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I am a Christian and I for most of the last 30 years, I have taught adults in Sunday school. But I must confess that Johnson’s facile assumption that his ascension to the speakership is the will of God scares the ****.out of me.

For some reason it brings to mind Jacob Bronowski’s quoting Oliver Cromwell, in a PBS series filmed years ago on the grounds of Auschwitz, where many members of Bronowski’s family died.

Cromwell, addressing the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, said, “Is it therefore infallibility agreeable to the Word of God all that you say? I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken”

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