Posted on 10/31/2013 4:08:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Rafael Cruz, the father of Senator Ted Cruz, is a political activist in his own right. One of his favorite targets seems to be President Barack Obama whom he says should go “back to Kenya.”(19:20) Which seems to be a mix of both birtherism and general racism. But Rafael Cruz’s fringe political views go further than believing the president was born in another country, they also include the belief that his son – and all true Christians – are anointed by God to take the country back.
In April, Rafael Cruz, the father of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), spoke to the tea party of Hood County, which is southwest of Fort Worth, and made a bold declaration: The United States is a “Christian nation.” The septuagenarian businessman turned evangelical pastor did not choose to use the more inclusive formulation “Judeo-Christian nation.” Insisting that the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution “were signed on the knees of the framers” and were a “divine revelation from God,” he went on to say, “yet our president has the gall to tell us that this is not a Christian nation…The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God.” Seven months earlier, Rafael Cruz, speaking to the North Texas Tea Party on behalf of his son, who was then running for Senate, called President Barack Obama an “outright Marxist” who “seeks to destroy all concept of God,” and he urged the crowd to send Obama “back to Kenya.”
Putting aside that many of the founders were not Christians, certainly not fundamentalists – does Senator Cruz agree with his father’s public statements?
Ted Cruz utilizes his father for his campaigns both in citing his immigration story for bona fides with immigrant groups and bringing him along on campaign trips to Iowa. Rafael Cruz has even served as a campaign surrogate.
And Rafael Cruz is no amateur off on a rant. He is a pastor who directs a Christian group called Purifying Fire Ministries and a professor of Bible and Theology studies. His speech is a reflection of his studied and considered beliefs, not a spur of the moment gaffe. Nor is it the first time he has expressed those views.
He insisted that the advancement of Christianity (his fundamentalist version of it) depends on political battle, noting the need not just for a “spiritual savior” but a “political savior.” (The idea of states’ rights, he said, was based in the bible.) Obama, Cruz proclaimed, believes “government is your god.” When Cruz was a keynote speaker at a tax day rally hosted by Texas tea partiers in April, he told the crowd that conservative Christians need to take over “every school board in this nation.” At a Texas tea party rally in September 2012, he claimed that Obama has “a clear agenda…to destroy American exceptionalism”—and “to achieve a “worldwide redistribution of wealth” and “make us subject to the United Nations.”
If Pastor Cruz is any indication, we are in for a very spirited 2016 Republican Presidential Primary if Senator Cruz enters the fray. Rick Santorum might have some competition from the fringe. Is there a sweater vest in Ted Cruz’s future?
There was a poll recently showing Rafael Cruz ahead of John Cornyn for the GOP senate nomination...He might just run...
We keep getting offers for a FREE cremation. We aren’t ready for that just yet!
Anyone who puts out two such pathetically bogus birth certificates as 0bungles has is hiding something. Common sense dictates that a foreign birth is one of the likeliest explanations.
So, which FedMob agency handles 0bamaCare cremations the FBI or the ATF?
Deism is the belief in a God based on natural religion only, or belief in religious truths discovered by people through a process of reasoning, independent of any revelation through scripture or prophets. The prominent Founders who were Deists include George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin.
There were many other Founders who were devout Christians and some were Ministers.
The Senior Homeland Security Advisor is an Asshat!!
He’s worse than that!
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet. I don’t care where Zero goes, but just GO.
Most people who sit on their brains NEED an asshat to keep their brains from leaking.
Ted Cruz’s father is a man after my own heart.
The msm ignores all his relatives and dismisses Moochelle’ blantent stupidity.
And idea what the elder Cruz’s views are concerning Israel?
Washington was the equivalent of an elder in his church as was Jefferson. They both attended regularly. They did not hold ceremonial positions. Jefferson started a Bible study in the Congressional hall. He tried to purchase John Calvin's college which Calvin founded in Geneva. When he could not, he formed the University of Virginia.
Washington was also the pastor of his troops who read the Scriptures to them and prayed with them.
Franklin went to many of evangelist George Whitfield's sermons all over the Northeast and gave his cause great amounts of money.
"Life, like a dramatic piece, should... finish handsomely. Being now in the last act, I began to cast about for something fit to end with... I settle a colony on the Ohio... to settle in that fine country a strong body of religious and industrious people!... Might it not greatly facilitate the introduction of pure religion among the heathen, if we could, by such a colony, show them a better sample of Christians than they commonly see in our Indian traders?" - Letter to George Whitefield (sp), July 2, 1756
Read more: http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/ben-franklin-quotes-2.html#ixzz2jSRkNSDY
“The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth as it is formally titled, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the latter years of his life by cutting and pasting (literally with a razor and glue) numerous sections from the New Testament as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus. Jefferson’s condensed composition is especially notable for its exclusion of all miracles by Jesus and most mentions of the supernatural, including sections of the four gospels which contain the Resurrection and most other miracles, and passages indicating Jesus was divine.”
Do you consider Universalist-Unitarianism to be a Christian faith?
Unitarian and Universalists among the Founding Fathers
Unitarian and Universalist Signers of the Declaration of Independence:
- John Adams - Massachusetts
- Robert Treat Paine - Massachusetts
Unitarian Representative Elected to
First U.S. Federal Congress (1789-1791):
- George Thatcher - Massachusetts
From Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography: “...some books against Deism fell into my hands; . . . The arguments of the Deists . . . appeared to me much stronger than the refutation; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.”
Toward the end of his life, Franklin composed what was, in effect, his religious creed. As a quondam deist, man of science, and Enlightenment figure with an open mind, he believed in what could be proved. So he wrote: “As to Jesus of Nazareth . . . I have . . . some doubts as to his divinity. . . . I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth.”
John Adams, the second President of the United States, signed the Treaty of Tripoli (June 7, 1797). Article 11 states: “The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.”
From Jefferson’s biography: “
“...an amendment was proposed by inserting the words, ‘Jesus Christ...the holy author of our religion,’ which was rejected ‘By a great majority in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mohammedan, the Hindoo and the Infidel of every denomination.’”
Thomas Jefferson’s letter to John Adams dated April 11, 1823:
“The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.”
Do. Not. Apologize. Ever.
Did Grayson? No.
Ted’s dad seems go have a good grasp on exactly what Obama is and what his intentions are. I concur snd believe he is right on the money. 0 pretended to be a Christian to get elected then dropped the facade once he got in office. He also pretended to be a straight male and we found out that’s a lie too. Everything about the man is fabricated. He was groomed for the role and put in place by foreign powers that don’t have oir best interests at heart and the dummies on the left just can’t seem to grasp or admit it because it would make them look like the idiots they are.
Current Universalist theology is not equal to beliefs in that era.
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