Ted Cruz: An Atheist 'Isn't Fit To Be' President

[Brainstormy]

Presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Friday that he believes anyone who wants to be president must fear God and pray daily.
Speaking at the National Religious Liberties Conference in Iowa, Cruz joined other GOP presidential candidates for a discussion about the persecution of Christians in the U.S. and around the world. After some very extreme, very weird comments about homosexuality, right-wing pastor Kevin Swanson introduced Cruz to the stage to ask him how important it was for candidates to submit to Jesus Christ as "the king of the President of the United States."

"Any president who doesn't begin every day on his knees isn't fit to be commander-in-chief of this country," responded Cruz.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-atheists_5640b613e4b0411d30719f52?cps=gravity_5040_7573409619254440940

[Hoppy]

1. Well God sure doesn't like Cruz. He made Cruz look like a character out of a Batman comic.

[Goblinmonger]

2. "Any president who doesn't begin every day on his knees isn't fit to be commander-in-chief"

[Lordquinton]

5. !!

[FiveGoodMen]

9. Wait...aren't we still doing "Phrasing"?

[PassingFair]

13. OMG. He's probably self flagellating as well.

Gross.

[whatthehey]

3. Well it's progress of a sort

Bush I thought we weren't even citizens.

[olddots]

4. Cruz is why I am an atheist

If he was to spontaineously combust I would believe there was a god .

[mountain grammy]

11. I'll second that.

[MindPilot]

6. I don't think nuclear launch codes should be in the hands of someone

who is proud of being afraid of their imaginary friend.

Or for that matter, someone for whom the bible is the most inspirational book they ever read.

[RussBLib]

7. that eliminates just about every GOP candidate (and Hillary)

...and it's looking more and more like Bernie Sanders is a closeted atheist.

Cruz is an abomination, a veritable pox on the butt of humanity.

[RussBLib]

8. Kill the gays

Rachel Maddow covered this on Monday night. It's a little shocking to me (but why the GOP shocks me anymore.....) that Cruz, Huckabee and Jindal attended this conference where Swanson goes postal about how the gays must all be killed.

This freak is running around the stage quoting from his sacred Bible that death must be the penalty for homosexuality.

So....Cruz, Huckabee and Jindal agree with Swanson that we should round up and execute all the gays? Presumably not just in America, but worldwide? This is Major League seriously fucked-up, but that's what the holy book DEMANDS!!

Is the GOP going to advocate that gays should be executed?

[NastyRiffraff]

10. I too thought I couldn't be shocked anymore

But Kevin Swanson managed to shock me. He is scary crazy.

Oh, and Ted Cruz isn't fit to be President.

[AlbertCat]

12. I too thought I couldn't be shocked anymore

It's kinda like "Paranormal Activity XII: The Same Old Baloney". Now in theaters!

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. "An Atheist Isn't Qualified To Be Commander In Chief" By Ted Cruz

Just the other day I said something controversial, and I wanted to explain. At a conference in Iowa I told people that I believe "any president who doesn't begin every day on his knees isn't fit to be commander-in-chief of this nation." In my heart I know this to be true, and I don't care if it offends the liberals in the politically correct media. Believing in God is the only way you can carry out your duties. Because being commander-in-chief means one thing: killing a crapload of American troops. And how are you going to do that if you aren't convinced you're sending them somewhere nice?

I assure you people as president I intend to do everything I can to honor and support our soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen by putting them into harm's way at every possible opportunity. I mean it. Americans want their leader to project strength - and that means shipping US troops abroad to fight in a variety of wars, interventions, police actions, training operations, and other missions we can't even explain, they're so screwed up. An atheist is going to hesitate to do this, but I never will. Never. I'll be able to see photos of entire C-130s packed with flag-covered coffins coming back to this country... and I won't even blink.
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America is the world's leader. And being leader means killing people sometimes. Actually, it means killing people a lot of the time. Almost continuously. And to do that you have to believe two things:

1. That death isn't that big a deal, because we'll all be doing Jager bombs with Jesus soon, and...
2. That someone much smarter and kinder than your average American is working very hard with a plan to make something good out of all the awful violence we seem to inflict on people we don't even know.

http://paulbibeau.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/an-atheist-isnt-qualified-to-be.html

[paulbibeau]

16. Hey, thanks for the link!

It's nice that people besides me are pissed at this.

I'm an agnostic, but I'm pretty Christian-friendly. But not crazy Christian-friendly. I'm totally accepting of the nice, friendly progressive Jesus my wife believes in. But Ted Cruz worships Cthulhu.

[Warren Stupidity]

15. Cruz expert at being unfit for being president.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

17. Right.... Cruz begins every day on his knees praying(?)

I'm sorry, but he doesn't look look the type that prays every day, but who am I to judge?