Cruz: US Built on Christian Values, Anyone Who Says Different is 'Lying'

Breitbart ^ | 26 Sep 2014, 9:10 AM PDT | Kristin Tate

[TheConservativeParty]

I heart Ted Cruz.

[onedoug]

“Islam has always been part of America”

Yes, from the time of Barbary pirates. Let's finally have done with it!

[MrB]

CRUZ!

GO BOLD OR GO HOME!

YEAH!

I think a candidate that doesn’t try to be a politician but instead boldly speaks the truth would come out head and shoulders above the pack.

He might even come out and comment on the declining work ethic of our current society as well.

[Resettozero]

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.

In homeschooling my children several years back, I learned again and again how much the many forefathers who indeed called themselves Christians relied on Godly priciples and their faith in God as they committed their lives and fortunes to the establishment of a Nation under God but not under the thumb of any religious organization. Many of these Christians were the framers of our Constitution and independence from the King of England.

Ungodly politicians were at work during this time also, just as they certainly have been until this day. The early Christian patriots wound up agreeing with politicians to a schizophrenic manner of government that eventually would produce a war between the States.

To deny this country was founded largely by people called Christians is a mistake and refutation of what actually happened.

[Mariner]

Ted Cruz is the only SoCon that can bring the libertarians into the fold...and vice versa.

He unites the right as it has not been since Reagan.

[longfellow]

I hate muzzies that kling to their korans and butcher knives.

[DJ MacWoW]

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

Yale law school, The Avalon Project, had a whole study on the Treaty of Tripoli. Article 11 is the offending addition. It was only in one copy of the treaty. I just checked their website and all that info, reams of it, have been removed. Surprised? I'm not.

[DJ MacWoW]

The Avalon Project : The Barbary Treaties: Tripoli 1796 Hunter Miller's Notes

As even a casual examination of the annotated translation of 1930 shows, the Barlow translation is at best a poor attempt at a paraphrase or summary of the sense of the Arabic; and even as such its defects throughout are obvious and glaring. Most extraordinary (and wholly unexplained) is the fact that Article 11 of the Barlow translation, with its famous phrase, "the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion," does not exist at all. There is no Article 11. The Arabic text which is between Articles 10 and 12 is in form a letter, crude and flamboyant and withal quite unimportant, from the Dey of Algiers to the Pasha of Tripoli. How that script came to be written and to be regarded, as in the Barlow translation, as Article 11 of the treaty as there written, is a mystery and seemingly must remain so. Nothing in the diplomatic correspondence of the time throws any light whatever on the point

[ForYourChildren]

I agree with him. This is great. I like the strongly worded language.

[sergeantdave]

Senator Cruz sounds like presidential timber to me.

Check one vote - mine - to elect Cruz to the office of the President of the United States.

[DaveA37]

“Muslimes” are of a different breed. Certainly there are those who are “peaceful” BUT, given the circumstances they will turn on you like a tame rattlesnake. Personally, I have no interest in them nor do I want any. I never heard of a muslim when I was growing up, where did these animals come from?

[Fester Chugabrew]

Not sure how the numbers play out in terms of specifically Christian founders. The people, however, were indeed keen on the principles iterated in the second table of the Ten Commandments. These ought remain as our guiding light in the way of civil law. But obedience rendered to them by unbelievers is simply a curb on chaos. Not a bad thing.

Today, as always, there are elements intent on chaos, disobedience, confusion, androgyny, and all the evil one would spread as he “owns” the world for but a short time.

Congratulations for home schooling your children. In this age, just keeping them out of public schools may be a service to society. God bless you, your family, and all whom you serve according to His mercies in Christ Jesus. That which is distinctly Christian is also hidden under a cross, as we walk by faith and not by sight. The Christian faith is not about power and might, but about service under the Almighty Who has prepared and ushered in a new creation through His Son, through Whom and by Whom all things were made.

[longfellow]

They come from Hell. These are the thugees from gunga din. Now they were trained by Hitler’s ss in ww2.

[unread]

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

Their treasonous behavior can best be explained by the fact that they hold no allegiance to our country... Many (more then we realize?) of those folks are foreign born and certainly DON'T hold the same values as most Americans... And others are just burned out junkies from the 60's... Bob Beckel being a good example...

Many of the jobs I've had required vigorous background investigation... Today we give our children over to complete strangers... Not too smart on our part....

[unread]

"To deny this country was founded largely by people called Christians is a mistake and refutation of what actually happened."

Right on Brother..!! Well said....