When former Speaker John Boehner called Ted Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh,” the Texas senator wasn’t happy.

But as it turns out, actual Satanists were even less pleased with the comparison.
Rachel Maddow blog:

The Hill added a day later, “A leading Satanist group is trying to distance itself from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) after the presidential candidate was compared to Lucifer.”

“Cruz’s failures of reason, compassion, decency and humanity are products of his Christian pandering, if not an actual Christian faith,” Lucien Greaves said on Thursday, according to The Friendly Atheist.

Boehner probably had no idea this kind of reaction was coming, but all things considered, Satanists were probably more bothered by the “Lucifer” line than Cruz was.