Ben Carson Reflects on Scripture "When So Many in the Media Want to Bring Me Down Because I Represent Something That They Can’t Stand"

On November 11, 2015, retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson, who is seeking the GOP presidential nod, painted a picture of a hopeful future to students at the world’s largest Christian university — but only if they stand united for the principles that made America great.

The Yahoo article about Carson's speech at Liberty University (see the end of this post) was re-written by a commenter at Yahoo in the way many Christians, perhaps, would think it should have been written. The following is that rewritten article from a Christian perspective.

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When Ben Carson took the stage Wednesday morning at Liberty University’s Vine Center, he claimed a role familiar to many of the conservative Christians in his audience — that of a believer persecuted for his faith. And on this Veterans Day, the GOP presidential front runner placed what he sees as a battle for the nation’s soul and values in the context of past military conflicts fought to protect the United States’ freedoms.

Praising the Allied soldiers who took part in the Normandy invasion, Carson asked rhetorically why they would do such a thing. “Not for themselves,” he answered, “but for you and me, so that we could be free.” He then shifted from 1944 France to 2015 America:

“What are we willing to do for those who come behind us?”

“When you look at our founding document,” Carson told the students, faculty and staff gathered for Liberty’s required weekly convocation, “it talks about certain inalienable rights given to us by our creator – also known as God.”

As the crowd applauded, he continued. “And we have so many people now who are trying to push God out of our lives.”

There’s no reason to be afraid, he said, quoting from the Book of Proverbs. 

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge him and he will direct your path.”

After the applause quieted, Carson said he held tight to that scripture in times of adversity. 

“I cling to it now when so many in the media want to bring me down because I represent something that they can’t stand.”

Carson has indeed come under questioning by so-called journalist over alleged discrepancies in his life story, as well as some possible theories about the Holocaust and ancient Egypt. His response, in this so-called reporters opinion to the criticism is a neat little rhetorical move often favored by politicians under scrutiny: “They hate me because I’m ‘x’” – where ‘x’ equals the figure’s audience and other supporters. President Obama used this same method over and over again to dupe the American public and Hillary Clinton is a master of it! The implication is that by defending Carson, conservative Christians defend themselves and their faith itself. In fact Dr. Ben Carson has plainly and calmly answered the false claims, but they have so far landed on deaf ears among the press.

The promise of Carson’s favorite verse is similarly straight forward: Trust God, and He will direct your path. Including, Carson believes, a presidential bid. God wants to be involved in all of our lives.

“When I got a call to be the keynote speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast for 2013, I said, ‘Lord, what are you up to?’” Carson said on Wednesday.

He had already spoken at the event in 1997 and wasn’t aware that anyone had been given the honor twice. When Carson found out that the only other exception was Billy Graham, he “knew God was up to something.”

“What does the Lord want me to say?” he recalled asking himself, and right up until the eve of the breakfast, he had no idea. 

But when he awoke that morning, Carson said, it was immediately clear. God does this multiple times in many biblical references. His resulting speech was extremely critical of Barack Obama’s negative anti-American policies, including the unaffordable health-care reform, and it led conservatives to “clamber” for him to run for president.

So he prayed again. 

“And I said, ‘Lord, this was not on my bucket list, but if you truly want me to do this, all the pundits say it’s impossible, but nothing is impossible for you. If you open the doors, I will walk through them.”

“And God began opening doors.”

Carson isn’t the first politician to frame his aspirations in terms of a divine mandate. George Bush once reportedly referred to his belief that God speaks through him — the White House disputed the report. Even though the Bush White House denied it, we so-called reporters just can't keep from spinning the truth into a nice juicy bit of propaganda to sell newspapers and get news show ratings, but it would not be unusual for an evangelical to pray that God would speak through him – and he was also quoted as saying he was “driven with a mission from God.”

Every bible believing Christian believes that God has a purpose for their lives and that God is the driving force behind them, so when a believer gets a job, be it at a grocery store or the Oval office, it isn't surprising for them to believe that it is being driven by God!

White, black, and Asian evangelicals remain an important bloc for presidential hopefuls — Bush won nearly four out of five of their votes in 2004 — which might explain why Carson is appealing to them with a divine mandate: God told him to run. Which may very well be true!

And he’s framing it in culture-war terms that they understand. There is a war going on, and it’s time for responsible, concerned American citizens to intervene, motivated by their desire to leave a legacy of freedom to future generations. Because we all can plainly see that this past administration has done everything in its power to destroy the America we know and change it to a socialistic, elite, tyrannical form of government. They can do this, Carson suggests, by voting for him. After all, he does trust God, and God may very well be directing his steps — steps that might lead to the White House.

Last week, the Guardian offered readers an inside look at Carson’s home with a spread of photos that included one of a telling portrait: Ben Carson, contentedly smiling in his white doctor’s coat, sitting at the right hand of Jesus, a biblical place of distinction.

“I think the one thing all of us love and appreciate about you, sir,” David Nasser, Liberty University’s vice president of spiritual development, told Carson at the end of his speech, “is really your humility. And the way that you carry yourself as a believer.”

At Liberty University, Carson frames his candidacy as spiritual battle [Excerpt]

November 11, 2015

Yahoo News - When Ben Carson took the stage Wednesday morning at Liberty University’s Vine Center, he claimed a role familiar to many of the conservative Christians in his audience — that of a believer persecuted for his faith. And on this Veterans Day, the GOP presidential frontrunner placed what he sees as a battle for the nation’s soul and values in the context of past military conflicts fought to protect the United States’ freedoms.

Praising the Allied soldiers who took part in the Normandy invasion, Carson asked rhetorically why they would do such a thing. 

“Not for themselves,” he answered, “but for you and me, so that we could be free.” 

