| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999
Posts: 17747
Location: Berkeley, California
|
 Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 2:30 pm Post subject: Ted Cruz |
 |
|
It is richly ironic that Ted Cruz burnished his libertarian credentials at a religious school--which forced students to attend.
| Quote: | Young backers of Tea Party favorite Sen. Rand Paul are directing their fight for freedom at an unlikely target — fellow liberty-lover Sen. Ted Cruz.
Dozens of supporters of the Kentucky Republican crashed Ted Cruz’s packed 2016 presidential announcement at Liberty University earlier this week and took to social media to blast the Texas conservative for exploiting a policy at the evangelical school requiring students to attend his campaign event.
"I strongly object to Senator Cruz's choice of venue for the announcement of his 2016 presidential bid," Liberty student Joseph McGowan, a prominent campus Republican, wrote on his Facebook account in a stinging rant of the Texan’s “deception.” |
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/cruz-packed-2016-bid-event-attendance-mandatory-article-1.2160686
His religious extremism will not play well in the Presidential election once the pool of voters is bigger than evangelicals. He wants, in essence, to establish a caliphate.
| Quote: | It was only to be expected, I suppose, that conservatism would come up with its own messianic figure to oppose the alleged liberal messiah, Barack Obama. Conservatives loved to taunt liberals and progressives about “their” messiah. But now they have one of their own. Well, a new one of their own.
Remember when Newt Gingrich was messiah of sorts? And Michele Bachmann actually asked God to anoint her campaign? Of course, Sarah Palin was an Mama Grizzly almost-hunter-grrl-messiah on her show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, and Rick Santorum gets honorable messiah mention.
When Ted Cruz heads down to join other Religious Right leaders at David Lane’s Renewal Project conference in South Carolina, he will do so as conservatism’s newly anointed messiah. At that point he will have replaced Sarah Palin, who, you might remember, was anointed as Esther before going off to do battle with Barack Obama for the soul of America.
The problem for America is that Cruz is both slicker and smarter than Sarah Palin. And like Sarah Palin, his messianic bona fides are in good order. It was in the news recently that Ted Cruz’s father, Rafael, anointed his son on August 26, 2012 at New Beginnings megachurch in Irving, Texas:
As Huffington Post reported earlier this month, “It turns out that Ted’s father, Rafael Cruz, is a pastor with Texas charismatic ministry Purifying Fire International who has been campaigning against Obamacare the last several months.”
According to New Beginnings’ dominionist pastor, Larry Huch, Ted Cruz got elected to the senate because God is about to begin his “rule and reign” and there will be a big “end-time transfer of wealth.” Somehow, transfering wealth is a good thing when the money is being taken from non-believers and awarded the church but bad if rich folks and corporations are expected to pay their way.
It is no coincidence that those rich folks and corporations are big supporters of people like Ted Cruz.
God chose Ted Cruz and he is now apparently selecting his bankers. As HuffPo explains the results, they seem to have very little to do with anything Jesus preached about wealth, even though a weaponized Jesus figures prominently in dominionist plans:
So to pull all this logic together, God anoints priests to work in the church directly and kings to go out into the marketplace to conquer, plunder, and bring back the spoils to the church. The reason governmental regulation has to disappear from the marketplace is to make it completely available to the plunder of Christian “kings” who will accomplish the “end time transfer of wealth.” Then “God’s bankers” will usher in the “coming of the messiah.” The government is being shut down so that God’s bankers can bring Jesus back.
Talk to Action reported a few days later that Ted Cruz had actually been anointed as messiah (in Iowa, of course) on June 19, 2013 “by pastors who claim the Constitution is based on the Old Testament, appear to endorse biblical slavery, depict gay marriage as a socialist plot against the traditional family, and call for a Christian war on secular society.”
|
|
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
isobars
Joined: 12 Dec 1999
Posts: 20935
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 2:49 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Al Gore. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
uwindsurf
Joined: 18 Aug 2012
Posts: 968
Location: Classified
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 3:34 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Al Capone
Al Bundy
Al Pacino
Al Roker
Al Jezeera. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
nw30
Joined: 21 Dec 2008
Posts: 6485
Location: The eye of the universe, Cen. Cal. coast
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 4:21 pm Post subject: |
|
|
A new thread for Cruz, somebody who so far is polling pretty low?
But why not just throw this on the "Play for 2016" thread if he represents a very little threat?
Maybe I'll start a new thread about the banjo playing O'Malley.
And then perhaps we could have a new thread for every candidate on both sides of the isle, it will become thread city, not that it isn't already.
Sorry swchandler, your thread wasn't good enough for mac. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999
Posts: 17747
Location: Berkeley, California
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 5:09 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Requiring libertarian Rand Paul students to attend a Ted Cruz rally seems just exactly like what a Caliphate, Tea Party style, would look like. Deserves a special notice all on its own. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
swchandler
Joined: 08 Nov 1993
Posts: 10588
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 6:10 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Senator Cruz likes to toss around the word "liberty" a lot, and he did so at Liberty University's "required" event, but we all know too well that there's no freedom and liberty in religion. So all the references to liberty in Cruz's speech are just BS and lies. If the Church is given an upper hand and influence in government as Cruz was speciously promoting, a woman's right to choose and same sex marriage rights would be some of the first things to be deemed illegal and forbidden. That, I'm afraid, would only be the beginning of our wholesale loss of freedom and liberty in this nation. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
nw30
Joined: 21 Dec 2008
Posts: 6485
Location: The eye of the universe, Cen. Cal. coast
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 6:37 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| mac wrote: | | Requiring libertarian Rand Paul students to attend a Ted Cruz rally seems just exactly like what a Caliphate, Tea Party style, would look like. Deserves a special notice all on its own. |
"Cue the music,
I scare myself". |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
uwindsurf
Joined: 18 Aug 2012
Posts: 968
Location: Classified
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 7:14 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Caliphate. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
MalibuGuru
Joined: 11 Nov 1993
Posts: 9300
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 11:07 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Ted Cruz is a principled Republican. He'd be a much better choice than Obama or Clinton. Walker Rubio, Walker Cruz, Rand Paul Rubio or Cruz would beat Clinton.
America is sick of the liberal ideology and divisive politics. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999
Posts: 17747
Location: Berkeley, California
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 11:10 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| What a pair. NW makes a joke, I even smiled. But what goes over both your heads is that there is nobody that the Democrats would rather run against than a dominianist whack-a-do. No fear. We'll just prepare to change the shoelaces when he opens his mouth to change feet. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You cannot download files in this forum
|
|
|
Search
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Register
