Republican presidential candidate and sitting senator for some reason Ted Cruz is organizing a national prayer team. This team will not be dedicated to praying for war refugees, or praying that the sick be cured or that the hungry be fed, and will definitely not be engaged in directly helping any of those unpleasant people. Instead, it will act as Ted Cruz's spiritual megaphone to God.
Mr. Cruz, who has aggressively courted the support of evangelicals, said the creation of the team would “establish a direct line of communication between our campaign and the thousands of Americans who are lifting us up before the Lord.”
So that they can feel better about themselves as they punch their ticket for a man who spends the vast majority of his time making sure people who need help get less of it, and can continue on their daily lives of plotting out how to best remove rights from The Gay People, and how to best keep the Brown People out of the nation, and how to make sure Women Know Their Place, and all the other Godly things that the sort of person who would give Ted Cruz the time of day thinks their God wants from them.
Group members will receive emails containing prayer requests and a short devotional every week, the campaign said. They will also be invited to take part in a 20-minute “prayer conference call” each Tuesday.
This is sort of perfect, actually. It's the logical distillation of American evangelicalism into its purest form: Get together for twenty minutes a week to demand God help your political movement take control, hang up the phone, consider yourself Holy. Now just put it in pill form and everyone can save the phone call too.