Rafael Cruz Quotes
You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine... God ordains the death penalty!
Tashman, Brian. "Rafael Cruz: 'God Ordains the Death Penalty'." Right Wing Watch, People for the American Way, 20 Mar. 2014.
This is the basis for the practice of Saudi Arabia and a few other nations which are so decried by most nations and religions or the world. Modern Muslims and Muslim nations do not follow this Koranic prescription any more than Christians and Jews follow the Mosaic Law of the Bible regarding punishment that we would today regard as cruel and which has become very unusual.
Trosch a radical right winger argued that Pope Paul should be removed from office for opposing capital punishment and a number of other “offenses.”
For many extremists Muslims, this sura calls for the torture or killing of the enemies of Islam. For the more moderate Muslims, the penalty of opposing Islam should be expulsion or banishment. The further modern complication of this sura is the definition of “making war with Allah.” To some extremists, it is writing or publishing anything contrary to their view of Islam; it is occupying any Islamic nation or warring with that nation even though the basis of the war might have nothing to do with religion; it is bringing a Bible into an Islamic nations; it is allowing alcohol to be sold and served; it is opposing their discriminatory customs and laws; it is pressuring them not to stone adulteresses.
This is one of the passages of the Bible that Christian Kings cited in expecting obedience. Most of the monarchs took this passage to mean that God had selected and appointed them to rule.
He referred to the Biblical injunction for capital punishment which mandated the death penalty for murder. However the Bible also requires the death penalty for adultery, heresy, blasphemy, homosexuality, and a number of other offenses including a son being disobedient to his father where death was also proscribed. This quotation is an excellent example of a rhetorical political technique where the speaker selectively provides the truth. Taken at its face, this argument would persuade many people, few of whom would still support the argument if they knew that it applied equally to a host of other behaviors many of which are not even regarded as crimes in a modern civilized society.
“Small” in this case refers to the quality of the grinding of the mill. The smaller the grains the better the milling. So the proverb says that although slow, it is very effective.
The Confession was a statement of doctrine to which the Swiss Anabaptists adopted.
Sins punishable by death included blasphemy, seditious language, scolding one's parents, adultery, lewd conduct, backbiting, spreading scandal, and even complaining. Persons of marriageable age were ordered to marry; unmarried women had to accept the first man to ask them.
Rafael Bienvenido Cruz y Díaz is a Cuban-American Protestant preacher and father of Texas U.S. Senator Ted Cruz. He regularly serves as a surrogate in his son's political campaigns.
