Holy Crap: The Cruz Curse
Honey, if you think Ted Cruz is a jerk, you ain’t met his daddy. Daddy Cruz came to the US in 1957 at the age of 18. He waited 48 years before becoming a United States citizen which kinda tells you something about his devotion – or lack thereof – to this country.
Daddy Cruz has recently become a minister in Carrollton, Texas. He’s big on pick-and-chose Bibles.
Cruz said it was time for Christians to become the “salt and light” of the world, and he chastised pastors for not preaching about the sanctity of marriage and the chastity of teenagers. He accused pastors of ignoring important social issues.
Cruz added that churches should make sure “everybody in every congregation has voter’s guides that share clearly how candidates of both parties are voting on biblical issues.”
Biblical issues? Jesus said nothing about abortion or gay marriage but he did say a lot about kindness and not judging people, which kinda makes Ted seem like he’s not right with scriptures. I dunno. The whole thing seems about as likely as cow patties in a Carrollton, Texas, three car garage.
Biblical issues is right! ONce heard that there was a place in the OT about killing your mother in law and getting away with it. That tamed my interest n the OT right then and there. I’m all for Matthew 25.
1Since there is a statement about the separation of Church and State in our constitution, maybe we should encourage the IRS to disallow the religious exemptions for any church which does this.
2Paging the IRS!
3Right there with everyone else on the IRS.
4We’re paying their taxes for them.
5The teachings of Jesus had a lot to do with Justice, didn’t they? Old Papa Cruz hasn’t got a lot to say about justice, does he? I guess it would be best to ignore him then.
6Sounds like he’s using his pulpit for political activity. Can anybody get hold of those voter’s guides and turn them in to the IRS?
7Of course the go-to “social/biblical issues” have to do with sex. This is a battle cry for sharia law old testament style.
Any church that wants to promote a political candidate or party can certainly do so–as long as that church gives up its tax-exempt status.
I have a feeling that isn’t going to happen very often.
8What do you expect from a leader of the adherents of Christian Dominionism?
9The IRS doesn’t care diddlysquat about churches telling people how to vote. If they did care, they’d have done something about it before now. I wish they’d enforce the law, but they don’t. Oh, that would be an attack on the god-fearing! Oppressing the religious! Can’t have that! And the Constitution be damned.
Jesus said nothing about abortion or gays, and not much about marriage– though he did say that divorce and remarriage was the same as adultery, and I’m looking at you, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, among many others.
Jesus also said a heck of a lot about how you couldn’t be one of his followers if you were rich. See especially Matthew 19:21-24, Mark 10:21-25, and Luke 18:22-25. Seems like those pages have been torn out of an awful lot of Bibles.
10Fun factoid. Since his daddy didn’t renounce his citizenship til after Ted was born, so there’s absolutely no question about it: Under Article 29 of the Cuban Constitution, the Junior Senator from Texas is a Cuban citizen.
11Amen, Sister Rhea! Preach on! and Richard, I love your factoid. You think that would fit on a bumper sticker? CRUZ IS A CUBAN CITIZEN. You know, though, that is free campaign advertising. I think I’ll ignore him officially while watching from behind the scenes.
12RE: Dominionism, I DO NOT WANT THE USA TO BE A THEOCRACY because those folks would want to do all the legal translations of the Bible. Poke around on the internet and see how many famous folks are Dominionists.
Rhea, the RRs (religious right) seem to think they should take a lot of their direction from the Old Testament; Leviticus 19 talks to them, too. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+19
13Patrons, look at a pitchur of daddy Cruz in one tab and of Ayotollah Khomeini in another. S-c-a-r-y!
14I believe that technically a curse would be a single event.
The Cruz family is a Plague–one of Biblical proportions.
15Do sell that w/a k as in kook
16As Richard South Of The Border pointed out, Ted is a Cuban citizen. Let’s not let Ted forget that his parents moved to Canada to pursue economic opportunities there before Ted was born. Did they have a visa from the Canadian government? While in Canada Ted’s father became a Canadian citizen. We don’t know if Ted’s mother ever became a Canadian citizen. Did Ted’s father ever formally renounce his Canadian citizenship? It’s a complicated process as Ted is no finding out.
17@Rhea: The IRS did, in fact, deny a permanent tax exemption to the Christian Coalition, but it took ’em 7 years or so to do it.
That said, the IRS is, in fact, pledging to watch political activities of exempt organizations — primarily the 501c4s because that’s where the money is, but also 501c3s, which include most churches, because the political restrictions on them are even tighter.
18Dominionists make me want to projectile vomit.
19Zysomma: I feel the same thing coming on. And I DO wish ill upon the Cruz family. Hellfire and brimstone. May they burn early and often.
20Oh dear: forgot the x and substituted the s…sorry! Or maybe I should say xorry!
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