chooses to believe in God and Jesus but not to know for certain. Within that there’s varying degrees of how much they choose to follow the teachings.