{"id":3850,"date":"2016-04-29T12:11:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T17:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3850"},"modified":"2016-04-29T12:11:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T17:11:12","slug":"cruz-rejected-satan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2016\/04\/29\/cruz-rejected-satan\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz Rejected by Satan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Speaker of the House John Boehner shows no sympathy for devil, associating this widely misunderstood mythological creature with Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">John Boehner described Ted Cruz as &quot;lucifer in the flesh&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mg90omQuCv\">https:\/\/t.co\/mg90omQuCv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WkEbtUM5LA\">pic.twitter.com\/WkEbtUM5LA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/726009411332915200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t actually a Satan (as most <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2014\/01\/11\/dear-oklahoma-satanists-dont-actually-believe-in-satan\/\">Satanists already know<\/a>) but if there were one, he would surely know better than to affiliate with Ted Cruz. The Satanic Temple is predictably mortified:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is Ted Cruz \u2018Lucifer in the flesh\u2019? We asked a Satanist.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wzTWGB7sab\">https:\/\/t.co\/wzTWGB7sab<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sam Stein (@samstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samstein\/status\/725759684012023808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And who can blame them, really? Cruz is what happens when you take the teachings of the New Testament and strip out all the empathetic impulses and noble moral ideals which <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jefferson_Bible\">Jefferson kept in<\/a>.\u00a0Christians shouldn&#8217;t claim him, much less the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2015\/11\/29\/the-satanic-temples-seven-tenets-are-far-more-ethical-than-the-ten-commandments\/\">more ethical Satanists<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Speaker of the House John Boehner shows no sympathy for devil, associating this widely misunderstood mythological creature with Republican&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}