Ted Cruz wants pastors to read Sunday service he wrote.

[Tom Joad]

The American Taliban.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/08/...war-women.html

Proverbs provides clear insight into God’s character. He has a personal hatred for seven things. God judges them to be so odious that they are an abomination to Him. His character will never allow His hatred of an abomination to evolve into a toleration of it. His children should be resolved to reflect His character, not to redefine it.

The Wise give shape to their personal and national character by loving what God loves and hating what God hates. Fools worship gods created by their vain imagination. They drift from the compass of God’s character. Their ears become deaf to His voice and their hearts become calloused to the touch of His hand. Any accumulative error of moral judgment is disastrous on a personal and a national level.

The abomination of any individual or any nation begins with the first act of disobedience to God. He finds rebellion disgusting, abhorrent and repugnant because it leads to a separation from Him and a loss of intimacy with Him.

When an individual or a nation stiff arms the character of God and embraces an abomination as the law of the land, it ends in disaster. When rebellious people disregard the compass of the most powerful, it is a very short step to dismembering the bodies of the most vulnerable. Like other nations, America has taken that step. It is time for a turnaround.

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[Pio1980]

Cruz is a sanctimonious asshole. So, what else is new.

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[Boreas]

"Ted Cruz wants pastors to read Sunday service he wrote."

President Ted Cruz would require it. And his father would occupy a newly created cabinet post, Secretary of the Faith.

[bobabode]

Sounds like he's calling for a Holy War and a theocracy. There's something mentally deficient about these crackpots.

[donquixote99]

He's seeking to co-opt religious authority, becoming a religious leader as well as a political one. Dangerous. Religion justifies anything. Religion claims to trump all other authority and law.

[finnbow]

Same ol' Elmer Gantry stuff. There has always been and there will always be Americans who buy into that shit. If the GOP didn't sell that silliness, their base would dwindle to nothing but callous millionaires.

[donquixote99]

It's not the same-old same-old, in that we have a presidential candidate attempting to do more than make a show of faith. I see Cruz attempting to establish personal authority as a religious leader. Haven't had that since Pat Robertson ran, and i think it crossed a dangerous line, both times.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

He's seeking to co-opt religious authority, becoming a religious leader as well as a political one. Dangerous. Religion justifies anything. Religion claims to trump all other authority and law.

I think this has always been the plan, a duopoly between him and his papi muy loco.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

It's not the same-old same-old, in that we have a presidential candidate attempting to do more than make a show of faith. I see Cruz attempting to establish personal authority as a religious leader. Haven't had that since Pat Robertson ran, and i think it crossed a dangerous line, both times.

Pat Robertson as virtual chaplain was one of my major gripes with the Reagan admin.

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[finnbow]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

It's not the same-old same-old, in that we have a presidential candidate attempting to do more than make a show of faith. I see Cruz attempting to establish personal authority as a religious leader. Haven't had that since Pat Robertson ran, and i think it crossed a dangerous line, both times.

Indeed it did (as it did every time it's been used), but there's a receptive audience to this malarkey. Hell, Trump is polling best among Evangelicals because he claims to love the Bible. This sort of silly shit is as American as apple pie.