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Before Donald Trump, the sad history of when Christians anointed another political bully
Washington Post ^ | 2-22-2016 | Joseph Loconte

Posted on 02/22/2016 6:20:01 AM PST by Citizen Zed

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To: DWW1990

Not yet, although only God can judge hearts.

But let us pray for him


41 posted on 02/22/2016 7:11:35 AM PST by chesley (Obama -- Muslim or dhimmi? And does it matter?)
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To: Lorianne
The Muslims weren’t really a problem yet ... in 782.

Quite the opposite. The Battle of Tours in 732, 50 years earlier, was won by Charlemagne's grandfather, Charles Martel.

If that battle had gone the other way, all of Europe would have fallen to Islam. There would be no such thing as Christianity or Western Civilization today, which I suspect the Washington Post would approve of.

42 posted on 02/22/2016 7:11:40 AM PST by Ditto
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To: Citizen Zed

As long as we’re drawing historical comparisons, let’s take a look at Vidkun Quisling vs. Barack Obama. Or Neville Chamberlain vs. John Kerry. Or Al Capone vs. Hillary Clinton. Hugo Chavez vs. Bernie Sanders. Josef Goebbels vs. the author of this claptrap.


43 posted on 02/22/2016 7:15:59 AM PST by IronJack
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To: Citizen Zed

Political bully: LBJ


44 posted on 02/22/2016 7:19:53 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: Citizen Zed

Saxons=GOPe ?


45 posted on 02/22/2016 7:20:10 AM PST by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

You left out Stalin and Pol Pot.


46 posted on 02/22/2016 7:21:59 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: reagandemocrat

I must be too naive for politics, or too smart. This stuff is becoming so transparent and predictable that I can’t believe people actually use these tactics and that others buy into them.

In an otherwise fascinating political season, this stuff is becoming very boring.

-JT


47 posted on 02/22/2016 7:28:18 AM PST by Jamestown1630
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To: Citizen Zed
The talking heads still don't get it. In large part, America has figured it out. For the last quarter of a century, WE the Republic, have been denied the choice to say NO to socialism.

It has been a setup. The fix was always in. We, the Republic, have been loosing a war of financial attrition for decades. We, the Republic are engaged in a war with those who govern us. Drastic measures are required to defeat this enemy in order to stop the bleeding that each of us are seeing in the depreciation of our savings, the constant onslaught of taxes, fees, and licenses. Each of them designed to remove our ability to live free.

If a slave is a person who works for no money, then a paid person who works with no money left for savings or investment is therefore a slave.

The Communists are very good at planning each move, they have been at it for over sixty years, to bury us. They are so close to succeeding.

Trump has stepped in and has sensed our rage.We want to throw our shoes into the machinery. We want to turn over the apple carts and toss tea into the harbor. Trump is giving us a voice. He is giving our children and grandchildren a fighting chance of enjoying the life that our parents fought and spilled blood in Europe and Japan so as to impart liberty to ourselves.

No, we will no longer hide in the shadow of political correctness.

No, we will no longer stand idle in the face of the globalist Red Menace.

No, we will not play the game of choosing which Socialist will rob our children.

No, we will not play the game of choosing which Socialist will import an army of decapitating, lawless, savages into our home to eradicate Freedom and the American Way.

ANY and EVERY politician who will not build a wall is declaring he/she DOES NOT CARE IF YOU DIE!

I do not think Trump is a conservative.

I do not think Trump is morally pious and pure.

I do not think Trump is void of indiscretions or mistakes.

I do believe that any candidate that is a true conservative, morally pure, pious, and has walked the straight and narrow...would not stand a chance against the the globalist red menace that is systematically deconstructing our nation.

No, far from it.

Right now we need our own paladin of chaotic malice with a depraved sense of overly vengeful justice that will stand not for giving quarter. Right now we need our own Son of a Bitch glorious bastard, faults and all. We need to stomp out the treachery of political correctness that perpetuates racial discontent and has created Europe-istan, a Nuclear Iran, as well as ushering in a new world order of penniless servitude consisting of the entire earthly population bowing to but a few of the elite socialist megalomaniacs.

We need our own monster.

Ted Cruz may well be as advertised. No one knows. Four years ago, no one knew who he was.

He is young, deploy the Trump Bomb now, it is an ugly weapon of mass destruction that will result in some collateral damage, but it is required.

Alas, we have run out of time.

It will take many Ted Cruz clones to restore order in the aftermath.

48 posted on 02/22/2016 7:40:57 AM PST by RavenLooneyToon (Trump or Cruz, if you don't vote then STFU and leave the country, non-voters =non-Republic.)
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To: tired&retired

Poignant. What will be, will be.

History truly does repeat itself because there is nothing new under the sun. I can’t wait until this era is over and the Messiah will come to rule the world. He feels the same about Jerusalem as we do about DC. I must admit though, I do face east to pray while thinking about Him being in Jerusalem (head covered ‘n all).


49 posted on 02/22/2016 8:05:51 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Lorianne
The Muslims weren't really a problem yet...in 782.

Actually, four years earlier Charlemagne had been fighting Muslims in Spain (see The Song of Roland, admittedly not reliable on numbers). His grandfather Charles Martel turned back the Saracen conquest of France at the battle of Tours in 732.

50 posted on 02/22/2016 8:14:58 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: cloudmountain
ANOTHER Suppiluliuma I?

Isn't that another one of Godwin's laws? The first one to make a comparison to Hittites loses?

51 posted on 02/22/2016 8:16:06 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: cloudmountain
ANOTHER Suppiluliuma I?

Isn't that another one of Godwin's laws? The first one to make a comparison to Hittites loses?

52 posted on 02/22/2016 8:16:07 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Citizen Zed

Well that’s a stretch. LOL!


53 posted on 02/22/2016 8:17:59 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Citizen Zed

What people don’t realize is that when a nation commits abominations God will not protect it. He CAN’T because he is just. He allows consequences. Yes, 9-11 was a wake up call, but have we as a nation repented? duh.

Don’t expect anyone to be able to fight against the wrath of God that is coming. It can be delayed with repentance but it will come. The only difference between now and when other nations were invaded because of human sacrifice is that the abominations are world wide. Only 6 nations are 100% pro-life. Great tribulation? I think so.

During that time there will be 10 kings given power of all the nations. I think there will be 10 Unions set up like the EU (google North American Union).

So no matter who becomes President, unless the abominations are outlawed, start prepping.


54 posted on 02/22/2016 8:22:08 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Citizen Zed

That’s really reaching. Trump’s critics have descended into madness.


55 posted on 02/22/2016 8:24:16 AM PST by Ted Grant
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To: Citizen Zed

No two people are exactly alike, but the spirit that drives them may be. Trump is a patriotic nationalist. But so is Putin as many other world leaders are also. However, Trump does not embrace the concepts of American principles in the same spirit that the the Founders did. It may be necessary for Trump to win the presidency for a great number of Americans to to find out by absolute failure, that absent the originalist spirit — inspired by God — that birthed the republic, there is no redemption for America from either the right or the left. Obama set up the dominoes in line for the fall of America. It still may happen before he leaves office. If not, if the next president stumbles in to office drunk on his pride and ego, he is bound to set those dominoes in motion by his recklessness. Once that happens, there will be no stopping them. It will be the end of the republic. I always was concerned that it might end under Obama; and it may still. But how ironic that it could be a Republican who dismantled the corrupt establishment and supplanted it with the eventual destruction of everything else.


56 posted on 02/22/2016 8:26:29 AM PST by inpajamas (Texas Akbar!!!!!!!)
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To: grania

They were my ancestors and no worse than anyone else

By the time of the Viking raiders a century later the Saxons in England were the civilization


57 posted on 02/22/2016 8:27:19 AM PST by wardaddy (Boy the nasties are sure out in force here.....I hope someone is saving this...Trump Cruz that order)
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To: Citizen Zed

That comparison to Charlemagne would be considered a negative is mind-boggling.


58 posted on 02/22/2016 8:30:18 AM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: Biggirl

When Judah was practicing child sacrifice God used the Babylonians to fulfill their judgment. You know, the Babylon located in Iraq? Judah was invaded. Lamentations was written during that time. Today, there are only 6 nations that outlaw pre-born genocide.


59 posted on 02/22/2016 8:31:24 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Lorianne

Charlemagne’s grandpa had already engaged the Satan worshippers

Charles Martel crushed the North African Muslim horde at Tours some years before and stopped their advance pretty much at the Pyrennes

They were probing Europe already

Tours Lepanto and Vienna

Three places in our history where being Christian mattered

And that’s just 3


60 posted on 02/22/2016 8:32:26 AM PST by wardaddy (Boy the nasties are sure out in force here.....I hope someone is saving this...Trump Cruz that order)
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