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Trump, Cruz, and Evangelical Authenticity
Joeseph Castleberry.com ^ | J.Castleberry

Posted on 12/30/2015 5:13:45 PM PST by VinL

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To: roamer_1
"Trump? Not this redneck. Nor any of the rednecks I know."

It's the same here. Central Virginia is redneck country, and Cruz is very well-liked around here. Most of the men I know are too smart to fall for the Manhattanite's act.

And we're honored that Ted announced his run just ten miles up the road. :)

61 posted on 12/30/2015 6:34:54 PM PST by CatherineofAragon (("A real conservative will bear the scars...will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz))
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To: CatherineofAragon

Proud rednecks aren’t really rednecks.


62 posted on 12/30/2015 6:35:51 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: VinL

Midgets...you’re so generous of spirit, LOL


63 posted on 12/30/2015 6:35:52 PM PST by CatherineofAragon (("A real conservative will bear the scars...will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz))
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To: CatherineofAragon

Cat oughtta know about that.


64 posted on 12/30/2015 6:36:29 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: roamer_1

When Trump’s current support demographic is profiled... it screams redneck.


65 posted on 12/30/2015 6:37:39 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
IF it was as put. And there's your problem. The ENTIRE pile of nonsense comes from that cut up eight minutes (or less). How do you determine context? You can't. All you can do is listen to him in greater context to get his jist. As I said, there are hours of his sermons to draw from. If you think you do him justice condemning him off of a hit piece, then you have a strange sense of justice.
66 posted on 12/30/2015 6:37:44 PM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: roamer_1

Well I “was” trying to be charitable by proposing how it might be hyperbole, but normally hyperbole doesn’t form part of serious spiritual statements.

Where there’s smoke there could well be fire. You don’t propose something like that in any sane church I know of. If it were an oddball statement it should be that much more opposed as being out of character.


67 posted on 12/30/2015 6:40:05 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: CatherineofAragon

Yeah, I’m like that. -:)


68 posted on 12/30/2015 6:44:08 PM PST by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, then to consent to wrong.)
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To: roamer_1

And anywhere I want to know where this particular meme is going.

Sometimes a church following looks pretty blessed mainstream until you bump into a VERY inverted statement. I had that experience with a Chinese church on the web. They were singing about what looked like a biblical gospel, if a bit oddly phrased (which I chalked up to translation) — it had me going even — and then boom, I saw it in website text. They believe Christ came back to China already as a woman.

I just would like to know more about this. Inversions of the order that God set up in the world aren’t trivial theology.


69 posted on 12/30/2015 6:46:13 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: CatherineofAragon
It's the same here. Central Virginia is redneck country, and Cruz is very well-liked around here. Most of the men I know are too smart to fall for the Manhattanite's act.

Yeah... I keep hearing how Trump's gonna roll through the South like thunder...

And then I try to remember the last time the South voted for a New York Yankee... If it does happen, I'll be looking toward heaven, because I know the end has come... : )

I literally don't know one person up here in the Rockies that is for Trump. Haven't seen a single cap or bumper sticker. But most everyone I know is for Cruz.

Must be something in the water north of Dixie... *rolls eyes*

70 posted on 12/30/2015 6:46:29 PM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
When Trump’s current support demographic is profiled... it screams redneck.

Literally no one I know. Not one... Cowboys, hillbillies, shop dogs, construction, truckers... not a one.

71 posted on 12/30/2015 6:49:44 PM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: roamer_1

http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/whoa-this-map-proves-just-how-much-america-loves-donald-trump-must-see/

This has to be at least as good as the polka dots.


72 posted on 12/30/2015 6:50:36 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: roamer_1

What is your method of survey?


73 posted on 12/30/2015 6:51:03 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
This has to be at least as good as the polka dots.

Yeah... polls mean nothing.

74 posted on 12/30/2015 6:53:45 PM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: VinL

Before that, he questioned Dr. Carson’s religion.


75 posted on 12/30/2015 6:53:57 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
What is your method of survey?

This thing we have called talking. Rednecks do it all the time.

76 posted on 12/30/2015 6:55:08 PM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: TBP

To Trump if it isn’t some vanilla mainstream American thing, it doesn’t count. He might be thinking of some core like Presbyterian-Methodist-Baptist.

FWIW he was not the only one who got going on Seventh Day Adventists.


77 posted on 12/30/2015 6:56:12 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: roamer_1

Documented how? Do you go asking everybody about Cruz? Or do you assume that if you do not hear rah rah Trump then it is an opposition to Trump?

And even yet... I still want to know about this anointing thing.


78 posted on 12/30/2015 6:57:44 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: VinL

;)

Well, all the trolling in the world won’t stop the Cruz trend.

As Brent Bozell said, “Make no mistake: Cruz is not surging. He is winning the primaries.”

The gnashing of teeth will only increase.


79 posted on 12/30/2015 7:10:33 PM PST by CatherineofAragon (("A real conservative will bear the scars...will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz))
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To: roamer_1

You know what, come to think of it, I haven’t seen any Trump stickers, either. None at all.


80 posted on 12/30/2015 7:11:48 PM PST by CatherineofAragon (("A real conservative will bear the scars...will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz))
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