Posted on 02/15/2016 4:53:23 PM PST by springwater13
n an exclusive interview with The Brody File down in South Carolina, GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz says believers in Jesus Christ must stand and vote biblical values rather than letting non-believers selected the leaders of our country. "For far too long, Christians have been staying home, have been ceding the public square to non-believers and when we look at the state of the country, when our heart weeps at what's happening to the country and we wonder why is it that the federal government is waging war on life, is waging war on marriage, is waging war on religious liberty is it any wonder when 54 million evangelical Christians stayed home in 2012, did not vote." Cruz continues: "If we allow our leaders to be selected from non-believers we shouldn't be surprised when our leaders don't share our values. So what I'm working to do more than anything else is energize and empower the grassroots and do everything we can for Christians to stand up and vote biblical values."
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This isn’t the revival period Ted. You’re becoming a $3 bill.
AMEN and AMEN!!!
GO.TRUMP.GO!!! ALL THE WAY TO THE OVAL OFFICE!!!
Some Cruz supporters are telling people they will go to he** if they don’t vote for Cruz. My God - this is straight out of the Hillary Clinton playbook. This is dangerous and scary rhetoric from these unhinged people.
Ok this dude Cruz is really getting freaky — kinda like the ayatollah Khomeini himself.
That’s a tad bit to loony for me. NEXT!
I believe in Jesus and I am for Trump.
Must I vote for you Teddy? I think not.
I don’t think Cruz should be talking about Biblical values when he lies so much. That’s a NO, NO, in the Bible.
“GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz says believers in Jesus Christ must stand and vote biblical values rather than letting non-believers selected the leaders of our country.”
Translation for the guileless:
“Ted Cruz says believers in Jesus Christ must vote for him rather than that sinner Donald Trump.”
Biblical values were the values of our nation’s founders.
Geez, would someone please tell Ted Osteen Cruz he’s running for president and to please get off the pulpit. He’s starting to come off as a creepy televangelist now.
Same here.
How on Earth does he hope to translate this into a general election campaign?!!
What states do he hope to flip with this?
Without biblical values the state will do just what it is doing, and it is not in the interest of family or civility in general. By biblical values I simly mean honoring and upholding the estate of marriage, whence authority is meted out most regularly in a setting where future participants in a Constitutional Republic may conduct themselves in un-Trump-like fashion. That, and allow innocent life to flourish. Any state that allows proponents of abortion to hold public office is inviting its own suicide.
He’s right though. We live in a country where over 80% of the people claim to be Christians, but at least 40% of them vote for the baby murderers. The religious leaders are mostly afraid of violating federal election laws by talking about that, so who else is going to point it out?
Now, we can think purely pragmatically, and say “let’s not talk about religion or morals because we might lose votes”. However, that is just ceding the public discourse to the moral relativist (aka amoral) left wing. You never hear them worry about losing votes when they talk about religion and twist it to support their agenda.
Or we could let Ted Cruz try a different approach and try to appeal to that 80% to follow the values that they claim to espouse. If he fails, then he fails, but if nobody makes the pitch, it can never succeed.
Give me that old time religion! It was good enough for Brady and it’s good enough for me!
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