For the last two days, Sen. Ted Cruz has been the guest on “Life Today,” telling host James Robison that it is vitally important for Christians to vote so that America can continue to enjoy God’s blessings.
On yesterday’s program, the Texas Republican declared that Christians are required by Scripture to vote and cast their votes based on biblical values. After praising his father’s efforts to mobilize right-wing pastors and get them involved in politics, Cruz said that Christians could fundamentally reshape this nation is they simply voted according to the Bible.
“Can you imagine how different our country would be if an additional 70 million Evangelical Christians simply showed up and voted biblical values?” Cruz asked. “We would be on a fundamentally different path”:
On today’s program, Cruz wholeheartedly agreed with Robison’s assertion that the Founding Fathers “were under some kind of powerful umbrella of divine providence influence” when they created this nation.
“From the founding of our country, America has enjoyed God’s providential blessing at every stage,” Cruz said. “When the Declaration and Constitution were drafted, they were drafted on the knees of the Founding Fathers through prayer.”
“I’m convinced,” he continued, that “God is not done with America. That his blessings are still on this nation, and that the American people when the challenges are great, rise to the occasion”:
