Posted on 01/02/2016 7:30:04 AM PST by Isara
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This is precisely what Donald Trump, national GOP front-runner but second place in Iowa, told an Iowa crowd this week while stumping for votes.
Just remember this -- you gotta remember, in all fairness, to the best of my knowledge, not too many evangelicals come out of Cuba, okay? Just remember that ... just remember.
...We will not dedicate time, space or energy to parsing those words in ways that might offer some alternative meaning than the one most evident and likely, which would be this: Donald Trump thought it would advance his political aims if voters in Iowa were reminded that Ted Cruz is a Cuban (technically half-Cuban) and/or cast doubt on whether Cruz is a true evangelical.
This comes from the the ever-useful section of campaign play books that say tell voters why your competition is "not like us."
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First, Donald Trump's knowledge of the Cuban religious diaspora is, apparently, limited and outdated.
In Cuba right now, Protestant and Protestant Evangelical churches are experiencing rapid membership growth. In the United States, Latino-Americans with ancestral and direct links to many different Latin American countries, including Cuba, are driving some of the only growth in many Protestant denominations. Latino evangelicals represent the fastest-growing religious group in the United States. Some are Cuban-American evangelicals.
To be clear, the majority of American Latinos are Catholic. But the share who are Catholic slid from 67 percent in 2006 to 59 percent in 2013....
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Finally, Ted Cruz is a self-identified evangelical and the son of an evangelical -- and many would say extremely conservative -- Cuban-American pastor. We have no more reason or authority to doubt that than Donald Trump's declarations that he is a life-long practicing Christian, even if he cannot name a Bible verse. That is between Trump and his God.
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He wasn’t questioning Ted Cruz’s religion...Ted Cruz was born in Canada remember???
He was questioning Ted’s father’s religion, and they are mostly Catholic in Cuba...
http://washingtonspectator.org/rafael-cruz-ted-cruz/
Trump supporters have developed concern trolling - about every candidate but their own - to a fine art.
I thought it was a silly statement by Trump, but perhaps it was so he could pretend to have “attacked” Cruz too without doing any real harm to the candidate closest to the positions he is advocating. I don’t hold the comment against either Trump or Cruz.
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/trump-does-not-ask/2015/07/18/id/657832/
Trump’s own words. He has no clue about Christianity or the Gospel. None, whatsoever. If you can’t ask God for forgiveness, then you can’t ask God for Salavation. If he died today, he wouldn’t be spending eternity in Heaven. All the “good works” in the world does not save a man. And if Trump can’t see that, well too bad for him.
And we know how much Janell cares...
“a fine art”
In the same way Black Lives Matter have taken grievance protesting to “a fine art”.
I used to wonder in the back of my mind why he said that, then I realized that he most likely knows exactly what he’s doing. I’m just waiting for it...
Do your homework Janel.
Worry abouit your own position with God and quit judging others. All that does is hurt your candidate..
This election is not about electing a preacher. Reagan was no big religious guy either. He won twice and did a hell of a lot for America.
Can anything good come out of Nazareth?
Really?
Alexander Hamilton and John Jay are two that come to mind...
which will backfire because more people have probably been saved the last 7 years than at any other time in the last 50 years as this administration has proven that Satan really does exist.
What Trump meant is that most Cubans are Catholic. Its not like Cruz comes from an evangelical background of generations. That is what Trump was talking about.
The fact that you’ve got to reach back that far is telling.
I think that they have apex even the ‘Paulist’
Reagan was no big religious guy, eh? Let’s see Trump write something like this:
http://creation.com/ronald-reagan-on-the-divinity-of-christ
You don’t get it. You keep attacking believers as if they’re looking for a “preacher in chief”. That’s not the point. The point is the principles that are essential to proper leadership. George Washington’s Farewell address (which use to be required reading in schools but has been removed for it’s religious connotations concerning the relationship between Christ and morality).
Trump thinks “going through the motions” equivalates to being a Protestant. It does not. If he understood the Gospel, he would be asking for forgiveness everyday like all believers in Christ do.
Trump said himself in Iowa earlier this year that he had never asked God to forgive him for anything.
Its telling me you don’t know jack...and I’m just getting started.
NY-2...Cuba-0
And because of what you just wrote the Iowan evangelical caucus voter should think a little more about whether Cruz is an evangelical. No doubt he is christian but not so much an evangelical christian. In a contest for votes Trump is putting doubt in some of the voters minds.
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