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Ted Cruz: Closet Pentecostal
East Orlando Post ^ | March 11, 2016 | Jacob Engels

Posted on 03/11/2016 7:15:16 AM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw

While Ted Cruz proudly proclaims he is an Evangelical Christian, his campaign takes pains to hide the truth that Cruz and his pastor father, Rafael Cruz are Pentecostal Christians, a fact further hidden by having Ted and Heidi Cruz’s belong to the congregation of First Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist church in Houston, as their home church. Both Cruz’s parents, his father Rafael a Cuban-born immigrant, and his mother Eleanor, born in Wilmington, Delaware, grew up in Catholic families. Both were among the millions of that left the Catholic Church since the 1960s to embrace Pentecostalism, a Christian movement estimated to make up 4.4 percent of the U.S. population, accounting for some 13 percent of evangelical churches in the United States. - See more at: http://eastorlandopost.com/ted-cruz-closet-pentecostal#sthash.M95M8HTV.dpuf

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruz; pentecostal
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw
If he is Pentecostal, and is trying to hide that fact, it will be an issue at some point. I would argue that the majority of Christians don’t embrace speaking in tongues.

Yeah your right... not all Christians believe in that so lets GET 'EM!

41 posted on 03/11/2016 7:30:10 AM PST by GregoTX
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

I’ll take a secret pentacostal over a secret muslim or secret heathen anyday.


42 posted on 03/11/2016 7:30:26 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw
But I can’t help but think proselytizing without perfection is a recipe for disaster.

By that standard nobody is qualified.

43 posted on 03/11/2016 7:30:29 AM PST by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: fwdude

“As if that’s somehow... unacceptable?

Well, at least for a leftist.”

Indeed. Whenever anyone raises the religious unacceptably argument let them know of their bigotry. Tell them atheists don’t build hospitals.


44 posted on 03/11/2016 7:32:17 AM PST by HockeyPop
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

I’ll take an honest Pentecostal over someone who worships at the altar of power & greed....any day.


45 posted on 03/11/2016 7:32:18 AM PST by proudpapa (Cruz or Lose!)
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To: svcw
How do you know Cruz doesn’t tithe? Are you monitoring his income?

It's a matter of public record. Most high information voters know he that.

I kid...I kid. Just google Cruz and tithing.
46 posted on 03/11/2016 7:32:29 AM PST by Publius22
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To: publana

Appalling should be appealing.


47 posted on 03/11/2016 7:32:32 AM PST by publana (Beware the olive branch extended by a Dem for it disguises a clenched fist.)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

First Baptist is not Penecostal.


48 posted on 03/11/2016 7:32:36 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

Not all Pentecostals are Seven Mountain and believe Cruz is anointed King.


49 posted on 03/11/2016 7:33:37 AM PST by nclaurel
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

I am a Catholic. All the protestant denominations seem kind of the same to me. Is belonging to a Pentecostal church a big deal?


50 posted on 03/11/2016 7:33:38 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: RummyChick

Btw, I remember the poster that said Cruz reminded him of Peter Popoff.

Popoff speaks in tongues, too.


51 posted on 03/11/2016 7:33:51 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: Salvation

A Think Progress hit piece suitable for DU.


52 posted on 03/11/2016 7:34:05 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: WalterSkinner

I was raised Southern Baptist and baptized in the church. I now attend a conservative version of the United Church of Christ. I have never considered myself to be anti-Pentecostal or anti-evangelical. Facts are facts. Cruz was born in Canada, and I find it strange that his father believes that Ted was called by God to be the president of the federal district of America.


53 posted on 03/11/2016 7:34:40 AM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: fwdude

[ As if that’s somehow... unacceptable?

Well, at least for a leftist. ]

Ted Cruz doesn’t have warehouses full of bibles that people send him, obviously Ted Cruz isn’t a true religious christian...

( SARC )


54 posted on 03/11/2016 7:35:17 AM PST by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: RummyChick

I didn’t know who Peter Popoff was when that poster brought him up.

Here he is speaking in tongues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaFCGx3SIFs


55 posted on 03/11/2016 7:35:25 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: gettinolder

A Drudge headline is not a nothingburger.


56 posted on 03/11/2016 7:35:44 AM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: Fai Mao

I know I don’t get what the point of this is at all.


57 posted on 03/11/2016 7:37:00 AM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: TexasCajun

Obama claims to be a Christian too. So does Trump, and every other candidate. Being a Christian is one thing, claiming to be called by God, quite another. Agree?


58 posted on 03/11/2016 7:37:26 AM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: RummyChick

59 posted on 03/11/2016 7:37:37 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: svcw

[ How do you know Cruz doesn’t tithe? Are you monitoring his income? ]

Some people give but don’t report it on their income tax
forms because they feel it is akin to bragging about tithing.

And some don’t report what they give because they don’t want to let the government have any more information than they absolutely have to.

So the assumption that people who don’t report tithing on taxes are not charitable is not always true.


60 posted on 03/11/2016 7:37:39 AM PST by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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