This just shows how little most of the people bothered to attend the OP. Sure, you can have a crazy dad. But Cruz met with Larry Huch with that crazy dad for the purpose of winning a Dominionist's endorsement. And then Rafael, obviously as part of Cruz's campaign, appeared at Huch's church and gave a Dominionist sermon, where the pastor spoke about Ted Cruz openly, declaring that they were, essentially, father like son. From Larry Huch via one of my links:
"You know, during the elections, and it just hit me as Rafael was up there and he was saying, this is the anointed by God - when I got a phone call, would I come to a meeting to meet Rafael Cruz and Ted Cruz, Tis and I had already received about 10 phone calls asking if we would get behind a candidate. Could we come and, could we come and speak at your church - one after another.
And when we were asked by some friends to come to this house, we said we'd not only meet Ted but we'd meet Rafael. Before I ever met Ted, I met Rafael. And I knew that if the son was like the dad, we could trust him to be our senator.
Amen"
Generally I ignore stupid posts, but this seems like a good point to reinforce.
You have bourn false witness.
Repent.
Thanks again for all the time and effort you put into this research and exhaustive documentation. What is supposed to be a discussion forum has turned for some into a name calling and insult forum. Thankfully they are a small minority.
Yet the sleight of hand here is that, as you have already pointed out, Roamer, “anointing” in a charismatic context is just a common way of speaking about God expressing His will concerning someone, and does not tell us at all what Ted believes about the specifics of hard core dominionism.
As for Ted being like his dad, I hope he is, in every way that is good. You may recall, GPH, that I told you before, my own dad and I had theological differences till he died. But he still loved and supported me. And many who knew both of us would argue we have a lot in common, much to my benefit.
Bottom line, you are still unable to get past your lack of real data about Ted himself. Sorry. :)
Peace,
SR