If Ted were to win the nomination, what does he plan on doing when the dems pull out the YouTube videos of his pastor and father claiming that Ted is a king who’s been blessed by the priest to rule during the “end times transfer of wealth,” or something like that. The Dominion philosophy and all that.
Ted was backed by a pastor in Iowa with a lot of damaging (in the general election) youtube videos.
He’s also got a billionaire with a $6 billion tax debt fight who gave him $31 million. And $705,000 from the open borders Club for Growth...
Cruz spoke at a religious liberty conference and the pastor who sponsored it said gays should be killed by christians, but first given a chance to repent. The pastor was basically incoherent, and was calling someone or something pussy little sores. Really devastating as that pastor was a head case. Jake Tapper had asked Cruz before the conference about the pastor's beliefs and Cruz said he didn't know anything about them.
Anyone who puts their hope and trust in Trump gets burned in the end. You don’t have to. His curtain has been drawn back. Sane people can see who he is now. You can come back and no one will blame you. I will owe Trump supporters a huge apology when they rescind their support for him.
Ted is Southern Baptist. There is no evidence he believes everything his dad teaches. He’s never said he does. And the dominion theology actually comes in so many different flavors that if you present it just right it can be used to smear anyone who believes Christians can play a role in making human society better, anyone from Calvin to Jerry Falwell to James Dobson, etc. About the only folks who can’t be swept into that classification at all would be the Fred Phelps type groups that think Christians and Christianity have absolutely no role in culture.
I happen to have living next to me a family that runs a church that is driven by real, hard core dominionists of the truly heretical variety. They are off the charts inconsistent with what it would be like in any given Southern Baptist church. Ted’s dad is not even of the extreme variety, AFAIK, but more of a standard charismatic flavor, and the sermon he preaches on the topic is not at the far end of the scale, and is even fairly typical of a number of old line charismatic fellowships.
However, having said all that, the MSM does hate Christianity in general, and this will be available to them, and Raphael does make it tougher, because although father and son are on a different theological page, people are easy prey for false associations, what is known in logic as the genetic fallacy, i.e., for example, country music is popular in city X, therefore every inhabitant of city X loves country music. Or, if a child has a father who believes Y, then the son must believe Y. Those are easy to sell, but they are bad logic.
So it’ll be Ted’s effort to sell that he holds relatively conventional views on this subject, despite what his family members may believe. I honestly think the only people whom this will affect are those who were already looking for an excuse not to like him, but that will probably not be enough to derail a win in the general, given who the democratic opposition will likely be.
Peace,
SR