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Billionaire Brothers Donate $15 Million to Ted Cruz Super PAC to Further Their Religious Agenda
Patheos' The Friendly Atheist Blog ^ | July 26, 2015 | Hemant Mehta, editor

Posted on 07/26/2015 3:02:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 07/26/2015 3:02:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Okay by me…...


2 posted on 07/26/2015 3:05:41 PM PDT by basil
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The “friendly atheist” seems tied to a particular party.


3 posted on 07/26/2015 3:07:59 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The white hetero patriarchy council approves.


4 posted on 07/26/2015 3:09:01 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So?

Get back to me after you have offed Soros, oh Obamahole sniffing athiest.


5 posted on 07/26/2015 3:10:58 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

it’s the nature of the beast. running for president costs a sh*tload of money.

the question is not, and never has been, whether raising the money is somehow disqualifying. the question is whether the money buys the donor influence; whether the candidate is changed by the money being donated. (See: Hillary Clinton)

I don’t think any sane person would attempt to say that about ted cruz. if the man has nothing else going for him (and he manifestly does), he has unquestionable integrity.


6 posted on 07/26/2015 3:11:57 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: basil

Move over, Koch Brothers.

Harry Reid has NEW boogiemen to disturb his sleep.


7 posted on 07/26/2015 3:13:43 PM PDT by alloysteel (If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers.)
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To: JohnBrowdie

“If you can’t eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women, take their money and then vote against them you’ve got no business being up here.” - Jesse Unruh


8 posted on 07/26/2015 3:14:33 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What are they 7th Day Adventist Fundamentalist or what? sounds a lot like Jerry Falwell on steroids!


9 posted on 07/26/2015 3:18:08 PM PDT by hondact200
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

7th-Day Adventists are often absolutely complete nut-jobs. But I don’t have to agree with someone’s religious doctrine to be grateful that they are ponying up to prevent the destruction of America.

The big question, though: Is this $15 million part of the Cruz’ initial hawl, or is this on top of it?


10 posted on 07/26/2015 3:19:27 PM PDT by dangus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Jim Robinson; All
“We need a true leader in Washington,” Farris’ younger brother, Dan, 59, said in the statement. “A leader that will stand up for biblical morals…”

WORKS FOR ME!

11 posted on 07/26/2015 3:19:37 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own <blockqurisk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Looking at the site’s comments, they must purge the place of conservative-leaning atheists, or I’m a rarer beast than I thought.


12 posted on 07/26/2015 3:22:12 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Voting is acting white.)
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This coming from a guy who supports Democrats who no doubt will get Planned Parenthood donations, funded in large part by the sale of aborted baby body parts. Yes, but Ted Cruz is getting money by “evil” religious zealots who want to turn the nation into one giant “church”. Considering the immoral cesspool the nation has become under the left that might not be such a bad idea.


13 posted on 07/26/2015 3:22:49 PM PDT by dowcaet
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From the posted article.

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Their actual religious beliefs are a little unorthodox. The Wilks belong to (and preach at)
the Assembly of Yahweh 7th Day in Texas, “which preaches a mix of Christianity and Judaism
and holds the Bible as infallible.”
]end snip


14 posted on 07/26/2015 3:24:41 PM PDT by deport
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Great news! Cruz and Trump should team up to destroy Jeb, and then Walker — EARLY, so the GOPe is left decimated, and the base can re-assert itself, as in 1980.


15 posted on 07/26/2015 3:26:45 PM PDT by montag813 (Bring Back Tar and Feathers)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Atheists are indeed a funny breed. We all know what is said about Atheists and fox holes.

My good friend, an Atheist, has been hospitalized for three weeks with Guillain-Barre and is mostly paralyzed. She can breathe on her own and use her hands somewhat. I asked if we could pray for her and her unequivocal, immediate answer was “Please do.” We have asked all the praying people we know to remember her and our family is consistently praying for her.

Years ago she told me “I don’t believe in God,” and I said “Well, God Believes in you.” She looked at me a long time bemusedly. At the end of the day most Atheists are not deeply sincere about their expressed belief.


16 posted on 07/26/2015 3:27:04 PM PDT by Calpublican (Boehner and McConnell are corrupt.)
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To: hondact200

They got their money out of the Fracking business which they
sold in 2011 for some $3.4 billion.


17 posted on 07/26/2015 3:28:35 PM PDT by deport
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Comments?"

A distraction is imperative to divert the public mind from the grossly unethical and illegal activities of Planned Parenthood.

18 posted on 07/26/2015 3:35:42 PM PDT by YHAOS
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To: deport

I checked out the whatever you want to call them, Came into existence in 1969. The brothers obtained there wealth by bricklayers (Masons), and also Fracking of Oil. They sold their business to a Singapore based business. The Farris Guy is in the Forbes 400 and the guy is only the 1537 richest guy in the world. Yes there will be something to worry about as they would probably want some of their religious tenents shoved down our throats kinda like the Moslems and Sharia Law too.

Sounds like more whackos!


19 posted on 07/26/2015 3:36:34 PM PDT by hondact200
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Absolutely the right thing.

I never heard of these guys but they know how to be good stewards of their money.

Ted Cruz is a stalwart on religious liberty and all things Constitutional, isn’t he? The Wilks brothers certainly think so.


20 posted on 07/26/2015 3:36:35 PM PDT by Paulie (America without Christianity is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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