{"id":698,"date":"2016-05-04T00:29:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T05:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/?p=698"},"modified":"2016-05-04T08:37:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T13:37:39","slug":"what-happened-to-the-cruz-anointing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2016\/05\/what-happened-to-the-cruz-anointing\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to The Cruz Anointing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Apparently, the god of Ted Cruz who \u201canointed him to be President\u201d forgot to tell Cruz that the \u201canointing\u201d was being pulled \u2013 now who has yoke [1]\u00a0on his face? Being a Progressive, I\u2019m not a Cruz fan [ok, being human, I\u2019m not a Cruz fan<\/em>]\u2013 so, him pulling out, to me, is a good thing [no crying on my end<\/em>]. With all this, I\u2019m filled with questions, as I\u2019m certain many others are.\u00a0Please allow\u00a0me to open my brainpan, and share with you the inner workings of my twisted mind:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nIf his god anointed him, why pull out? [I am talking about \u201cpulling out of the race\u201d \u2013 picturing anything else connected with the term \u201cpull out\u201d and Cruz is simply gross \u2013 don\u2019t go there<\/em>] Think about that [the race thing, not the other thing<\/em>]. If he, and his Dad,\u00a0truly believed\u00a0he was anointed to be President, why not stay in until the end? Even if he was losing, his god would have pulled a miracle out of\u00a0that big, fuzzy\u00a0godly hat, right? Is his pulling out showing us that his god has no power? Does it show\u00a0us his\u00a0god is limited? Worse, does it show us that his god has a twisted sense of humor, telling him \u201cgo for it\u201d while never really having his back? Did his god, pull back the anointing so he could put that anointing on his favorite Basketball team? I don\u2019t know, all I can say is I\u2019m happy he\u2019s out [again, don\u2019t go there<\/em>]\u00a0\u2013 now all we have to do is figure out how to blow Trump out of the water.<\/span>
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[1] \u201cYoke\u201d is a play on words \u2013 Jesus said, \u201ctake my yoke\u201d \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

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Apparently, the god of Ted Cruz who \u201canointed him to be President\u201d forgot to tell Cruz that the \u201canointing\u201d was being pulled \u2013 now who has yoke [1]\u00a0on his face? 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