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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

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To: nclaurel

You mean Obama isn’t king?


81 posted on 03/11/2016 7:42:59 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: fwdude

My point is that it is a non story. Hillary is a Methodist and acts atheist agnostic. Is that a story. The other point is that being Pentecostal is something sinister.


82 posted on 03/11/2016 7:43:05 AM PST by taterjay
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To: GraceG

Right. Which also means that they like to support the federal government with extra taxes. Is that a new Cruz policy?


83 posted on 03/11/2016 7:43:11 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: jospehm20
I am a Catholic. All the protestant denominations seem kind of the same to me. Is belonging to a Pentecostal church a big deal?

Only if your a religious bigot who likes to attack political candidates on such things other than political stances.

84 posted on 03/11/2016 7:43:19 AM PST by GregoTX
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To: for-q-clinton

Funny


85 posted on 03/11/2016 7:43:24 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: tennmountainman

Ted’s father keeps cropping up. His influence on Ted is abnormal at times. I know fathers can be influential but this is not what most of us have gone through in our lives.


86 posted on 03/11/2016 7:43:39 AM PST by magua (baby)
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To: jospehm20

“Is belonging to a Pentecostal church a big deal?”

I wouldn’t say so, in and of itself. There are some goofy Pentecostal denominations, but they are considered a part of “mainstream” Protestantism, they are not a cultish group or anything like that.


87 posted on 03/11/2016 7:43:42 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: GregoTX

Someday and soon as forewarned Christians especial any who actually live their faith will be deemed enemies of the State and persecuted and it won’t be just the leftist in the mobs, but many who now call themselves ‘Conservatives’ will put on the ‘Brown Shirts’ and join them. Look through this thread and many stand out.


88 posted on 03/11/2016 7:43:51 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw
A Drudge headline is not a nothingburger.

Unless it's negative towards Trump.

Try to keep up with the rules.

89 posted on 03/11/2016 7:44:06 AM PST by Fundamentally Fair (Is that just what you have written on your "What Trump Means to Me" chalikboard?)
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To: longfellowsmuse

Cruz cannot win in November.


90 posted on 03/11/2016 7:44:51 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: longfellowsmuse

Mitt’s Mormonism was not used in the media, but please do not fool yourself, many of those that didn’t vote for Mitt did so because he was a Mormon.


91 posted on 03/11/2016 7:45:45 AM PST by dforest
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

“Being a Christian is one thing, claiming to be called by God, quite another.”

Meh, both George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan expressed that they felt a calling from God. It’s nothing new in American politics, especially with Republicans.


92 posted on 03/11/2016 7:45:48 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

Amen


93 posted on 03/11/2016 7:45:57 AM PST by magua (baby)
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To: Boogieman

Cruz admitted back in Iowa he didn’t tithe. Cruz Family made millions from the likes of sleazy Goldman Sachs and gave basically nothing to charity. How pious of him.


94 posted on 03/11/2016 7:46:08 AM PST by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw
More proof that if Cruz was nominated, Hillary would use the same playbook that McCaskill used against Akin. "He is TOO conservative for America (Missouri)." Then it would be about his weird father thinking that Ted is the Messiah. Waaaay too creepy for mainstream Christians muchless secular America.

The Dems loved running against a Mormon as they knew that Evangelicals wouldn't turn out for a Mormon. Now they know regular Americans won't turn out for a guy whose family speaks in tongues.

95 posted on 03/11/2016 7:46:17 AM PST by MHT (,`)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

The Pentecostal movement began in 1908. Since then, inflation has been such that what cost a penny then costs about a dollar now, so perhaps they should be considered Dollarcostals.

OK, as the Dog Star said, I’ll be Sirius. If Cruz is a Pentecostal, he is at worst heterodox, but in all the necessities of salvation he would agree with the standard creeds, and by any Scriptural standard he is a saved Christian—certainly more so than our 2012 GOP nominee, and with less of a question than the “other” competitor for the present GOP nomination.


96 posted on 03/11/2016 7:47:13 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: MNDude
There are a lot of differing brands of Pentecostalism. I like the old-time brand that actually believed the Bible on the need for holiness, dressed modestly, not the gaudily clad charlatans on most religious stations, didn't seek riches through "offerings," and didn't fake "tongues," which, many admitted, had to be taught.

No authentic gift of the Spirit has to be "taught."

97 posted on 03/11/2016 7:47:21 AM PST by fwdude
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

Birth of Multiculturalism

In anticipation of the revolutionary storm that would baptize the world in an inferno of red terror, leading to its rebirth as the promised land of social justice and proletarian equality-Frederich Engels wrote,

“All the...large and small nationalities are destined to perish...in the revolutionary world storm... (A general war will) wipe out all...nations, down to their very names. The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only reactionary classes...but...reactionary peoples.” (”The Magyar Struggle,” Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Jan. 13, 1849)

By the end of WWI, socialists realized that something was amiss, for the world’s proletariat had not heeded Marx’s call to rise up in opposition to evil capitalism and to embrace communism instead. They wondered what had gone wrong.

Separately, two Marxist theorists-Antonio Gramsci of Italy and Georg Lukacs of Hungary-concluded that the Christianized West was the obstacle standing in the way of a communist new world order. The West would have to be conquered first.

Gramsci posited that because Christianity had been dominant in the West for over 2000 years, not only was it fused with Western civilization, but it had corrupted the workers class. The West would have to be de-Christianized, said Gramsci, by means of a “long march through the culture.” Additionally, a new proletariat must be created. In his “Prison Notebooks,” he suggested that the new proletariat be comprised of many criminals, women, and racial minorities.

The new battleground, reasoned Gramsci, must become the culture, starting with the traditional family and completely engulfing churches, schools, media, entertainment, civic organizations, literature, science, and history. All of these things must be radically transformed and the social and cultural order gradually turned upside-down with the new proletariat placed in power at the top.

Excerpted...
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2007/02/cultural_marxism.html


98 posted on 03/11/2016 7:47:21 AM PST by Mechanicos
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To: MHT

The Dems loved running against a Mormon as they knew that Evangelicals wouldn’t turn out for a Mormon. Now they know regular Americans won’t turn out for a guy whose family speaks in tongues.


And a candidate who is now attached to the Bush Cartel. So much general election win for the Dems and the GOP hasn’t even picked a candidate.


99 posted on 03/11/2016 7:48:12 AM PST by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Ditto.


100 posted on 03/11/2016 7:48:52 AM PST by reagandemocrat
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