{"id":129908,"date":"2016-02-25T16:46:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T23:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/25\/the-one-small-silver-lining-regarding-donald-trumps-primary-victories.html"},"modified":"2016-02-25T16:46:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T23:46:48","slug":"the-one-small-silver-lining-regarding-donald-trumps-primary-victories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/25\/the-one-small-silver-lining-regarding-donald-trumps-primary-victories.html","title":{"rendered":"The one small silver lining regarding Donald Trump's primary victories"},"content":{"rendered":"

… Is the chance to watch Ted Cruz and his zany father Rafael melt down over it. Such as Rafael's suggestion that those "evangelical Christians" who have been voting (in plurality, at least) for Donald Trump instead of the guy who counted on them, Ted Cruz, aren't real<\/i> evangelicals after all.<\/p>\n

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'“Well, I think that they’re defining evangelicals in a very loose manner,” he said, “If we look at the numbers, those that are people that call themselves born-again Christians that are committed to the Lord, we won overwhelmingly among that group. Unfortunately — and this is a message that I have been carrying to America, as you said, for several years — there are too many people in the church that have actually become lax about the word of God, that they are being more concerned with being politically correct than being biblically correct, they have diluted the word of God in order to be palatable to everyone.”'<\/i><\/p>\n

Granted, I can't imagine why anyone who professes a deep belief in Jesus and the Good Word would find rude, boasting, egotistical, impious Donald Trump a supportable candidate. (At least Cruz puts on a show of some form of Christian values.) But for the senior Cruz to make support of his some sort of litmus test for who are the True Christians(TM) is, to say the least, unseemly. Possibly even un-Christian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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… Is the chance to watch Ted Cruz and his zany father Rafael melt down over it. Such as Rafael's suggestion that those "evangelical Christians" who have been voting (in plurality, at least) for Donald Trump instead of the guy who counted on them, Ted Cruz, aren't real evangelicals after all. http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/rafael-cruz-evangelicals-who-support-trump-arent-real-evangelicals '“Well, I think … Continue reading “The one small silver lining regarding Donald Trump's primary victories”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/702841.0.teddad5B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130992,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/05\/donald-trump-is-the-god-guy-in-this-election.html","url_meta":{"origin":129908,"position":0},"title":"Donald Trump is the "God Guy" in this election","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Jul-16 6:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"David Barton has serious right-wing evangelical chops. 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