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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You mean Obama isn’t king?
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.
Right. Which also means that they like to support the federal government with extra taxes. Is that a new Cruz policy?
Only if your a religious bigot who likes to attack political candidates on such things other than political stances.
Funny
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.
“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.
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.
A Drudge headline is not a nothingburger.
Unless it's negative towards Trump.
Try to keep up with the rules.
Cruz cannot win in November.
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.
“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.
Amen
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.
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.
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.
No authentic gift of the Spirit has to be "taught."
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.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2007/02/cultural_marxism.html
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.
Ditto.
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