Author Topic: Ted Cruz is an unforgiving man - Jesse Lee Peterson (Read 1841 times)

TomSea · « **on:** July 26, 2016, 03:27:33 am »

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Ted Cruz is an unforgiving man
Exclusive: Jesse Lee Peterson shares poignant words on true forgiveness

What possessed Ted Cruz to break his word, refusing to endorse Donald Trump for president? At the Republican Convention, Cruz urged people to vote their “conscience.” But when confronted, Cruz pointed at Trump’s offending his wife and father, and said he won’t uphold his pledge “like a servile puppy dog.” Rather than forgiving Trump as a Christian, Ted Cruz shamed himself and his family.

One of the most important principles of Christianity – least understood and most needed – is forgiveness.

I traveled to North Carolina on a speaking tour for my book, “The Antidote: Healing America from the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood.” One night, I stopped at a restaurant for dinner. An 18-year-old white male working there sat down and talked with me.

He said he was going to college soon before joining the military for 30 years. He wants Trump to win, and not Hillary, because Trump will build up the military, whereas Hillary would continue to diminish the military just as Obama has. Yet he does not vote, because liberals win anyway.

I asked what his mother and father think about him not voting. He said his mother urges him to vote, but his father is not in the picture.

He said his father threw him against a wall when he was four and told him he did not love him and did not want to be part of his life anymore. He said he had very little contact with his father since that time.

He said, as a Christian, he forgives his father; there is no use being angry about the past or things out of our control, and the Bible said we should forgive.

When the young man graduated from high school, his father called to ask if he wanted him to go to his graduation; the father said he felt that he should be part of the young man’s life again. The young man told his father, “You can come, but I don’t know why you’d want to. I have friends and family who have been part of my life, and you have not been around. You haven’t done anything for me.”

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Now, if Cruz had questions about Trump's positions on issues, he should never have taken that pledge.

sinkspur · « **Reply #1 on:** July 26, 2016, 03:34:06 am »

Sorry, but Jesse Lee Peterson is weird. I never got why anybody follows him.

TomSea · « **Reply #2 on:** July 26, 2016, 03:46:07 am »

I can't speak for anyone else, as a Christian, we are told to forgive. Not 7 times but 7 times 70 times.

uglybiker · « **Reply #3 on:** July 26, 2016, 03:48:42 am »

Forgive does not mean condone.

Nor does it mean endorse.

Half Vast Conspiracy · « **Reply #4 on:** July 26, 2016, 03:50:52 am »

Step ONE: Contrition from Trump.

We'll wait....

TomSea · « **Reply #5 on:** July 26, 2016, 03:58:09 am »

Quote from: uglybiker on July 26, 2016, 03:48:42 am

Forgive does not mean condone.

Nor does it mean endorse.

Yes, he did not endorse, he broke his word.

Glad the first paragraph stated that.

Forgive means forgive. If he had some points of view he disagreed with, he should have never taken the pledge.

geronl · « **Reply #6 on:** July 26, 2016, 04:02:43 am »

Ted Cruz did not "break his word", the pledge was broken by Trump himself on March 29

Trump is a vile vindictive man

Ted is the only honorable politician left

geronl · « **Reply #7 on:** July 26, 2016, 04:03:32 am »

Quote from: RAT Patrol on July 26, 2016, 03:29:50 am

That's vile and untrue. Just one more smear.

The Art of the Smear.

geronl · « **Reply #8 on:** July 26, 2016, 04:04:06 am »

Next time any of these idiots claim to be independent thinkers we can laugh in their faces.

RoosGirl · « **Reply #9 on:** July 26, 2016, 04:05:19 am »

By this article, every wife who was ever abused by her husband should keep going back for more and forgetting about the last time.

geronl · « **Reply #10 on:** July 26, 2016, 04:17:50 am »

The Trumpalongs just cannot get over that some people have actual principles and convictions.

Frank Cannon · « **Reply #11 on:** July 26, 2016, 04:30:50 am »

Quote from: TomSea on July 26, 2016, 03:58:09 am

Yes, he did not endorse, he broke his word.

Glad the first paragraph stated that.

