>>His religious positions are, at best, problematic for a political leader.
>I’m not so sure Thomas Jefferson would agree with that.
That is a strange analogy... Cruz’s religious views seem virtually antithetical to Jefferson’s.
But Cruz has a commitment to political freedom along Jeffersonian lines, so that’s what I’m going on.
>> Cruz’s religious views seem virtually antithetical to Jefferson’s.
Jefferson went off the rails because he couldn’t get his head around the concept of the trinity - not because he didn’t believe in an Almighty God.
The Trinity isn’t so hard to comprehend in the context of today’s modern cosmology - with the relative benefits rendered by the insights of Einstein and Co.
God the Father: God beyond temporal space and time.
God the Son: God in human, temporal, form.
God the Spirit: God mediating between the temporal and non-temporal.
Jefferson also blew it on his “CODE FOR MORALITY” - which De Tocqueville later recognized as the “TYRANNY OF THE [populist] MAJORITY” unfolded in the French Revolution.