He then shifted from 1944 France to 2015 America: 

“What are we willing to do for those who come behind us?”

“When you look at our founding document,” Carson told the students, faculty and staff gathered for Liberty’s required weekly convocation, “it talks about certain inalienable rights given to us by our creator – also known as God.” 

As the crowd applauded, he continued. “And we have so many people now who are trying to push God out of our lives.”

There’s no reason to be afraid, he said, quoting from the Book of Proverbs. 

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge him and he will direct your path.”

After the applause quieted, Carson said he held tight to that scripture in times of adversity. 

“I cling to it now when so many in the media want to bring me down because I represent something that they can’t stand.”

Carson has indeed come under questioning over discrepancies in his life story, as well as some unusual theories about the Holocaust and ancient Egypt. His response to criticism is a neat little rhetorical move often favored by politicians under scrutiny: “They hate me because I’m ‘x’” – where ‘x’ equals the figure’s audience and other supporters. The implication is that by defending Carson, conservative Christians defend themselves and their faith itself.

The promise of Carson’s favorite verse is similarly straightforward: Trust God, and He will direct every step of your life. Including, Carson believes, a presidential bid.

“When I got a call to be the keynote speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast for 2013, I said, ‘Lord, what are you up to?’” Carson said on Wednesday. He had already spoken at the event in 1997 and wasn’t aware that anyone had been given the honor twice. When Carson found out that the only other exception was Billy Graham, he “knew God was up to something.”

“What does the Lord want me to say?” he recalled asking himself, and right up until the eve of the breakfast, he had no idea. But when he awoke that morning, Carson said, it was immediately clear. 

His resulting speech was extremely critical of Barack Obama’s policies, including health-care reform, and it led conservatives to “clamber” for him to run for president.

So he prayed again. 

“And I said, ‘Lord, this was not on my bucket list, but if you truly want me to do this, all the pundits say it’s impossible, but nothing is impossible for you. If you open the doors, I will walk through them.”

“And he began opening doors.”

Carson isn’t the first politician to frame his aspirations in terms of a divine mandate. George Bush once reportedly referred to his belief that God speaks through him — the White House disputed the report, but it would not be unusual for an evangelical to pray that God would speak through him – and he was also quoted as saying he was “driven with a mission from God.”

White evangelicals remain an important bloc for presidential hopefuls — Bush won nearly four out of five of their votes in 2004 — which might explain why Carson is appealing to them with a divine mandate: God told him to run. And he’s framing it in culture-war terms that they understand. There is a war going on, and it’s time for responsible, concerned American citizens to intervene, motivated by their desire to leave a legacy of freedom to future generations. They can do this, Carson suggests, by voting for him. After all, he trusted God, and God directed his steps — steps that might lead to the White House.

Last week, the Guardian offered readers an inside look at Carson’s home with a spread of photos that included one of a telling portrait: Ben Carson, contentedly smiling in his white doctor’s coat, sitting literally at the right hand of Jesus, a biblical place of distinction.

“I think the one thing all of us love and appreciate about you, sir,” David Nasser, Liberty University’s vice president of spiritual development, told Carson at the end of his speech, “is really your humility. And the way that you carry yourself as a believer.”

Comments from Yahoo! 

80 percent or more of the comments at Yahoo! are mocking Christianity, but the following are worth noting:


Dr. Carson is not crying over Starbucks cups. In fact, he can't stand political correctness. He isn't trying to push his beliefs on anyone. He just wants to put the biblical morals that this country was founded on back into government. The morals. The honesty, integrity, etc. He is an adamant believer in freedom of religion and doesn't agree with homosexual marriage, but he isn't going to overturn it. Please. He will do more good for our country than any president in recent times. I am not religious at all and I stand behind Ben Carson 110%. It's funny because almost every single president in US history has claimed Christianity as their religion, yet it has never been an issue until 2015, when the PC police are out in full force. Better not offend anyone with those biblical views LMAO


If you're a Christian you believe everything he's saying. You are either fully a Christian who sounds like a nut job to others or you're not. There's no middle ground.


God and Creator are synonymous, as is Lord, which was used in the Declaration of Independence.

In the Declaration of Independence our founders wrote:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"

He's not forcing his religion down your throats. He was speaking to students at a Christian University about his faith, as Jesus Christ asks of his followers. He was not shouting from street corners at people who don't want to hear the message.

If you are a religious person it makes sense that you would believe God directs your footsteps. He doesn't necessarily believe that God has decided he should win, only that he is supposed to run. By stating his views he influences people. I might not vote for him, but I certainly like his honesty. And that in itself may cause others who are running to be honest. When you live and honest an upright life, you inspire others to do the same. We could certainly use a lot more like Dr. Carson.

The Establishment Clause:

"Congress shall make no law respecting and establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

Obviously, the words "separation," "church," or "state" are not found in the First Amendment; furthermore, that phrase appears in no founding document.

While most recognize the phrase "separation of church and state," the clear understanding of the First Amendment for the first century-and-a-half after the country was founded was that it prohibited the establishment of a single national denomination. National policies and rulings in that century-and-a-half always reflected that interpretation.


I suppose if you believe greed for power and money (such as that which led to the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage scam) as representing a bad or evil or destructive value, I can see the spiritual aspect of Dr. Carson's stand for honesty, doing the best for the majority, being fair, and being compassionate.


Think about this the media made damn sure we knew Mitt Romney was Moron. The can't run Carson's religious beliefs as a Seventh Day advent fast enough. I guess they really have no need to mention anything about the religion of the left global warming - that's the only religion the 2 totalitarian front runners have.


The establishment media Ben-Carson-Smear-Campaign is in full swing, so expect multiple articles daily attempting to assassinate the character of Ben Carson:

Is Ben Carson an impostor?, November 12, 2015, Yahoo Politics