Forgive means forgive. If he had some points of view he disagreed with, he should have never taken the pledge.

You want Cruz to forgive and bash him for being a phony Christian because of it but your professional shitbag of a nominee Donny is given a pass?

Give me a break. You can take this mindless drivel from Peterson that he is passing off as scholarly and flush it.

geronl · « **Reply #12 on:** July 26, 2016, 04:32:58 am »

Quote from: TomSea on July 26, 2016, 03:58:09 am

Forgive means forgive.

Then you should forgive Cruz for being a man who stands for his principles instead of bowing down to the orange pervert. Forgiveness does not mean endorsing the idiot either.

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #13 on:** July 26, 2016, 04:39:02 am »

Quote from: RoosGirl on July 26, 2016, 04:05:19 am

By this article, every wife who was ever abused by her husband should keep going back for more and forgetting about the last time.

I wonder if there aren't some latent misogynistic tendencies with that crowd. If so, why don't they try mistreating their own wife and leave Ted's out of it--not that I am calling for anyone to abuse anyone.

If someone had treated their wife and father that way, would they stand up and endorse them?

JustPassinThru · « **Reply #14 on:** July 26, 2016, 05:12:03 am »

Everything is politics now.

And dishonest, sophist politics.

What does the "Rev'rund" Jesse have to say about a man who marries and dumps four wives?

What does the good Rev'rund have to say about "Thou shalt not BEAR FALSE WITNESS against thy neighbor"? Is he going to give us some pablum of how since Cruz lives in another state, he's not Donnie's "neighbor"?

Trump is toxin. Anyone trying to spin him is just going to be tarred with the same poison of lies and insanity.

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #15 on:** July 26, 2016, 05:33:16 am »

Quote from: JustPassinThru on July 26, 2016, 05:12:03 am

Trump is toxin. Anyone trying to spin him is just going to be tarred with the same poison of lies and insanity.

That's the way I see it. The great orange litmus test, and the number of failures is surprising, but good to know.

DB · « **Reply #16 on:** July 26, 2016, 05:35:25 am »

Quote from: TomSea on July 26, 2016, 03:27:33 am

Now, if Cruz had questions about Trump's positions on issues, he should never have taken that pledge.

A Christian that endorses an evil unrepentant man to the highest office of the land is what exactly? To vote for evil and expect something other than evil is simply delusional. Talk about immoral...

Ancient · « **Reply #17 on:** July 26, 2016, 06:10:53 am »

Quote from: TomSea on July 26, 2016, 03:46:07 am

I can't speak for anyone else, as a Christian, we are told to forgive. Not 7 times but 7 times 70 times.

Did Trump ask for forgiveness?

INVAR · « **Reply #18 on:** July 26, 2016, 06:18:03 am »

Once again notice - Trump and his militants cannot let go of Cruz and those of us who are never voting for him, they are focused like a laser beam on it - and Hillary gets nary a mention.

Because it's not Hillary they hate and fear.

It's you and me if we think like Cruz.

Crazieman · « **Reply #19 on:** July 26, 2016, 08:39:51 am »

Quote from: INVAR on July 26, 2016, 06:18:03 am

Once again notice - Trump and his militants cannot let go of Cruz and those of us who are never voting for him, they are focused like a laser beam on it - and Hillary gets nary a mention.

Because it's not Hillary they hate and fear.

It's you and me if we think like Cruz.

Cruz is not a messiah. He simply kept his principles. Therefore, I support him.
Had he endorsed, I would have dropped him, just like I dropped Palin. Who I vehemently supported once. Loved her.

EC · « **Reply #20 on:** July 26, 2016, 08:49:40 am »

"Ted Cruz is an unforgiving man."

Suits me. So am I.

GtHawk · « **Reply #21 on:** July 26, 2016, 09:06:32 am »

And still focussed on Cruz, and doing your best to insure his supporters will never vote for Trump. Maybe you should be trying to figure out why Trump is such a petty, crude, and vindictive man and worry about what will happen if he somehow does win the White House. I fear his term will make Obama look like King Solomon in comparison. I'll say it again, your guy beat Cruz, why are you guys still running against him?