This is funny: Ted Cruz, who has been proclaimed messiah by his father, says that “for seven years, we’ve had a president in the White House who has had a messiah complex.”
What makes it more funny is that Cruz went on to David Brody Monday about what a messiah he is, that he is going to “bring this country back” and create “a spirit of revival” that’s “sweeping this country.”
Wow. This from a guy who was actually anointed by dominionist pastors in 2013 (in Iowa, of course). Not much for self-awareness is he? To say nothing of irony.
And it’s funny because we have had so many would-be Republican messiahs in the meantime, from Sarah Palin to Michele Bachmann to Rick Perry to Paul Ryan himself
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Cruz, the chosen candidate many Religious Right power brokers, went on to tell the gullible host that “I fear for America. If we keep on this path there comes a point of no return and my prayer is that this awakening continues, that the body of Christ rise up to pull us back from the abyss.”
And bomb people till the sands glow. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Jesus loves that. You know, hating your neighbors, refusing to forgive them, never turning the other cheek and all that stuff.
Watch courtesy of CBN:
Now look, I said yesterday that the Christian jihadists are coming for our rights. This is just further evidence of that, because the America Cruz said he is fighting for when he talked to pastors at an event sponsored by the Religious Right’s Martin Bormann, David Lane, doesn’t exist.
He told the pastors, who have to be at least as gullible as Brody, that “the federal government daily wages a war on life, on marriage, on religious liberty, on the Judeo-Christian values that built this country.”
But there is no such thing as “Judeo-Christian” anything – it’s an ideological construct invented by Christianity to give it legitimacy as something other than a fake form of Paganism.
Then there is the little issue of the very secular United States Constitution, which is what built this country. The idea that political power derives from the people, not from God or God-appointed kings or priests; that all are equal before the law. These are the fruits of Enlightenment thinking, not the Old Testament or New, and of English common law, not the Ten Commandments.
At which point Cruz told the pastors to violate tax law and get political: to “sound the alarm” and make sure “every member of your congregation will show up and caucus and caucus for someone who defends biblical values.”
Cruz was very clear about who that someone might be: “If everyone in this room ensures that every member of your congregation comes out in votes in the Iowa caucus and votes for our values, we will win one week from today.”
But hey, as Christian jihadists like Cruz have been saying since the days of the Egyptian monk Shenoute, “There is no crime for those who have Christ.”
And no rights for anybody else.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
