Ted Cruz

NPR interviewed Ted Cruz this morning. We can't help hearing politicians' sound-bites on the news, but I usually try to avoid listening to that level of "information" as much as possible. So today was the first time I've heard Cruz talk at length, and I listened with interest to form an idea of the man.

He is certainly argumentative. By that I mean a person whose guiding personal motivation is quite obviously to be right, on his own terms. By that I mean a person whose guiding motivation is not objective truth.

It was clear too that his pronouncements all came from a primary operative belief (probably what he'd consider his "truth") that government is evil. Somehow the illogic of that Reaganite principle never deters some politicians' ambition to part of that evil, if they can be in control of it.

None of us in the general public can know what Cruz is like as an individual. I suspect that, like many politicians, his public persona IS to a large extent his personhood. But as a public figure and a politician, the only terms on which I'm able to evaluate him, I wish Cruz "bad cess." His disregard for truth tells me what spirit he operates in: contrary the Spirit of Jesus, Who IS "the Truth." His hatred for government likewise tells me that Cruz is, in scripture's terms, a rebel and a "man of lawlessness." It would be a curse on our nation and people to be led by such a man.

I'm sure his spin-doctors and many of his followers would assert that Cruz is somehow a "Christian:" that is, after all, the politically-correct requirement for all of today's Republican politicians. Cruz' supporters are welcomed to their opinion . . . or the opinion "spin-doctors" craft for them. I say being a Christian means loving Truth and forsaking evil ways, in public or in private life. Cruz doesn't meet that standard.