'Allows things to happen': Ted Cruz blames God for Texas flood deaths

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

July 7, 2025 10:53AM ET


Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) suggested God had allowed more than 80 people to die after historic flooding hit Texas.

During a Monday interview on Real America's Voice, host David Brody asked Cruz why "God doesn't make sense" in light of the flooding deaths.

"Why does God allow bad things to happen to young children?" Cruz opined. "I don't know that I have any additional insight other than saying God is a good and loving God, and He will help us through this."

"And all I know to do is to lean on God, to lean on prayer, to lean on family, to lean on friends, and just grieve," he continued. "We have a good and benevolent God, but God allows things to happen sometimes that defy human explanation, and that's where we need love and where we need grace."

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-blames-god-floods/

[Girard442]

1. Someone allowed Ted Cruz to happen.

[republianmushroom]

16. Cheap condom

[DBoon]

26. the existence of Ted Cruz is the best argument for legalized abortion

[Jirel]

2. Oh, the cognitive dissonance.

Hey, Ted - if you believe that, the next act of a moral person is to reject the useless “deity”

[EYESORE 9001]

3. Fuck OFF, creeping jeebuz

This sanctimonious 💩 has got to stop 🤬

[Skittles]

44. it makes me sick

I detest hearing these delusions coming from ANYONE but ESPECIALLY our government - KEEP THAT CRAP IN CHURCH.

[Wingus Dingus]

4. It would be so easy to operate like this--never having to come up with

solutions or explanations to obvious failure, just invoke "GAAAAAAWWWWD!!!"

[C_U_L8R]

5. Isn't it about time...

that God blame Ted Cruz (and the rest of the sanctimonious maga phonies) for a thing or two?

[Ocelot II]

6. Meaning nobody has to take responsibility for anything.

God's gonna do what he's gonna do, so why even bother to warn against or prevent natural disasters? It's all God's doing, and we love God, so just pray and it will be OK.

Kind of like when Texans froze to death while you vacationed in Cancun; right, Ted? That was God's doing, too, right?

Asshole.

[Wingus Dingus]

10. Not really any high level Democrats in Texas to blame, and

we certainly can't mention TACO Don and DOGE, so....GOD'S FAULT!

[Dulcinea]

27. I guess blaming God is better than blaming Ted Cruz's REAL Lard and Savior.

The Fascist Felon has the blood of a lot of people on his hands, but Ted Cruz & his ilk will never blame Trump for his utter indifference & incompetence.

[RockRaven]

7. Reminder that "God" is just a mirror, or rather a screen to project upon.

I'm sure you noticed that just about every god-botherer always says that God wants or thinks whatever the speaker wants or thinks -- so that the speaker doesn't have to take responsibility for themselves.

Cruz is just saying "we let young kids die" and "what we do makes no sense."

[Jerry2144]

8. God sent the flooding to punish Texass for their anti-Christian policies

And attacks on women, minors, immigrants, and the LGTBQIA+ community. He strongly disapproves of the Texas Tepubliklan life style.

If it works for the Christofascists, then it works for everyone. Or, maybe, god didn’t exist and has no more to do with natural phenomena than does Yoda, Mary Poppins, or Hamlet.

[Paladin]

21. Feel better, now?

The correct spelling is "Texas," by the way...

[RussBLib]

24. that is just as plausible as saying he is punishing us for licentiousness

...in other words, not plausible at all. Religion provides a perfect cover for heinous acts.

https://russblib.blogspot.com

[Jerry2144]

29. That's why there's my second paragraph

[Zorro]

9. Rafael Cruz now blaming God

[JPK]

11. Texas floods, what's the big deal?

They are all in the loving arms of Jesus now. Right?

[Old Crank]

12. Because God doesn't care about you

I've been to lots of places where God's best followers were wiped out by some group or another. Why do his people get killed?
There isn't a God. that is why.

[SupportSanity]

13. We will be hearing more "god is responsible" as this is who they are.

Waiting for the rapture.

And the rest of you. all you sinners. will NOT be going to heaven.

[atreides1]

14. Well

They always blame their God, don't they? If you look at his history God is not good and he is definitely not loving!

God is a monumental DICK, and always has been!!!

[Xoan]

15. MASS MURDER!

[FakeNoose]

17. Does Ted Cruz even believe in God?

It's not likely. Seems like all he cares about is worshiping the "golden calf."

[surfered]

18. Cruz has "Faith," but like so many Christians who wear their faith on their sleeve,

..it is a faith without works and they don’t follow Christ‘s teachings. Feed the hungry, care for the needy, welcome the stranger….all ignored.

