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Does This Video Show Ted Cruz’s Father Speaking in Tongues?
The Blaze ^ | Mar. 11, 2016 11:07am | Billy Hallowell

Posted on 03/11/2016 4:18:25 PM PST by drewh

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To: Tax-chick

I don’t understand what you’re saying.
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Speaking in tongues is easy. Understanding it is difficult.


21 posted on 03/11/2016 4:37:04 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (GOPe/MSM - "When we want your opinion, we will give it to you.")
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To: stocksthatgoup

*tiny snicker*

My kids could try using that as an excuse when I say their essays are word salad.


22 posted on 03/11/2016 4:38:14 PM PST by Tax-chick (Have a colonoscopy first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen the rest of the day.)
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To: drewh

During WWII, my father dropped a torpedo on a Japanese submaring and reported an oil slick and debris field after detonation.

I guess I’m guilty of murdering about 100 Japanese people.

Should I turn myself in?


23 posted on 03/11/2016 4:39:15 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (Go Ted!)
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To: Tax-chick

“I speak in tongues more than any of you”...St. Paul

Yes...I hear you. It is really sad that Ted’s religion has become a point of mockery on this website. I know we have many faiths represented here, Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Jewish, Mormon, Evangelical, and Pentecostal. There are prayers threads that are faithfully maintained for our troops, for America, for Israel, and for ANY individual FReeper who asks for prayer.

I know that when I needed prayer, because of the suicide of my husband, FR had REAMS of prayer for me from ALL of the above-mentioned groups. It was humbling and beautiful.

This sudden hostility to one group of Christians is very disturbing.


24 posted on 03/11/2016 4:44:17 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: drewh

I saw this on Drudge and honestly thought this was over the top.

Drudge hurt himself today.


25 posted on 03/11/2016 4:50:07 PM PST by dila813
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To: Tax-chick

I’d explain what he’s saying, but the Missus and I are indulging in some post-dinner serpent handling. ;)


26 posted on 03/11/2016 4:52:23 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: drewh

Turn on the Closed Captioning - I laughed so hard I woke the dog...


27 posted on 03/11/2016 4:52:26 PM PST by StAnDeliver ("Sweet, sweet tears..")
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To: drewh
People are going nuts with anything to try and destroy Ted Cruz.

Open your ears. His father is saying Hallelujah. He is not speaking in so called tongues, and what if he was?

28 posted on 03/11/2016 4:53:16 PM PST by Spunky (Trump says: I am GREEDY! GREEDY! GREEDY! I want to be GREEDY for the U.S.)
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I was brought up in the Church of God and they spoke in tongues. Their belief was that if someone spoke in tongues someone else in the church would interpret what the speaker said. My mother believed in it until the day she died.

All religions change over the years. As the public starts to make fun of people speaking in tongues churches stop doing it. The church I grew up in taught that women should not cut their hair. In the 80s they dropped the rule. I was never told that God sent them word that it was okay to go to the beauty shop.

And keep in mind the Mormons quit having plural marriages. However, they never said Joseph Smith was wrong so it’s still part of their “belief”.


29 posted on 03/11/2016 4:53:20 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Cruz voters: Wake up! Trump is our only chance of stopping the gopE. If not now, never!)
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To: drewh; All

Is the implication here that people speaking in tongues are crazy, and this somehow disqualifies Cruz from running? Is it supposed to indicate that he is a crazy, religious lunatic whose father is in a deranged evangelical cult?

Well guess what? I have the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and I speak in tongues every day, and I’m proud of it! I believe that for the true Pentecostal, tongues should flow from our lips, like living waters. And when I do, the tip of my tongue burns, like it’s on fire: Acts 2:3-4 describes the tongue of fire landing on each of the disciples accompanying the manifestation.

I guess I’m a member of the deranged evangelical Christian-right looney-bin cult, too. All my intense studying of current events and issues doesn’t count. Oh well.

In any event, I’ve seen how bad it’s gotten on FR on Trump vs. Cruz and have elected to stay out of it. Though I personally support Cruz but can live with a Trump nomination (I think we’re going to have to), but this video obviously doesn’t persuade me away from Cruz.


30 posted on 03/11/2016 4:54:01 PM PST by pcottraux ( depthsofpentecost.com)
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“The latest anti-Cruz point is that “Pentecostal” is a dirty word. I’m just flabbergasted at this, frankly..”

It’s so changed since I was here regularly.

Hate, hate, hate.


31 posted on 03/11/2016 4:54:30 PM PST by jessduntno ("Where the Hell do you put the bayonet?" - Gen. "Chesty" Puller, at a flamethrower demonstration.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

I notice you quote One Corinthians. Just kidding.

These days most churches pick and choose what parts of the Bible they’ll preach.


32 posted on 03/11/2016 4:55:05 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Cruz voters: Wake up! Trump is our only chance of stopping the gopE. If not now, never!)
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To: drewh

So now the Trump tactic is to ridicule religious people? Nice.


33 posted on 03/11/2016 4:56:30 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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The latest anti-Cruz point is that “Pentecostal” is a dirty word. I’m just flabbergasted at this, frankly.

It is when you combine it with the word "Dominionist" and "Ted is anointed to be a King to redestribute the wealth of the wicked into the hands of the righteous."

34 posted on 03/11/2016 4:57:17 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I’m drinking the demon cheap red wine from Argentina. We used to have a snake, but she died.


35 posted on 03/11/2016 4:58:34 PM PST by Tax-chick (Have a colonoscopy first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen the rest of the day.)
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To: left that other site

I hope no one took my post wrong. I don’t see what Ted’s father does in a Church has anything to do with his campaign.

However, I do have a problem with a candidate who will claim Christianity to get votes then hang out with a fraud like Kenneth Copeland.


36 posted on 03/11/2016 4:58:48 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Cruz voters: Wake up! Trump is our only chance of stopping the gopE. If not now, never!)
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To: VerySadAmerican

I’m Church of God, although I came up in the 90s after they’d dropped the legalism. (Although occasionally I see some elder women who still refuse to wear make-up, short hair, jewelry, anything other than long skirts, etc., simply as a matter of personal preference).

Church has changed over the years, and while I don’t agree with any of those practices, I am holiness and will die holiness. I still go to my church because our pastor still preaches the blood of Jesus, speaking in tongues, living free from sin, and miracles and healings. I really no longer care about denomination; the moment that changes, I will be out the door to never return. Mankind may change over the years, but God doesn’t. We wonder why the power isn’t there anymore...


37 posted on 03/11/2016 4:59:05 PM PST by pcottraux ( depthsofpentecost.com)
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To: left that other site

Dittos. I’ve had people of many religions plus just nice people rally around when I’ve had the need. I’m not liking this trend.


38 posted on 03/11/2016 5:00:17 PM PST by Tax-chick (Have a colonoscopy first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen the rest of the day.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Yeah, right.


39 posted on 03/11/2016 5:01:05 PM PST by Tax-chick (Have a colonoscopy first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen the rest of the day.)
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To: pcottraux

I’m in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. We pray in tongues, too. I have a friend at the gym who is a Church of God pastor, retired from chaplaincy in the Army.


40 posted on 03/11/2016 5:03:27 PM PST by Tax-chick (Have a colonoscopy first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen the rest of the day.)
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