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Via Right Wing Watch, here’s another reminder of the death grip religious fanaticism has on American politics. Ted Cruz bashes President Obama for having “a messiah complex,” but then proceeds to demonstrate who really has the messiah complex, boasting that God is going to help him “pull America back from the abyss.”

This is crazy talk, folks. If you heard some unkempt derelict ranting like this on a street corner, you’d back away slowly and maybe call the cops. But in a GOP presidential candidate, delusional religious egomania is just… normal.

In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody on Monday, Ted Cruz said that conservative voters should back him over Donald Trump because “for seven years, we’ve had a president in the White House who has had a messiah complex.”

Cruz went on to credit his presidential campaign with sparking a national movement to “bring this country back” and create “a spirit of revival” that’s “sweeping this country.”

“I fear for America,” he said. “If we keep on this path there comes a point of no return and my prayer is that this awakening continues, that the body of Christ rise up to pull us back from the abyss.”

After mentioning how campaigning has been “humbling,” Cruz said that “we are going to, together with God’s blessing and grace, pull America back from the abyss and it is this election that makes the difference.” He then urged people who oppose gay marriage and abortion rights to back him in the Iowa caucuses.