Ted Cruz says religious conservatives have given up too much power to non-Christians

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory

n. Ted Cruz (R-TX) assured conservative Christian voters he speaks their language in a sanctimonious interview with a religious broadcaster.

The newly announced GOP presidential candidate told David Brody, of the Christian Broadcasting Network, that religious conservatives must take back their political dominance, reported Right Wing Watch.

“This country remains a country, I believe, grounded in values, grounded in faith, but far too many Christians have ceded the public arena to people who aren’t believers,” Cruz said.

He suggested that Christians were a marginalized group by invoking the name of the biblical heroine Esther, whose story has served as a model of empowerment for Jews, women, and black Americans.

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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/ted-cruz-says-religious-conservatives-have-given-up-too-much-power-to-non-christians/

[OneAngryDemocrat]

1. Which Begs The Question...

Which begs the question, 'What "power" should Christians have that non-Christians shouldn't?"

A better question, of course, is why isn't anyone from the media asking this fuck-head these things?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/RockfordSOL/

[titaniumsalute]

4. Of course the power to make us believe their swill

They truly believe they are the saved and anointed. The rest of us are the simple unsaved and evil. They want the power to control everything. Why? Because God is the only way and they are true believers.

[truthisfreedom]

2. Separation of church and state, asshole!

[hamsterjill]

3. Oh, this jerk! And the jerks who hang with him!

I'm so sick of him and people like him.

I am a practicing Christian. Have been all my life. But please do not mistake me for people like Cruz and those who think like he does. They make me furious.

My faith is personal. It's mine because I choose to have it. I don't have to force it on anyone else, and I don't worry about turning to stone if I have a business or personal relationship with someone who believes differently, or doesn't believe at all. And I do have plenty of those relationships. I respect the fact and the idea that each person has the right to believe however and whatever s/he chooses. I want to receive that same respect from others as to my choice.

The core values of this country may or may not have come from Christian values. But those core values are NOT unique to Christianity only. Those core values are the merits of common good, common decency, hard work, patriotism and justice. Those values are inherent in almost every person that I've ever met, whether that person be a Christian or not.

Good grief! Why can't the stupid human race just learn to love each other for who we are and what we are???!!! THAT is what the Jesus who I choose to believe in taught and practiced. It infuriates me when idiots like Cruz highjack that message for their own, selfish purposes. When someone is proclaiming himself/herself to be a Christian, and is at the very same moment, promoting hatred, fear and uncertainty, then in my opinion, they are not what they say they are.

[mountain grammy]

5. Say what now?

and he's officially a candidate for president of the United States. Oh my.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

7. No, he's just the first one to enter the clown car - others will soon follow.

[anotojefiremnesuka]

6. So when will the how shall I put it

Non lunatic Christians going to do something about Christians like Ted?

As it stand now he speaks for All Christians

Not a single Christian leader has spoken out against what Ted has been saying In the name of your religion

Silence is consent

[Populist_Prole]

8. Incomprehensible! He talks like...

There are still blocs of RW christo-fascists that aren't yet in the GOP's hip pocket and that he has to ramp up the dominionist rhetoric. Hell, that part of critical mass is as dense as it's ever going to get, and more of this talk is just going to turn off secular conservatives.

[Mz Pip]

9. I'm not a conspiracy theorist

But judging by the number of wackos who are running for The GOP nomination, it seems like a not so subtle attempt to make Jeb look sane.

[jtuck004]

10. Just a coincidence. When your sample all wackos all the time, everyone from it will be too. n/t

[daleo]

11. It didn't work for Romney

[awoke_in_2003]

12. Oh yes...

we atheists just have so much power in this country People like Cruz won't be happy until it is legal to kill people like me.

[smirkymonkey]

13. The rapture can't come soon enough for me.

[Shoonra]

14. Besides being tacky .....

Cruz's talk about "people who aren't believers" having too much power is cleverly ambiguous to attract the darker sympathies of the anti-evolution crowd, the anti-Muslim crowd, and, yes, the anti-Jewish crowd. He even resonates with people who think that Roman Catholics aren't real Christians.

[Skittles]

15. so Cruz resonates with nutcases

imagine that