Posted on 09/13/2014 10:24:21 AM PDT by all the best
Ted Cruz has made a serious mistake—one supported by sentiments of millions of American evangelicals—and it could cost the lives of many Christians.
I suppose you’ve heard by now that Ted Cruz was recently “booed off stage” for a senseless, ill-placed “stand with Israel” gaffe at a banquet for persecuted Middle East Christians. The worst part of his comments is not that they were calculated for self-serving political purposes—as others have noted already. Although that is certainly bad enough, it is hardly as offensive as the main implication of what he said. Apparently, we must agree with him, or else we are filled with hate and anti-Semitic.
When he said, “Christians have no greater ally than the Jewish state,” boos and jeers erupted from a vocal minority of the audience. It is not clear what their exact motivation or angle was, but it is clear that they did not agree fully with the political import of Cruz’s statement. The unfortunate twist came, however, with how Cruz interpreted their opposition: it has to be “hate”; it has to be “anti-semitism.”
It can’t be that Middle East Christians have a had a worse experience with Israel than the rainbows blessings Ted Cruz has learned about in some pro-“Israel” Bible study, safely tucked away in America somewhere between the pages of a Scofield Bible and a Left Behind novel, with hands laid-on by a charismatic millenarian prophesying about blessing “Abraham’s seed.” It can’t be that Middle East Christians are stuck in a much messier political scenario than is convenient for American evangelicals to comprehend within the box of their tidy eschatologies.
Whatever it is, it can’t be more complex than can be solved by the type of shameless political demagoguery you would expect from a Clinton. If you don’t follow...
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And that's a good thing.
/johnny
good grief -
This author certainly exhibits his anti Israel bias. I believe the boos were from muslims who were there, not Christians
This author certainly exhibits his anti Israel bias. I believe the boos were from muslims who were there, not Christians
So Cruz was wrong to state that Israel is a better friend to Christians than Muslims? That is right, isn’t it? Doesn’t ISIS demand Christians denounce Israel before murdering them? Not.
Ted has the left scared to death.
/johnny
The person who wrote this tripe is no conservative, and it angers me that he deigns to lecture us on how conservatives should behave.
It is not senseless, it is precisely the opposite of senseless.
Either America stands for something or it doesn’t.
Either the audience hecklers decide to become Christians or they will remain condemned to Hell for their anti-Semitism (Genesis 12:3 and many more reasons).
Cruz exposed the IslamoNazis (or rather, he permitted them to expose themselves) to public view. GOOD GOING, Senator Cruz!
We need a thorough house-cleaning to remove all the Satanic scum from the USA!
May God Bless America, Pray for America please.
You’re right about that....don’t worry they’ll be right along!!! Really hard to distinguish them from DU trolls!!!
I’m no Cruz hater.
But I cannot understand many FReepers infatuation with the junior freshman Senator from Texas.
We presently have the junior freshman Senator from Illinois in the White House.
Junior Senators with no executive experience are not Presidential timber.
“...one supported by sentiments of millions of American evangelicals—and it could cost the lives of many Christians”
So now the liberal press is accusing Cruz of killing Christians.
I think the administration or whatever it is, has done well enough in accomplishing this goad all by itself...
False premise.
So, how many Christians have the Jews shot into trenches en masse, beheaded, raped, sold into slavery?
Zero, you say?
Then who’s doing those things?
Why it’s the bloody MOHAMMEDAN savages, you ignorant MORONS!!!
Sorry. I was on a roll.
Certainly wannabe Muslims. Or perhaps just dhimmis that believe another Crusade is on the way.
I don’t think that comparing their resume’s would turn out well for Obama.
"Shame on you Ted Cruz: what you did is exemplify how the worst of the left and liberals speak. Conservatives, and especially Christians, are supposed to rise far above this abysmal standard."
It appears you left your sarc tag off!!!
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