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Cruz' Father Suggests Ted Cruz "Anointed" to "Bring The Spoils Of War To The Priests"Bruce Wilson
Talk To Action
10/16/2013
"The pastor (Huch) referred to Proverbs 13:22, a little while ago, which says that the wealth of the wicked is stored for the righteous. And it is through the kings, anointed to take dominion, that that transfer of wealth is going to occur."
- Rafael Cruz, August 26, 2012
In a sermon last year at an Irving, Texas, megachurch that helped elect Ted Cruz to the United States Senate, Cruz' father Rafael Cruz indicated that his son was among the evangelical Christians who are anointed as "kings" to take control of all sectors of society, an agenda commonly referred to as the "Seven Mountains" mandate, and "bring the spoils of war to the priests", thus helping to bring about a prophesied "great transfer of wealth", from the "wicked" to righteous gentile believers.
Rafael Cruz' dominionist sermon given August 26, 2012, at the New Beginnings Church of pastor Larry Huch, in Irving, Texas has already received considerable scrutiny due to an excellent Huffington Post commentary by Methodist Associate Pastor Morgan Guyton, who noted the explicitly dominionist nature of pastor Cruz' sermon, which concerned the divine mandate for believers, with anointing of "kings" in their respective spheres, to take control over all sectors of society.
Cruz spoke of "Kings who are anointed to go to war, win the war, and bring the spoils of war to the priests."
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bemildred
(90,061 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)I read it fluently, so it must be English.
And I'm pretty smart.
And my vocabulary is pretty good.
And my grammer and speling,
But that's batshit crazy stuff that makes no sense at all.
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)They mean it.
They will do it, if they get the chance.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)We need to pay attention to their rantings. In public, they tone them down into palatable nonsense, but in private, they explain their goals quite clearly.
Cruz and his minions are a great danger, and must be countered.
spanone
(135,844 posts)TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)I do not remember who it was but he was well known and hinted the fundamentalist coup would come out of Texas.
starroute
(12,977 posts)It sounds like Paul Pressler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Pressler_%28Texas%29) might be the person you're thinking of.
http://gailpellettproductions.com/the-battle-for-the-bible/
The Battle for the Bible
In 1987 when this documentary was filmed as part of Bill Moyers God and Politics series for PBS, the religious right had been on the move for 10 years. In this film we trace the fundamentalist take over of the Southern Baptist denomination the largest Protestant denomination in the United States with 37,000 churches and more than 14 million members, who raise 3.5 billion dollars annually for their programs, 7,000 missionaries, 53 colleges and 6 seminaries.
Moyers interviews the movers and shakers of this Biblical literalist movement as they maneuver to take over the leadership of all the ministries of the denomination and the boards of trustees at their institutions. People like W. A. Criswell, minister and spiritual leader of the movement; Paul Pressler, a Houston judge and lay minister who articulates the political strategy of this movement; and Robert Teneray, editor of a Baptist newspaper who claims that this fundamentalist victory over the Southern Baptist denomination is more significant than the Protestant reformation. Its the second reformation!
(On edit: Not surprisingly, Pressler was an early endorser of Cruz's campaign for the Senate. http://archive-org.com/page/784039/2012-11-29/http://www.tedcruz.org/endorsements/2011/05/19/judge-paul-pressler-iii/ )
Mz Pip
(27,451 posts)Obama was forced to denounce the rather mild ranting of Rev Wright. Will Cruz be expected to do the same with his father's completely lunatic rants?
Cruz needs to be pushed into addressing this. Does he agree with his father or not?
Tikki
(14,557 posts)That description has been sanitized over the years to mean silly teddy bears or whatever...but 'freaks'
are dangerous in every way.
Tikki
*preface with the name of your chosen deity or not.
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)Down through Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Texas.
I'm sure they are other places, but they seem especially concentrated in that region.
I have a distant cousin whose husband is a total carpet bagging preacher of this greedy and self-centered dogma.
He and his followers discuss "praying tornados away"....yes, they believe they have the powers of Christ to calm the weather.
He also told them in his writings that all manner of riches are going to be transferred to them from the unbelievers. And then he pretty much says they need to show gratitude to God by giving to this guy now. Naked greed and deception.
So anyway, I quoted the scripture in Matthew that says we should store up our treasures in heaven--not on earth. He unfriended me about literally about 5 minutes after I posted that rebuke of his repulsive manipulation.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)All who encounter these freaks should just direct them to the entire 6th chapter in the book of Matthew.
I was raised in a very religious and bible-literate family, so I love using their "Word of God" against them even though I am not a believer.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)and Ted Cruz's wife is VP of Goldman Sachs..
There is definiely something strange going on.
These people are not run-of-the-mill greedy capitalists.
It sounds like they literally want to suck up the whole world's wealth into their own pockets based on religious brainwashing.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)subjugate women, eliminate religions they don't like, oppress minorities at will, force all working people into virtual slavery, all in the name of God.
Good Luck With That.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)I don't see that being very popular with repubs. Then again, they are hypocrites, so who knows?
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)Their entire way of life is based on belief in irrational and contradictory teachings.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Oh wait, was there something else posted with the kittehs?
Atman
(31,464 posts)The kitties freaked me out.
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)randr
(12,412 posts)ultra radical religious fanatics?
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)Dare I say... Don't tread on me.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Seriously, though, we ignore these people at our peril. In the last century, a certain other country ignored a not-dissimilar group in their midst until it was too late.