Catholic Columnist Ross Douthat Lambasts Sen.Ted Cruz Insulting Speech

I do not know much about Ross Douthat and I am therefore not advocating his columns. I don’t read them online, nor do I have time to. I try to keep exclusively with news that affects the Church. And this latest spiel by Cruz does affect the Church very much.

Cruz is a staunch advocate of Israeli policy, no matter what that might be. “My country right or wrong” — only translated to the Zionist state. I disagree with Douthat on a point that I can hardly blame him for making. He refers to the Christians of the Mideast as “co-religionists” of Cruz. Knowing more about the southern Baptist Senator now, I definitely cannot consider Cruz as a co-religionist of eastern Christians. He is the son of a Baptist preacher. No doubt he is imbued with the anti-catholicism, tacit at least, of the old-time evangelicals. He is probably friends with the rapturites (although they tend to be more present among Pentecostals) that hang around Washington (and have been in past presidents’ cabinets) and who are powerful enough to be sollicited even now by the National Security Council. (Dick Armey and John Ashcroft were two pro-zionist rapturites that held high positions of foreign policy influence.)  There are many others in government today, especially among Republicans.

As I see it, Senator Ted Cruz looks upon the Christians of the Mideast as bizarre, chanting, swingers of incense who bow to iconic gods. He is a Protestant heretic who has no clue what the Christian religion is. He thinks he has a greater obligation to support Israel than Catholic and Orthodox Mideasterners. They are foreign to him, even though they believe in Christ and the Jews do not.

NYTimes: WHEN the long, grim history of Christianity’s disappearance from the Middle East is written, Ted Cruz’s performance last week at a conference organized to highlight the persecution of his co-religionists will merit at most a footnote. But sometimes a footnote can help illuminate a tragedy’s unhappy whole. Read more here.