{"id":81437,"date":"2026-03-16T09:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81437"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:41:23","slug":"senator-takes-heat-for-saying-christ-the-king-now-anti-semitic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/senator-takes-heat-for-saying-christ-the-king-now-anti-semitic\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Takes Heat For Saying &#8216;Christ The King&#8217; Now Anti-Semitic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the London Mirror\u00a0<\/em>[caution, tabloid]:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a id=\"mol-cd8438a0-1fcc-11f1-92b5-9b5900310a95\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/texas\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Texas<\/a>\u00a0Senator\u00a0<a id=\"mol-cd7d5ad0-1fcc-11f1-92b5-9b5900310a95\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/ted_cruz\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Ted Cruz<\/a> sparked backlash after claiming that the phrase &#8216;Christ is King&#8217; has taken on an antisemitic meaning.\u00a0The Republican lawmaker said\u00a0<a class=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15507059\/ted-cruz-no-trump-supreme-court.html\" target=\"_self\">he had become &#8216;really troubled&#8217; by how the phrase was supposedly being used<\/a>\u00a0to call Jews &#8216;horrible.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8216;I agree with the statement Christ is King,&#8217; Cruz told\u00a0<a class=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VDMxV65Aws0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">CBN News<\/a>.<\/span> &#8216;Although it is being used online in a way that is meant to say, &#8220;screw you, Jew.&#8221;&#8216; He added that the phrase was sometimes used &#8216;very directly to say, &#8220;I hate Jews&#8221;&#8216; and noted that it is being used in right-wing nationalist circles.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1773654083\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Senator Takes Heat For Saying &#8216;Christ The King&#8217; Now Anti-Semitic\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the London Mirror\u00a0[caution, tabloid]: Texas\u00a0Senator\u00a0Ted Cruz sparked backlash after claiming that the phrase &#8216;Christ is King&#8217; has taken on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}