Ben Carson vows to stand up for religious freedom
“I think this country needs a revival”. Carson said. “You know, when I got the call to be the keynote speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast for 2013, I said, ‘Lord, what are you up to?'” “And nobody goes into philosophy because they think it’s going to make them rich”. “They were weak, ineffective people”. “Trump should have been the chancellor of that university”, he said.
“Then I knew he was really up to something”, Carson said, saying it took him all the way until the morning of the breakfast to know what God wanted him to say.
“Their demands are like insane”. The things that they are asking for, many of those things are like insane. “So it’s just disgraceful”.
“And then you move on from there”, he said. While numerous details are still TBD, he did offer one additional nugget when he said he would provide a few sort of “rebate” for poor people. “I say, ‘Can you tell me how something came from nothing?’ And of course they can’t…And now you’re going to tell me there’s a big bang, and it comes into flawless order?”
“Anybody who has lost control of their emotions”, he tells Martin, “has lost control of himself”, adding that he’s happiest when he’s “in a state of submission” to divine will. Wednesday, we talked about the weeks she spent trailing Carson around Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital for her 1988 profile.
“Well, we need to recognize that this is a very unsafe trend”, Carson said. “And they say, ‘We don’t understand everything.’ And I’m not sure they understand anything!…Everybody believe what you want to believe”. “It requires a lot more faith than what I believe”, he said.
Carson warned that the nation’s fiscal situation has become “very precarious” and that “if it collapses, what happened in 1929 on Wall Street will be a walk in the park compared to what will happen [today]”.
“We’re being a little bit too tolerant”, the good doctor responded.
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But in one positive sign for the neurosurgeon turned top-tier candidate, a majority of those polled said the controversy did not affect their view of him. They agree that the son was acting menacingly toward his mother, that someone reached for a hammer, and that what might what have spiraled into violence ended with no one getting hurt.
“I think all lives matter”. Rand Paul to run for president and re-election at the same time without violating a state law that bans candidates from appearing on the ballot twice in the same election.
He said many people today not only reject the Bible but also regard believers as idiots. Christie absolutely knows this, but he also knows his base as, so it pays for him to keep lying. “He called for more of an “open discussion” on the issue”.
Right wingers, who had previously been mostly unconcerned about charges of racism at Yale and Mizzou, have been in meltdown mode over free speech and First Amendment Rights in the days since the students’ press blackout. Members of the press can, and have, continued to write whatever they want.