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Cruz: US Built on Christian Values, Anyone Who Says Different is 'Lying'
Breitbart ^ | 26 Sep 2014, 9:10 AM PDT | Kristin Tate

Posted on 09/26/2014 1:02:53 PM PDT by SoConPubbie

HOUSTON, Texas -- Speaking at the  Values Voters Summit, put on by the Family Research Council, Texas Senator Ted Cruz gave a passionate speech about religious liberty and faith. Invoking personal stories from his own life, the senator highlighted the power of hope in the darkest of times. 

"Our values are fundamentally American," Cruz told the audience. "This country remains a country built on...Christian values. And anyone who tells you differently is lying to you."

Cruz spoke about his own father, whose life was drastically changed by the power of faith. 

Cruz's father, Rafael Cruz, was taken captive in Cuba as a teenager. He was wearing a white suit at the time. The Senator said, "My father had been put in a Cuban prison and tortured. Tortured, hour after hour. My grandmother told me, when she saw my father again, [on] that white suit you could not see a spot of white anywhere on it. It was covered with mud and blood, and his teeth were dangling from his mouth. And yet even when he was in that Cuban jail, God with with him...God's hand brought him from captivity to freedom. God's grace brought him to the United States of America."

Later in life, when Cruz was a young boy living in the U.S., both of his parents had "serious problems with alcohol. When I was three my father decided he that didn't want to be married anymore and that he didn't want a son."

Consequently, Cruz's father left him and his mother in Calgary and moved to Houston. "While in Houston, [my father] got invited to Clay Road baptist church," Cruz said. While there, his father "gave his life to Jesus." He then bought an airplane ticket and flew back to Calgary to rejoin his son and wife.

Cruz reflected, "So when anyone asks, 'Is faith real, is a relationship

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1 posted on 09/26/2014 1:02:53 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; RitaOK; MountainDad; ...
Ted Cruz Ping!

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2 posted on 09/26/2014 1:03:31 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

This place WAS colonized by Christian Europeans


3 posted on 09/26/2014 1:06:15 PM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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And many of them were fleeing from religious persecution in England.


4 posted on 09/26/2014 1:08:51 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: SoConPubbie

To willfully and continually repeat erroneous information, information that cannot be proven, is still being investigated, or is proven to be in error, is the same as lying.

America’s universities, the current administration, and the main press outlets are snakepits full of liars.


5 posted on 09/26/2014 1:09:13 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: SoConPubbie
"Our values are fundamentally American," Cruz told the audience. "This country remains a country built on...Christian values. And anyone who tells you differently is lying to you."

 

What?? Senator Cruz, are you calling President Obama a liar?

“We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”

“I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story.”

“Islam has always been part of America”

~B. Hussein

 

6 posted on 09/26/2014 1:12:38 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: SoConPubbie
Invoking personal stories from his own life, the senator highlighted the power of hope in the darkest of times.

We are being pressed toward alternatives in which "hope" has no function and no purpose.

Under communism, there is no need for individuals to have hopes. The state takes care of everything for you. Individuals have no need for hope because the state gives you everything you need. All you have to do as an individual is your assigned job; as long as you do that, everything else will work out automatically.

Under Islam (the other alternative), there is no need for hope because earthly life is of no value. Death is actually preferable to life, as we are frequently reminded by Muslim leaders. The only aspiration of our earthly existence is to spread Islam to the farthest corners of Earth, and to murder anyone who resists. This is not so much a hope as it is a duty.

7 posted on 09/26/2014 1:12:57 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Words you will never hear from the GOPe crowd including Bonor and McCornhole.


8 posted on 09/26/2014 1:14:11 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: SoConPubbie

Cruz knows when you’re in fight never pull your punches, you will win by a knockout!


9 posted on 09/26/2014 1:14:56 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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But..But…The president said…….and even on WHWeb site

“In the United States, Eid also reminds us of the many achievements and contributions of Muslim Americans to building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy,” reads the statement on Eid-al-Fitr posted to The White House’s official website.

10 posted on 09/26/2014 1:16:17 PM PDT by notaliberal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

And many of them were fleeing from religious persecution in England.

The same disgusting, godless bunch we are dealing with now.


11 posted on 09/26/2014 1:16:56 PM PDT by Bitsy
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To: SoConPubbie

Who else would say this? NO ONE! Yea Ted!


12 posted on 09/26/2014 1:20:08 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Resettozero

You drove a nail into my head with that comment. Schools become the instruments of the people who own them. That’s what I took from what you said. If government owns the schools, it may be technically owned by the people (public) but it is those in government who exercise ownership rights over the schools, supposedly on our behalf. To assume they are always selfless people only interested in the public good is naïve and dangerous.

I think that makes a case against public anything that can influence the way people think to the exclusion of other ideas. Public schools do that exclusion. I am a strong advocate of home schooling and the more I think about, the more certain I am people would better off not trusting to the “good graces” of self-serving bureaucrats.


13 posted on 09/26/2014 1:21:30 PM PDT by trubolotta
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To: Resettozero
America’s universities, the current administration, and the main press outlets are snakepits full of liars.

as was the great deceiver and adversary, Satan

14 posted on 09/26/2014 1:21:52 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: SoConPubbie

The Treaty of Tripoli disagrees, and I trust it as a rubric more than modern interpretation.


15 posted on 09/26/2014 1:24:17 PM PDT by arderkrag (Chaste women, sober men, obedient children, and "sin laws" - the four horsemen of the apocalypse.)
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"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams

One of my favorite quotes. This is basically the radical left over the years. Thanks in a large part to their hijacking of the media, entertainment, and academia. Allowing them to play Oz.
16 posted on 09/26/2014 1:27:56 PM PDT by nhwingut (This tagline for lease)
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I may have this worng but seems odumbo said that we are a muslime nation too, did he not?


17 posted on 09/26/2014 1:40:28 PM PDT by DaveA37
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To: SoConPubbie

The word “Christian” technically refers only to those who in repentance and faith cling to the righteousness of a crucified and risen Christ alone. The US was not built on this, and does not pretend in its Constitution to make this its foundation. It is a wider foundation of natural law and revealed law upon which we practice order and civility.


18 posted on 09/26/2014 1:40:59 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: SoConPubbie

One has only to read the Mayflower Compact for proof. And the first legislature in America convened in a church...a Christian church.


19 posted on 09/26/2014 1:54:34 PM PDT by cotton1706 (ThisRepublic.net)
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To: Resettozero

“America’s universities, the current administration, and the main press outlets are snakepits full of liars.”

Right on the mark. All by strategy captured by the Republic of the United States of America’s enemies, and without a whimper.


20 posted on 09/26/2014 2:01:38 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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