[Miguelito Loveless]

19. Translation:

Their god is a murder, and they are OK with that.

[tanyev]

20. God "allowed" it to happen in 1987 and that should have been their wake-up call to make sure it didn't happen again.

[Joinfortmill]

22. Wish I could be there when he faces his ultimate reckoning.

[PSPS]

23. LOL. "We have a good and benevolent God." Sorry, but your "god" really sucks.

[ananda]

25. Yeah, they want us back in the dark ages.

No question.

[58Sunliner]

28. What a malicious pos. Destroy the system that allows accurate scientific info and blame imaginary god.

Don't have to take the blame if it's not in our control. Oh wait, accurate info would have helped.

[Bengus81]

30. And Cruz probably went to Cancun to yell that at em..."GOD"

[Bluestocking]

31. Perhaps god is sending a message

A whites only Christian camp that the wealthy right wingers send their kids to. Any god I would believe in would be very upset with the Republicans. Too bad they’re not paying attention.

[Sibelius Fan]

32. God designed abortion into the human reproductive system.

25% of pregnancies in the USA do not come to term. Not due to human intervention, but because that’s how our reproductive systems work. If god designed said system, he qualifies as history’s greatest abortionist. If god is so supportive of abortion, how can he not be ok with humans performing/inducing abortions? If their god is pro-abortion, how can Xians be anti-choice?

How about that one, Ted.

[twodogsbarking]

33. It was the water Ted, very wet water. Your God was golfing.

[Grokenstein]

34. "Wizard!"

[Norrrm]

35. Well, Felito is right on this one. Nothing bad or evil happens without God's approval.

God even approved Texas refusing to get better warning systems.
God even approved Trump firing so many weather personnel.

Surely, God would have also approved Texas getting better warning systems.

[turbinetree]

36. No Shit for brains.............it was mining of coal, the exploration of oil and you getting bought off to enable this

shit show................take some responsibilities for once in your life..................and look in the mirror................you really are a piece of work..............and just think you are all in on gutting NOAA and FEMA..............yes and that you want it privatized for greed with that right wing Laissez-faire mentality yes or no............have a town hall feckless.............and answer questions..................

[Vinca]

37. Wait, what? God is both "great and loving" and drowns kids, too? That's why I'm an atheist.

[lapfog_1]

38. so either the children that died

were the spawn of Satan and therefore God must strike them dead OR
they were the truly innocent and God loving children and God just wanted them with him before they became soiled by the world.

Pick one.

Can't be that it was climate charged atmosphere ( warm the atmosphere, more water is retained ) combined with a regularly occurring weather pattern / geologic interaction ( hill country funneling all the rain water into a river ), coupled with a total lack of technology and awareness by the bible study camps full of children. Camps that were placed right next to the river by truly idiotic people. Nope, can't be that.

[SorellaLaBefana]

39. Hum. There is a truly monotheistic religion that

teaches willing and loving submission to the, at times beyond human understanding, Will of God — who causes All Things

Cannot quite bring the name of that Abrahamic tradition to mind just now

Perhaps it will come to me on it’s weekly Holy Day — Friday i seem to recall?

May have it all wrong.

Some of my family live in the affected area — fortunately all are safe. Not without some close calls

Personally I don’t blame God, or even the MAGA Golden-Orange Calf, for the deaths — I think they could more directly be laid at the doorstep of our Texas legislature which has repeatedly voted down warning systems in repeatedly flooded rural communities which include Hunt

The state representative for that area voted AGAINST warning systems earlier this very year

There are none so blind…

[LetMyPeopleVote]

40. Carnival Cruz was on vacation again

[Paladin]

41. Lean on THIS, little man.

Cruz's speaking for God is every bit as impressive as Cruz speaking in favor of political ethics.

I wish he'd done himself and all the rest of us a favor and stayed on that European vacation. If he had an ounce of decency and judgment in his makeup, he would have done so.

[riversedge]

42. 'There is no defense for the actions of the Trump admin or the state of Texas, which led to this tragedy, so Cr

There is no defense for the actions of the Trump administration or the state of Texas, which led to this tragedy, so Cruz turned to the Almighty.
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/ted-cruz-blames-god-texas-flood-deaths

Link to tweet

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/hal-sparks-loves-america-we-have
By John Amato — July 7, 2025

To deflect the criticisms the Trump administration and Texas are facing after massive cuts to agencies and ignorance of prior floods they are facing after the disaster in Kerr County that has left at least 81 dead, Sen. Ted Cruz found a new scapegoat -- God.

Just blame God! That's the ticket.

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When all else fails, blame God.

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[Rebl2]

43. 🙄